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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Photography tips for the Bride - editorial. | |
Mine is mainly a time scheduling thing as well.
If the hairdresser or MUA tell you they are going to do you last because they want you to look fresh as possible, hire someone that knows what the hell they are doing.
WITHOUT FAIL, they will run late and while all the bridesmaids are ready and get plenty of pics, who is the one that's going to have to be rushed to try and stay anything like on time?
When the hell does the guest of honor at any event have to wait till last anyway?
They get the royal treatment which is get everything first and waited on hand and foot. WTF is it with these stylists that want to make you wait like the person up the back in the cheap seats??
Also, If a couple or 3 hours is going to make such a difference to how you look between getting done first or last, what the hell you going to look like time you get to the reception 4-6 hours later?
Whoever came up with the thing about the bride has to be fashionably late to church is a Moron.... and a spinster.
The bride needs to be there ON TIME.
You arrive at the correct hour, get some pics getting out of the car, have the doddery old women come up and tell you how lovely you look, organise the whining bridesmaids, get read the riot act from the priest, get everyone seated and fire up the Funeral march for the living, by the time you hit the end of that runway where the bloke is standing knees knocking trying not to soil himself, you are 10-15min late already which is plenty fashionable enough for any clueless romantic fuddy duddy.
Anything more than that and the day goes to hell in a hand basket with the cascading effect of running further behind.
Before you decide on those bridesmaids dresses, could you imagine them being seen dead in them anywhere else but a fancy dress party?
If you can't, then don't have them for your wedding either!
Having your friends as bridesmaids is not an excuse to put them in outfits that will have them ridiculed for the rest of their born days for how stupid they look and people asking if it were some kind of joke.
And NO, that lovely shade of flouro Pink/ green/ blue is NOT going to look lovely in the pictures. It's going to look even more hideous than it does in real life but no one wants to upset you by telling you so even though they will be gossiping behind your back about it for years and in a few years, you are going to be wondering if you were smoking Crack and just don't remember it?
I mean if you picked those dresses, not remembering smoking crack makes a lot more sense than what on earth could have possessed you to pick those dresses otherwise right?
THINK about timing. If you want to have the church service at 4PM in winter, you are NOT going to be able to go to that fantastic location 30 min away and have pictures..... well not any that have any backgrounds visible because the light was gone 30 min before you said " I do" let alone stuffed around chatting outside the church and drove half way across the city to get there.
Is it seriously so hard for people to think this stuff through?? So long for the church, so long to yap and buggerise around, so long to travel.....and getting a bridal party out of a car and 30Ft to where you want them to stand is a 10 minute exercise IF you have experience working on a sheep station or know how to heard cattle. Add another 5 min if you haven't.
Hmm, that makes it 6PM before you get there! Good job you thought that through before you booked everything.... oh, wait.....
Don't bother to bring your photographer that sample shot you would love to have on the rolling hill of a wheat field silhouetted in the late afternoon sun when you are having your wedding on the Harbor foreshore in the middle of the city and the nearest wheat field is 300 KM away and the whole area is flat as a sheet of glass...which is why it's a farming area in the first dam place!
This would be funny if I weren't thinking of it from REPEATED practical experience.
Likewise, Don't ask for all these fashionable night shots in the city if your wedding is in a country town 2 hours away from any building over 2 stories high.
None of these mistakes is the end of the world though.
It's probably only your first wedding and you'll do a better job on the next 3.
Hopefully!
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Dec 20, 2015 at 09:12 PM |
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