Sponsored Post: Emily Takes Photos (And The Great APW Travel Deal)

To say Miss Emily, of Emily Takes Photos (she just goes by Emily, obviously, but sometimes I call full grown people Miss out of fondness) was the inaugural photographer of APW would be exaggerating. But only by a tiny bit. I’m not even sure how Emily first started reading this blog, but she did in the first few months of it’s existence. She was a photo student then, and I was sort of a student blogger. Really early on she let me run her friends wedding at a lighthouse, which I think is one of the first weddings she ever shot. And then, for a dollar and a song, she came on as one of APW’s very first advertisers…. and sweet-baby-jesus, it’s sort of amazing to see where we are now. Where we are now, includes, among other things, David and making out in the banner of her blog, but, details.

Every summer, Emily Takes Photos shoots approximately as many APW weddings as she has weekends to shoot. And every fall I get inundated with emails from you guys about how much you adore Emily, and how you want everyone to know about her, and how she actually does affordable stylish wedding photography, and wow-wow-wowie. And then Emily tells me these stories about how she goes to photography conventions and gushes, “Don’t you love shooting weddings? Arn’t wedding couples just the best, funniest, most grounded, kindest people you’ve ever met? Don’t you feel like you’re insta-friends with your clients the second you meet them?” And she says people look at her with a glassy eyed stare and say things like, “No, nut-job, brides are bananas.” And then she thinks, “Awww…. APW….”

Oh, and for the record, she’s even starting regularly hanging out with APW readers and Wedding Elves that she met at the meetup, and nicely inviting me along when she does it. She may take over Team Practical Bay Area. I’m on notice.

But today’s post is actually not about how you love Emily and I love Emily and Emily takes great photos. Today’s post is about how up till now, Emily has only really been the property of Northern California team practical couples, and…. drumrolll please…. Emily has decided she wants to see the world, so she’s offering a bad-ass travel deal to APW couples. Let me quote the girl herself:

Now that I’m done with school and work mostly from home, getting out of the house is a big deal. Like, I look forward to putting on pants and heading to the post office. But I have bigger dreams than pants and the post office, so I’m itching to get out and TRAVEL! I’m offering 20% off my full-day packages* for any wedding that requires me to get on a plane/train/rocket-powered bicycle (ie: not in the SF bay area). Weddings must be booked by August 31, 2010 (though the wedding itself can be anytime future). *Travel fees apply separately.


And just for the record, I checked with her about travel fees (I was once quoted a one day wedding travel fee that *literally* would have taken me to Italy for two weeks. No joke). Anyway, Emily is NOT actually planning to go to Italy with your travel fee. She’s just planning to travel like a normal person, and come to your wedding. So don’t be scared. Now email her already…. and send me the pictures after, yes? Now, a picture I’ve never showed you of us, to take us out, after the jump:

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