Your wedding planning guide!
Your team is so excited to be documenting your day and celebrating alongside you!
We’ve created this guide for you to help navigate your wedding planning and provide more information on your photography. The information provided is simply our advice based on past experience. We do suggest hiring a wedding planner or at the very least, a day of coordinator to help with the finer details!
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STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS
WEDDING PHOTO GUIDE
01.
Required Information
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU
While we try to do everything we can to make the process as simple as possible, there is some information that we’ll need from you!
You’ll have received a questionnaire from us upon booking, please have this filled out no later than 30 days prior to your wedding. This is very important as this is the information that your team will need to be able to photograph your wedding to the best of our ability. Including..
WEDDING QUESTIONNAIRE | TIMELINE | GROUP SHOT LIST | VENDOR LIST
02.
Your Timeline
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY TIMELINE
The MOST important part of your timeline is to look up what time sunset is and make sure your ceremony is about 2 hours prior to that – early enough to leave light after your ceremony for your newly wed portraits and all of your family + wedding party photos (if you chose to not have a first look).
We’ll have sent you a custom timeline for your wedding date, which can be found inside your questionnaire. This will give you an idea of how much time to allot to each different part of the day.
Remember, if you need help- ASK US! (:
03.
Do You Want A First Look?
decide when you want the reveal
We are big advocate of first looks, because we’ve been told time and time again by our couples how glad they are they had the first look (even when they initially didn’t think they wanted to do it.) There are big preconceived notions that having a first look takes away from the ceremony, but we have experienced how it actually makes it better.
1) You’ll be able to hug and talk when you see each other for the first time, opposed to having to wait 30 minutes for the ceremony to be finished 2) You’ll be able to enjoy the ceremony more if you’re not as nervous 3) You get to spend way more time together on your wedding day! 4) You’ll be able to complete your family, wedding party and most portraits prior to the ceremony, meaning less time for your guests to wait after the ceremony.
The only time you need to have a first look is if your ceremony time is set too close to sunset, not allowing enough time after the ceremony to complete the family, wedding party and newly wed photos. Otherwise, we can make your timeline work perfectly whether you have a first look or not.
04.
Family + Wedding Party Photos
THE PROCESS FOR GROUP PHOTOS
You’ll create your shot list and submit it via your questionnaire. Your photographers will use this to direct your family and party on the wedding day and will shoot exactly what’s on the list you provide.
Keep in mind the more photos and more people you have on this list, the longer it will take. We highly recommend keeping the number of photo combinations to about 10-15 so it can be completed efficiently (trust us, you’ll get tired of these quick).
It’s important that you let everyone know exactly where and when they need to be for formals. If you’re not sure, ask us!
05.
What To Bring
THE LITTLE DETAILS
If you have enough coverage for your photographers to be able to shoot your details, here are some ideas of things to have together for them when they arrive!
- Wedding Attire
- Rings
- Invitations
- Jewelry
- Shoes
- Vows
- Flowers
WHAT TO EXPECT
AFTER THE WEDDING
Your Gallery
AFTER THE WEDDING DAY
You’ll have sneak peeks in your inbox within a week, and your full gallery will be delivered 2-3 months after your wedding day. You can expect about 30 images per hour of coverage booked.
Your images will be edited to our style in terms of lighting and color adjustments. All images you receive will be edited, we do not send unedited images as they are not a finished product.
Please download your full, high resolution gallery and keep it in multiple safe places- we recommend a cloud based service in addition to a hard-drive. We are not responsible for retaining your images after 30 days of the gallery being delivered, due to storage constraints.
We highly recommend waiting to view your photos until you’re together in a relaxed environment. Make a date out of it- order dinner, pour a drink and relive your wedding day through your photos. Once you have a chance to look through your gallery please let us know your thoughts!
Printing
PRINT IS BETTER THAN DIGITAL
Your gallery is connected to our professional lab for seamless ordering of framed prints, canvases, etc. It’s important to print your photos here to ensure accurate colors and crisp printing so the quality of the photos you paid for doesn’t get diminished.
To access your store simply go to your online gallery and click “shop” at the top or in the bottom right of each photo there is a “buy” button. You’ll want to click “view all products” to see all of your options.
Make sure to share your guest link to everyone incase they want to download or purchase anything too, since they will also have access to the online store!
You can also download the high-res images and print elsewhere, just be sure to choose a high quality printer.
Photo Books & Albums
KEEPSAKES FOR GENERATIONS
We also offer custom designed photo books and heirloom albums!
To start this process, just select your customizations via the brochure we’ve sent to you. If you don’t see it, let us know and we’ll resend it.
Then, choose the photos you’d like included in your book by favoriting them within your online gallery!