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Should you take your Wedding Photo's before the Wedding?

Wedding tradition tells us that the bride and groom should not see each other before the ceremony. However, there are lots of benefits for couples willing to bend this rule just a little bit. Many bridal couples are breaking the superstition, and choosing to use this super situation to great advantage. Getting your wedding photographs out of the way before the ceremony will allow you and your partner to go right to the wedding reception after you say "I do", so you won't spend the next hour taking wedding photographs and keeping your wedding guests waiting.

If you agree to see each other before the wedding ceremony, start taking wedding pictures at least three hours prior to your walk down the aisle. Your wedding photographer will be able to photograph candids of the bride and groom getting ready without interfering with the natural order of the day. Your wedding photographer should then arrange for you to see each other for the first time privately.  This means no family, no friends, and no bridal party. Your wedding photographer should find a spot on or near the ceremony grounds and get the bride set-up. The groom will then come, giving the wedding photographer the chance to capture the emotion of the groom's face as he sees his bride, and her face as she sees him.

After you've had a few minutes alone, without your wedding photographer, he can then devote an entire hour to capturing images of you without distractions from family members, bridal parties, and wedding guests.  A good wedding photographer will walk around the wedding venue and use locations you might not be able to use after the ceremony.

Two hours before the wedding, the immediate families and the wedding party should be ready. Each side of the family and bridal party will be photographed.

Any extended family you want in the family group shots should arrive one hour prior to the ceremony. Most couples choose to include spouses of brothers and sisters and their children.

If you are stuck on the tradition that it's bad luck to see each other before the wedding, try at least to get each of your individual sides done before the ceremony. Then afterwards, you can do all the extended family pictures. Do these pictures right away, so that your families and bridal party can head over to the wedding reception. This usually takes thirty to forty-five minutes. Once these pictures are completed, it's time for the pictures of you, the new couple. Since cocktails are usually an hour, you will probably have fifteen to twenty minutes to take these shots before you need to leave for the wedding reception.

 
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