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What I do at your wedding
ARRIVAL:
When you arrive I begin taking pictures of you immediately. You have no idea what it will be like when you arrive at your very own
wedding. But whatever happens when you show up---it will make for a great picture right away. This is a fun time. After months of
preparation, it’s really happening. It’s exciting and it’s chaotic. It’s smiles and tears all jumbled together. My job is to capture some of
this excitement and chaos. I can’t get it all, but I get all I can. I do not stop the bride or the groom and try to get posed pictures at this
point. I just shoot what’s there and happening.
GETTING READY:
Soon the bride and her maids disappear into the bride’s room to get ready. The tempo is picking up now and the bride’s mother and
others are usually racing against time as they get the place ready for the ceremony or the reception or both. Again, I don’t pose people
doing these things, I just get pictures of whatever they’re doing.
PORTRAITS ON THE RUN:
I do get what I call portraits on the run. They are not organized sessions, just “Hi, look here, click, thank you” and it’s done.
The groom’s dressing room can be bedlam or solemn. I shoot it the way it is. Plus: a few more quick portraits. When the guys come
out I shoot them as a casual group after they get their flowers. At this point I go for a good portrait of the groom.
BRIDE IN HER DRESS
By now the you will be ready for the photographer. In the bride’s room I get small group shots. If your father comes in and puts a penny
in your shoe, that will be a posed shot. Even so, if you (or your dad) start crying I’ll get that for sure and it will be fantastic. Don’t think
that doesn’t happen. Remember, the things that are not planned provide the most spectacular and moving pictures. The ones you
treasure later. Promise.
BRIDE AND BRIDESMAIDS If there is space in the bride’s room I get casual group shots of you and the bridesmaids.
BRIDE AND PARENTS Pictures of your mother helping you with your veil or hair as you are doing the finishing touches.
Suddenly, it’s time. It’s really really really time….NOW!
AFTER THE WEDDING--THE FORMALS
I am not trying to get a monopoly on the negatives of your wedding pictures. Feel free to tell everyone to bring their cameras and their
camcorders. Your family and friends are welcome to take pictures as I shoot the formals. The only thing I insist upon is that they take
their pictures after I get my shot. I will be happy to step aside and let your family and friends get any shot after I have taken mine. It is
common for 8 to 10 people to be standing right behind me and each one getting everything I set up. I encourage this--let them know.
After the ceremony the families on both sides want a variety of family pictures. Tell your mother and your groom’s mother that they don’
t have to be bashful. Have them tell me what they want and we will get the pictures.
All specialty shots wanted by bride, groom, and their parents Group shot of everyone on all sides
It does not take that long to get all the pictures you want. Usually, I’m done in less than 45 minutes. Unfortunately, there is often
someone there who feels that it is their job to rush everyone out the church. Assign your father or anyone who can be polite yet firm to
handle all discussions with anyone trying to cut your time short. You do have to pay for the place, right?
Lots of funny and touching things can happen while we shoot the formals (also called wedding party pictures or altar returns) If
something happens--I try to catch it. Actually, this goes for the entire wedding and reception.
When I have taken all the pictures I can think of, I ask you, your mother, and your husband’s mother if there are any other pictures of
their family they would like to get. When you say enough--we’re done.
As you depart, your wedding day begins slipping into memory. It’s hard to believe that at the moment, but it’s true.
It is the job of the wedding photographer, to have captured some of the excitement, and confusion, and chaos, and beauty of this very
short and passionate day.
That’s what I do. And I love to do it. And, if I do my job well you will love the pictures, your daughters will love the pictures, and your
great, great, great, great….granddaughters will love them too.
-Ken Roberts
ARRIVAL:
When you arrive I begin taking pictures of you immediately. You have no idea what it will be like when you arrive at your very own
wedding. But whatever happens when you show up---it will make for a great picture right away. This is a fun time. After months of
preparation, it’s really happening. It’s exciting and it’s chaotic. It’s smiles and tears all jumbled together. My job is to capture some of
this excitement and chaos. I can’t get it all, but I get all I can. I do not stop the bride or the groom and try to get posed pictures at this
point. I just shoot what’s there and happening.
GETTING READY:
Soon the bride and her maids disappear into the bride’s room to get ready. The tempo is picking up now and the bride’s mother and
others are usually racing against time as they get the place ready for the ceremony or the reception or both. Again, I don’t pose people
doing these things, I just get pictures of whatever they’re doing.
PORTRAITS ON THE RUN:
I do get what I call portraits on the run. They are not organized sessions, just “Hi, look here, click, thank you” and it’s done.
The groom’s dressing room can be bedlam or solemn. I shoot it the way it is. Plus: a few more quick portraits. When the guys come
out I shoot them as a casual group after they get their flowers. At this point I go for a good portrait of the groom.
BRIDE IN HER DRESS
By now the you will be ready for the photographer. In the bride’s room I get small group shots. If your father comes in and puts a penny
in your shoe, that will be a posed shot. Even so, if you (or your dad) start crying I’ll get that for sure and it will be fantastic. Don’t think
that doesn’t happen. Remember, the things that are not planned provide the most spectacular and moving pictures. The ones you
treasure later. Promise.
BRIDE AND BRIDESMAIDS If there is space in the bride’s room I get casual group shots of you and the bridesmaids.
BRIDE AND PARENTS Pictures of your mother helping you with your veil or hair as you are doing the finishing touches.
Suddenly, it’s time. It’s really really really time….NOW!
AFTER THE WEDDING--THE FORMALS
I am not trying to get a monopoly on the negatives of your wedding pictures. Feel free to tell everyone to bring their cameras and their
camcorders. Your family and friends are welcome to take pictures as I shoot the formals. The only thing I insist upon is that they take
their pictures after I get my shot. I will be happy to step aside and let your family and friends get any shot after I have taken mine. It is
common for 8 to 10 people to be standing right behind me and each one getting everything I set up. I encourage this--let them know.
After the ceremony the families on both sides want a variety of family pictures. Tell your mother and your groom’s mother that they don’
t have to be bashful. Have them tell me what they want and we will get the pictures.
All specialty shots wanted by bride, groom, and their parents Group shot of everyone on all sides
It does not take that long to get all the pictures you want. Usually, I’m done in less than 45 minutes. Unfortunately, there is often
someone there who feels that it is their job to rush everyone out the church. Assign your father or anyone who can be polite yet firm to
handle all discussions with anyone trying to cut your time short. You do have to pay for the place, right?
Lots of funny and touching things can happen while we shoot the formals (also called wedding party pictures or altar returns) If
something happens--I try to catch it. Actually, this goes for the entire wedding and reception.
When I have taken all the pictures I can think of, I ask you, your mother, and your husband’s mother if there are any other pictures of
their family they would like to get. When you say enough--we’re done.
As you depart, your wedding day begins slipping into memory. It’s hard to believe that at the moment, but it’s true.
It is the job of the wedding photographer, to have captured some of the excitement, and confusion, and chaos, and beauty of this very
short and passionate day.
That’s what I do. And I love to do it. And, if I do my job well you will love the pictures, your daughters will love the pictures, and your
great, great, great, great….granddaughters will love them too.
-Ken Roberts
Waynesboro, Mississippi
601-381-2323
