The right wedding photographer makes all the difference in preserving the memories of your wedding day. This week we spoke to Bobby Foxx of GREY FOX Bridal Photography Studio about his planning advice, wedding background and what makes his company special.

What services do you provide?

I do a lot, but I’m focusing on weddings at the moment. With Bobby Foxx Photography, I’ve done product photography for luxury brands, marketing content for Audi USA (Yeah! Seriously), I’ve worked with influencers like Thomas Sanders and Jesse Hernandez (The Texas Chancla).

I’ve created websites and generated visual content for billionaires and budding entrepreneurs alike. BUT I built this beautiful brand because my work in wedding photography deserved a place outside my “slightly-too-large-and-distracting” body of work. I didn’t want couples to be distracted by product photography, headshots, etc. For years, it was all just kind of thrown in together. In 2021 I came up with a new brand, a new site, etc.

You can still find the rest of my work at BobbyFoxx.com I’ve always believed that lifestyle photography should be connected to an experience. It’s just more authentic that way. You strike a thousand pretty poses in a day, but if when you look at your photos years from now and all you remember is posing, what’s the value there? Instead of barking 100 poses at my clients, I invite them to take part in activities. We get movement, we get action, we get authentic, truly fun or deeply meaningful experiences, and THAT becomes the memory attached to your photos. Same for video.

GREY FOX offer weddings, engagements, bridals session, save the dates, you name it (even boudoir and dudeoir. Yep, that’s a thing). We offer albums, prints, and other tangibles. We have super fun photo-booth feature that’s way bigger and much more personalized than those plug-and-play kits you see at some weddings. Ask about it! Then there’s my fine art portrait technique, based on lighting and composition from neoclassical paintings. It’s next-level stuff, and it’s a big reason why my clients choose GREY FOX. They’re massively time consuming to produce, but I’m able to include just a few of these images in select packages. Pro tip: use them on your bridal session.

What other cities or locations have you worked weddings in?

I’m actually from Florida, so there’s a certain “I’m on vacation surrounded by tropical plants” vibe to my work. I’m deeply in love with my home state(not the Disney side most tourists know, but the ‘ancient springs, Indian pottery shards, grew up with stickerburs in my feet’ kinda Florida. It’s hard to explain. So I’ve done weddings all over the state of Florida, from Key West to Jacksonville, and everywhere between.

To me, having moved here in late 2021, Texas is still a grand adventure. I’ve done a handful of weddings in and around San Antonio, each one a surprise. I’m getting to know the venues and the best places for outdoor sessions. I get to meet interesting people and explore. And the culture here! It’s a marvelous melting pot of new traditions I get to photograph and take part in.

What is your best planning advice or tip for couples?

First and foremost, do a first look! You wouldn’t think it’s that helpful, but it opens up your schedule in the BEST WAY. The morning is getting ready, lots do to. You’re busy, hopefully not stressed but it happens to the best brides. Then the ceremony, then FORMALS! Formals, especially with big weddings, can get out of hand. Everyone wants a photo with you two! But I promise, in that moment, all you two will want to do is catch your breath and have a moment together, or maybe say hi some guests. It becomes a chore. If you work a first look into your schedule, really plan it out and make it meaningful…it can such a magical experience.

Let me tell you a story about Micha and Colin and a pretty little road in South Florida called Ladybug Lane. Micha and Colin grew up pretty close to each-other in a small coastal town in South Florida. They started going out in college, drifted apart, got back together again, and ‘whoops!’ had a beautiful, somewhat mischievous baby boy and a couple years later a beautiful baby girl. I told Micha about first looks, how helpful they are with big guest lists, and she decided that’s what she wanted to do, but she took it a step FURTHER.

She planned for the guys and the girls to meet on a street where she’d always imagined the two of them living, one day: Ladybug Lane. It was a beautiful lime rock road, with old live oak trees stretching their long arms over, the light coming through the leaves in speckled shadows, tropical plants growing high up in the branches- a very South Florida scene. It was an absolutely incredible location, and meaningful to the couple. That’s the key: It’s your wedding, it can be whatever you want it to be. Dream big, make it meaningful! Colin and the groomsmen entered Ladybug Lane from the West, and Colin faced West as their family and bridal party formed a wall on the East end of the road. When Micha arrived, she walked through the crowd, everyone stunned by her gorgeous designer dress(she was so beautiful).

