In weeks past, I’ve shared the details on our wedding event ceremony as well as our wedding event reception, as well as today I’m ecstatic to continue my wedding event Wednesday series with details on our day-after picture shoot. These wedding event articles are a minor departure from my style-focused working woman blog, however it’s been a happiness to share as well as relive a few of these special moments right here in really hopes that I may pass along a few of the wedding event planning wisdom I gleaned along the way. As a working girl, I understand exactly how difficult it is to juggle your genuine job and wedding event planning—which is generally a full-time task in itself—so I’m excited to share ideas as well as suggestions from our wedding experience to ideally simplicity the journey for those of you currently dealing with wedding event planning challenges, or expecting to deal with them in the future! Today I’m continuing the wedding event series with details on our day-after session, with info on (A) what the heck a day-after picture shoot is, as well as (B) why you must think about one for your own wedding…
“Day-After” picture shoot? Sounds absurd, I know, however let me provide you the lowdown…
Going into the wedding event planning process, rich as well as I both truly wished to keep the old-school custom of not seeing each other on our wedding event day up until I was really walking down the aisle. However, nowadays, lots of couples choose to have a “first look” moment where they see each other after they’ve both completed getting prepared before the ceremony. Some couples feel that this is a special moment for just the two of them (without the rest of their guests around) and, maybe a lot of of all, it enables them to have additional time to take all of those special couples’ photos before the ceremony, to ensure that the time between the ceremony as well as reception isn’t as well packed.
A very first look is particularly motivated by professional photographers as well as wedding event planners if you have a late afternoon wedding event (like ours which was at 3pm) with a reception promptly to comply with (also, like ours). But, we were issue children. There was no altering our 3pm ceremony time, yet we were likewise insistent on not doing a very first look, so our professional photographers as well as wedding event organizers were rather concerned about timing for pictures.
When I was relaying this challenge to a good good friend of mine, she pointed out having heard of a “day-after shoot”—something I’d never heard of before, however something that [turned out to be] a overall godsend.
A day-after session is precisely as it sounds—you routine a time with your professional photographer either the day after your wedding, or in our case, two days later, to get back into your wedding event day duds—dress, hair, makeup as well as all—and take a few of those special wedding event pictures that you may not have had time to handle the actual day because of arranging constraints.
On our wedding event day, rich as well as I both (A) desired to wait to see each other up until the ceremony as well as (B) wanted our reception to begin as soon as possible after the ceremony to ensure that we might get to the dancing as well as debauchery that was eagerly anticipated by all. On the official day, we definitely desired all of the special moments captured, however we were less ecstatic about stepping out of the “moment” (sorry for the cliché, however I indicate it) to spend great deals of time taking the a lot more formal pictures.
Our 3pm ceremony as well as a 5pm reception indicated that we would have a bit over an hour between the end of the Catholic ceremony as well as the grand march of the wedding event celebration into the ballroom. When you think about that this hour includes pictures in the church of both households as well as the wedding party as well as transportation to our rehearsal dinner location where we were taking outside shots in the gardens, we were going to be cutting it CLOSE.
I believe for anyone (but maybe since we’re especially into photography) the pressure to get truly spectacular wedding event pictures is huge! By selecting to do a day-after shoot all of the anxiety of a tight photography timetable was lifted—which really resulted in much better photos, since we weren’t stressing about timing. Since we knew that we would be getting back into our wedding event finest two days later for a lot more couple photos, we didn’t worry out about getting the best staged photos on our actual day, which enabled us to just completely take pleasure in every moment. Knowing that we had that additional day completely lifted any type of pressure or stress and anxiety on the day-of as well as enabled us to spend the hour we had focused on getting all of the household pictures as well as wedding event celebration pictures done well. Since we were so stress-free, the process went much quicker than expected and as you saw in this publish as well as this post, we ended up having time to spare to get lots of shots of the two of us which turned out great—likely since we felt zero pressure.
If you’re doing a very first look and/or you’re having a morning or early afternoon wedding event with a number of hours between the ceremony as well as reception, you’ve got nothing to concern about. You’ll have lots of time between the ceremony as well as reception to take all the photos you want. But, if your ceremony is in the afternoon as well as you want to keep to the standard no-peeking-until-the-aisle thing, don’t let any individual persuade you that a very first look is your only option! Hey, it’s your wedding event day, as well as thanks to the day-after shoot, you can really have your cake as well as eat it too. ; )
We understood we would be as well exhausted the day after our wedding event to look halfway respectable in photos, so we arranged the shoot to really be two days after our huge day—which was the day before we left for our honeymoon. It ended up being truly special, since we were each able to put on our wedding event clothing once again one last time. While rich will get a lot more utilize out of his tuxedo, I will of program never get the possibility to wear my wedding event gown again, so being able to wear it for one a lot more afternoon with him was magic.
BUT exactly how DID YOU keep whatever CLEAN?! This absolutely can be tricky, so plan very carefully here. Since our ceremony as well as reception were both indoors, I didn’t deal with the exact same intense dirt-on-hem-of-dress problems that brides with outside weddings face. As previously mentioned, we did take photos in the gardens on our wedding event day, so there absolutely was some dirt on the underside of my dress, however as you can see in the photos today, not sufficient to truly notice. Otherwise, I got with the reception without any type of spills, as well as one hour into dancing I altered into my dancing dress which took the beating during the a lot more aggressive hours of dancing as well as drinks. For Rich, he just had his tee shirt reveal dry-cleaned the next day, as well as his dark tux didn’t show any spills or sweat from the reception, so we were great to go!
If you keep in mind my previous wedding event posts, you’ll note that I selected to do my hair a bit in a different way for the day-after shoot. I had always been really split about my wedding event day ‘do—going back as well as forth between using my hair all the method up or just half-up—but made a decision to opt for an updo on the huge day. My thick, naturally directly hair immediately falls out of any type of semblance of curl when humidity is high, as well as considering that August in Milwaukee normally sees a great amount of humidity, I made a decision to play it risk-free for the genuine offer as well as go all up. For the day-after shoot, however, it was fun to have my hair stylist switch it up a bit as well as do the half-up style that I had always liked as well. Luckily the weather condition was remove as a bell that afternoon so it worked out nicely.
Thanks for all of your emails, comments, etc. about my wedding posts. I have great deals of articles to find on wedding event registry, honeymoon as well as more but if you have other certain areas you’d like me to chat about, I’m all ears! Let me understand in the comments below : )
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