HOORAY! We have a wedding photographer! More on that exciting news soon!
Our photographer will be with us for 8 hours, which led me to wonder if that is enough time for everything. Since we won’t have our reception at a place with lush gardens and outdoor wonders, I want to set aside time for taking pictures in a scenic park. I tried creating a general timeline for the wedding day to see how much 8 hours would cover, but I really have no idea where to start. Thankfully, there are other fabulous wedding websites out there with plenty of advice!
Our own hive has a timeline wiki with links to bees’ wedding day schedules. Also, Weddingchicks has a detailed wedding day schedule that I adore, because it’s broken down into small increments—down to 5 minutes at some points! And it includes nuggets of wisdom like these:
7:10. Salads Plated and Speeches *TIP* Serve salads BEFORE speeches. Speeches that run long make for wilting salads and put dinner behind schedule.
7:45. Entrées Served *TIP* Serve your vendors as you are served so they can take a break and be back for all of the action! No one likes their picture taken while they are eating so it’s the perfect time.
All the little details and increments are overwhelming right now… so I’ll make a detailed schedule later. (Phew. Glad I took care of that task!) For now, I only want a rough outline of the day, just to see what 8 hours of photography can cover!
11:00 Getting Ready
1:00 Skup Svatova (More on that soon, too!)
3:00 Ceremony
6:00 Cocktail Hour
7:00 Dinner and Dancing
11:00 Goodnight!
It looks like we won’t have any professional getting-ready shots or boogieing-on-the-dance-floor shots. We could pay for our photographer to stay for more hours, but I’m not even sure I’d want pictures of my sweaty (ahem, extra-glowy) self late into the night!
Is your photographer going to be with you from start to finish on your wedding day? If not, which parts of the day are you leaving out of your professional pictures?
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