It was a good long walk to get down to Colin, and I had plenty of space to work with. I was able to move completely around them, let them really HAVE that moment from afar, and from one angle see all their family and closest friends watching in the distance behind them, and from the other side just that pretty old limerock road and the trees for a backdrop. They had a beautiful moment together, and then the kids got loose! They ran up to mom and dad one by one, and then it became about the four of them coming together. IT. WAS. SO. BEAUTIFUL. And then we did all their formals right there on Ladybug Lane. Both sides of the family, bridesmaids, groomsmen, brothers, sisters. We spent about 30, maybe 40 minutes there altogether, and the photos came out great. But you know what the best part was? After the ceremony, which was on the tarmac(they’re pilots), instead of doing formals, they walked down the aisle, got directly onto a small plane, and flew down the coast during cocktail hour. When they came back, they got off the plane and PARTIED! That’s my story about why first looks are incredible. Just… think about what you could do with YOUR first look.

What made you get into the wedding & events industry? How many years have you been in it?

My story is a little wild. I studied art and metalworking in college. I’d grown up with cameras, took my first darkroom class when I was about 11, then more darkroom classes when I was 14 and 16. But I was into fashion in college. I launched a jewelry design brand in my early 20’s and in my mid 20’s decided that working for other people wasn’t for me. I had such big dreams, and I could do anything if I could just learn it. Bobby Foxx Jewelry had some fashion shows with some Project Runway contestants. I was hooked, there was no going back. I was going to live a life devoted to art and its creation. I opened accounts all over Florida, mostly on consignment.

My brand did pretty well in a couple high-end boutiques, but I supported myself by going to shows. It was a lot of work, and not much pay, but I was really living it, and that’s all that mattered. I was selling all this jewelry, each piece completely unique. I needed photos of that work, not just to document it, but for online sales and for editorials. I didn’t have any experience with digital photography, but the principals are the same. Editing and retouching was a learning curve, but I had some help, and I took a class. I found a new love for it, maybe something I’d forgotten.

Even then, I was more of an artist than a jewelry designer. I’m still more of an artist than a photographer, and I hope to keep it that way. As I started to share those first experimental images, people started to ask me to do jobs for them. First it was graduations, then headshots, and my first wedding. The couple loved their photos. I can’t even look at that album without cringing, but they see something I don’t. There’s a lesson in that about the meaning behind life-step photography. I had a craigslist ad up showing a few of these images. I landed a huge commercial client that I’d end up working with for several years. It paid my bills, allowed me to take more classes, upgrade my gear. All the while photographing weddings all across Florida.

My work has changed so much since those first days. I don’t see it stopping anytime soon either. Photography, the kind that I do anyway, continues to teach me- endlessly. It’s not just the skill of ‘photography’ though. There’s the business side of it, and then with weddings there’s a social-emotional side that has absolutely nothing to do with lighting or camera settings. It’s working with people, understanding them. I think that’s my new frontier. I am really, really good with people, but there’s something very powerful about creating space where two people can show their love for each other so that you can photograph that love and tell a story with it. That process is my most recent obsession, and there’s so much to learn.

What sets your company apart from similar ones in the same field?

I’m an artist. My background is in fashion and fine art. You can see that in my work! Rather than asking my team to conform to a standard vision, I work with my team’s talent and style, building teams that reflect my couple’s unique vision. We talk about your style, we talk about what inspires you, and we build your aesthetic based on those conversations. We create base presets from that feedback which give you a sample of what the look of your album could be, and you get to choose. That’s why each of GREY FOX’s weddings look so different: they’re a reflection of your personality.

This brand is my baby. I get a lot of help along the way, and I build amazing teams of people who love photography and videography. BUT: this brand is a reflection of my commitment to art and to the power of photography to transform memories. I take a great deal of pride in my work, I don’t use AI to generate my albums. I put my hands on everything I do because I believe that art is choices, that there is a story in those choices, and that art without choices is not art at all. You’ll meet me at your consultation and I’ll be the photographer at your wedding. I choose the team for your wedding based on your personality, your aesthetic, your life story.

My weddings are tailored to my clients with love, sincerity, and an understanding of WHO they are. GREY FOX is Low-Volume I DON’T want to do 300 weddings in a year. I want to CONNECT with the people whose stories we tell. I want to know you, and I want you to know me! I want to create quality connections, moving stories, and undeniably unique work.

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