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Planning and timings are essential for your wedding. Planning the timings of your wedding photographer is necessary to get the maximum out of your wedding photography package investment; this is something you do need to micro manage to a degree.

An experienced professional photographer should plan timings with you as second nature, as light varies in direction depending on the season, sunset times vary, the moon, the tide and the amount of twilight. This is another indicator of how professional your photographer is. If the photographer you are hiring doesn’t go into micro timing details, you need to voice some concern with them. Key timings need to work around the photography to ensure you get the best out of your wedding photography.

What your timings need to include

1. Bridal Preparations Photographer arrival time.

• You need at least one hour of photography coverage

2. Travel time from Bride location to Groom location

3. Groomsmen preparations or waiting at venues shots timing

• If photography is to be done where the Groom is getting ready, you need to allow for 1 hour for photography. The photographer and the Groom will need to leave enough time to travel to the Ceremony venue and arrive one hour before the Ceremony start time. o If the Groom is at the Ceremony venue the photographer needs to be there at least 1 hour before the ceremony start time. This gives them time to photograph the Groom and Groomsmen and to recheck the location.

4. Bride arrival time

• Photographer needs to be waiting where you will drive up to

5. Ceremony start and end time

6. Group shots start and finish times

• Travel time

7. Location Photography timing to and from

• Travel time

8. Reception time, when they expect you to be there to enter or for pre reception drinks.

You may even need to move your ceremony time forwards or backwards half an hour, making sure you end up with 1 hr photography time from when you get to you photographic location. Then leave enough travel time to arrive at the reception on time, the reception venue will need to know this time. It is also important for some limo companies as some don’t have time contingencies and have to be somewhere else after your booking. I have seen a wedding run late and the limo company had no time contingency, this meant no location photography after the wedding. The best way to plan a wedding schedule to capitalise on your photography, and to avoid running out of light, time, or both, is to start with the Sunset time and work backwards. Most people don’t consider actual travel times and this messes up their plans.

Example

1. Reception arrival time, for this example it would end up being 630pm.

• This is the time you need to hire the cars until

2. Travel time to get to reception:? 20min to 30min

• The best way to calculate travel times is Whereis or Google Maps
• Also consider if there will be peak traffic or road works

3. Sunset – 6pm

4. Location Photography – 5pm to 6pm

5. Travel time from Ceremony venue to Photography Location – 430pm to 450pm

6. Family and Friends Group shots – 3pm to 4pm for large groups

7. Best Ceremony Time – 230pm for 30min ceremony

8. Photographer and Groom arrival time at Ceremony venue – 130pm

9. Travel time from Bridal Preparation to wedding venue – 1pm to 130pm

10. Bridal Preparation Photography – 12pm to 1pm

• Bridesmaids need to be dressed and made up by 12pm
• Bride needs to be getting makeup final touches
• The make-up and hair stylists need to be instructed that they are to be finished by this time, in this example 12pm, no exceptions, there lateness will just kick on through the day and effect everyone and everything else. If they run late you will miss out on getting the most out of your preparation photography and not get many set shots.

Professional wedding photographers, as part of their service should automatically come up with timings that will work the absolute best, to capitalise on your photography package investment. They should take everything into account, including weather several days out from you date, tides (if applicable), sunset and the moon phase. This is to ensure that you have a stress free, unhurried day and can relax.

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Source by Mark Klumper