How to Plan the Perfect Wedding Day Timeline
Here are a few tips and secrets on how to plan the perfect wedding day timeline.
As a wedding photographer, I’ve witnessed firsthand how the right timeline can transform the experience. Allowing you both to be fully present while ensuring that every cinematic detail is captured effortlessly. Planning an elegant city wedding in Edinburgh or Glasgow? An intimate elopement in Mayfair or Kensington? Here’s how to structure your day for the most beautiful, stress-free photography.
Keeping your Photography Natural
Being a photographer isn’t just pressing a button, far from it. Away from the technical side, capturing a wedding requires you to know what’s going to happen, to be able to anticipate what could happen and to be able to capture those more planned moments perfectly. It’s a magnificent combo.
You should aim to keep the day as natural as possible but I believe in talking lots before the wedding day to ensure we capture your vision perfectly. That way we get it all.
Your Wedding Morning
This is one of my favourite parts of the wedding day. Whether you book me as a solo shooter or add one of my team, the morning is about the little details and special moments, the set up and both of you.
Just like in a movie, (I love movies) this part of the day is the scene setting. Where are we? How do we get there? Who are the main characters?
I love, love, love scene setting. Painting the picture of your morning, of your day. Relaxed photography. Documentary style some call it!
I absolutely recommend investing in this part of your day being captured, more so than the dancing if you have to choose. Want both? Let’s do it! If you are going for a morning run, to walk the dog, for a coffee with pals or just chilling on your own, make sure it’s photographed. It doesn’t have to be invasive. These moments of your wedding day story caught in a very subtle way are a very powerful and emotive way to remember it by.
Portraits Before and After the Ceremony?
It can be a really good idea to leave some time for this. You don’t want your morning to be rushed or to be jam packed but it should be relaxed and indulgent for sure. The same after the ceremony. You time? Yes please. We can even nip down to the reception room together so you can both see the set-up for the first time, TOGETHER!
The photographs we can get here are worthy of your walls. These intimate moments either alone or with each other. These portraits are perfect. A fine balance of anticipation, emotion and a new life as two awaiting.
Time Together
The Ceremony will take care of itself. Myself and the team will get all the magical moments, the handholds and the kisses. The guests laughing, crying and simply being present for you.
Grab some time together alone afterwards to enjoy your first few moments as two. I also encourage couples to have a good 15-20 minutes of portraits. We don’t want scripted and awkwardly posed, but I will help and direct where we you need to if that works for you both. We will have spoken lots before your wedding day about this, but if it comes to the day and you don’t want portraits then we can tweak things there and then.
Party Time
Of course we can photograph the cake being cut, the first dance and the dancing! Fancy some more artistic portraits after you’ve changed for the party? We can plan it all in if so.
