Wedding Details To Have Ready For Your Photographers When They Arrive
Detail Photos for Wedding photography | Flat Lay Photography List | NYC Wedding Photography | Wedding Dress Invitation Suit Shoe Photographs
Wedding Details To Have Ready
For Your Photographers When They Arrive
As your wedding day approaches, we love to send over some helpful tips for ensuring that the morning goes as smoothly as possible and we maximize our coverage for the best possible images! We love to begin our day with detail photos to tell the best story of your day. We have found that it is super useful to organize these ahead of time that way we can hit the ground running without any unnecessary tracking down of items.
Bride / Feminine Details:
Wedding Dress
All stuffing removed + hanger straps cut out
A nice hanger
Veil
>> Check with your seamstress about de-wrinkling (not all materials can be steamed)
Shoes
Rings
BOTH of your bands + engagement rings
Have rings cleaned beforehand, especially diamonds
A nice ring box if possible
Invitation Suite: All paper goods including-
Your formal invitations, envelopes, RSVP cards
Save the dates
Any calligraphy items such as menus, table cards, etc
Bonus points for miscellaneous details like wax seals, fancy stamps, etc
FLORAL SCRAPS
This is an important one to elevate your photos, please inquire with your florist for scraps (broken flowers, greenery, etc) that we can use to style your images.
Unfortunately, we do need these AT OUR START TIME, so sometimes timing can be tricky. It might be easier to pick up a bouquet of similar flowers from a store or special order a few flowers that we can use for these photos.
JEWELRY / MISC
Your earrings, necklaces, bracelets, or any piece that holds sentimental value or your will be wearing.
Hair pins, “something borrowed”, all of these make for great photos!
Perfume bottles
Vow books
Groom / Masculine Details:
SUIT: Please have your suit ready, all tags off, cut out stitches that close vents, all wrinkles out
CUFF LINKS
WATCHES / JEWELRY: If your watch has the date, please ensure that it’s set to the correct day
TIES / BOW TIES: Hey guys, if you’re doing a bow tie, make sure YOU KNOW HOW TO TIE IT. Right? Watch the YouTube videos, practice at home. Same goes for pocket squares. Know how to do yours and help your buddy. You wouldn’t believe how much time is lost!
VOW BOOKS / LETTERS TO EACH OTHER
Miscellaneous Details
To maximize your photography coverage, it’s super helpful to have getting ready spaces tidied up. Especially when we work with bigger wedding parties, we’re often spending a lot of time shuffling clutter and bags and trash out of the spaces. (This is a perfect task for someone in the wedding party to do, by the way). Cleaner spaces = cleaner images ;)
Make sure you guys know where your marriage license is! We’ve seen a lot of time lost on the way to the ceremony if no one can find it.
Natural light is our best friend, so bonus points if we arrive with curtains and blinds drawn!
Please have your details organized in one spot that way we’re not having to track everything down! And when in doubt, include a detail. Things like welcome bags and other parts of the wedding weekend are great additions to your final gallery!
For a printable version of this checklist:
Pound Ridge Proposal Photography Upstate NY
Matt & Danielle’s Proposal | Pound Ridge NY | Upstate New York Engagement Photography | Apollo Fields Wedding Photographer
It was a cool morning last Friday in Pound Ridge. I had been up since before the sun to make my way over the city before rush hour, and found my own peace on the lake overlooking the house that Danielle and Matt were staying in. I already scouted the little hideaway space in the woods where I would be able to discreetly capture their proposal and had been texting back and forth with Matt to coordinate the last details to make the morning perfect.
He was busy scattering rose petals on the jetty that he had delivered to his work address to keep this huge secret from Danielle. They live together in NYC so it’s not easy to pull off this kind of surprise without arising suspicions, and Matt went above and beyond for this one— even flying to Chicago on a “work trip” to go custom design her engagement ring and another secret trip to her parent’s house to ask permission to propose!
For whatever reason, proposals are the ONLY thing that make me nervous to shoot (in a good way) and par for the course, as soon as I saw them walk out the back of the lake house, my heart began pounding. Danielle began connecting the dots when she saw the big rose petal heart on the dock and the water carried her “Oh my god oh my god”s in a way that suggested that she was just as surprised as intended. Before long, Matt was down on one knee and they were engaged!
I am always humbled by these moments because there is something special about being the only other person to witness such a huge moment. After the proposal, I was able to come out of hiding and celebrate alongside them with a champagne toast, some FaceTime calls to family, and a few pics before giving them the rest of their day back to enjoy the big moment. I loved their sentimental and playful energy and felt so lucky to have been a part of such an amazing moment!
Here’s to Danielle & Matt— cheers to your engagement!
As seen in: BROOKLYN BRIDE
Proposal Photography: Apollo Fields
Pound Ridge Venue: AirBnb
Ready to pop the question?
I’m your girl for the job. Proposals make me almost pee my pants but I love shooting them so much. Reach out to plan the most epic proposal ever!