Off The Shot List
Weddings brought us here. Life gave us the rest of the story.
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We’re Will and Christina MacMeeken—a married couple, parents, photographers, business partners, homeschoolers, travelers, rock climbers, professional overthinkers, and the two people behind The MacMeekens Photography.
For more than a decade, we’ve built a business together photographing people on some of the biggest, weirdest, happiest, most emotional days of their lives. Somewhere along the way, we also built a family, raised two wildly cool humans, traveled to places we once only dreamed about, picked up a few unexpected hobbies, changed our minds about approximately a million things, and learned that very little about life actually follows the shot list.
So we made a podcast about that part.
Off The Shot List is the conversation that happens when the cameras are down and we’re allowed to wander completely off topic.
We talk about weddings and the industry we’ve spent years inside, but also marriage, creative work, running a business with your spouse, parenting, homeschooling, neurodivergence, travel, rock climbing, relationships, big life changes, ridiculous stories, things we’re still figuring out, and whatever rabbit hole one of us inevitably drags the other into.
Some episodes might have a point. Some might take 45 minutes to find it.
That feels pretty accurate to us.
At its core, Off The Shot List is about what happens outside the carefully planned moments—the decisions, detours, failures, adventures, relationships, and stories that somehow become your life.
No polished expert personas. No pretending we have everything figured out. Just the two of us doing what we’ve always done best: sitting next to each other, talking about life, laughing at ourselves, occasionally disagreeing, and seeing where the conversation goes.
Turns out, the stuff we never planned for usually makes the best story anyway.
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There are couples who kiss goodbye in the morning, go to completely separate jobs, and come home excited to tell each other about their day. Adorable.
We have no idea what that’s like.
We’ve spent years building a business together, photographing weddings shoulder-to-shoulder, traveling together, raising kids together, and then coming home from work to discover that—surprise!—our coworker is still there.
In this episode, we’re talking about what it’s actually like to work with the person you’re married to: the things we’re each genuinely better at, the jobs the other person wants absolutely nothing to do with, how our roles have changed, what happens when business disagreements follow you home, and the habits we’ve had to ditch because being good business partners isn't particularly useful if you accidentally destroy your marriage in the process.
We’ll also talk about the part we genuinely love: getting to experience this ridiculous career together.
Would we recommend working with your spouse? Would we choose it again?
Well…that probably depends which one of us you ask.
Your napkins don't perfectly match the flowers. It might rain. The timeline is running eleven minutes behind. Someone forgot the favors. And despite what Pinterest may have led you to believe, your wedding has not been ruined.
After photographing weddings for more than a decade, we’ve watched couples carry an enormous amount of pressure into a day that’s supposed to be about something much bigger than perfectly executed details.
So we’re talking about the stuff people stress over that, when all is said and done, really doesn’t matter that much.
Perfect timelines. Pinterest shot lists. Weather. Decorations. Traditions you don’t actually care about. Keeping everyone entertained. Looking expensive. Being perfectly calm. And the weird idea that getting great candid photographs somehow requires knowing exactly what to do when a camera is nearby.
This isn’t about caring less about your wedding. It’s about giving yourself permission to care deeply about the things that actually deserve it.
Because after watching hundreds of wedding days unfold, we can tell you this: the moments people remember most are very rarely the ones anybody executed perfectly.
We’re married. We have two kids. We photograph weddings together. We homeschool. We travel whenever someone gives us a good enough excuse. We rock climb. We’ve built a business and a life side-by-side—and very little of it looks like what either of us imagined adulthood would be.
So, for our first episode, we’re starting there.
We’re talking about how two people who absolutely did not grow up dreaming of becoming wedding photographers somehow ended up building a photography business together, what our younger selves would think about the life we have now, and why—after spending years behind cameras—we decided we apparently also needed microphones.
We’ll also get into what Off The Shot List actually means, where we think this show might take us, and which one of us is responsible when a perfectly reasonable conversation suddenly ends up somewhere completely unhinged.
Consider this our introduction. Not the polished biography. The other one.