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"I think wedding photography has taken a turn for the awesome over the past few years. I&amp;#x27;m seeing fewer &amp;quot;Okay, all the bridesmaids line up. Smile!&amp;quot; pics and more journalism-style photos, which seem more candid and natural. But there&amp;#x27;s one trend I can&amp;#x27;t wrap my mind around: the headless wedding portrait. I&amp;#x27;m okay with this super-popular photo if you want to show off your cute shoes and your groom&amp;#x27;s quirky socks: Source: weddingphotos101.com via Savannah on Pinterest Although that&amp;#x27;s starting to feel a little &amp;quot;been there, seen that,&amp;quot; too. But if you want to have a feet shot, cool. It&amp;#x27;s your album. I like this one even more, because it feels a little more natural&amp;amp;#8212;even though I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s posed. Source: elizabethannedesigns.com via Kim on Pinterest But this photo, which appeared on Save the Date earlier this week, totally had me scratching my head: Source: glamour.com via Kimberly on Pinterest Yes, their outfits are adorable. (That&amp;#x27;s why I wound up including the pic, even through I just don&amp;#x27;t get it.) But wouldn&amp;#x27;t the picture be even better if we could see their faces? I mean, are you going go frame this photo of your headless groomsmen? Put it in your wedding album? &amp;quot;Mommy, whose the man in the checkered shirt in your wedding album?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Well, I just don&amp;#x27;t know dear. Since he has no head.&amp;quot; And there are photos like it all over Pinterest: Source: stylemepretty.com via Cami on Pinterest I understand that we&amp;#x27;re focusing on the dog (or the bouquet, or the Champagne flute) in photos like this, but why NOT get the bride and groom&amp;#x27;s faces in the shot? (I know the lens is focused on the dog, but it&amp;#x27;s entirely possible to focus on a dog AND two people.) And what&amp;#x27;s going on below? Is that boutonniere so fantastic that you don&amp;#x27;t want to ruin it with ... the groom&amp;#x27;s face? Source: stylemepretty.com via Ms. A on Pinterest Obviously each of these photos is one of thousands you&amp;#x27;ll get back from your photographer, but I don&amp;#x27;t know why they made the final cut to begin with. Are you guys into headless wedding photos? Or do you think it&amp;#x27;s just photographers taking a little too much artistic license?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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