Western-style wedding procedures and guidelines

(1)Engagement ceremony is important.

Western-style wedding mostly begins with a formal engagement ceremony, its size and even not to get married on the same day. But there is also a small family engagement ceremony, the main purpose is officially announcing the good news of marriage to friends and family, but also for both families to provide a good opportunity to communicate. Usually from engagement to formal wedding will be a few weeks or months apart. During engagement, both sides will have more opportunity to further understand the role of husband and wife to each other, but also hold are better prepared for the wedding. Engagement ceremony usually look for a friend, only a handful of economic conditions good new will please professional photography team to beat. There are also some new people like to be engaged in the day to shoot photos, wedding photos with domestic similar nature, but don't wear a wedding dress, more like lovers.

(2)Decide the wedding and wedding preparation

Traditional western wedding tend to host on weekends, especially on Saturday, because of the need to entertain guests are mostly work at ordinary times, and the end of the wedding banquet and late. But in recent years many wedding hotel have launched on Friday or Thursday wedding packages, new people will consider the budget and scale problems such as banquets, but due to the wedding banquet on Thursday or Friday.

Due to the religious factors, most of the western wedding ceremony venue selection in a church, depending on the new belief will choose in different churches to the ceremony. Generally church needs a few months in advance reservation, if over the weekend, the couple's appointment needs specific to time, because there may be more than the same day the couple married in the same church. Wedding banquet reservation in advance should be more especially wedding venue has beautiful scenery and delicious dishes. Order wedding banquet dishes is very exquisite, general western-style wedding is divided into three courses, appetizer, main course and dessert, and to provide at least two taste every dish for guests to choose from, some wedding will hold a cocktail party, as a component before dinner.

(3)Due to photography and video services

After determine the date and place of the wedding, is the first time due to your favorite photographers and cameraman. Because of limited schedule those famous photographer, a lot of new people and even the reservation photography and video services referred to as a first step, some couples will reserve one or two years in advance of the desired photographer. Near the wedding a couple of months or so, the couple will face to face communication and their wedding photographer, determine the wedding day trips, like pictures of style and put forward some personalized requirements.

(4)Due to floral designers, cake division

A delicate, elegant wedding, no flower art teacher of meticulous arrangement, a good floral designers will cost through carefully selected material and the design of conform to the new character, into the soul for a wedding. Have seasonal flowers in selecting and the limitations of collocation, so communication with floral designers in advance, decided the style of the whole wedding is particularly critical. Baker, like flower art teacher, also want to consider the theme of the wedding and coloring, both need to cooperate with each other to achieve a harmonious effect.

(5)Choose marriage gauze, dress, and wedding shoes

Marriage gauze, dress, and wedding shoes tend to be the most focus on part of the bride. Western-style wedding is now advocating close-fitting clipping wedding dress, especially the tail and lace wedding dress and is welcomed by the majority of women. Unlike domestic wedding, foreign bride on wedding day is not in the dress, dress is mostly to prepare for wedding banquets.

(6)Bachelor party

Bachelor party time is relatively flexible, generally can be held after the engagement. "Bachelor Party" for the groom (Bachelor Party) and for the bride "girlfriends" Party (Hens Party) is good friends to celebrate a good time for the couple. Most wild parties can choose night in bar, elegant party will choose afternoon tea, cocktail parties except wine girls also often do SPA together. Bachelor party often crazy and illicit is close, so you don't normally like please photographers, most people are only yourself using a mobile phone as a souvenir, no formal pictures.

(7)Wedding day of the process and shooting.

Western-style wedding day shooting mainly divides into four parts, the preparation of the bride and groom (Getting) Ready (taking), wedding Ceremony, the wedding day of outdoor scene photography (Location Photo) and wedding Reception.

(8)Preparation link

Early morning of the wedding day, the bride and groom will respectively in their own home, in the company of family and the best man and the maid of honor, to prepare for their big day. Unlike domestic wedding, groom to see the dress before the ceremony in western culture is regarded as a symbol of unlucky, so there was no wedding ridiculous this link.

The bride will be the maid of honor, the help of friends and relatives began to dress. After everything is ready, before going out, to themselves as single women use the name and say goodbye to their parents. Because according to the western traditional wedding, most brides will be in after the marriage from the husband's surname. Because according to the traditional western wedding, most brides will overcome surname after marriage. Westerners feelings more exposed, love for parents, relatives and friends to express their feelings, proposed a photographer to capture is given priority to this can maximize the records of the couple's real state. If time allows, the bride in front of a single, a photographer may do a little bride to record a woman the most beautiful moment. The groom's family will also arrange in the morning, and the bride's family photography basic is the same. Mainly take the groom and his attendants, parents' interaction, subtle capture personal feeling is particularly important.

