looking and feeling great in your wedding photos

So excited to have Glorianna of Glorious Moments Photography sharing her tips with us for feeling and looking great in your wedding photos! All photos in this post are hers so i you like what you see, consider reaching out for your own engagement or wedding session!

How to Look BEST in Your Wedding Photos

By Glorious Moments Photography

Imagine your beautiful wedding day… You’ve spent the past year planning every little detail, and finally, it’s here! 24 hours after the wedding day you received a few sneak peek photos. You flip through them, and you think, “WHY DID I LOOK LIKE THIS. I don’t look flattering at all.” That’s a scary thought, right? 

Thankfully, after you read this post, that won’t happen to you. I got you! I’m sharing with you a few tips on How to Look Your Best in Your Wedding Photos.

First and foremost, know that you’re beautiful. You’re one of a kind. So, here are the tips on how to look best in your wedding photos.

To be frank, it’s not your job to make you look beautiful on your wedding day.

Like I mentioned above, you’re beautiful. Especially on your wedding day, you look radiant. As a bride, I think you should enjoy and slow down on your wedding day and let people worry about how to make you look best on your wedding day. Your makeup artist will doll you up and your photographer will reveal the best of you through their lens.

  1. If you FEEL good, you’ll look good so Whatever this means to you in order to build that confidence up. It may be eating healthy, working out or as simple as treating yourself to a fresh haircut or new perfume. When you’re confident and you feel good about yourself, that will reflect in front of the camera.

  2. Take advantage of the makeup trial. To make sure that you are absolutely in love with your wedding makeup, do a makeup trial. I’d also suggest that you do it on your engagement session, that way, you’ll see how the makeup looks in front of a professional camera. Sometimes iPhone photos and the photos done by your photographer have a different look. The makeup might look too much on your iPhone, but it might look stunning from our cameras.

  3. Ignore your photographerOkay, that might sound misleading, you should definitely pay attention to us when we ask you to :) But for most of the part, try not to look at the camera too much. Instead, look at each other and pay attention to loving on each other. The best photos are the ones that show feelings. So, show your love to each other, remember those feelings, and let us preserve those moments through our lenses.

  4. Enhance your favorite part of the body.This works differently for everybody. In general, any parts that you want to downplay or that you want to appear slimmer should be moved away from the camera. A few examples that you can try in front of the mirror:

  • Lean your head slightly towards the camera and tilt your chin slightly down to enhance your eyes.

  • Make sure your hands aren't ever flat by your sides to make you appear slimmer. Bring your arms and elbows slightly away from your waist so the camera can see your waistline.

  • To make you look a little taller, put one foot in front of the other.

5. Hire the photographer that you like and you trust best.The most important thing of all is that you work with the photographer you like and you trust most. Once you do that, you don’t need to worry about how you stand or what to do with your hand. You will know that your photographer will create the best photography timeline and the best location so that you will look super flattering. If you hire us as your wedding photographer, we will fix your hair, we will cheer you on wedding planning, we will create an atmosphere so that you can love on each other, and we will reveal the best of you. Most of all, we will capture your day while you’re enjoying it.

From the moment you put on that dress, the reaction on your daddy’s face when he sees you in that dress, that sweet first look, the way he brushes your hair, the cheer from your bridal party, the dance floor, and everything in between, we will capture it in a way that makes you look best. Not only because you look stunning that day, but also because you feel great and are so happy.

Thank you so much for reading it all the way here. We hope that these tips help you be more confident on your wedding day. If you’re looking for a wedding photographer with a romantic and bright style, we’d love to chat with you. Schedule a discovery call here. If you’re not ready for a call, check out our website here. Can’t wait to talk all about your wedding with you soon!

Eleanor's Nursery

It’s amazing how many hours went into planning, researching and designing this nursery. It is by far the most well thought out room in our home. Funny how that happens because we’ve been in our house for 5 years and still have items that I want to add/replace but when you start with a blank canvas, designing is certainly easier!

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Eleanor’s nursery was originally our guest bedroom but we chose to move our guest bedroom back to where my office originally was to have her a bit closer. Also, because our home was built in the 1930’s it has great features such as original hardwood floors and lots of character in its crown molding and paned windows BUT can also be a bit drafty. This room is better insulated than our back bedroom/office.

Before we knew the gender of our baby, we had decided we’d go neutral on decor but of course once we found out we’d be having a little girl, the obvious choice was to accent with… you guessed it, pink. The goal however was to simply make it feminine.

The first item I purchased was our rug which is in my opinion a neutral blush patterned rug. The rest of the design came to life around that once laid down. It can be so nerve wracking buying rugs online and I felt like I researched the longest on this one item. I knew I wanted something neutral, something with a pattern and not just a solid color but also something that would grow into another home or big girl room down the road - with the help of my mom we found the perfect rug and it was exactly what I was looking for. Thankfully it exceeded my expectations in person as it is seriously so frustrating having to return a rug via mail (been there, done that. no thank you.)

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The dresser came next as I knew that this item would double as the changing table, no need to take up extra space with a separate table so I wanted something large enough to play double duty. Also because our home is old, the closets are SMALL. This dresser has so much space and we are able to store clothes she wears now plus extra blankets and crib sheets, sleep sacs, items for diaper changing and I even use a drawer for extra bottles and other things we’ll need down the road.

I purchased the HEMNES IKEA dresser in white and did a quick upgrade by simply changing out the hardware.

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This shelf with knick knacks is just so sweet and something she can add to as she collects other thoughtful piece over the years.

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My mom and dad had these animal prints framed and are so cute above her crib. The antique shelved mirror you can see partially on the wall was a piece that hung in my younger sister room when she was a baby and a great find by my mom at an antique store.

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Our house lacks storage so we purchased this shelving (bottom) for extra storage (you can see girlfriend has a TON of stuffed animals already from family and friends) and hung the above shelves for extra decor and books. She also has a large collection of books on the very bottom (not seen) that she can pull off when she’s more mobile and interested in flipping through her books on her own :) won’t be long now!

Rug: One Kings Lane

Dresser: Ikea, HEMNES

Chair: BuyBuyBaby

Swan Lake Mobile: Pehr

Curtains: Joss and Main

we ordered long curtains with grommets and I then had them hemmed/the grommets cut off to fit the length we needed

Gold Mirror: Target

Changing Mat: Keekaroo Peanut

Curtain Rods: Target

Dresser Knobs: Target

2 Shelf Bookcase: Target

Animal Prints: Etsy, The Crown Prints

2019 in bouquets

We have the pleasure of working with so many fabulously talented florists. Check out a handful of our favorite bouquets from 2019 below.