How long for wedding photos?

I should also mention that I plan to get some individual shots of me and my mom and me and my dad before the wedding and same for FH with his parents and both of us will get some shots with our groosmen and bridesmaids before the first look too, mainly when all of us are getting ready. Our photographer has amazing reviews and our engagement session went really well, but she's definitely more into candids than a million posed shots, but I'm not sure if I should schedule more time for posed shots or if what I have is enough.

And we have her plus another photographer that she chooses the day of for 8-9 hrs

I don't know what seems right or not, but I have told my photog that we only want to do 45 minutes worth of photos and we are NOT having a first look. Of course she is going to shoot the reception too.

Ours aren't outside or overly staged, so I don't see how getting the line-ups will take too long, photog agrees.

Ug I don't have advice, but I'm worried about it too. I'm trying to plan a lot of time before the wedding for pictures and trying to get most family shots out of the way before the ceremony then too for this reason. If hair and makeup backup then the extra photo time can be a buffer, but I am planning 2.5 hours of photos before (+30 min to "hide" before the ceremony, so staring 3 hours before the ceremony). That is to include wedding party shots (same as you - 6 total wedding party members), parents and siblings and all couple photos to be before the ceremony. Extended family will have to be after, but I'm hoping that's no more than about 4 shots and is 15 min.

We are not doing a first look, either. However, before the ceremony the GM are taking photos together, then the BP will take some together. We will also do the separate photos with parents then, too. That will cut some time off for us... so when we get together we only need the group shots. Our photographer told us 30 mins for that, since we only want a few different ones.

Your photographer will be able to best answer this question. It depends a lot on how many photos you want, how big your family and bridal party are, how big your shot list is, etc.

No first look here and my photographer thinks he can get it done in 45. It depends on their style too. If you hired someone who specializes in portraits and fine art photography you will probably spend more time on group/couple shots, if you hired someone with a more journalistic/candid style you will probably spend less time on them.

I just got married on Saturday and I felt the same way. I didn't need a lot of photos of a bunch of individual family members. I wrote up a list of important group photos (and of course the individual photos of my mom and dad with myself). I have that list to my photographer and they got everyone (we had a lot of family there, so lots of different photo combos) and we finished family in 45 minutes- tops. And she took three or four of each group. And then we only need about a half hour of wedding party. We had a hour and a half to take photos (during cocktail hour), and we got back just in time to rock the grand march! It worked out perfectly. It's all about your attitude and what you're okay with. If you are inflexible and how many photo combos you want, it might be harder to get it all done in a short amount of time. But if you're a little more laid back, it'll really work out for you. It did for me! (It also helped to give them a list of non-negotiable photos I wanted).

Good luck hun!

We got almost all of our pictures done before the ceremony and it took about an hour. We did pictures of us together, a few solo shots, all wedding party pictures and most family pictures. We only had a few family ones left to do afterwards and that took about 15 minutes.

No first look and my photographer said it can be done in 30-45mins as well.

We did not do a first look. We took about 15-20 minutes worth of family photos after our ceremony. Then I think bridal party was super quick, maybe 20 minutes? He did the guys while i was touching up my make up and by the time I came out there they were ready for me and the girls. Then we did about 35-40 minutes of just the two of us. What took us so long was we walked to different parts of the venue, they had a dock and some other little hidden secrets on the other side of the property.

When I met with our photographer, we initially were not going to do a first look and gave her a rough timeline of when the ceremony ended to about when our grand entrance would be. Ceremony would end at 2:30pm and grand entrance for 4pm. She said that was "more than enough" time to capture pictures of us two, our families, and the wedding party, which were pictures we wanted more professionally posed rather than candid shots.

To get an idea of what my photographer will be working with: my family consists of my parents and 3 siblings (all 3 who are part of the wedding party). His family has his parents and 2 siblings (both are also in the wedding party). I have two sets of grandparents and he has one. Our wedding party consists of 4 bridesmaids and 4 groomsmen.