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1. Schedule all hair and makeup appointments early enough that you, your family and the bridesmaids won’t be starting late for your pre-wedding photo session even if the appointments with the hairdresser run longer than they planned.

2. Remember to have your flowers delivered to the site that you will begin taking your photographs. (Your House, Hotel, Church-where-ever it may be) This gives you a chance to have some photographs taken with the flowers you have spent a lot of money on- while they are fresh, and it gives you something to do with your hands. You’ll put them down at the reception- so your time with them is limited.

3. Let your families and wedding party members know what time they are expected to begin taking photographs, and where they should arrive- dressed and ready to go. If your group tends to be late- suggest that they arrive 20 minutes ahead of the time they are really needed.

4. Give yourselves ample time for your pre-ceremony photographs and formal altar return photographs. The time varies from group to group because of the number of people involved. If you’d like we should be able to provide you with a suggested time guide. Remember if you cut short the time you have planned, photos may be missed and the variety in posing will be limited.

5. Remind family members and the wedding party to stay at the ceremony site for “altar returns” after your ceremony. Hunting someone down, or fining out that a key player has headed off to the reception, can make taking all the photographs you’d like to have taken impossible in a short amount of time. And we all know that you want to get to your party, and enjoy the rest of the day! You can bet that we want that for you too.

6. If you have hired a videographer- Please remind your videographer to capture your guests, and the empty reception hall during the cocktail hour, while you are having your after ceremony photographs taken. That way you don’t have double coverage of the still shots, and you do get to peek at what you otherwise would miss.

7. Please provide us with a list of any special people you want to have photographs taken of, such as your favorite Great Aunt, the old college gang, your work crew, etc. Select someone who can act as the liaison to the photographer to point out these people- don’t expect to do this yourself.

8. Final Tip-Be specific in your wants, likes and needs- communicate. Then relax and enjoy your wedding day.