(9)The wedding ceremony

For photographers, special attention should be paid to respect the beliefs of different religions. For photographers such as many of the church cannot use flash or up the steps to take, if the violation is considered disrespectful, serious when even will be out of the ceremony. Photographer in the serious and solemn ceremony, should learn to "stealth", try to use a mute the shutter of the camera, increase the ISO number, use the telephoto lens.

As the ceremony was held, the bride took her father's arm in her hand. This is the first time that the groom to see the bride dressed in wedding dress, usually cannot control their emotions, photographer should seize the opportunity, to capture images of the most touching and sincere. The wedding ceremony, in addition to the shooting new couple, the photographer also don't miss shooting both parents feelings, relatives and friends of the ceremony, as well as those lovely flower girl. Before the end of the ceremony, the priest officially married couple. According to tradition, the couple should come before the guests out of the church, everyone stood up and applauded, this time can also be captured many lively and vivid picture. After the big picture often will be done on the steps of the church door, so the picture will be having layers, everyone can get a better rendering. Guests after a short vacation will go to the place for dinner, the couple and a best group will be as the photographer to location filming locations.

Shot of the ceremony is often want to adjust according to the specific requirements of the couple, but the most basic is also the core of the oath, exchange rings, kiss, and the last snapshot is indispensable.

(10)Location filming

Unlike Chinese wedding, western-style wedding photos of all to finish on the wedding day, so the couple will generally choose close from the church or reception sites to shoot, to save the time on the way. When shooting entourage unfavorable and overmuch, generally accompanied by a best group. Because of shooting time is shorter, which requires the photographer has the good communication ability and solid skills of paparazzi. This one phase of shooting is a wedding photographer can dominate, is also a good time to be creative. Location should be in accordance with the requirements of the new, usually 1-3, such as church, a nearby park, and distinctive buildings before, or in the open field to take picture with the car.

(11)Wedding banquet

Usually reception can be arranged at noon or evening, but more welcome dinner, because we have enough time to celebrate the new marriage. In general, western-style wedding reception basically has the following several part.

(12) The couple entered

In the wedding ceremony the guests have witnessed the exchange vows and rings, etc. The sacred moment, so from the wedding banquet admission begins to enter the warm atmosphere of celebration. With joy, and a dynamic music, the best man and the maid of honor group first in order to enter, when the music and the scene atmosphere to orgasm, will present the guests all the audience stood up and welcomed the leading role of wedding. Dinner of the entry form is new and the best man and the maid of honor are carefully designed, different character, different ethnic people the choice of entry mode will be very different, each a pair of newlywed’s entry will bring different surprise. Photographer should adjust the camera parameters, ready to capture a wonderful moment.

(13) Greeting

After greeting generally arranged in the main course, first by their parents to express best wishes for happiness in the couple, and then it is the best man and the maid of honor representative to introduce you to the story of two people met and fell in love, finally is the couple his moving speech. If the day's shooting is double reservation, it need to separate stance when new greeting, record on the stage, the audience different reaction respectively, captured in the form of the most fast moving moments.

(14) Cut the wedding cake and toast

At the end of the message with the couple will cut the wedding cake with the first knife, which represents the union of two people, and never pay for each other. Then everyone will toast and wish the couple together, and share the wedding cake.

(15)The couple's first dance

After the toast, new people will jump under the blessings of the guests their first dance. Some newly-married couples choose waltz, some according to individual be fond of the elaborate their own unique the opening dance. Because dark environment, when shooting by assistant with LED lights (for example Ice light) lighting, so that we can help the camera more quickly with coke. As far as possible need not flash photography, should retain the real light atmosphere.

(16)The dance

After the first dance together you will enter the dance floor and started dancing. Different nationalities have different customs of celebration, for example in the Lebanese wedding, everyone would be as Lebanon traditional drums dance together. Photographer can also find themselves in the midst of the dance floor, jump while clap, then more want to rely on is blind and capture techniques.

(17)Throw the bride bouquet, garters

At the time near the end of the wedding, the bride will represent a happy marriage bouquet of flowers to the single girls present, received a bouquet of girl blessed will get married soon. The custom of the same applies to the scene of the single men, but they rob not the bride's bouquet, but the groom from the bride's garter belt on the leg off. Tossing the bouquet link, point of view it is important to the choice of, moreover also should pay attention to the shutter speed setting.