Nothing adds stress to your day like running behind schedule. Just imagine how flustered you feel when you’re a little late for work and you have to hit the ground running. Now try and imagine what it must be like on your wedding day if things start to fall behind the agenda.
If you try and pre-plan your wedding timeline realistically, keep and open mind and try and stay positive throughout the day you’ll be on your way to an amazing day. Now when I say realistically, this will depend on many factors including the location of all the major details of the wedding, such as the pre-ceremony coverage, the ceremony, the formals and the reception. Other factors include the size of your wedding party, the size of your family and extended family, any special or unique traditional customs and the traffic on the 401 that day. Just kidding about the 401, if I have to travel and the 407 is an option that will be my first choice.
With regards to your wedding photography, I would definitely encourage you to plan sufficient time for your creative photography. This is the number one way to ensure great images. This is the time after I finish the family formals, but before your reception starts, and I would suggest at least one hour give or take. You’ve already invested a lot of time, energy and resources into all the aspects of your wedding and this is the day that you will both look your best and this is the time to capture that. This time alone with the newly married couple is used to create some of those relaxed romantic portraits that everyone loves, and this is a time for you and your husband or wife to spend some quiet time with each other on this busy day.
I realize that things don’t always go as planned, and there may or may not be something that could have been anticipated, but as I mentioned it’s best if you can just go with the flow. I’ll go over your timeline with you at the pre-wedding meeting and help you come up with something that is both realistic and sufficient to get all of those awesome wedding images that we’ll create together.
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