The Details Matter: Remember these 4 Items on Your Wedding Day
Tears fall onto the crisp white page. The tenderness and sincerity behind his words are a reminder why you chose him, why you sobbed “YES!” when he dropped to a knee over a year ago. This letter will forever hold a place in your heart, but will it also hold a place in a box in the back of your closet?
Many beautiful details grace various parts of the wedding day - Small sentimental accessories, jewelry, family heirlooms, beautiful letters and gifts, even a personalized hanger to hold the most important garment you will ever wear.
These details turn a wedding into YOUR wedding, and they deserve a permanent documented place in your history.
Wedding photographers become giddy for those small details.
They separate your day from all the others and create magic within the pages of your wedding album. Though it’s difficult to imagine, the small details will slowly fade from your memory, but the photos will last a lifetime.
Do yourself (and your photographer) a favor, don’t let your memories fill a box in the back of your closet. Remember these items on your wedding day.
1. A Wedding Day Gift or Note
A card, note, flowers, or gift from your future spouse are most appreciated on the morning of your wedding when it feels like each minute is in hyperspeed. Should your fiance send a sweet sentiment your way prior to the ceremony, consider allowing just your photographer to silently capture this sweet memory.
I have brides who receive beautiful gifts and cards that morning and do not have pictures of the moment they opened it. In retrospect, they regret it.
Your photographer will quietly witness and secure that moment in an album forever, and you will appreciate having those emotions captured on film.
2. The Invitation
It’s the first impression of your wedding that you share with the masses. Brides agonize for hours choosing the perfect invitation that represents the style of their wedding and even practice opening the invitation to ensure that each piece is placed just right inside the envelope.
Colors, font, wording, style, shape, embossing, handwritten addresses, even stamps - so many decisions to make about one piece of mail. With all of that money and time spent, don’t let your invitation end up lost in the abyss of other wedding memorabilia, or even worse…in the trash.
Your photographer can take beautiful photos of the invitation so that it can be placed in your wedding album forever without fear of losing it.
3. Customized Details
Some wedding days are filled with customized details from start to finish. Custom hangers or jean jackets boasting a bride's new name, personalized robes or blouses, custom bridesmaids robes, signs on tables and the backs of chairs, even coffee cups and mimosa glasses proclaiming “Miss to Mrs.”
Share all of these details with your photographers. Let them know in advance that you have various personalized items so that they make sure they photograph each one.
4. Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue
Assuming that your blue item isn’t your underwear, have the photographer capture each of the items that you choose to include.
And if you do want those pretty blue underwear photographed, I suggest hiring a boudoir photographer prior to your wedding and a special gift for your fiance.
Some brides include a brooch from an important family member pinned to their bouquet as their something old. Others wear a piece of jewelry, a headpiece, or a veil that doubles as the borrowed and old item. Some wear a wedding dress that has been passed down from a family member.
There are so many ways to represent this tradition on your wedding day if you choose. Just don’t forget to have your photographer capture each one.
With so many details to share with your photographer, make a list prior to the wedding day so that your photographer knows what you want him/her to capture. This way, you don’t have to remember and stress about anything on your actual wedding day.
Or better yet, give that list to your wedding planner, so she can take care of the small details and any stressors that may TRY to come your way that day.
