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How to Plan a Timeline ( Part 3 )

July 17, 2018

Filed in: For the Brides

This blog series is one of our favorites to date!! SO many brides ( and photographers ) have found this helpful and we are SO glad!!!

Planning your wedding day timeline can be the least fun of your wedding prepping, but its CRUCIAL! To have a timeline everyone can follow will not only calm your nerves, but it will ensure everyone of your vendors, family members, and bridal party will be where they need to be at the correct time!

This part 3 of our 4 part series is all about AFTER your ceremony ends! What you do immediately following your ceremony determines how much time you get for your photos! This is HUGE! Not just because we are photographer, but because these photos ( and video ) will be the only thing you have to look back on your big day! You don’t want to be rushed and crunching for time to get back to your waiting guests! Keep on scrolling to see how we get it all done!

FAMILY PORTRAITS

This time of the day can be NUTS! You were just announced husband and wife for the first time, and now you got to round up ALL your immediate family for those dreaded family portraits!! Let’s be real, Uncle Bob is starving and your little flower girl has had ENOUGH of this “sit still and be good” junk! This is where we come in! A few weeks BEFORE your wedding day, we ask all our brides for a family portrait list! This ensures that we know who everyone is and who needs to stay put after the ceremony! This list will only have 20 groupings for example one grouping will look like this :

Bride, Groom, Mother of the Bride, Father of the Bride

We make sure our brides only give us 20 groupings to save on time and keep everyone in the family happy! If there is more than 20 grouping our bride needs, we will happily shoot the rest at the reception! We ALWAYS ask for 30 minutes for family portraits!

JUST MARRIED PORTRAITS

We already have the bridal party photos done before the ceremony even began! This is SO helpful when it comes to your Just Married Portraits! This is our FAVORITE time of day! This is the time our couples can breathe and enjoy their first few moments as husband and wife! These photos are the most precious! We ask for at least 25 minutes but we will gladly take more!

*Little tip* 6pm is the BEST time of day for these portraits! The sun is glowy and golden and it makes for the PERFECT bride and groom shots! IF our brides can’t schedule their just married portraits at 6pm, we try our best to sneak them away for just 10 minutes during the reception to get some sunset photos before we leave!

1:30pm – Photographers Arrive

1:30pm – 2:15pm – Bridal Details

2:15pm – 2:45pm – Getting Ready

3:00pm – 3:45pm – First Look

3:50pm – 4:20pm – Bridal Party Portraits

4:30pm – 5:00pm – Bride in Hiding

5:00pm – 5:30pm – Ceremony

5:40pm – 6:10pm – Family Portraits

6:15pm – 6:35pm – Just Married Portraits

Stay tuned because next week we are ending our 4 part blog series with the BIG exits and all the fun dancing at your reception!! Happy Tuesday, friends!

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