Seeing Groom before walking down aisle?

I think we're going to do our pictures before the ceremony, so there won't be a big reveal, lol. But still, it's different when you see bride, not just taking photos with you, but walking down an aisle with the intent to marry you.

It still makes it special.

We are waiting to see each other until the ceremony. We are having a cocktail hour so that we can take pics then the reception will start.

I never much went for that tradition. NotFroofy and I slept together the night before, decorated the synagogue together, had our hair and make-up done together, got dressed together, and then processed in together.

Andrea, have you considered having as many pictures as you can taken before the ceremony without your fiancee? For example, all of the pictures of you alone, the girls, your family, etc. Then the photographer can photographer your fiancee, his guys, his family. By the time the ceremony is over you will already have 3/4 of your pictures taken.

My bridal party is meeting at the venue 1 hour before to do their picture then i will arrive 30 min before to do mine. pics of myself and fh will be done during and after the cermony. After the ceremony we will do picture with the whole wedding party and our parents. We have our photographer for 3 hours during the reception. I think it depends on how low you will have your photographer for.

I want his first time seeing me at the altar, so my coordinator is having us take pictures with our families and bridesmaids/groomsmen before hand. Then after ceremony we will take the rest of them together. We just didn't want to keep our guests waiting to long

I always thought that the first time FS and I would see eachother is when I'm walking down the isle but our ceremony does not start until 8 pm. So we decided we are going to do a reveal prior to the ceremony and have all of our pics taken before so that we can enjoy the cocktail hour with our guests. I think it will be just as special. The first time you see FS and he sees you is going to be special no matter what. And as someone else mentioned - when your walking down the isle it will be special because you walking down to give yourself and your life to him.

I think we are going to do it before...I know I will be a wreck during the ceremony so I would rather have my pics look fresher.

I'm having a Jewish wedding so we'll see each other before the ceremony to do pictures.

I will sleeping with him the night before our wedding, so yes, I will see him in the morning. My wedding is planned for 4:00 in the afternoon, so we will part when we get to the church. After we get to the church, then I wont see him until I walk down the isle.

We always recommend a first look because you are at your fresh and most beautiful and you get to have a private moment just the two of you. I have had all our first look couples tell us that it doesn't change the moment of seeing the bride walk down the aisle.

We will not be seeing each other if i can help it before i walk down the isle. I want the photographer to capture his face when he first sees me in my wedding dress walking down teh isle.

FH and I are a more traditional couple I guess ... neither one of us wants to see each other until I start walking down the isle. We are having a cocktail hour which is when we will do our pictures together.

We didn't see each other before me walking down the aisle. I loved seeing his face when I first started walking towards him!

FH and I are going to do our first reveal pics before the ceremony. We want the first time we see each other to be for our eyes only. Just us, taking it all in, and the photographer in some unseen place snapping away. I think it will help keep me from crying as I come down the aisle as well.

You can make first look a surprise even if it's not down the aisle. You can approach him from behind, for instance. He didn't see me until the ceremony, but we had a small wedding and the luxury of a time during the cocktail hour.

Read this blog: http://www.bridalbuds.com/2010/07/our-first-site/

It's the best I've read about the reasoning about a First View. I love it!! FH and I are going to do it because I'm completely shy and I want to calm my nerves before walking down the aisle. Plus, we're not technically doing a cocktail hour and our ceremony and reception are in the same place so we'll take pictures beforehand

Nope. Neither one of us wants that. FH wants the experience of the big reveal & so do I.

My FH and I are going to spend the night before together (mostly because I can't sleep if he isn't next to me) but in the morning I am going to go to my parent's house and he is going to get ready with the GMs at the hotel. It's really important to me that the first time he sees me all dressed up is when I am walking down the aisle to him. We are going to get pictures in during the cocktail hour (and after I fix my makeup from crying, lol!).

Well my FS and I decided that we will NOT see each other until I walk down the aisle. He is very traditional and wants that to be the first moment he sees me that day. We will do our seperate pics before hand though, me and bridesmaids- me and family- ect, and he will do the same. After yhe ceremenoy we will do the group shots and our shots together.