
Planning the big day
“Planning your big day so you can fully enjoy it how you envisioned! Use these as a guide to help plan the timeline for your day.”
The Moments 7 hour package examples
The Moments | summer
The Moments package is perfect for summer weddings where the ceremony time is mid to late arvo and finishing up at sunset.
Checkout the example of how to plan your timeline to get the most out of your photo coverage for the 7 hour package. Planning around your ceremony, dinner and first dance are the key timings.
Use the timings below as a guide to plan your day, allowing for any travel to and from locations and also using sunset timing to know how much daylight we will have to work with.
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1.00pm Your lovers details & dressed
1.45pm Your details, touch ups and into dress
2.45pm Venue details
3pm Ceremony
3.30pm Canapes & Cocktails and Candids
- enjoy the celebration, catch up with your guests and have a drink
4pm Formal family & Group shots
- allow 2-3mins per combination, start big and work your way small
- Start with Full group guest photo if space allows and if you want it
5pm Bridal party photos & Portraits
- Get one of the bridal party to grab the drinks and foods hamper
- bring a speaker to play some tunes
5.45pm Guests called into reception to find seats, MC welcome
6pm Bridal party welcomed into Reception
- Cut Cake
- Speeches
6.30pm Dinner
7pm Speeches overflow if needed
7.30pm Dessert
7.45pm Sunset Photos
- Duck out when the light is nice and give yourselves a moment with each other to take in the day
8pm Photo coverage ends
The Moments | winter
During winter when daylight savings has kicked in we lose light quickly, so having an earlier ceremony is best so we have enough light to capture photos post ceremony.
Checkout the example of how to plan your timeline to get the most out of your photo coverage for the 7 hour package. Planning around your ceremony, dinner and first dance are the key timings.
Use the timings below as a guide to plan your day, allowing for any travel to and from locations and also using sunset timing to know how much daylight we will have to work with.
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12pm Your lovers details & dressed
12.45pm Your details, touch ups and into dress
1.45pm Venue details
2pm Ceremony
2.30pm Canapes & Cocktails and Candids
- enjoy the celebration, catch up with your guests and have a drink
3.30pm Formal family & Group shots
- allow 2-3mins per combination, start big and work your way small
- Start with Full group guest photo if space allows and if you want it
4pm Bridal party photos & Portraits
- Get one of the bridal party to grab the drinks and foods hamper
- bring a speaker to play some tunes
5pm Back to mingle with guests
5.30pm Sunset photos
5.45pm Guests called into reception to find seats, MC welcome
6pm Bridal party welcomed into Reception
- Cut Cake
- Speeches
7pm Photo coverage ends
The Full Story 9 hour package examples
The Full Story | Summer
Want more coverage on your day, the Full Story package is perfect to give you more photos and flexibility with your timeline.
Checkout the example of how to plan your timeline to get the most out of your photo coverage for the 9 hour package. Planning around your ceremony, dinner and first dance are the key timings.
Use the timings below as a guide to plan your day, allowing for any travel to and from locations and also using sunset timing to know how much daylight we will have to work with.
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12pm Your details & prep candids
12.45pm Your lovers details & dressed
1.45pm Your final touch ups and into dress
2.30pm Venue details
3pm Ceremony
3.30pm Canapes & Cocktails and Candids
- enjoy the celebration, catch up with your guests and have a drink
4.00pm Formal family & Group shots
- allow 2-3mins per combination, start big and work your way small
- Start with Full group guest photo if space allows and if you want it
4.45pm Bridal party photos
- Get one of the bridal party to grab the drinks and foods hamper
- bring a speaker to play some tunes
5.45pm Guests called into reception to find seats, MC welcome
6pm Bridal party welcomed into Reception
- Speeches
- Cut Cake
6.30pm Dinner
7.15pm Speeches overflow if needed
7.30pm Dessert
7.45pm Sunset Photos
- Duck out when the light is nice and give yourselves a moment with each other to take in the day
8.20pm First Dance
9pm Photo coverage ends
The Full Story | Pre Photos
Wanting to do photos pre ceremony so you have more time with your guests during cocktail and canapes, then this is a good example of how you can get it done.
Checkout the example of how to plan your timeline to get the most out of your photo coverage for the 9 hour package. Planning around your first look and pre ceremony photos, ceremony, dinner and first dance are the key timings.
Use the timings below as a guide to plan your day, allowing for any travel to and from locations and also using sunset timing to know how much daylight we will have to work with.
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11am Your lovers details & dressed
12pm Your details, touch ups and into dress
1.30pm First look
- Nice little moment to warm into photos and see each other
1.40pm Bridal Party photos
- Get one of the bridal party to grab the drinks and foods hamper
- bring a speaker to play some tunes
2.30pm Touchups, other half greets guests
2.45pm Venue details
3pm Ceremony
3.30pm Canapes & Cocktails and Candids
- enjoy the celebration, catch up with your guests and have a drink
4.30pm Formal family & Group shots
- allow 2-3mins per combination, start big and work your way small
- Start with Full group guest photo if space allows and if you want it
5.45pm Guests called into reception to find seats, MC welcome
6pm Bridal party welcomed into Reception
- Speeches
- Cut Cake
6.30pm Dinner
7pm Speeches overflow if needed
7.30pm Sunset Photos
- Duck out when the light is nice and give yourselves a moment with each other to take in the day
7.45pm First Dance
8pm Photo coverage ends
Once you’re ready to start sorting out timings and locations for your wedding day, download the wedding runsheet info form in the link below. Fill it in and fire it through to me and we can make any adjustments where needed. Use the above templates as guides, there is no hard or fast rules, it’s your wedding day, so do it in a way that represents you!