Start with the decision you need to make now. These guides connect choosing a photographer, planning your day and preparing its different moments. You can return to the photographs, current options or availability whenever you are ready.
Planning your wedding
How to choose your wedding photographer in France ↗
Style, full galleries, practical questions and booking: how to choose a wedding photographer whose approach fits your celebration in France.
Wedding photography budget: how to compare proposals ↗
Coverage, preparation, delivered photographs and travel: understand a wedding photography proposal and plan a budget around your actual day.
Practical planning
Your wedding photography timeline: make room for the day ↗
Preparations, ceremony, groups, portraits and the evening: build a flexible photography timeline with an example to adapt to your wedding.
Wedding group photos: a useful list and a relaxed approach ↗
Prepare wedding group photographs with a named list, a sensible order, a helper and a suitable location, while keeping time with your guests.
Wedding photos in the rain: prepare a useful backup plan ↗
A sheltered location, realistic journeys and shared priorities: plan wedding photographs when rain changes the programme.
A multicultural wedding: plan photographs around your traditions ↗
Languages, loved ones and rituals: prepare multicultural wedding photography around what you want to share without assumptions about traditions.
Wedding moments
Natural wedding portraits when you do not know how to pose ↗
Camera-shy? Prepare for simple wedding portraits, choose a comfortable setting and make time for photographs without missing your celebration.
First look: see each other before the ceremony or wait? ↗
Privacy, light and timing: decide whether meeting before the ceremony suits your wedding and prepare the moment without overcomplicating it.
Getting-ready wedding photos: the people and the gestures ↗
Room, light, timing and loved ones: prepare getting-ready photographs without turning the beginning of your wedding into a staged photo shoot.
Paris & Provence
Civil wedding in Paris: plan photographs around the town hall ↗
Arrivals, ceremony, congratulations, groups and portraits: prepare photography for your civil wedding in Paris with realistic timings and journeys.
A Provence wedding: plan photographs around light and guests ↗
Outdoor ceremony, travel, shade and evening portraits: prepare photographs for a wedding in Provence, Vaucluse or around Avignon.
The approach
Documentary wedding photography: where do portraits fit? ↗
Spontaneous coverage, guided portraits and image selection: understand documentary wedding photography before choosing your approach.
Venues & planning
Château de Méridon wedding: prepare your photographs ↗
Ceremony, movement, portraits and reception: photography questions to prepare for your Château de Méridon wedding, with official venue information.
Domaine de la Butte Ronde: plan your wedding photographs ↗
Prepare photographs at Domaine de la Butte Ronde: ceremony, groups, portraits, glasshouse and evening, with details to confirm with the venue.
