John Camp Photography

The Wedding Specialist

Terre Haute, Indiana

What to expect on your wedding day

• I will arrive at the wedding site about 2 to 2½ hours before the wedding. The area for formal portraits will be selected, and any lighting equipment will be set up.
• At this point, it's usually played by ear based on who is ready and not ready, and whether the bride and groom agreed to meet before the wedding to get all the photographs done, but usually it's photograph the groom alone then with groomsmen and with family.
• The groom hides or then meets the bride. Photographs of the bride alone, with attendants, and then with family are completed.
• If the bride and groom are together, we will then complete all the photographs including the wedding party, formal bride and groom images, and numerous family combinations.
• Equipment is put away. The objective is to have all the photographs done 1 hour before the wedding.
• At this point, candid photographs are started.
• Ceremony
• Post ceremony candids including departure from the wedding venue.
• If portraits are to be done after the wedding, we get directly to it, and attempt to move quickly.
• If the bride and groom want to do any location images, it is usually done at this point. My experience dictates that once the reception starts, any formal portraits are difficult to organize.
• Reception: Cake cutting, toasts, first dances, and bridal bouquet garter toss, and general candid portraits of guests are completed.