Photos are the low point of every wedding.
After the ceremony, everyone is on such a happy, emotional high and then the bride and groom immediately disappear with the wedding party for hours, taking the vibe with them.
The guests are left to mill about making small talk, reliving details of the bride’s dress while desperately attempting to keep the joyful momentum going.
This rarely works. Buzz killed.
And yet more than any other part of the wedding, brides are obsessed with The Photos. I’ve been to weddings where the bride looks like a clown because “the photographer said more makeup will make the photos look better.”
Over the past few years the “photo” gap between wedding and reception has started to stretch to ridiculous lengths are the newlyweds schlep off to various photogenic locations. Often, the desire to capture amazing photos torpedoes everyone’s actual experience of the day including the couple’s.
And what becomes of these photos?
Usually they sit in an album nobody looks at with a few lucky ones being chosen to star in fancy frames that remind the bride of the day when she was the thinnest and so strangers can see who owns the house when it’s open for inspection.
If you’re Kim and Kanye, however, your wedding photos become news. Which explains the glorious details Kanye has shared about the wedding photos the couple shared with the world via Kim’s Instagram account and E! News.
The best part: Kanye and his bride spent four days of their honeymoon using photoshop to correct the colour of the flower wall. Not their faces. Not even Kim’s dress. But the flower wall.
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I've found "the one" so I'm secretly planning our wedding on Pinterest LOL! But there are lots of wedding day photo pose ideas and links to other people's amazing photos. I think it would be a good idea to go to your wedding location a few weeks prior and just suss and take dummy photos of the best photo spots, time of day and light, and just have a special few poses (look at other people's photos for inspiration) for formal photos, and leave the rest of the photography for the reception. That way you would have a good idea of what you'd like and you can liaise with the photographer to make the formal photos quick and easy before enjoying the party :)
We had only an hour from ceremony to reception in which to get our pics done. The guests were transferred from chapel to magnificent hotel lobby bar and they enjoyed canapes and drinks while we had our photos done nearby. They were able to watch and, in the case of several aunties and Nannas, to sneak up behind the photographer and take pics. Hehe! Our photos felt like they were over in a jiffy and we had lots of compliments on how smooth and quick the transition from ceremony to reception was! In all honesty though, our photos didn't turn out as spectacularly as many of my friends who spent several hours getting theirs done. With limited time and limited locations - by choice & gladly! - of course our pics weren't going to be quite as dazzling.
But ten years on - still happily married, with four kids now! - I couldn't care less! I rarely look at my wedding pics. It's all about the life we share now, the children, our home, the holiday photos we're created together, the pics of our children. I don't even have many wedding pics displayed. It was just one day, and I honestly think I look more glowing and beautiful and WE look happier in other prominently displayed pics - pregnancy shots, birth of our children, holiday glam on a tropical island...the happily ever after!