One of the perks in managing WeddingsAtWork.com is that we get to know about up and coming wedding suppliers by means of submissions via the free listing in our online directory or through our Classified Ads section.Towards the end of June this year, we got an email from a budding wedding photographer whose name sounded familiar. We didn’t know if the guy is the same Raymond Fortun that we see representing clients in high-profile cases. We immediately viewed his website and we found out he’s one and the same.

We felt it would be interesting to ask why a successful lawyer like him would dabble in another totally different profession like wedding photography. We found ourselves wanting to ask so many questions and we assumed others would too. We immediately asked him if we could interview him for this feature and he gladly agreed. We sent him our questions and we got to know the man outside the courtroom and beyond the legal gobbledygook.

Q & A

John & Benz: When did you start with photography?

Raymond Fortun: I am literally a “babe in the woods” when it comes to photography. I got my first DSLR only in late August 2007, so I could produce beautiful pictures of my family. I was inspired by the thought that during the debut of my daughter or the wedding of any of my children, their guests would gasp at the images of their childhood during the slideshow presentation. READ MORE »