Planning a bridal boudoir portrait session, as a gift for your groom?
Here’s what you need to think about.
Plan in advance
It could be that your chosen photographer can be called within 2 weeks of your wedding and get something turned around for you, but it’s more likely that you need to think several weeks ahead. This is not something to leave until the last minute, so ideally, get something booked a couple of months in advance of your wedding.
Look at it this way:
1. Find photographer
2. Book the portrait session (some photographers, well, us, will invite you along for a chat before the portrait session itself, to plan it out together and you want at least a week between the chat and the portrait session, in case you need to do some shopping).
– 1 week later
3. Attend pre-session chat
– 2 weeks later
4. Attend portrait session
– 1 week later
5. Attend viewing appointment and choose your portraits.
Sometimes, you’re able to take away portraits on the day, but if you’re having an album created, or a piece of wall art, you may need to allow 4-6 weeks for that. We’ll go with 4.
– 4 weeks later
6. Collect final portraits
Total time – 8 weeks.
Of course this can all be done much quicker, but to make the most out of it, since it’s important, don’t make it a rush.
Think about your wedding lingerie
Some dresses have built in corsetry, meaning you won’t be needing specific wedding lingerie, but you may still want to have something special for the portrait session. So think about whether you want a bridal look to your images (especially if you’re bringing a veil along too), and get lingerie to match the theme.
There are plenty of places to shop – here are a couple if ideas:
Wedding Nites
Fox and Rose
Whilst searching for ‘bow backed knickers’ with a client the other day, I have to apologise for the cost involved in finding these at Lucile. Helpfully, I have now found something even more extravagant at Gilda & Pearl (well, you’re only doing this once, right? and you can personalise them with initials in crystal.)
Bring shoes, veil, wedding jewellery
Make sure you have your veil, shoes, and anything else that you may want to include, in time for your bridal boudoir portrait session. Veils are particularly fab.
If you’re having artificial flowers – whether for a bouquet, or as table decorations, then if you can bring those along too, do.
Include the dress
If you have your dress already, it can definitely be incorporated into your bridal boudoir portraits.
Pinch the groom’s shirt
Or at least a shirt of his. (Or hers, if she’s your bride too)
and finally…
Budget
One of the benefits of coming along for a pre-session chat at the studio, is that you can get a real feel for the products, and know exactly what you want from your session and what that’s going to cost. It could be that the groom’s box you’re planning is about to become all about the album. It could also be that you’re spending a LOT on your wedding, and you can’t get exactly what you want, in which case consider your first anniversary (which is, after all, paper) and give yourself another excuse to go all ‘wedding’ then.
Much love
Anna
xx
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