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Your wedding is a once in a lifetime event, a day that you will always remember as a special moment in time. In order to savor these special memories, you want a photographer present to capture these special moments in photos. There are many places in Michigan where a wedding ceremony may be held, and that alone has a large impact on who you choose to be your Michigan wedding photographer. Here are 5 reasons why you should choose a photographer that's local to you and knows the area where your wedding will be held:

1) A Local Michigan Wedding Photographer Knows the Landscape

It makes sense to hire a local photographer if for no other reason than the fact that they are extremely familiar with the state. This may not initially seem relevant but when it comes time to shoot some classy photos with unique backdrops you don't want to just do another "in front of the church" picture. If you hire a photographer to come into the Detroit area or Grand Rapids from Chicago or the Toledo area - how likely are they to know the best places to shoot a photo. On the other hand - hiring a photographer IT Support Detroit  from an area in Southeast Michigan such as Roseville means that your photographer is going to be intimately familiar with the best places for unique photoshoots.

In Detroit for example they can take you around the city into specific areas for the perfect photos:

• In the empty seats of the Fox Theater

• Posing together with the massive Lion statues of Comerica Park in downtown Detroit

• On that tire swing near the barn by M-59 outside of Sterling Heights... you know. No? Well the photographer does.

• In the glass-floored restaurant atop the Renaissance Center

Their knowledge of the best photoshoot locations - whether they're in downtown Detroit - or one of the secluded suburbs (such as the Downriver Area) gives countless opportunities for the perfect wedding photos before you head to the reception.

2) Get A Hold of Your Photographer with Ease

Let's be honest and just admit that planning a wedding tends to very stressful on the bride, the groom and anyone else involved. This is why it is important to be able to contact all of the people who are providing the services for your wedding event, and of course this includes your local Michigan wedding photographer. Working with a local Michigan photographer will make it much simpler for you to address last minute changes, such as a last minute change in locations or other such details.

You might be able to get an expensive photographer to travel to the Detroit area from Chicago but do you really want to deal with a last minute snow storm or some other travel issue that makes the photographer late? Having a wedding photographer that's local to the wedding you're holding - even if it's clear across the state in Traverse City - makes it easier to handle any last minute delays.

3) Make Selection Easy & Get Your Photos Fast with a Michigan Wedding Photographer

The internet has made it so much easier to do business, but sometimes situations arise where we like to deal with someone we have hired face to face. Speaking with a photographer from another area over the phone is a good tactic for interviewing but there's a lot of benefit in putting a real face and handshake to the beautiful photos we find online. Not to mention when they're local you can go right over and pick up your prints - there's no shipping involved.

4) Michigan Wedding Photographer's are Connected

An experienced Michigan wedding photographer more than likely attends regular trade and bridal shows to stay on top of their industry. Over the years they develop a close network of other professionals that they know and trust - enough to give a referral. If you're stuck with a particular aspect of planning your wedding it's quite possible that a local photographer will also know an excellent tailor or seamstress, invitation coordinator, caterer, florist, etc.

It's not uncommon to see large-scale bridal shows being held in Southeast Michigan. When vendors come together from all over the state they network and provide referrals to one another. Over time, the wedding photographer will have a good idea of the more highly-skilled and worth while vendors in Michigan. Having a wide network of vendors on hand is a good sign of a connected and experienced local photographer - another bonus.

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Michigan's lumber industry and the 19th century drew to a close together. Lumber barons had swept through the state like a hurricane, much as they had done in New England and New York, carting away the world's last great stand of white pine forests. In their wake lay dying towns, hundreds of miles of combustible debris, erosion-made swampland and wonderment on the part of those left behind that they had traded their heritage for a handful of bright coins. Lumber towns across the state, one of them, Caro, named for some inexplicable reason after Cairo, Egypt, faced extinction.

If a town was to have an even chance of finding a place in the 20th century then it needed an industry. Town mayors and other leaders across the state cast about for one. In Caro, talk about sugarbeets had drifted from Bay County where an entrepreneur named Thomas Cranage constructed a sugar factory in Essexville, a suburb of Bay City, another lumber town searching for an economic foothold to replace lumber. The results of Cranage's experiment sparked enthusiasm that quickly replaced the gloom that had settled into the hearts and minds of the leaders of faltering lumber communities.

Cranage traveled to Nebraska, Utah, IT Support Detroit  New Mexico, and California where he witnessed the process and talked to the technicians and then hired them. He then created Michigan Sugar Company and, avoiding the mistake of many entrepreneurs, saw that it had adequate capital to survive the disappointments that so often accompany new ventures.

Michigan Sugar Company benefited not only from good planning but from good weather. The first sugarbeet harvest and processing season (called a "campaign" in the parlance of the beet sugar industry) in the state's history was, by every account, a remarkable success. Farmers harvested an average of 10.3 tons from each of 3,103 acres for a total of 32,047 tons of sugarbeets. The sugar content of the beets averaged 12.93 percent with a purity of eighty-two percent from which the factory extracted 5,685,552 pounds of sugar. A sugar content of 12.93 percent meant each purchased ton of beets contained 258.6 pounds of sugar. From that, the new sugar factory packaged 169 pounds, which equated to total sugar recovery of sixty-nine percent, an excellent result for a first campaign.

Principal among leaders in Caro, the center of business activity for Tuscola County, was Charles Montague. The town waited to learn what Mr. Montague thought of the sugar talk.

Montague was fifty-two years old when Michigan began to open its eyes to the prospects of sugar. He had already achieved success in many fields including banking, farming, lumber milling, merchandising and manufacturing. In addition to owning and operating the town's hotel, he operated the local telephone system and electric lighting company.

