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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!

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