Everybody loves a great love story, right? We heard about this amazing husband and wife photographer team who met at WPPI and fell deeply in love and is now living in their real-life happily ever after. We were so touched by their story and with WPPI in season, we thought this would be a perfect story to share to inspire everyone this week. Check out this beautiful video, then read more of their story in their interview with BP4U below.
Tell us about your love story.
Long before I ever met Stephen, I had been praying for my husband. Praying for God’s protection over him, for wisdom as God prepare both him and I in our own individual journeys that would one day lead us to each other. And years before, I had started a journal writing letters to my husband sharing my love and prayers for him.
One of my prayers was that we would recognize each other when we met, so the funny part of our story is that, when I first met Stephen, I don’t remember meeting him. Through our love of photography, our paths first crossed at WPPI in Las Vegas. But that place is a circus and it’s hard to remember everyone you meet. Later that year, we reconnected through social media, and emails about photography turned to emails about personal topics and our faith in Jesus and our goals and hopes for the future.
I happened to have a shoot to do in his hometown of San Diego, so he offered to pick me up at the airport and show me around San Diego. I was only supposed to be there a few days for the shoot, but as the days went on, we felt something strong between us and he convinced me to change my flight back to Florida three separate times. At the end of the week, we were that crazy couple that just “knew” we had found the “the one” for each other, and he chased me into the airport to tell me how he had fallen in love with me, and I the same with him. I often joke that I got my “airport chick flick moment.”
Five months later, he proposed, and a year later after that we were married. Our entire dating and engagement was long distance, but we like to think it helped us make our communication stronger because we would Skype about 3 hours a night, so we often joke that we probably spent more time with each other than had we actually been in the same town. Now we are about to celebrate our 3 years of being married and we fall more and more in love each day.
When did you start photography? When did Stephen start photography?
I started it professionally in 2006, and he in 2007.
How long were you together before started shooting together?
Actually some of our first emails we exchanged were about second shooting for each other, so that was arranged for some upcoming weddings before we really hung out in person and fell in love. And as we dated and got engaged, we continued second shooting for each other, to then when we got married, joined our individual photography companies together as now a husband and wife photography team.
How did you know you wanted to go into business together? One of the greatest common bonds that brought us together was our creative spirits. We just “got” each other on that level. And because we both separately had our own photography businesses, it was an easy decision to know we wanted to team up and join our businesses as one. There was really no question of “if” we wanted to do, but more so “how” we would make the transition work.
Most people joke with us that they don’t know how we run a business together as a married couple, but for us, it just works and we can’t imagine it any other way. Plus, how awesome is it to be asked to travel around the world together through all the shoots we have done in the past. It’s been a truly exciting adventure all the places our cameras have taken us a husband and wife team.
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In addition to running their photography business, Scarlett and Stephen have also created an online e-course that teaches other photographers how they can increase their profits per photo shoot through a proven and tested system that increased their own print sales from practically $0 to an average of $3,000 per shoot in this digital day and age. You can view more info at www.shoot2sale.com.
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