Once Wedding season begins, we get flooded with the same question over and over again…. “How do you have time for SO many portraits on a wedding day?!”. It’s taken me a few years to really grasp how we run our business and our wedding days differently from other photographers that allows us to accomplish this. When photographers would ask us how we were able to accomplish so much in such a little amount of time, my first response was “I guess I just shoot really fast!”. Ha! That’s not a helpful answer… and it’s not the full truth. There are several other contributing factors!!
I truly believe that ANYONE can accomplish a ton of gorgeous portraits on a wedding day! It’s true that my couples continually have a TON of portrait options. The “Bride and Groom” folder on their PASS galleries is always the second largest folder (the reception normally has more images!). So how do we do it? How do we get so much portrait time and then accomplish so much in the portrait time that we do have? Well, I could literally write about this for days… but I’m going to leave you with 6 steps for now that will help you start making progress!!
Ok I could go on and on! But I’m going to have to cut it off here because I’m leaving for an out of town wedding today… and my sister is getting married in 7 days… AH! And I’m serving in many MANY different roles which means there is a lot to get done! :) So enjoy your weekend everyone!! And happy shooting!!
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