Your wedding. No matter how big or how small, it’s one of the most important and memory-filled days of your life. Between picking out a dress, settling on a color theme, tasting cakes and scouting locations, there are about a bazillion different details you need to pay attention to—but when it comes down to it, your pictures are what keeps the day alive forever. So you might want to put a little thought into what kind of images you want, right?
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With so much going on at every wedding, it’s impossible for brides and grooms to take it all in. If you have a good photographer they’ll do it for you, but it never hurts to have a clear vision of what is important to you to be captured. Wedding photos are tricky—you don’t want them too posed or too sappy, yet you don’t only want a stream of candid moments, either. Plus, you want them to have a timeless quality so your kids don’t look back and cringe the way you do with your parents’ wedding photos.
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Here, we’ve found 75 snaps that are totally inspiring, and that capture a balance between posed and candid.
Originally posted April 2015. Updated October 2017.
