How long does a couples shoot take?

Another question we often get asked is how long does the couples photoshoot take on your wedding day. The easy answer is around about an hour, however this depends on a few factors.

We like to plan ahead with our wedding day photoshoots with our couples. We arrange a recce at your wedding venue if we haven’t visited the venue before, to visualise where we can do some of the shooting. This ensures on the day, we can be super efficient when whisking you away.

Another factor that can help is the pre planning we like to do with our couples. We love Pinterest and researching other work. We know we can do something special already, but we like to try someone new if we can. We make a board and ask you to check or add to it before the day we can make a tick sheet to safely capture everything you want to look back on forever. This ties up really nicely with the recce day.

Another option, which is included in some of our packages is to do a pre-wedding couples photoshoot. Here we can practise any wedding day poses you might like to try from the board we made. This makes the wedding day shoot a breeze because we’ve done it all once before.

Long story short, there's lots of ways to reduce the time we take you away on the day, but we also wouldn't want to rush, because these are the shots you look back on for a lifetime and it's something you might end up wishing you’d just spent that extra few minutes doing.

"What do you wear on the day?"

Something you may worry about is the professionalism and approachability of your vendors. What will make you more comfortable knowing is all of our wedding photographers and videographers at Unveil Weddings UK are professionals in their field, manor and how they dress.

We take how we look seriously, because if it was us, we wouldn't want our vendors turning up to our weddings in trainers or tracksuits. We ensure our staff wear a minimum dress code of black jeans, shoes and shirt. Dressing smart helps us blend in on your wedding day and has many benefits such as not attracting attention, but also if we did happen to end up in the background of some of your pictures, we look just like one of your guests. It also reflects on us how we are perceived.

Depending on the weather, we may even turn up in suits. Don't worry though, we won't upstage you, these will be comfortable and more casual. However, as we mentioned, this is weather dependent, because as you can imagine, we walk between twenty to thirty thousand steps on a wedding day, and if it's mid summer time, we definitely need something a little looser and able to breathe in.

You shouldn't need to even worry about what your vendors attending are wearing, but we’ve attended weddings in the past where some dress a little more casually and we don’t think it suits the day everyone is getting into. With us, we’re smart, professional, yet casual, just like our style of working.

Do you leave straight away after your hours are up?

A question we get asked often as wedding photographers and videographers is do we cover more hours if required? The answer is absolutely yes! As you know from our wedding packages, the majority cover up to 10 hours. Some companies may time themselves from the minute they arrive, and time out at the exact moment it hits their 8 hour shift. Well, not us.

Within reason, we’re absolutely happy to stick around a little longer. Our job is to capture premium wedding content from your day, and sometimes things get a little delayed and even that's out of your hands. This is why we cover 10 hours rather than 8.

We genuinely love the wedding day, and we hope by the point that time comes around we know you really well. Because of this, we find ourselves in awe at every couple we work with on their wedding day. Sometimes, if asked we can pack out kit away and have a celebratory drink with the newlyweds.

We’re in the game not only to make a business, but because we love what we do and meeting new people is a huge passion of ours.