What time should I get married?

I'm starting a blog series about the questions I get most often at client meetings. Today's topic: When should I get married.

Putting aside the philosophical and emotional aspects, let's just concentrate on the temporal aspects. No one can tell you when you're ready, but I can however, suggest a good time of day.

For an outdoor wedding, especially in the summer, plan for mid-evening. While sunset weddings might seem romantic, the ever lowering sun and coming darkness will surely make your photography want to drop some choice words.

My advice: for outdoor weddings, plan about an hour-and-a-half to two hours before sunset. That will give the photographer the chance to shoot the ceremony, take formals afterword and still have enough light left for a small session with the two of you alone.

To find out when the sun sets on a particular day of the year, click here!

For instance, July 18, 2009, the sun will set at 8:28 p.m.

After that, you can party 'til dawn.

And because every post is better with a photo, here's my dog Gigi.

Comments

[Tammy]

Love the greyhound girl, she is so adorable. Our greyhound is one of my favorite subjects. I always have fun with that long, skinny muzzle, great for depth of field fun :)

[Michael Strout]

This WA shot is so neat!
What kind of lens did you use?