Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jamie Tobin. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Jamie, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. To kick things off, we’d love to hear about things you or your brand do that diverge from the industry standard.

One thing I do differently is encourage couples to write their own rules. No more getting married at the same venue, with the same timeline, greeting the same guests who you (truly) have no clue who they are because your future MIL invited them.

My passion is helping couples discover what lights them up, where does the nature speak to them in a way that feels like home in their relationship.

What if you did certain activities together on your wedding day instead of just throwing a party with bad catered food and sweaty bodies doing the chicken dance?

What if we went off-roading in a jeep adventure in an area of the country you always wanted to go?
What about a helicopter tour of a glacier in Alaska?
Want to start your morning off in a sauna? Let’s do it!

The biggest rule is there are no rules to your wedding (except the marriage license part 😝). We can create the adventure you want and say the vows that make sense to you two.

Jamie, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My name is Jamie, I’m an elopement photographer who quit the traditional large wedding space because it never felt right in my soul.

I’ve truly always had a thing for love, romance, weddings, started as a flower girl and worked my way right up to the person who usually takes charge… from there is when I developed my personal style, and love for smaller intimate wedding days.

Photography has been the one thing I have been doing since I was a kid with old film cameras. I just used to suck, and now I don’t 😉

My clients thrive in doing things their own way, making their own path, and I tag along with them. Encouraging their steps into the unknown. Because truly they know their relationship best, and what better way to start off the next level of their commitment to each other than by sticking to their adventure roots.

After wedding days my passion is in album making and making sure their story doesn’t die on a USB drive or in the cloud. Your love is a story, your wedding is a big plot point, and it deserves to be printed in it’s own story book.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

I have been on social media for 20+ years and truly the more yourself you are the better. People don’t want to follow a brand or a label.. they want to know the person, the human part of everything. Just think about how you want to fit in somewhere, so does everyone else, so the more you show up as yourself the more you will attract your people.

And vise versa, if you don’t like who you’re attracting it might be from what you’re putting out there.

Always show what you want to be doing, keep it light, keep it fun. You don’t have to schedule everything, it’s suppose to be fun not a chore!

My audience may not be the biggest, but they are full of connection and we’re always having conversations in the DM’s which to me is way more important than a giant number.

The joke, it’s not how big, but what you do with it ha!

How do you keep in touch with clients and foster brand loyalty?

I love emailing my clients, past, present, or future! There are multiple ways people can get on my email list and making sure they get curated content from the list they choose.

Whether they want little monthly rambles of what I’m up to or specific tips to help them grow their own photography businesses, I have that in my emails.

Plus it encourages them to come back, and feel like they are part of my JTP family because they always know I’m around and ready to go.

Contact Info:

• Website: jamietobinphotography.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/jamietobinphoto
• Facebook: /jamietobinphotography

Image Credits
Jamie Tobin Photography