Hello! I just wanted to take a moment to talk about how I photograph the family formals at all of my weddings. It is of course preferable to do them before the wedding in cases where the bride and the groom allow each other to see them before the wedding. In cases where this doesn’t happen it takes about 20 minutes after the ceremony. I begin with the largest group. In some cases this is both families together because now they have become one. In other cases it is the Bride or the Grooms side with cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, grandchildren, and parents. For example….
It was then paired down to just the grandparents, parents, siblings, B&G.
Then it goes down to just parents, siblings, and the bride or the groom
From there it was down to just siblings
Please note this is not the whole set of formals, I am just trying to give an example of how my flow goes.
Here are some other examples…
So it goes pretty quickly, and we can do many combinations. Looking forward to meeting many more wonderful families this year 🙂