You’re not interested in the typical posing. The “stand-in-this-pose-and-smile-at-the-camera” is totally not your vibe. You’ve got a million of those photos already taken on your phone.
You want imagery that captures your actual personality instead. You want photos that show how goofy you and your partner are together. You want to share pictures on your social media that depict how much your kids love you. You want the prints on your mama’s fridge to portray how in love and in-the-moment you are on your wedding day. Trust me, I get it!
Welcome to The Wild Phern. I am so thrilled you’re here!
I believe that all instances of celebration deserve a permanent spot in life’s feed (photos last forever, you know). So if the thought of having the highlights of your life preserved as pretty pictures for you and your family to be able to look back on for as long as your bloodline exists makes your soul hum with a blend of hope, nostalgia, and excitement, I’m so glad you’re here.
Here at The Wild Phern, I’m not treating this like a pose-and-smile photoshoot. I’m treating this like I scored the best clients (where’s the lie, though?) and like I have the ultimate honor of being the chosen one to make the process of preserving your legacy as easy and fun as I can. No negativity. No stiff posing.
There was an ugly semi truck in the background of my head table at my wedding and Phern somehow got it moved out. That is just one example of Phern going above and beyond at my wedding. Phern made the day fun, less stressful, organized, and about me. She truly wears like 20 different hats when doing weddings. Beyond that, I got my sneak peaks of the day and oh my wordddd. Breathtaking. Amazing. The quality and precision of these shots are spectacular. Literally looks like out of a magazine.
I found Phern on Instagram about a year before our wedding, and her feed helped me see that I could totally have a wedding that was fun and vibrant. We booked her for an engagement session and loved working with her before the wedding to get to know her! She was so attentive to detail in our poses and setting and we loved the engagement photos! For our wedding, Phern helped us put together a detailed timeline and even helped us save on a 2nd photographer we had originally booked through her because she was able to make such an efficient timeline. Phern was so accommodating on the wedding day, and even did my hair in a beautiful updo during the reception after we took photos outside and my hair fell out in the July humidity.
We first hired her to do engagement photos to test her out before committing to a wedding photographer. She set up a call with me to see if we would be a good fit, to establish a relationship, and ensure she would be the right person to tell our story. She was professional and incredibly friendly. This was our first professional shoot and Phern made sure we were comfortable and directed us into stunning poses. We then hired her for our July 8th wedding! We asked her if we could do our real engagement photos on Mackinac Island. She was more than happy to follow us around on our tandem bike, and even hung out with us for the day. We gave her a lot of creative freedom with this shoot and the results blew us away! Some of our all time favorite pictures came from this session and we even landed on the Grand Hotel Instagram page!
On the day of our wedding, it was like having a really good friend there to capture the best day of our lives. Phern kept us on schedule, worked very well with our videographer, made sure we had all of the family photos we asked for, and even helped me put deodorant on while in my dress. She also carried her step ladder the entire 8 hours she was there!