The Artistic Difference

There is an art to photography and my fingerprint will be within every file I edit. No shortcuts. Passion for your work makes all the difference among photographers. I believe your love story can become art and should live forever.

My name is Jim Rode. My team and I create beautiful photography of your engagement and wedding. Each image will be lightly retouched and enhanced. I roam the wedding capturing fabulous moments. Many images are taken to the "darkroom" where the photographs are given my sensational fine-art treatment. My team of photographers and myself serve the greater Dallas and DFW area. I can travel nationwide for destination weddings.

Your wedding, my art. In love and art, you live forever. Jim Rode

Step inside my wedding website to see more - www.JimRode.com.

Jim Rode Photographer, is located at 2101 Cedar Springs Rd., Dallas Texas. By appointment Only.

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Monday, September 22, 2014

Wedding - Dallas Union Station

Click here to see the wedding - there will be music!    Wedding - Dallas Union Station

even at the bar, Andi and Scott were caught holding hands




Union Station

Andi and Scott had a fabulous wedding at Union Station in Dallas. This historic building was decked out beautifully. The staircase that lead up the second floor event space had photographs from Andi and Scott's engagement that I photographed around Dallas, including photo's from the Arts District, Deep Elumn, and the Bishop Arts area. The cake was from Opulent Cakes. The lighting in the atrium's giant space created a beautiful mood. The ceremony was so wonderful! The chuppah was beautifully crafted with tiny cubicles for candles and flowers. Dots of light accented the chuppah from the rear. It was the best I've seen.



the rabbi throughs a shawl around the couple


Their first kiss at the wedding in Union Station Dallas




We arranged a series of photos on the staircase for the wedding




Wolfgang Puck Catering

The wedding catering and event services were handled by Wolfgang Puck Catering. Each table setting was perfect. A dinner hour was scheduled and flowers adorned every table. They were purposefully arranged so as not to interfere with dinner conversation. Family and guests had a wonderful time witnessing the wedding and festive reception.



Centerpieces at Dallas' Union Station

the wedding couple give thanks at thier Union Station reception


dancing the night away at the Dallas reception


We moved the table candles from the cateror to illuminate a kiss


dance with Mom with the huge window backdrop at Union Station Dallas


dance with Dad on the second story dance floor at Union Station



Trey and the Tritones rocked the building! 

I believe there is nothing like a band to rock a wedding. Trey and Tritones were a fabulous way to send the couple off with a night of dancing. Union Station is a giant space that looks 3 stories tall, yet the sound was deftly handled by the bands speaker system and musicians.



Andi dances at her Union Station reception


bride and groom in Hora dance at wedding - Union Station Dallas


The reception and dance goes into the night at the Union Station wedding.


Trey and the Tritones provide music for the wedding at Union Station.


Wedding band Wolfgang Puck Catering Dallas


Bridesmaids enjoying every moment of toast at the Dallas wedding.

Passion for Fine Art Weddings

I believe that every wedding day I photograph becomes a milestone in my memory. It restores my heart. Love, laughter and tears are the heightened emotions of the heart which I get to photograph. Creating fine-art images from these moments is my passion. It is what I do. Calling myself a photographer seems inadequate. I hear so many people who say they hate their jobs being tied to a computer…me? No way. I take a photograph of two people in love and work the images until they can hang art on their wall. It is my canvas, my paint, my pleasure. No snapshot will do! That's how I feel.



I give this art to the couple to begin their family history. They doctorate their walls. These images can create fine art coffee table books to show to guests and family, to be given as gifts. A great photograph is a gift of yourself to others. I love being a part of the decor in many homes. It is my passion, my pleasure. I believe that in art, we live forever. Jim Rode





Opulant Cakes of Colleyville provided the cake for the wedding at Union Station.


photos from the Staircase Getaway Union Station Wedding


Poppers in Getaway at Union Station Wedding

Night getaway from the wedding at Union Station

The couple waves goodnight from the back window of their limo.

Do your have a great love story? See more at Dallas fine-art wedding photographer.