If a sugar factory was going to be built in a town, it needed a prominent citizen to get on board, someone's whose participation would create a groundswell of enthusiasm - enough to shake dollars loose from hidden places - enough to cause farmers to favorably consider raising beets that could make townsmen rich. As it would turn out, Caro was one of the few Michigan communities that did not need to generate investment from within the community. In Detroit, ninety miles to south, eager investors searched for ripe opportunities and closer to home in the nearby town of Vassar, lived a man whose roving eye never ceased to search for opportunity.

Richard Hoodless lived in comfort in Vasser, a small city named after Mathew Vassar, the founder of Vassar University. He had for many years traveled Europe's roads as a buyer of agricultural products for an English concern. He saw his first beet fields in Germany twenty years earlier, saw prosperous factories perched near towns, factories that hired laborers, purchased supplies and paid taxes to local governments and generally caused a rising tide of sustained prosperity in which no citizen directly or indirectly was denied a chance to dip into the treasure-trove formed out of beet fields.

Hoodless looked for ways to duplicate the success of Germany's farmers. As luck would have it, an advertisement appeared in a Chicago newspaper, placed by August Maritzen, a youthful architect, recently married, who had taken time out from his honeymoon to promote business for a manufacturer in Germany whose name could be pronounced by most Americans only if they first filled their mouths with marbles. It was A. Wernicke Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft of Halle, Germany. Hoodless replied to the advertisement and in return, Maritzen offered the significant sum of $4,000 (more than $80,000 in modern dollars) if Hoodless could generate enough interest to establish a factory in Caro.

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"We wanted to take an evening to focus on the positive and recognize Chrysler Group for the support it has given our community and our organization. Chrysler Group has supported Michigan Opera Theatre since day one, and the contributions - both financial and in-kind - have been instrumental in our continued success."

The statement above has been given out by David DiChiera. DiChiera is actually the founder and the current general director of Detroit's Michigan Opera Theater, or the MOT. You see, what actually happened was that the mentioned theater, MOT, honored and gave salutation to the Daimler Chrysler Group for its more than excellent service to the community. Also, the company was also recognized for its efforts and contributions in keeping art and culture alive in the in the area of Detroit's metropolitan locality.

During the awarding, Frank Fountain replied, "The Daimler Chrysler Corporation Fund is honored to support the Michigan Opera Theater and the diverse dance series that it belongs to Detroit. The Michigan Opera Theater continues to bring vibrant and vital art and culture to IT Support Detroit  our region, which is why we have continued our support through the years." Fountain is the current senior vice president for Daimler Chrysler Fund's external affairs and public policy. He also is the current president of the mentioned Chrysler Group. The awarding took place during the 20th Opera Ball at the Detroit Opera House. This event is held annually by the MOT.

The Daimler Chrysler Corporation Fund has been one of the primary sources of funds and grants of the MOT. Aside from the MOT, this arm of Daimler Chrysler has also been supporting other organizations, events, and activities annually.

Perhaps it is high time that organizations, businesses, and other groups do recognize and give ample salutation to those companies that really give out much effort so as to bring good things to the lives of other people. After all, some companies like the Volvo S40 parts creator, Volvo Cars, do also send out their honor and awards to those people and groups who have made a great impact and have become heroes in their own ways.

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The fans of the NFL, and certainly Green Bay, have heard this story before. He is retired, he is not retired, he is retired again. I am surprised John Madden has not died of a heart attack with all this flip flopping - can't be good on the old man's ticker. I have read numerous other blogs coming down on both sides of the ledger. Some support Favre for the icon in Wisconsin and Green Bay that he is. Brett is the Green Bay Packers and if he wants to come back they should part the seas and let him come. Others come down on the side of Green Bay management who gave Brett every opportunity to come back prior to the NFL draft and he still he orated that he was retired and hence the Packers drafted two quarterbacks in case their quarterback of the future, Aaron Rogers, is not that good. The Packer's brass is in a no win situation. They are assuredly a better team right now with gramps in at quarterback (remember they were one field goal away from advancing to the Super Bowl), however, another lost season for Aaron Rogers and Green Bay may never see if this guy truly has any talent. That said, here are my five reasons for Brett to stay retired.

1) Able to stay at home and collect social security and get discounts at the movies.

2) You are going to have a terrible year anyway as you are on the cover of Madden 2009.

3) My team, Detroit, may finally have a chance to win a game in Wisconsin (probably will still lose because they blow but it is a sure loss if Favre is playing - 0-18 I think is the Lions record in Wisconsin games since Favre has taken over).

4) Kitna needs to remain the best IT Support Detroit  quarterback in NFC Central. The Lions don't seem to have too many positive things going right now and it would be nice to be the leader in something positive. And before this gets disputed, Rogers is not going to be good yet. Jackson from Minnesota blows and who the heck knows who is starting in Chicago so Kitna wins by default , but wins just the same!

5) Sick of the yahoo behind me at Ford Field yelling "Favre don't you know how to pronounce your name", and "Favre sucks". Yes I know this is a selfish reason but darnit it, this clown is annoying. Plus we are in the upper deck so Brett cannot hear his utterances anyway.

So Brett, can you please, please, please stay retired and give our long suffering Lions fans a chance to actually win the division (yes I am not a dufis, I realize it will take a lot more than that, but we have to start somewhere). That said, if the competitive juices are flowing such that you really feel the need to play another season, could you see to it that you end up in a Lions uniform? You could really stick it to your old team that way! I am sure our kicker, Jason Hanson (who is our best player by the way), would be willing to give up his #4 jersey to make this happen.