What should we expect on the wedding day?

Every wedding has a rhythm of its own, and I believe that knowing what happens each time I raise the camera helps you enjoy the day without worrying about me. Here's how I work. First of all: style, and feeling comfortable with me There are two main approaches in wedding photography. Editorial, drawn from fashion and fine art, looks for elegant portraits and intentional composition, with subtle direction from me so that you look your best. Documentary captures moments exactly as they happen — the look on your partner's face before the ceremony, guests mid-laughter — with no interruptions and no posing. I work with both: I give direction for the couple's portraits, and I disappear during the ceremony and the party. But more important than any style is that you feel at ease with me. Whenever that happens, the photographs come out honest — and it shows. I build the timeline around the light Light is my greatest ally. Ideally your ceremony ends 60 to 90 minutes before sunset: that gives me time for the family photos and still lets me take you out for a couple's session during golden hour, that 20 to 40 minute window of soft, warm light just before the sun goes down. If you'd like a first look — seeing each other privately before the ceremony — I can get most of the portraits done early and free up your cocktail hour entirely so you can be with your guests. None of this is compulsory. It's just planning, and planning gives you more photographs and less rushing. I'll go through all of it with you calmly before the day. Family photos go smoothly when we prepare them This is the one part of the day that really depends on you. I'll ask you for a written list, sent to me in advance, naming exactly who belongs in each grouping. If we keep it to immediate family and grandparents, I'll have it all done in 15 to 20 minutes. And there's one trick that always works: pick a relative or friend to gather the people on the list. I don't know your guests by name, and that help completely changes the pace of that moment. Tell me what matters most to you Hundreds of things happen at once on a wedding day, and I can't be in two places at the same time. So I always ask: if there are images that truly matter — a photo with every table, a grandmother, a family tradition, a detail with a story behind it — tell me beforehand. With that, I'll make sure those photographs happen in the middle of everything. For larger weddings, or ones with things running in parallel, I'll suggest a second photographer so we can cover different angles and spaces at once. One logistical detail: my meal It sounds small, but it isn't. I prefer to eat at the same time as you. That way, when you get up to make the rounds of the tables, I already have the camera back in hand and nothing is missed. After the wedding, my work continues When the party ends, the part nobody sees begins. I back up every file following the 3-2-1 rule — three copies, on two different types of media, one of them off-site — so that your memories never depend on a single drive. Then I select the best images from among thousands, edit with colour and exposure correction to give the whole gallery a consistent look, and retouch, usually the key portraits, using techniques that keep the natural texture of the skin. I normally deliver the complete gallery within 4 to 8 weeks, in high-resolution JPEG, ready to print and to share. Contract, rights and what you can do with the images I always work with a written contract, because it protects us both and makes clear the coverage hours, the fee, the retainer that secures your date and the delivery timelines. Copyright stays with me, and you receive a personal-use licence — to print, to gift, to share on social media — with no limits on what actually matters: the photographs are yours to live with and to show. One last thing: trends pass, photographs remain Social media imposes aesthetics that age quickly. What I want to give you is a balanced body of work: the beautiful images you'll want to share tomorrow, and the ones that thirty years from now still tell the story of what happened — the look, the embrace, the real emotion. That's the standard I photograph your day by: as a legacy, not as a trend.