Why we ask for your ceremony time before almost anything else, and how an hour either way changes every photograph.
The first question we ask a couple is rarely about poses or shot lists. It is: what time does the ceremony start? The answer decides more about the photographs than any other choice on the day.
The hour before sunset
Light in the last hour of the day comes in low and warm. It wraps around faces instead of dropping straight down onto them, and it forgives almost everything. A ceremony that ends forty minutes before sunset hands us that hour for portraits without anyone having to leave the party.
When midday is the only option
Sometimes a venue or a family timeline means a noon ceremony, and that is fine. We look for open shade, a north-facing wall, or the bright, even light under a tree canopy. The trick is to stop fighting the sun and start using what it leaves behind.
Wherever your day lands on the clock, we will build the timeline around the light you have, not the light we wish you had.
