I collected a few tips to make your day extra special. I hope that your photographer has already told you about some of these. Trust me, it would make the day go a lot easier and your photographer will be able to get awesome shots.
I've attended and shot a few weddings and I've made my mistakes while photographing weddings. However, just like Oscar Wilde said, experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. I hope you find them useful!
Wedding Day Tips
- Let your photographer know what you would like to do and she’ll do her best to accommodate your specific request.
- When you choose a location to get ready, pick a room with some space. Lighting is very important. If you can, get a room that is able to bring in the natural light. Preferably a room with large north-facing windows.
- Wedding messes are okay, you want to showcase what’s going in the changing room. You can have your girls clean-up all the non-wedding messes, such as piles of blue jeans, empty boxes and bags.
- Ask your guests to put their cellphones away. They will enjoy those significant moments more, instead of watching everything through a 5-inch screen on their phones. Also, your photographer won't have to do acrobatics to make sure a phone does not ruin your pictures.
- Remember to hold the rings by the top and bottom so that your guests and I can see the rings as they go on the ring fingers.
- The group pictures or 'formals' will go much faster if you can provide a list of the number of groups you would like photographed and the people who you want in each group. Your photographer can call groups according to the list. Be sure to let everyone know ahead of time where they need to be and when.
- You can expect average times of between three and five minutes per group depending on how organized and cooperative everyone is. It may speed things up if you had a friend who could work as a coordinator to round up people for the photographer for the group shots. It would work best if this person wasn't in the bridal party and he or she knew the people involved.
- One of the best things you can do to get good pictures of your wedding is to relax and have a good time. Something is probably not going to be the way you planned it, ordered it or scheduled it. In fact, your wedding would be the exception if everything went exactly according to plan.
- The day is a celebration of your affirmation of love and commitment to each other. Everything else is incidental. Keep that in mind.
- Don't forget to have a copy of your wedding invitation that the photographer can incorporate into the detail shots of your big day.
