It’s tempting to measure a wedding gallery by the number of images in it, and I understand why — more can feel like more value. But over the years I’ve come to believe the opposite, and I’d rather be honest about it than quietly pad a gallery to hit a bigger number.
A thousand near-identical frames don’t help anyone. They take longer to wade through, they dilute the moments that actually matter, and they rarely get revisited. What people return to, again and again, is a tighter edit — the genuinely meaningful pictures, carefully chosen and thoughtfully finished. Curation is part of the craft, not a corner I’m cutting.
So I cull hard. I remove the duplicates, the blinks, the frames that don’t earn their place, and I deliver the ones that tell the story of your day with feeling. You’ll still receive plenty to live with — just not so many that the best ones get lost. A smaller, stronger gallery is a gift to your future self, even if it looks like less today.