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Wedding Photography Poses For Your Maternity Wedding

Essential wedding photography planning tips!

Agreeing the wedding photography poses you want your photographer to capture on your wedding day is key to avoiding disappointment with your wedding photographs.

Discuss your pregnancy with your photographer

Beautiful wedding photography poses start with the bride getting ready!

How long do you want to stand for on your wedding day? Do you want your wedding photos to be "pregnant and proud", "hide the baby bump" or both?

Discuss the sacredness of the ceremony and your views about flash photography. How would you feel if your wedding photographer walks up and down the aisle to get the best shots?

Before you sign anything or pay any money ... do you like your wedding photographer?

Are you on the same wave-length?

Suggested Wedding Photography Poses for Before the Ceremony

  • Bride's preparations
  • Preparations of the bridesmaids and bride's family
  • Lighting the church candles ... makes a very beautiful shot!

Suggested Photography Poses for the Ceremony

  • Inside the church with guests
  • Parents / other wedding guests being escorted to seats
  • Entrance of minister, groom and ushers
  • Minister, groom, and ushers (groomsmen) waiting for the bride
  • Entrance of bridesmaids (escorted or unescorted); flower girl and wedding ring bearer
  • Entrance of the bride and father
  • Father giving away bride
  • Shots during the wedding ceremony (usually without flash and from the back of the church, or best vantage point)
  • Close-ups of bride, groom, and wedding officiant at altar plus wide-angle shots of entire wedding party at altar
  • Special moments (including bride and groom facing one another, lighting of unity candle, wedding vows, ring exchange, kiss, presentation of bride and groom to the guests as husband and wife)
  • Signing of the register
  • The recessional (wedding party walking back down the aisle at the close of the ceremony)

Find Suggested Formal Wedding Photo Poses for After your Ceremony Here

Formal Wedding Photography Poses

Beautiful bridesmaids make for great wedding photography poses!

Posed formals may be taken just before or just after the ceremony. Usually taken immediately after the ceremony, consider arranging these for before the ceremony (usually at least 60 to 90 minutes before the ceremony).

Formal photos can be over in 20 minutes but can take 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. Everything depends on your wedding party and how many family and friends you want in the formal photo photography session.

Be realistic about how much you want to stand around on your wedding day!

Try another photography professional if you're not 100% happy!

Wedding photography poses are most natural if you like your photographer!

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