Back Yard Weddings – Tucson

Posted on by Paul Van Helden

 

Whether it’s a sign of the times or couples opting for a more private setting, back yard nuptials seem to be growing in popularity these days.
 
Of course, you do need the space. So, if you are planning to invite a few hundred people to your wedding, a backyard wedding is probably not going to work. However, if you are thinking about a reduced guest list of only your closest friends and family, it might be worth giving it some thought.
  
If you do not know anyone with a home and yard, large enough accommodate the size of your guest list, you might consider renting a large vacation home in town. That is exactly what Rick and Lisa did on the east side, last month. It worked out, beautifully!

   

Rick & Lisa

As a photographer, my biggest concern, with “back yard” weddings, is will it work out, photographically. How will the light be? What will the backdrops look like? I always find it helpful to preview locations beforehand and provide my clients with my input. Somewhat surprisingly, things always seem to work out rather well.
 
 

 

 

About Paul Van Helden

Paul Van Helden is an active, wedding, portrait, event, engagement, real estate, still life, nature and landscape photographer, based in Tucson Arizona. He has worked professionally for close to twenty years. Nature photographer Fred Dodd Jr. introduced him to photography in 1982. Later, Paul studied photography at Dean College and learned to photograph weddings under the tutelage of Craig Roberts Studio, in Franklin, Massachusetts. After working as a freelance wedding specialist for five years, he started his own wedding photography business in Bellingham, Massachusetts in 1995. He succeeded to shoot hundreds of weddings, throughout New England. All the while, years of zoning changes were slowly degrading the quality of life where he lived. After a hard fought campaign, with the local planning board, fell on deaf ears, in 2004 he decided to move to Tucson, where other family members had relocated to, in previous years.
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