Tip 1 Get into your dress early

January 30, 2023

Dorset Wedding Photography Tips

by Dorset Wedding Photographer Joan Jellett

Are you after some Dorset Wedding Photography Tips?

My top tip is to get into your dress early!

So many brides get into their dress just before leaving for the ceremony.

The main reason to get into your dress early is that I need to have as much time as possible with you during bridal prep especially once you are in your dress.

I get to capture you getting into your dress but also everyone’s reaction to seeing you for the first time in it.

An amazing photography opportunity is “the first look” this can happen with your bridesmaids if it was just you and your mum, grandma, best friend helping you get into your dress.

My favourite part as a Dorset wedding photographer

I also absolutely adore, probably my favourite part in fact, the first look with your Father.

This moment is usually packed with emotion and cannot be missed, you will always be Daddy’s little girl and tears very rarely manage to be kept at bay.

The people in the room’s reactions to you in your dress are my absolute favourite and my face always hurt from smiling, an incredible buzz for sure.

Then it is time for me to head out to the ceremony and capture all the guests arriving and the groom and groomsmen waiting nervously for the big entrance.

Take a look below at some of my favourite “dress moments”