First Look | Why You Should And How To Maximize Bridal Portraits On Your Wedding Day
🤍BRIDAL PORTRAITS EXPLAINED🤍
If these mean the most to you on your wedding day, don’t save them for last. Here’s what I mean…
On a typical wedding day, after your ceremony, your photographer will begin organizing your family for family formals. After these photographs are through, the full bridal party photographs will start and then the remaining time that’s left is used for photographs of the newlyweds.
Why are these photographs left for last?
Because on a wedding day, if you don’t include a first look, all of these photographs need to be captured during the cocktail hour. Read that again. ‘The cocktail hour’. That means your photographer has one full hour to capture the most important photographs from the entire day. These are the photos that you are going to cherish most (minus a few other key points from the day) I guarantee you!!
So why not bump the bridal portraits first in the sequence?
Because your friends and family want to get to the party and holding a crowd of people, just waiting around for their turn at photos can be a huge distraction.
✨Hey - just another reason to include a first look into your timeline from your friendly photographer✨
But more importantly this is a reminder to give your photographer a little grace when capturing these once in a lifetime moments. It can get a little chaotic shuffling people in and out of photos, but trust your photographer. They do this professionally and if they are only given an hour to document these moments, they’re going to use every second that they’re given.
If considering a first look is out of the question, maybe consider an extra 30-45 minutes during cocktail hour to get these photographs captured.
Photographer: Jacqueline Waters Photography
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Event: How We Gather: The Gathering Co
