Tennessee Wedding Photographers, Jennifer & Daniel Cooke love traveling all over the state of Tennessee to photograph weddings and tell your love story!

In this episode, I explain the wedding day details that brides should include in their wedding day photography detail box. I discuss the specifics of exactly what they should prepare for me to photograph. If you'd like to see the full list of wedding day details, you can see that here on my 20 Items to Include in Your Wedding Detail Box blog post.

Lastly, I encourage all my brides to prioritize the most important wedding day details, so I make sure that I am photographing what they desire on their wedding day.

Jennifer and Daniel Cooke are Nashville Wedding Photographers, but love traveling to other states to photograph weddings and explore new places! You can find out more about them by visiting their About page on their website or by following their instagram, @jennifercookephotography.

Nashville Wedding Photographer, Jennifer Cooke discusses Unique Moments on wedding days as well as educational & inspirational topics with other wedding industry professionals!

In today's episode, we are talking about How to Build Your Wedding Photography Timeline from start to finish.

Click Here to Download our FREE Sample Wedding Day Photography Timeline!

Building a wedding photography timeline, including tips and a FREE downloadable sample wedding photography timeline...

• Brides can use this episode to build a photography timeline for their wedding day.
• Photographer helps brides create timeline based on ceremony time, lighting, and portrait needs.

Wedding Ceremony Timing and Photography Coverage

• Speaker suggests choosing ceremony time based on time of year and photography needs.
• Photographer helps brides determine best ceremony time.
• Jennifer Cooke recommends at least 8 hours for wedding day coverage to capture complete story.
• Designating a bridesmaid to put wedding details in a box on wedding day and give to photographer to save time and reduce stress.

Wedding Day Timeline and Photography

• Jennifer outlines her wedding photography timeline while explaining how it can be customized for each couple.
• Jeninfer prioritzied birdal portraits, groom getting ready photos, and first look with bride and groom as well as several other important moments throughout the wedding day.
• Jennifer Cooke suggests buildin a flexible timeline with 15-30 minute increments to ensure everything happens during the day.
• Virginia Wedding Photographers, Jennifer & Daniel Cooke recommend hiring two photographers to capture more details and moments throughout the day.

Wedding Day Timeline Planning from a Photographer's Perspective

• Wedding Photographer suggests doing special dances (first dance, etc.) earlier in the evening so that the venue is brighter for capturing these special moments.
• Cake cutting should be done before speeches and toasts for guests to eat and dance.
• Photographer recommends no more than 2-3 first looks to fit everything into the day and avoid delays.
• Jennifer recommends creating a wedding day timeline with input from both the bride and photographer.
• Timeline should be tailored to the couple's preferences and the photographer's process.
• Bride should not soley rely on the FREE, downloadable Wedding Day Timeline from Jennifer Cooke Photography.

Jennifer and her husband, Daniel love serving their couples all the way from Nashville to Virginia. They are traveling Tennessee Wedding Photographers, and they would love to celebrate your wedding day with you!

To see more from Wedding Photographers, Jennifer & Daniel, you can follow their Instagram @jennifercookephotography.

Nashville Wedding Photographer, Jennifer Cooke discusses Unique Moments on wedding days as well as educational & inspirational topics with other wedding industry professionals!

Unique Moments is a place where we help connect wedding professionals to brides and other industry professionals while also discussing Unique Moments on wedding days that we have personally experienced! I’m your host, Jennifer Cooke, wife to Daniel, a sister, plant lover, and lavender obsessed wedding photographer. Join me as I connect with other wedding industry professionals to learn about how they serve their brides as well as understand their why behind their business. This is a place where we encourage and seek to help each other grow. Now, let’s get started!

I am so excited to finally be starting this podcast friends. This first intro episode is really just to introduce myself, explain who this podcast is for, explain the why and my overall inspiration behind Unique Moments podcast.

So yes, my name is Jennifer Cooke, and my husband Daniel Cooke and I are a husband and wife wedding & family photography team serving both Tennessee, Virginia, & wherever else our couples want to take us! We serve detail-oriented & joyful couples who desire a celebratory wedding day and a forever legacy! We love traveling, seeing new places, and celebrating the eternal, God-ordained union of marriage with our couples!

Who is this podcast for? - It’s for BOTH brides to listen to and for wedding industry professionals to listen to!

What's my why behind creating this podcast? - I wanted to create a space for wedding industry professionals to connect and discuss how they serve their brides. You know, we all work so hard to help our brides, but there’s so much behind the scenes work that goes into what we do. I wanted to create a space to share this so that other industry professionals can learn and so that brides can see and hear us talking with one another.

What’s my inspiration behind Unique Moments? - Every wedding day is unique, and I wanted to create a space to talk about specific unique moments that happened on wedding days! Listen to hear a quick example of a real, Unique Moment on a wedding day...

What will be on this podcast? - This podcast will be interview style with other wedding industry professionals to share about their business and connect with future brides.

How often will episodes go live? - I'm honestly still trying to figure this out, but I’m hoping for at least two episodes per month if not more, but it will depend on scheduling/availability of everyone involved!

To see more about what we do as Nashville based Wedding Photographers, you can follow our Instagram @jennifercookephotography. And we are so excited to have you back for future, educational, & inspirational episodes!

Thank you so much for listening to the Unique Moments Podcasts. You can find full show notes from today’s show notes at www…. If you already love this podcast, I would be honored if you would subscribe on your favorite podcast player, leave a 5 star review, and share it with another bride or wedding industry professional who might be interested in listening and learning more about the wedding industry and how we serve our brides! If you loved this episode today, screenshot it and share it to your Instagram stories and tag me as @jennifercookephotography. Also, feel free to send me an Instagram DM and let me know what you loved about this podcast episode! Until next time friends!!! See you later!

xoxo,

Jennifer & Daniel Cooke