The first question here is, do you want to do a first look? If you are not doing a first look then you can skip to the ceremony timing information below. The first look only takes a few minutes itself, but the travel and setting the couple up can take up most of the time.
During this time, the bride and groom enjoy seeing each other for the first time on the wedding day. While the actual first look might only be 15 minutes, the rest of the time is spent on a few basic portraits of the bride and groom.
However, if there is no other time in the day, it is best to allocate another 45 minutes to an hour here so that we make sure we have enough photos of just you two. If you choose to forego a first look, you will then schedule to have as many of the other photos done before the ceremony as possible. You can also do family photos with the couples separated and their parents and close family if they wish.
When considering how much time you should plan for the ceremony, you need to look at several variables including:. The ceremony itself might already be set by the church or venue such as a registry office. Therefore the ranges below are rough guidelines, but I would always schedule a little bit more time as a cushion just incase the ceremony runs overtime or late because of any reasons.
Depending on the type of ceremony and service, the time can vary greatly. Most civil ceremonies are around 30 minutes, but if you have a church service, this can take minutes. Make sure that you have some extra time in the timeline after the service for people to give their good wishes and congratulate you.
This would also be a good point if you would like a confetti photo as you exit the ceremony venue. This can take another 10 minutes to set everyone up to throw their confetti. We know that you have spent a long time picking out your venue and planning all the little details, they need to be photographed.
The second shooter typically arrives at the ceremony location about 10 minutes before the main photographer. Before you have the guests take their seat, we must be able to capture the complete set up of your ceremony so we can capture the scene at its best. Sometimes guests come in early and leave their bag or jackets on the seats, which makes it impossible to Photoshop out.
If you're beginning to plan your wedding day timeline, follow think about several steps. We like to start at the ceremony time and work our way through the remaining timeline, using the ceremony as a starting point. Most photographers and couples will sit down and discuss if they want to do a first look or not. If your wedding day schedule is more flexible and you have enough time for a portrait session after the ceremony, waiting to see each other at the ceremony is a wonderful choice.
Small family portrait sessions: about minutes Big family portrait sessions: about 45 minutes Small wedding party portrait sessions: about minutes Big wedding party portrait sessions: about minutes.
This would usually take about 15 minutes, or 20 minutes at the most. A small wedding party portrait session — including the bride and groom and just one or two bridesmaids and groomsmen — would take about 10 minutes.
A large wedding party portrait session — with 7 or 8 bridesmaids and groomsmen on each side, or even more — would take about 25 minutes. Just tell your photographer what matters most to you and how many people are involved, and they will be able to help you estimate the exact amount of time the family and wedding party portraits will take.
If the portrait session is very important to you, a shot list is helpful. It all depends on your taste, style, and personality. Expect traditional look-at-the-camera poses with your extended family; getting creative with each relative would eat through your time at cocktail hour—or make you late for the reception. In these extended-family photos, Singleton says the couple is almost always in the center, with the family members posed around them.
Expect adorable candids with your mom or sibling zipping up that dress, and of course, the tear-jerking father-daughter first look. For grooms, it could be dad helping tie that ties or put on cufflinks.
Once the couple is dressed and ready, Singleton says photographers will sneak in a few pre-ceremony family photos to capture those once-in-a-lifetime butterflies. For a church wedding, these family photos typically happen at the altar. For an outdoor or non-religious ceremony, they happen in a photogenic space in or around the venue.
As you brainstorm must-have family portraits, we've rounded up 15 wedding-day family photo ideas for inspiration. This makes for meaningful candid portraits that encapsulate your big day. Key groom-prep moments, such as dad helping with the tie, make for sweet family candids, too. Few moments are as heartwarming as that first look with mom or dad. Reliving that reaction alone—which often has dad holding back tears—is worth the price of your photographer.
Inside jokes abound in just about every family. Photographers love to capture these silly jokes, big and small, throughout your wedding day. In fact, tell your photographer ahead of time if there are any specific jokes they should keep an eye out for! The photographer feels out the vibe for the day and leans into that intuition to capture each family shot perfectly. The classic parent photos, with the couple in the center and parents on both or either side, is a photographer staple.
These typically happen after the ceremony and incorporate both immediate and extended family. The couple is in most family photos, but with mom and dad looking their best, photographers want to capture solo portraits of them, too. Few things are more adorable than children at a wedding. Your photographer will capture every little-kid moment they can, including those tiny bowties, or kids just being kids.
That way you can print and frame everyone together for grandma or grandpa. We shoot many, many, MANY weddings and understand the flow and key moments of a wedding day and you will get our absolute best work if you let us pay attention to what is happening around us instead of hunting down shots on a list.
We absolutely DO want to know all about the special details that you have planned for your day and we want to capture those for you. That is why we also ask you to tell us as much detail as you can about any special details, events, and surprises that you are planning for your day in our questionnaires! TIP: We cannot replicate photos from Pinterest because to do so would be copyright infringement.
If you want to send us a Pinterest board to give us a feel for the vibe of your wedding, that is totally awesome though! This one can be really bad and it is super important. Five weeks before your wedding and on the same day of the week as your wedding i. Do this every week and you might notice that there is consistently more or consistently less traffic on your routes than you had planned. You can save yourself a LOT of stress and perhaps even prepare appropriate tasty treats and beverages!
This one is a little tricky because you want to be organized and you want to know where you are supposed to be and when and be able to track whether things are running on time. BUT, if you try to plan out every second of your day you will spend all day looking at your timeline instead of enjoying your wedding! What do we mean and what is the difference? Do not consume toast because carbs make you fat. TIP: if you are planning in intervals of less than minutes-or-so, you are probably over-planning your day.
So, those are our wedding day photography timeline tips, myths and F. If you are one of our clients, then we are happy to review your responses to our questionnaires and we will give you customized feedback about your wedding day photography timeline.
Vic - I am teaching a timeline workshop next week and came across your blog during my preparation.
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