1. Plan early, expect delays, especially between ceremony and reception.
2. Pick out an elegant dress with beautiful detail, and (my personal preference) wear a veil: Don't be thrifty on these items, because they have a strong influence on the effects of every photo your photographer takes of you. This doesn't mean you have to get overly gaudy or fancy dresses with huge trains; elegant can be simple, sleek, short.
3. Try to spice up your reception's environmental color scheme. Avoid too many yellows as a general rule, but you can use other strong colors like red. Whenever possible, use contrasting colors and avoid mixing white with more white.
4. Expect delays.
5. Enjoy the time with your photographer. Many times a bride or groom is stiff and uncomfortable at first, and in fact the photographer generally has to try to get them to open up before the best photos can be taken. It's a time for happiness, love and joy, and I always try to bring those emotions through in my shots.
6. Love each other genuinely, and it will show in the photos I give you.
7. Choose a wedding or reception site with good scenery whenever possible. Beautiful locations may have mature landscaping, man-made artifices, anything interesting. White walls are excellent for photographers to bounce flash, but if the decorations are also white then the general color scheme may seem more plain or drab. Mix the colors up.
8. If your photographer can't move from his position inside the chapel and there is no flash allowed, please do not expect miracles.
9. Expect delays, especially between ceremony and reception.
10. Plan at least 2-3 minutes per formal photo you would like to have taken. Depending on how quickly people can be rounded up and put into position, it can easily take that long to get everything ready and take the photo.
11. I love spontaneity and humor; they come across well in photos and give an extra dimension of personality and life. I may exploit a personality quirk if you expose it to me (call yourself a robot and I may just ask you to do "The Robot." Scott would know about this.)
12. I can't pose you perfectly; you have to insert your personality and your feelings in the picture. Think about the person you are marrying, how they make you feel, what they do that makes you smile, how much you miss them when they're absent, how comforting their presence is. I'll try to put those feelings in your photos.
That's all I have for now: Please email me if you have any questions, and I'll be glad to answer them for you if I can.
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