I've been meaning to write but one day leads to the next, life is busy and well..here I am months later! Much has happened in the months since I've been MIA, so many beautiful couples have gotten engaged, many have gotten married and previous clients are now starting families. I have the greatest job in the world because I get to document these unforgettable moments in life and then share them here with you!
While editing Reanna & Marshall's wedding tonight, I stopped for a moment to check email. I have to share the most beautiful email I have ever received from a client! I've read it over and over again and each time it brings tears to my eyes because it's true validation for my work and it is the exact reason I love wedding photography! Angela & John: Congratulations on the birth of your daughter and many thanks for such kind words. -K
" Although I should have wrote our true gratitude and appreciation for the quality of work that Kathleen Voss put into our wedding and the moments that she stopped in time for us, it wasn’t until today that I could even comprehend how much each photo means to us. Yesterday my husband John, came home from work, looked at our daughter in my arms, and gave me this smile that was all too familiar. The look in his eyes ran through my soul and filled my heart. I had this urge to spend today looking through our wedding photos. To my surprise, I didn’t just find John’s beaming smile in those photos, but I saw the feeling of love running through our veins. The pictures that Kathleen took on our wedding day were not frozen snapshots, but timeless moments of feelings that tell the story of the most important day of our lives. And when we look back at these pictures, they speak so loudly about the love that we share. And for this precious gift that she gave us, we are forever grateful. Our wedding day came and went so quickly. We learned that the concept of time is relative to happiness; the happier we are the quicker life seems to fly by. One blink and the day already passed, the end of our dance song “you’re just to be good to be true, can’t take my eyes off of you” faded into the night, and a room decorated in colors of wine and rose once full of our friends and family is transformed into a new color scheme waiting for the next couple’s blink. After the honeymoon, thank-you’s, and getting reacquainted with an old routine, we spent so much time wishing we could slowdown those moments and feelings of such an enchanted day. Until we got our pictures. Our photos were viewable on the Kathleen’s website in such a short period of time. We were able to relive our love song time and time again through the feelings and emotions that were captured in our pictures. We were impressed with Kathleen’s professionalism and creativity from our first meeting. Although we had many interviews with photographers for our wedding, she was our first and none of the others could compare to her quality of work and work ethic. The first test for Kathleen working with John and I was our engagement photos. All our initial ideas would change many times. For instance, initially we wanted engagement photos at an apple orchard during the fall or at a park on the water, but ended up being photos in downtown Detroit on a windy not so fall day. We had ideas of an outdoor wedding in August, but ended up indoors in July. Her hard work and success with our photos was not without obstacles. But, Kathleen remained light-hearted and easy to work with during the whole process. In fact she took two people extremely uncomfortable in front of a camera and magically made only their love shine through. She made us feel like we belonged on the front of a magazine as the poster couple of love. We loved the engagement photos so much that I could have wallpapered our house with them. Until we got our wedding photo’s! Like our engagement photos, the venue for our wedding changed a couple times, but we were relieved that Kathleen was able to still be the photographer for our wedding. However, the truth is that I barely remember Kathleen at our wedding. Outside of her warm smile and congratulations when she first got there, it was not until we got our photos that we really saw how much she was there. Kathleen gave us a gift that we were not expecting after our wedding. She gave us these priceless moments back to relive and experience every time we open our photo books. We hired a photographer to take photos, but ended up developing a relationship with a kind heart who was able to capture the love that was shared at our wedding. The pictures are of high-quality and simply beautiful. Kathleen is a highly professional business woman who takes the time to get to know her clients in order to represent the realness of each moment she grabs. Through all our times that go by in a blink including having our first baby, we hope to have Kathleen immortalize these moments in a picture like she did our wedding day."
With much love,
John and Angela Gerke
