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Millennials wedding photographers sure talk quite a bit about the chemistry between them and one couple as one of the most important thing when booking. They could go on and on about what are their "ideal clients", that you have to be best friends. Love and like and empathy at the first sight. Rainbow and unicorn and all.
We'd find it ridiculous.
Chemistry, passion and emotional bonding is earned, not given. If you say you're best friends with every couple whose weddings you shoot, then the word "best friends" doesn't carry much weight. If you say you're crazy about them all just by exchanging a few emails, you're not being honest with yourself.
Trust has to be built. Connection has to be established. It takes time and mutual respect and the willingness to understand each other's emotions, feelings, intentions, and needs. We like to see ourselves as a mirror to our couples. And heck yes, a flattered one! We tell their story, we show their personalities, not ours. And let us be honest, sometimes it works that way sometimes it simply doesn't. But no matter what kind of relationship you have with your couple, you work with what you got and make out the best of them. That's the definition of professionalism.
But sometimes we are lucky and we got Euna and Ehsan. Eunsan. Double E, double fusion.
Over a year ago, Euna emailed asking us to be her and Ehsan's wedding photographer and videographer in Santorini. She wrote and I quote, "We are interested in photography and videography package! please let us know if you are available for that date."
Short and straight to the point. Now this is not some lengthy, emoji-packed, emotion-driven emails that modern wedding photographers nowadays expect and use to rave about right?
But Rumi said once, "Words are just pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
For some weird reasons and we act out of weirdness a lots, her name Euna (We find it such a beautiful name and love how it sounds) and her short email intrigue us. We felt there are something more than that. Quick email, quick chat, contract signed shortly, we haven't skyped once from that moment leading up to the wedding day. That being said, we've developed a firm relationship throughout the year, slowly but exponentially to the peak and there were something exciting about Euna and Ehsan that we couldn't clearly articulate. Yes, we're biased that way.
Fast forward to the day before the wedding day, we met the first time at Rocabella Hotel in Santorini. Mark my words, you can expect one wedding from five minutes seeing the couple first time. Euna and Ehsan were incredibly kind, thoughtful, friendly and fun to hang out with people. Euna ran and screamed welcoming us as old friends after a long time and feeling that nothing has changed. And Ehsan, he was dancing like madness for the whole two days! It just felt good and literally we just couldn't stop putting a smile on our faces. `