Welcome back to season 2 of The Photo Concierge Podcast! I took an abrupt break during busy season last year, but I'm back and excited for season 2!

Top 5 Wedding Day tips

1. Consider doing a first look with your partner on your wedding day

2. It prioritizes time prior to the ceremony for photos when guests aren’t present

3. It allows guests to be more present with guests after the ceremony
4. It can allow family photos to be done prior to the ceremony sometimes

Check out Episode 3 Season 1 on First Looks vs. No First Looks

1. Consider hiring a wedding planner for your wedding day

2. A planner allows you to have quality time with your family and guests on their wedding day

3. A planner ensures a seamless wedding day and allows couples to be fully present
4. Planners coordinate vendor schedules and timelines and keeps all vendors running smoothly
5. Allows family who would otherwise become an unofficial wedding planner on the day of to be present with the couple

Some planners and coordinators I recommend:

It’s Kee Events

Vance Taylor Designs

Merry Me Events

Audrey Kate Coordinates

1. Consider hiring transportation on your wedding day

2. Transportation is important when you have multiple locations for your wedding party to be at

3. Helpful if you have a church ceremony, photos in between, and a separate reception venue
4. Safer for allowing wedding party to enjoy drinks without needing to have a designate driver

5. Easier for larger wedding parties getting to photo locations

6. Consider skipping the huge family photo groupings or limiting family photos to just immediate family

7. Asking yourself what family photo groupings are really important - will you frame them or put them in an album?

8. What is a “should” on your wedding day and what’s something you and your partner really want?
9. Are the photo groupings for you or your parents?
10. Family photo groupings can be chaotic if not planned well, family members can miss the memo to be present, and larger groupings can take awhile to set up.
11. Sit down and evaluate what photos are going to be the most important to you
12. Family groupings can take 2-3 minutes to set up, 5-7 minutes for larger groupings

13. I usually budget around 30 minutes to take family photo groupings on a wedding day

14. Communicate clearly with Hair & Makeup Artists and ask them how much time they need

15. I recommend hair and makeup be wrapped up 30 minutes before we need to start photos

16. If hair and makeup runs long, it will have a chain effect and we’ll need to cut out some photo time
17. Get really clear on how much time your H&MU artists need for each person getting service
18. Budget travel time if you are getting ready at a different location than your venue or first photo location

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