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January 28, 2010

I am going to try to keep posting some of these tips for brides once a week, until I run out of useful wedding hints! As I said in the first edition, don’t feel like you are obligated to do any of these things just because you hired me to photograph your wedding!

Voy a tratar de seguir posteando algunos de estos consejos para novias una ves a la semana, hasta que me quede sin datos utiles para matrimonios! Como dije en la primera edicion, no se sientan como que estan obligados a hacer alguna de estas cosas solo por que me contrataron para fotografias su matrimonio.

This week’s tip is 2 part, both parts, involving the groom.

#1. Tell your groom not to stress out when you’re late. Because you will be late. Trust me on this one. Seba called me so many times on our wedding day while I was getting ready that he made me cry. This is a pattern I see. The groom gets stressed when the guests start arriving and the bride is running late or when he’s by himself and things go wrong (and at least a few things will go wrong, trust me on that too) and he starts to call over and over and over again as if being the most annoying almost husband on the face of the planet is going to help her put on her white dress and veil any faster. NOT HELPFUL GROOMS! So my advice to you is to either talk this over seriously with your groom beforehand and warn him that you will be late, things will go wrong, but under no circumstances is he to harass you incessantly about either of those factors. Or your other option could be to have a quick and sweet little phone call a few hours before the ceremony to say, “I love you,” one last time as boyfriend and girlfriend, and then have your bridesmaids take away your cell phone. :)

El consejo de esta semana tiene 2 partes, ambas concernientes al Novio:

#1 Dile a tu novio que no se estrese cuando estes atrasada. Por que te vas a atrasar. Creeme. Seba me llamo tantas veces el dia de nuestro matrimonio mientras me estaba haciendo lista que me hizo llorar. Este es un patron que veo. El novio  se estresa cuando los invitados empiezan a llegar y la novia esta atrasada o cuando esta solo y las cosas salen mal (y al menos un par de cosas van a salir mal, creanme) y empieza a llamar una y otra ves como si siendo el novio mas molestoso en la faz de la tierra fuera a alludarte a ponerte el vestido o el velo mas rapido. No ayuda !!! Mi consejo para ti es, o lo hablas seriamente con tu novio de antemano y le adviertes que vas a llegar tarde, que hay cosas que van a salir mal, pero que bajo ninguna circunstancia tiene que llamarte y acosarte incesantemente respecto a ninguno de esos factores. O tu otra opcion es tener un pequeno y rapido llamado un par de horas antes de la ceremonia para decir, “te amo” una ultima ves como novio y novia, y despues tus madrinas de matrimonio se pueden llevar tu telefono.

#2. If you’re hoping for getting ready pictures of both of you, ask your groom to wait for Seba before he starts his grooming! So many times, no matter how often we’ve mentioned this, Seba arrives and the groom will be 100% ready to go to the church. Obviously there’s not quite as much there to take pictures of as there is with the girls, but when given the opportunity, I think Seba takes amazing getting ready photos. And getting ready pics is also one of my favorite parts of the day to photograph, so it makes me sad that Seba sometimes misses out on that.

#2 Si estas esperando tener fotos de ustedes dos haciendose listos, dile a tu novio que espere a Seba antes de empezar  a hacerse listo. Muchas veces, sin importar que tan seguido hemos mencionado esto, cuando Seba llega el novio ya esta un 100% listo para ir a la iglesia. Obiamente no hay tanto de que tomar fotos como en el caso de la novia pero cuando se ha presentado la oportunidad, creo que Seba toma fotos increibles. Y fotos haciendose listo es una de mis partes favoritas del dia para fotografiar, asi que me hace triste cuando Seba pierde esa oportunidad.

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4 Comments

  1. hahah! I love the one of the guy holding up the hanger with that quizzical look.

    Comment by Sara — January 29, 2010 @ 8:48 pm

  2. This is completely unrelated to this post, but I wanted to tell you that you're helping me learn Spanish soooo much by doing bi-lingual posts. Asi que, muchisima gracias por tu ayuda!!! :)

    Also, I think these tips are super helpful. I *might* be walking down the aisle in the next year or so, thus I will keep these in mind. ;-)

    And one more thing, my new site is FINALLY up and running, yay!!! The website is: http://www.MyBeautifulAdventures.com. :)

    Comment by GlobalButterfly — January 31, 2010 @ 2:36 pm

  3. I like the idea of writing tips for brides! Great tip!

    Comment by amandabasteen — February 3, 2010 @ 9:13 am

  4. I like the idea of writing tips for brides! Great tip!

    Comment by amandabasteen — February 3, 2010 @ 5:13 pm

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