Beautiful photographs are one of the most important parts of wedding memories. After all, they are one of the few visual keepsakes you have for your special day to enjoy all year round. It is customary to take most of the photos immediately after the marriage ceremony, a cocktail hour. But these days, many couples are choosing to take their pictures before the start of the ceremony, or in some cases even longer. These are the pros and cons of making a decision to do your wedding photos before, during, or after the wedding.
There are many great reasons to take most of the official wedding photographs before the start of the ceremony the couple. Couples like that are the most recent: unwrinkled, perfect makeup, bridal jewelry and hair perfectly in place. A lot can go through the ceremony, after all. If it was very emotional, the bride’s makeup mascara might be runny or groom’s face blotchy. When the ceremony was long and the bride and groom sat in their clothing can become creased. Taking pre-ceremony pictures really ensure perfection.
The other main reason to do the bulk of the photos to the service is that the newlyweds can enjoy for your cocktail hour and spend more time with your guests. This is a really good thing. The main drawback to taking wedding photos before the ceremony that it reduces the once-in-a-lifetime moment when the groom first glimpses his bride walk down the aisle to him.
This may be a reason enough not to take pre-wedding photos. A compromise to save time during the cocktail hour for a photographer to capture the bride with her bridesmaids and the groom with his groomsmen, but also save pictures of the newlyweds until after the ceremony.
The most traditional time to take wedding photos is a cocktail hour. Couples who feel superstitious about seeing each other before the ceremony will definitely want to pre-ceremony photo shoots. In addition, you may find that you feel more relaxed, the marriage service is for you, and if you feel relaxed, that will come through in pictures. Of course, the first moments of the newlyweds is a unique and valuable, definitely worth capturing forever.
The main disadvantage of having pictures taken during the cocktail hour, the bride, the groom and their attendants will spend a lot of fun while the photo session. Even worse is when the shooting works so long that it slows down the adoption of the beginning (that drives guests crazy!). Be sure to discuss the timeline with your photographer in advance so that you do not need to go to the reception start time.
There is a new trend is to have wedding photos taken later in the day than the actual wedding a lot. No celebration candids, of course, but artistic shots newlyweds. It can be fun to get a second chance to put on your wedding dress and wedding jewelry and get it all done again.
The main reason that couples have the pictures taken on the day after their wedding is to allow them to have photo shoots at a unique or special places that are not close to your wedding website, such as the beach or amusement park. Another big reason for this trend is to allow for “trashing dress photos, which often feature the bride wearing her dress in water or lying on the sand. The pictures are dramatic, and makes them after the wedding makes sense because they make the bridal gown unwearable.
