Your wedding day is a special day! You should make sure to get as many photos as possible to remember it by. A great way to insure you get those special photographs is to hire a professional photographer to take them for you. But whether you hire a photographer, or have a family member or guest take your photographs, you need a plan! You need a wedding day essential photo shot list. So many essential photos can get overlooked in the hustle and bustle of a wedding day. Here is a list of the most essential wedding photos you need to take if you can. Remember, this is the bare essentials.
Wedding Day Essential Photo Shot List
Pre-Wedding Ceremony
- Bride with individual Bridesmaids
- Bride with all Bridesmaids
- Bride alone, close-up, waist up, 3/4, full length front and back
- Groom with individual Groomsmen
- Groom with all Groomsmen
- Groom alone, close-up, waist up, ¾,full length front and back
Ceremony
- Guestbook attendants
- Program attendants
- Groomsmen with minister in minutes before
- Grandparents seated
- Parent Seated
- Grooms party enters
- Bridal party down the aisle
- Flower girls and ring bearers
- Bride down the aisle
- Groom’s reaction to bride (this has become a HUGE ordeal in the past years)
- Standard Ceremony items: readings, prayers, unity candle/sand, rings, vows
- THE KISS!
- Pronouncement of Marriage
- Recessional
Family Portraits
- bride and groom with bride’s parents
- bride and groom with bride’s parents and siblings, in-laws, grandparents
- bride and groom with both families
- bride and groom with both sets of parents
- bride and groom with groom’s parents bride and groom with groom’s parents and siblings, in-laws, grandparents
Couple
20+ creative shots of the couple in a variety of poses, smiling, kissing, in action, sexy poses, making sure to get a variety of styles, locations and crops, full length, scenic, close up, 3/4 etc.