Photo timeline

You can take any photos that don't require you and your FH to see each other, before the ceremony. You and your wedding party, him and his, each of you with your individual families, etc. There are definitely ways to fit all your photos in, but making your guests wait even longer shouldn't be one of them.

I think an hour is pretty standard. I would ask your photographer for feedback on how long they’ll need.

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True, I agree.

An hour should be way more than enough for 18 photos! Our photographer did over 200 photos (and 4 locations) in an hour for our engagement shoot

Daughter had a LOT of family at her wedding, and had a fairly long list of specific group shots she wanted. Her photographer asked her to have someone (not in the wedding party or a parent) act as his "photo wrangler," who had the shot list and would help him ensure that people could quickly move in and out of the various groupings. Daughter asked my two sisters to fill that role and it helped SO much. We also sent an email to most family members the week before the wedding and gave them a heads up regarding when and where family photos were going to be taken (immediately following the ceremony, as other guests moved on to the cocktail hour), so they didn't wander off (well, at least most of them didn't wander off...). If you're trying to make sure your timing is efficient, talk with your photographer about how they would feel about doing something similar. Good luck!

Originally I was going to try to do all photos in an hour but realized it was a long time to make guests wait


So before the ceremony, me and my family are doing pics and same with his and then me and my bridal party half are doing pics and then him and his half will. We won’t see each other at all.
I did put a cocktail hour in our time but only like 30 mins. I want to get pictures of both of us with each other’s family’s(only like one pic each), pics with full bridal party, and then pics of us
We aren’t doing a grand entrance so I figured my MOH and DJ can get started on dinner while we are doing our alone pics and then our “grand entrance” will be our first dance. I’m sure we will show up while everyone is getting dinner but plates will be set aside for us
It still has tweaking to be done but we have 7 months still

I personally think it sounds like a lot of time but it may not be as much as you think just because it would go by fast. so whatever you can try to do beforehand would be better