Wedding Photo Check List!

I've come up with a check list of most photographs that should be taken at a wedding. Use it as a guide, and add more if your Bride requests something special. Hope this helps you out!

Wedding Photos

Pre Ceremony –
Bride alone – full and close
Bride with – Mom
Dad
Mom and Dad
Maid of Honor
Each Bridesmaid
All Girls Attending
Groom with Best Man
Mom
Dad
Mom and Dad
Coming down aisle –
Any Grandparents
Groom’s Mom
Bride’s Mom
All Attendants
Bride with Dad/Mom
Ceremony –
Anyone doing a reading
Anyone Singing
Overall views
Bride’s face
Groom’s face
Him putting ring on her
Her putting ring on him
Kiss at end of ceremony
Candid of Bride and Groom exiting cere
STOP THEM – Looking at camera
Then tell them to kiss
Formals –
Bride and Groom together – full and close
THEN ADD - Her parents
His parents
Any grandparents
Best Man and Maid of Honor
Her Whole immediate family
His Whole immediate family
Whole wedding party
Bride alone – full and close
Groom alone – full and close
Second pose of Bride and Groom
ANYTHING CREATIVE YOU CAN THINK OF
FUN STUFF – Bride with all the men
Groom with all the girls
ASK THEM IF THEY WANT ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR/SPECIAL

RECEPTION -

Announced in – first dance – close and full of bride and groom – any attendants dancing – GET THEM –
Toast – showing BM – then pose B&G looking at camera, holding glasses together – then tell them to kiss
*REQUESTED TABLE SHOTS – HAVE HALF THE TABLE STAND BEHIND THE OTHER HALF – 2 QUICK SHOTS OF EACH
(An assistant can proceed to the next table to set them up for you)

IF YOU ARE BEING SUPPLIED A MEAL – BE SURE TO ASK THE HOSTESS WHERE YOU SHOULD SIT (They are paying for it so be sure to eat!)

Sometimes after the salad – they do the cake cutting – pose the first shot – then take candids of them cutting and feeding each other and the kiss at the end – if doing to background music you need to tell them what to do.

PARENT DANCES – Him with his mom, her with her dad

CANDIDS AND GROUPINGS – HAVE THEM LOOK AT YOU – MAKES BETTER PHOTOS!

15 MINS before you are supposed to leave – ask them if they want anything else – stay until you get all they want

AT SOME POINT PULL THEM ASIDE TO POSE A “GOODBYE” SHOT – BY A DOOR WAVING TO YOU THEN KISSING