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Local Photographers Favorite Photo Spots
By Tracy Brester
Photography By Janine McClintock Photography
With all of the different styles of photography, one thing is for certain: the more creative you get with your photography, the better (and often more meaningful) the photos. On your wedding day it is important to create the entire day around your tastes and eccentricities as a couple. What better way to capture your unique style than by choosing different creative locations to shoot your wedding photos? Several of Omaha and Lincoln’s top photographers have offered their own secret favorites, as well as some tips to help you decide where to go for your big day. 
There are several different variables to consider when choosing where to have your photographs taken. Time of year and time of day may be the most important. For example, you wouldn’t want to attempt getting pictures taken in a garden in the middle of a Nebraska winter – instead, you might want to find a stone chapel that is covered in snow and lit for the holiday season. The fall would be a fantastic time to showcase a background of colorful red, gold, and forest greens at Arbor Day Farms in Nebraska City or in front of Old Main on Nebraska Wesleyan’s campus. 
Time of day is as important when it comes to scheduling your wedding day photographs. If you want the first time that you see each other to be at the end of the aisle, then you definitely will want to reserve an adequate amount of time between wedding and reception for pictures. Most photographers will agree to take photographs of the bride and groom after the ceremony and before the reception, but be sure to ask. If you are going to go the other route and have your pictures taken prior to the ceremony, then your options aren’t quite as limited. The earlier you schedule them, the better so that you have plenty of time for travel and possible mishaps. If you are going to go to a location such as the capitol building in Lincoln or Saint Vincent De Paul church in Omaha then you are going to want to clear it with those establishments to see when they are open and to make sure that they do not have any other events planned for that day.
Another helpful suggestion is to take either a family member or the bride’s personal attendant along to carry important items such as the veil or the bouquet and makeup for bridal touch ups. If you are going to an outdoor location it will be important to take a sheet (white, if possible) to put under the bride’s gown so that there is less risk of the dress getting dirty. Also, be sure to consider whether you want the photographs to be only of you and your spouse, or the wedding party and family as well. 
Your photographs are all you will have left from your wedding day, so it is important that you make choices in your photography location that reflect who you are as a couple at this time in your life. Whether it’s on the steps of a fabulous cathedral that you both admire or on the bench in the park where he proposed, be thoughtful and creative when choosing.
Here are a few popular suggestions to consider:
In Omaha
Leahy Mall, downtown
Heartland of America Park
Elmwood Park Grotto
Mount Vernon Gardens
Saint Vincent DePaul Church
The Joslyn Castle
The Old Market
In Lincoln
Pioneers Park
Hazel Abel Park
The Capital Building
The Train Station in the Haymarket
University of Nebraska Campus
Nebraska Wesleyan Campus, Old Main Hall
Cornhusker Hotel
First Plymouth Church
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