Tips from a Photographer

Here are some tips from Outer Banks wedding photographer Daryl Law:
 

After photographing approximately 250 wedding in the past seven or eight years, I’ve come up with five important ideas to share with brides-to-be:

 

  1. Touch base. Be sure to contact your photographer the day before or the morning of your wedding. This should help smooth some of your last minute jitters about whether he or she will show up on time.
  2. Allow extra time. Have your photographer arrive at least 30 minutes if not an hour before your ceremony. Leaving some cushion for your photographer is important in case they were to have car or other problems. Expect to pay them for this time too as any experienced photographer will start working the minute he or she arrives.
  3. Have a rain plan. If you’re planning an outside wedding, be sure to have a back-up plan in case of poor weather. You need to decide in advance where to get married if it rains or storms. Most of the beach houses have large great rooms and this space should work fine. Have a cut-off time no less than an hour before the ceremony when you make the call to go inside or out.
  4. Pay vendors early. If vendor payments have not been made before the wedding day, they should be handed out in envelopes as the vendors arrive for the ceremony. From a vendor’s point of view, it’s no fun to chase down the bride at the end of the event to get paid.
  5. Relax! Try not to let details take over your mood the day of your wedding. Focus on the positive and don’t get upset if some of the flowers are wrong or one of the groom’s friends acted up at the rehearsal dinner. Just enjoy the day!

I hope these tips help in preparing for your wedding!

Posted by OBX Wedding Blog at 3/22/2010 12:42 PM
Categories: Photography
 

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