Wedding Day Questionnaire

Please read our blog -From Start to Finish – Your Wedding Day- or at least the summary at top prior to filling this out. 🙂

Remember, it is very tough for us since your wedding day is SO fast paced to continuously be pulling out a list to look over. We want to never miss a moment and in order to do that; we need to constantly be paying attention to what’s happening all around us. Ask yourself with each must-have shot if it’s something you’ll regret later if you don’t get it and if it is, definitely put it down because your day does go by so quickly and we don’t want anything missed so please don’t misunderstand what we’re saying! Also, when we’re constantly bugging you about photos on your list, we’re taking you away from being able to enjoy your day which we most definitely want to avoid! So if it’s truly a must-have, add it, because if you don’t, it may get missed. If not, then just let us shoot everything happening so we thoroughly cover all of your precious moments. *There is no need to list common sense requests like the first kiss. 🙂

Bride’s Information

Groom’s Information

Family

Please list all of your immediate family members/ grandparents (and if parents are divorced). Additionally, list their relationship to you. For example: Jamie (mom).

*Remember to add in nieces/ nephews, as well as brother/ sister-in-laws and let us know which family the kiddos are in. 🙂

Bridal Party

Please list everyone in your wedding party. Be sure to include what relationship they are to you as well as what role they play in your wedding.

For example: Bill (groom’s brother and a groomsmen). *Be sure to list the ages of ring bearer(s), flower girl(s), and junior groomsmen/ junior bridesmaids.

*Remember to include all ushers, personal attendant(s), flower girl(s), ring bearer(s), and anyone else who you’ll want to include in your wedding party photos (some people include their readers and officiant as well).

*Please have the rings with the bride to start the day. *Allow about 45 minutes for this portion of pre-ceremony.

Depending on time, we do get your girls looking at you (more candid) then posed photos of you with your girls looking at the camera then looking at each other. We also try to get individual shots of you with everyone who is in the room as well as a group shot of all with you who have assisted you in getting ready. Additionally, we want to get many different angles of you and we also try to show you before leaving to head to the ceremony.
*Allow about 30 minutes for this portion of pre-ceremony.

During the ceremony, we will capture all events.
*Even if you do a first look, we still get the groom’s face and yours immediately when you begin your walk down the aisle. Are there any events happening off to the side or not typical that we should know about? Are you kissing in the middle of the ceremony or at the end when you are pronounced husband and wife? *Please try to practice your kiss and do more than a peck so we can get multiple shots of this. 🙂 Additionally, does your officiant have rules that we need to know about? For example, no flash, can’t be in front of church during processional etc. If so, be sure you know these and are ok with them prior.

Please write out your exact family list here as everyone’s is unique! It will take you about 20 minutes and with so many people having blended families, we had a hard time with making a checklist that worked for everyone so we greatly appreciate you doing this! Include combinations with grandparents first, small children second, then all others third. Please write them out by name and relation to you as that is much easier for us. For example: Bride + mom (Joani) *Be sure to add the groom to any photos you’d like him in as well! Don’t forget to include nieces, nephews, and in-laws. Keep in mind too that you can add in “mom (Joani) + dad (Bob)” or “sister’s (Laura) family” to the list – what we’re saying here is you don’t need to have the bride and/ or groom in the shot. Also, if your mom or someone else might have photo requests and you want to honor those, be sure to verify this list with them before submitting it to us. 🙂 Lastly, you can abbreviate bride with just the letter “b” and groom with a “g” and bride/ groom with a “bg” to speed things up! 

Please write out your exact family list here as everyone’s is unique! It will take you about 20 minutes and with so many people having blended families, we had a hard time with making a checklist that worked for everyone so we greatly appreciate you doing this! Include combinations with grandparents first, small children second, then all others third. Please write them out by name and relation to you as that is much easier for us. For example: Groom + mom (Joani) *Be sure to add the bride to any photos you’d like her in as well! Don’t forget to include nieces, nephews, and in-laws. Keep in mind too that you can add in “mom (Joani) + dad (Bob)” or “sister’s (Laura) family” to the list – what we’re saying here is you don’t need to have the bride and/ or groom in the shot. Also, if your mom or someone else might have photo requests and you want to honor those, be sure to verify this list with them before submitting it to us. 🙂 Lastly, you can abbreviate bride with just the letter “b” and groom with a “g” and bride/ groom with a “bg” to speed things up! 

During your reception, we will be trying to pay attention to both the bride and the groom as well as all of your guests.

Please understand that we are human and our goal is to consistently be paying attention to our surroundings and capturing all moments so again, long lists are very difficult for us when we’re trying to focus on you and each memory that makes up your beautiful day.

We know a lot of the answers to the questions we’ve listed below but just want to be sure we explain things perfectly. We feel your words will be much better than ours so we’re going to just ask you to answer a handful of questions. Have fun with this, write any and everything you think of, and be as specific as possible because we really want a beautifully written blog for you to relive your day and share! 🙂   If you don’t have time to answer these questions, that’s completely fine. If you have the chance to answer these questions, that would be so incredibly appreciated as we are very excited to capture in your words the story that your images tell. 🙂   The questions below will really help us to share your details in our blog. Again, many of the answers we do think we know but we want to be sure we get it right! 

About the two of you…

 Feel free to list anything else you think would add to the blog (this can be anything from specific facts about the two of you to great memories you have together :)) You can also talk about hobbies or something specific to you as a couple that you incorporated into your wedding. Be sure to let us know if you made the invites or anything along those lines – just think for a second here about anything that you’d like us to mention in the blog about the two of you, your special day, or anything else for that matter. 🙂

We also want to be sure we’re properly crediting your vendors. Please list your specific vendors so we can thank them for their part in your special day! Feel free to leave any blank if you didn’t use the services of that particular type of vendor or for any other reason. 

Vendor Credits to Capture…

We cannot wait to spend your special day with you! We know there are many photographers you can choose from and it is truly an honor that you selected us! 🙂