Have you and your fiance ever had photos taken together before? Most couples that hire us for their wedding photos haven’t. And, odds are that if you haven’t had engagement photos taken, you've also likely never had professional couple photos taken together at all. This also means that we've likely never gotten to work together to take photos either. Because of that, we wanted to give you a little bit of a feel for what it's going to be like to work with us during your wedding day.
What to Expect on Your Wedding Day
Our ultimate goal is to arrive on your wedding day as friends with cameras.
This approach and mindset lets us disappear into the background of your day to experience and capture your moments with you as opposed to from the corner of the room with a long lens like a stranger might. This mindset of “friends with cameras” will also help your family and friends accept us as one of your group, which results in so many of the candid, genuine moments that our couples love.
One of the biggest things that our couples worry about when it comes to their wedding day photos is knowing how to “pose” so they look good and what to do with their hands.
There are a few things that we want you to keep in mind about both of these things. The first thing to keep in mind is that we promise to always give you something to do with your hands so you're not left wondering what to do with them or where to put them. As silly as it sounds, hands can make or break a photo, and we want to make sure you’re set up for success from the very beginning.
The second thing is that we don't want you to even think about memorizing any poses or worrying about how to stand in the days and weeks leading up to your wedding day. It's our job to make sure that you look amazing. If we're being honest, we like to avoid posing you outside of formal family and wedding party photos as much as we can. Poses (especially with just you and your fiance involved), often come across as stiff and can look and feel uncomfortable in the finished photos. Not to mention they never wind up being a good representation of who you are as a couple.
So, if we won't pose you, what will we do?
We prefer to direct or coach our couples. This means that we'll give you a starting point or prompt, and will then give you some direction that will keep you focused on each other instead of stiffly standing still looking down our camera lenses. Directing lets us create images for you that are more ”human-like,” and that result in more authentic photos and real moments from our couples. We'll guide and direct you into positions (not stiff poses), that will let you and your fiance interact how you normally do, which means that more of your personalities will be injected into your photos, resulting in images that are not only beautiful, but also 100% completely YOU.
Have more questions about our process? Feel free to send them our way!