50 Must-have Wedding Photos

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The last thing you want to be worrying about on your wedding day is if your photographer is getting all the right images. To ensure they are capturing the most important moments, make sure they have this top 50 must-have pics shot list – or edit to include ones to suit you and your partner.

PRE-WEDDING

1. Wedding dress (hanging up)
2. Invitation and any other wedding stationery
3. Bride’s shoes and accessories, including engagement ring
4. Bride and bridesmaids’ bouquets
5. Bride getting ready – in hair and make-up, putting on gown and accessories
6. Bride in wedding dress
7. Bride with bridesmaids
8. Bride with mother
9. Bride with father
10. Bride with both parents
11. Groom getting ready
12. Groom with best man
13. Groom with groomsmen

THE CEREMONY

14. Guests and venue to capture theme and mood
15. Flowers or styling elements
16. Bride and bridesmaids arriving
17. Groom and groomsmen at altar
18. Bridesmaids and flower girls walking down the aisle
19. Bride and father walking down the aisle
20. Bride and groom exchanging vows
21. Exchange of rings and first kiss
22. Signing of the registry
23. Bride and groom walking up the aisle
24. Bride and groom covered in confetti / releasing doves / or with guests
25. Cars
26. Pageboy and flower girls
27. Rings

THE RECEPTION

28. Table settings
29. Table centre details
30. Cake table
31. Food
32. Speeches
33. Cutting of the cake
34. Musicians
35. First dance
36. Bride throwing bouquet
37. Bouquet being caught
38. Bride and groom in leaving in getaway car

FORMAL SHOTS

39. Bride and groom
40. Bride and groom with her parents
41. Bride and groom with his parents
42. Bride and groom with both sets of parents
43. Bride and groom with extended family
44. Bride and groom with all the guests
45. Bride with her mother
46. Bride with her father
47. Bride with her bridesmaids
48. Groom with his mother
49. Groom with his father
50. Groom with his groomsmen

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