Back Yard Weddings: Always Fun

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Backyard weddings are all the rage these days. Looking for the perfect solution to Covid restrictions? DIY your wedding in your own backyard … or a friend’s … or your parents’.

Even before Covid, backyard weddings have been a favorite of mine.

Three backyard weddings I’ve photographed have received Wed Elope awards from the Wedding Photojournalist Association. The Wed Elope awards were created to celebrate skilled visual storytelling at smaller weddings.

Photographers enter 12 photographs from one wedding with no more than 30 guests. The photographs taken as a whole are judged on how well they tell the story of the day.

Here are links to those weddings on the Wedding Photojournalist Association’s web page.

Tracy and Heidi’s Backyard Wedding Wed Elope Award

Keena and Lori’s Backyard Wedding Wed Elope Award

Josh and Daria’s Backyard Wed Elope Award

If you’re planning a backyard wedding or something grand, I’d love to document the story of your day.

Give me a call (404) 298 6263 or send me a message from my contact page.

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Cindy Brown

I'm an Atlanta wedding photographer who takes soulful, quirky and honest photos ...

I'm also an adventurous traveler and all-round nerd. I love to hike with my beagle/cattle dog Roux and best friend/spouse.

I was born in Atlanta, moved around a lot--30 cities and 5 states--and then came back.

After graduating from the Art Institute of Atlanta, I took a job at asmall newspaper in south Georgia, where I photographedhospital teas, pecan farmers, and beauty queens.

I photographed a biker funeral, death penalty protests andTed Bundy while interning with the Associated Press.

While a photographer for two dailies in Florida, I photographed Ronald Reagan, a train derailment and the dedication of a screened-in porch.

An unexpected life turn took me to Vermont where I fell in love with Bernie Sanders and on to Indiana, where I edited photos for a major daily, and nerded out getting a master’s and PhD.

After teaching photojournalism at colleges and universities in Florida, Indiana and Mississippi, I returned to Atlanta to earn myfifth degree--a Master's of Divinity.

My passion for storytelling with my camera and my interest in religious diversity led my to the field of wedding photojournalism.

I have documented weddings large and small, Unitarian and Pagan, indoors and out, Christian and Muslim, in backyards and in churches. The most exotic wedding I have photographed took place in Mexico and was officiated by aMayan shaman.

When I'm not photographing weddings, portraits or corporate events, I work on personal photo projects, visit friends in amemory-care home, and volunteer at a recovery center.