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PORTRAIT SESSION SCHEDULING

Portrait sessions (engagement, bridal, trash-the-dress) are normally shot around 4 PM on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays. Saturdays are normally reserved for weddings, but a bride may schedule a Saturday portrait session if the shoot date is within 2 months of the scheduling date. Please call or e-mail to schedule your portrait session at least 2 months before your desired shooting date.

Engagement portrait sessions can be scheduled at any time. We leave it up to the client to call or e-mail us to request a date. If it is getting within about 6 months of your wedding date we recommend that you go ahead and call or e-mail us to get on our calendar. You may have up to 3 wardrobe changes and up to 3 locations (as long as they are within a few miles of each other). Please contact us 2 months in advance of the date you would like to schedule.

Bridal portrait sessions can be scheduled at any time, but we encourage brides to schedule these between 2 and 3 months before their wedding date. We leave it up to the client to call or e-mail us to request a date. If it is getting within about 3 months of your wedding date we recommend that you go ahead and call or e-mail us to schedule your appointment. Please contact us 2 months in advance of the date you would like to schedule.

Please bring your veil, wedding day shoes, bouquet and a comfortable pair of shoes that you can wear as we walk around the area without scuffing your wedding shoes. Please contact your florist to prepare a bouquet for your portraits. Many brides also use their bridal portrait session as an opportunity to do a test run with their hair stylist and makeup artist so be sure to allow enough time for them to complete their work and arrive at your photo session in time.

Storybook albums are created with photos from your wedding gallery and optionally also from photos in your engagement and bridal portrait galleries. These are 20-page albums with 40 sides (additional pages may be purchased).

First, we will request that the bride choose her favorite photos from her online wedding gallery.

Second, we will use those photos to create the pages of your Storybook album.

Third, we will send the bride an email with a link to a new online gallery we create with the pages of your Storybook album before we order it so that the bride can review the layout and approve it or request changes before we order it.

Last, we order the Storybook album for you and have it shipped to your print address.

5 weeks before the wedding - We will contact the bride about 5 weeks before the wedding date to remind her of the final payment amount and due date.

4 weeks before the wedding - Final payment due.

1-2 weeks before the wedding - We will contact the bride to confirm that times and places we have are correct.

Wedding Week:

  • Please break-in your shoes indoors to keep them clean for close-up shots on the wedding day
  • Please have your ring cleaned this week so it shines on the wedding day and in photos
  • Please ask extended family whom you wish to include in family photos to remain after the ceremony (just easier to do in advance)

3-5 weeks after wedding - E-mail sent to bride with link to wedding galleries (password protected).

When bride is ready, she will send HP an email with the photo numbers (using the full image file name that appears below the image in the online gallery) and photo sizes she would like to fulfill her print package, if a print package is included in her wedding package.

HP will then do any needed touch-ups or requested effects to the selected photos and place the order for prints and have them sent directly to the bride's print address or another address she specifies.

Any additional prints may be ordered directly on the HP website by clicking the Buy button above the photo.

Guest Book albums are created with photos from your engagement portrait session.

First, we will request that the bride choose her favorite 25-30 photos from her engagement session.

Second, we will use those photos to create the pages of your Guest Book album.

Third, we will send the bride an email with a link to a new online gallery we create with the pages of your Guest Book album before we order it so that the bride can review the layout and approve it or make changes before we order it.

Last, we order the Guest Book album for you and have it sent to your contract address or the address you tell us you want it sent to.