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A Wedding Day Timeline – Expectation vs Reality

I often refer to “time” as the magic ingredient to the wedding day of your dreams. You can spend months planning every detail of your day, from your wedding favors, to the cake topper, to which song you will walk down the aisle as a married couple… but beyond the color of the ribbon on...

Sutography Wedding Tip – Posing Direction

There has been a lot of buzz lately about “not” posing couples. We have always called our artistic direction “posed relaxed.” Most couples admit they are not models and they simply do not know what to do with a camera pointed at them. We direct our couples to make looking great seem effortless, as if...

Fit for Your Wedding

As you count down the months and weeks leading up until your big day a common theme for most brides and grooms is fitness.  This can be super hard to balance between your normal workdays, classes, wedding planning and having a few moments of fun.  I also am constantly challenged to find time to workout...

Sutography Wedding Tip – Perfect Bridal Portraits

Moore often than not, if photographers are not included in the preceremony timing of getting ready, the timing of bridal photos is not fully taken into consideration.   There are two critical things we always ask our brides to consider, 1) – Bridal portraits should happen soon after getting into her dress.  This is highly recommended...

Sutography Wedding Tip – Yes or No to a wedding day first look

First look vs No First look: You have probably heard that it is best to take all formal photographs before the wedding and many couples are choosing to do a first look. You might be asking yourself…”What if we are more traditional and want to wait to see one another until the ceremony?” “Do we...

Sutography Wedding Tip – The bride and her dress

Last week we shared our thoughts about the importance of timing for hair and makeup for a bride.  This week, we wanted to add to this same “bridal getting ready” tip by discussing the bride and her “dress” on the big day.  We always say the dress is like it’s own person, it normally has...

Sutography Wedding Tip – Day of Makeup and Hair for bride

Bridal Tip: When scheduling makeup for the bride, do not necessarily make the bride last.  Why not you ask? It’s that “what if” question that we don’t ignore when it comes to how the bride looks.  “What if” the bride isn’t happy with something, “what if” the process takes longer than anticipated, “what if” a...

Sutography Wedding Tip – Remember your sunscreen

Sunscreen is possibly one of the most important “little things” that often goes ignored by most people.  Obviously, everyone should wear sunscreen on a daily basis, but in relation to your wedding, this is the wrong time to ignore your sunscreen.  First and foremost, wearing sunscreen for the weeks leading up to the wedding will...