My assistant and I love taking detail shots and seeing the unique things couples put out for their table decorations or even what they are wearing sometimes.  Everybody has their own flavor and I thought I'd show a few today.  Let's start off with the love note left behind on the hotel bed for the bride's soon to be husband to find later that night.  A romantic and fun gesture for sure!!

Certainly wedding cakes, like this spectacular one from Radisson Ballroom in Merrillville, are one of the standard things we are going to capture....

Cake toppers are always fun as well...

Not sure if you would call the next one "weeble wobbles" or "bobble heads", but they are fun nonetheless and quite the likeness of the newly married couple!!

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I think a wide shot of the reception hall or church also count as a detail shot.  Here is one of the Radisson Ballroom redecorated as a lounge area...

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Let's not forget about the bride herself as the veil and areas of the dress make for great detail shots and help to tell the story of the wedding day.  These type of wedding photos can make for a sexy addition to the album...

Ring shots would certainly fall under the category of details and make for a great layout in the album.  My favorite way of doing ring shots is to place them in the scene with another element of the wedding such as the bouquet or in the case of this wedding at the winery - amongst grapes and wine bottles.

The wedding dress itself can be a challenge sometimes.  It's always best to have a wide open area if possible.  We took this gorgeous dress up to the choir loft and used the church as our background.

Sometimes just an element of the dress can be so strking that it deserves it own photo...

Other times, the wedding dress itself can be the backdrop for the jewelry, garter and wedding shoes...

Table decorations are important to include as well.  Very often the bride's family will have a hand in creating these items on display...

Here is a detail collage of table decorations (including the bride and groom's own photo of their hands forming a heart) combined with one of my formal shots from right after the ceremony.

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Very often I will take some nondescript images knowing that I'm going to use them creatively later for either a collage or as background in the wedding album.

This first one has a tabloid magazine that I found laying around combined with some girls getting ready images.

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The "wedding belles" as they got their hair done...

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Flirty and fun best decribed one of the brides and made for a great background images for one of the pages in the wedding book.

Indian brides always have great color at their celebrations and these henna decorated hands make for striking wedding detail images...

Don't discount old family wedding pictures as a simple, but effective layout at the reception hall or in the church lobby before the ceremony.  A great conversation piece as well as decor for the album.