Landers Photography - San Antonio, TX - (210) 681-8552 Press Release

Jim says 'I will'
to website wedding challenge

A local photographer's website has led to a remarkable transatlantic wedding in which a workaholic English bride-to-be, got married on her honeymoon …just to save time.

When San Antonio portrait and wedding photographer, Jim Landers received an email from 31 year old Catherine Burden, he thought he was simply being commissioned to photograph a wedding ceremony at the local, 200 year old Riverwalk Inn.
It turned out he would be part of an amazing 'website wedding' that was set to blow conventional marriage planning right out of the water.
Jim said, "Catherine is a software expert who works near Brighton in England. She had always wanted to be married abroad, preferably here in Texas."

Said Catherine, "I work long hours so it all had to be done on the internet. I did a search on Yahoo by typing in "photographers, San Antonio" and easily found the Landers Photography website and emailed them."

Jim added, "Catherine told us that after the honeymoon she was going to fly back home to England, and put on her wedding dress for the second time, at the reception party she and new husband, Jonathan, were holding for over 100 guests."

"I knew I would need two photographers but I didn't want my precious album to be ruined with two odd looking sets of prints, " Catherine commented.

"The challenge for me as a photographer was to shoot the wedding photographs in such a way that when my English counterpart covered their reception and produced his prints - both American and English versions would match in the wedding album," Jim said. "I was a bit concerned about whether this transatlantic photo-diplomacy could really work, so I called Kodak Professional. They launched a new film called Kodak Professional Portra, and it was perfect for this situation.
Kodak said if both photographers shot the new Portra film, the album prints would still match perfectly - despite the fact that the pictures would have been taken by two photographers working on two different continents."

And the next thing Jim and his photographer wife Robin knew - the English couple were right there on his doorstep, wedding rings in pocket and all ready to go. "There were no guests - in fact we doubled as the witnesses at the ceremony, " Jim noted.

Catherine concluded, "Both photographers did a great job and we were both thrilled with our transatlantic wedding album".

By Trevor Lansdown, Kodak UK - Marketing

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