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mariaNryan · April 2010

Seen your husband before you got married? We would love to take pictures at the church before we get married and maybe at a park this way we can attend our cocktail hour? anyone have a timeline of what they did so you didnt miss your cocktail hr?

felicia220 · April 2010

We are doing pictures before the ceremony just for that reason, IMO the cocktail hour is one of the best parts. We are doing what is called a "First Look" photo, where we will see each other for the first time in private, well except for the photographer who will be there to take the pictures. And then we will meet the rest of the bridal party and our families to take pictures. I am really happy about it because I would much rather have that moment in private then in front of out 350 guests. Our ceremony is at 6 and we are starting pictures around 3:30, we needed a little more time because our families want a lot of pictures

Reilly626 · April 2010

Fiancee says no way to that, our ceremony is earlier so we can do pics after than cocktail hour...I have to admit I cant wait to see his face as I approach in the church...

jaimelody · April 2010

We're seeing each other before hand. I agree the cocktail hour is one of the best parts and I want to enjoy every last minute and every last dime I've had to shell out. lol. We're doing pictures at about 1. Ceremony is at 3 and cocktail hour at 5.

kle0113 · April 2010

MH and I saw each other before the ceremony. We loved it, but we were getting married at the reception venue so it just worked out much easier for us and we were able to be at our whole cocktail hour. I loved our "first glance" set up by our photographers. I would not change how we did things for anything.

jrgoogrl · April 2010

We will be seeing each other before the ceremony. Our ceremony and reception are all taking place at our venue, so we're going to do pictures just FI and I at 3pm, the pictures with the BP at 4pm, and family at 5pm. We have a 6:30pm ceremony. Both of us want to be able to enjoy every moment of our wedding, so it's easier just to do it before hand.

jchristel · April 2010

We're going to see each other prior, do bridal party pictures and possibly do pictures with his family (my parents are divorced, so we will have 3 sets to take that day) It's more important to us that we get to enjoy the cocktail hour than it is to me to not be seen before I walk down the aisle.

Lolyalyssa · April 2010

I really wanted to take pictures before the ceremony but FMIL really wants to spend time with her son alone. It's more important to me to let her have that time with him then for me to take the pictures before the ceremony. And in our case there is plenty of time to take pics between the ceremony and the reception.

Laurms15 · April 2010

We did not because we had a long break between mass and the reception. We were at 90% of cocktail hour. Had we not had that option we would have re-evaluated seeing each other.

clarereedy · April 2010

Our photographer is doing the "getting ready" shots from 1-3. Then we are doing all of our photos from 3-5:30. Our guests are invited to arrive at 6:30, so if we run over we have a little extra time. We asked to be at our entire cocktail hour and our ceremony is at our reception site, so this worked best for us.

peaches85 · April 2010

I would love to do pics beforehand so we can fully enjoy the cocktail hour, but FI is completely against it... he really wants the first time he sees me to be as I'm walking down the aisle.

stapletond · April 2010

We are going to take our pictures before the ceremony as well. We won't have a church ceremony, since our ceremony is being held at the reception hall. Therefore, we'll start taking photos at 3. Our ceremony will begin at 6:30.

mariaNryan · April 2010

well our church starts at 430 and hour cocktail hr starts at 6pm so i wanted to do pictures before the church because between 430-510 is our ceremony and i didnt want to miss cocktail hr and i just didnt know what was tooo early to start taking pictures and to be fully ready.. i was thinking start taking pictures at 3pm!!!

jtheiss · April 2010

We're seeing each other before hand. Our ceremony is at the venue at 4:30 and the cocktail hour will start immediately afterward, so we would miss the whole thing if we did pictures afterward (and probably wouldn't have time to get all the pics we want before the dinner even starts). Our photog will stage the first look and we'll get all the family and BP pics before the ceremony.