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Wedding Advice · With Robert Evans

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A celebration that feels like you.

Thoughtful guidance for the whole destination wedding experience—from the first plans to the photographs you bring home. For couples, and the planners helping them make it happen.

The Secrets to Spectacular Wedding Photography by Robert Evans

From my book, for your destination celebration

The Secrets to Spectacular Wedding Photography

I wrote this guide to help couples understand the photographic side of a wedding: the conversations to have, the time to leave, and the moments to make room for.

Here, I’ve adapted those lessons for destination weddings and multi-day celebrations. The advice is for you wherever you celebrate, and whoever is behind the camera.

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Before, during & after

More understanding.
More room to enjoy.

Articles, quick tips, and videos shaped by a lifetime of photographing people and celebrations.

Robert photographs a bride seated at a small outdoor table.

Article · Before the Wedding

Choosing the photographer for your destination wedding weekend

Look for a distinctive eye, a comfortable connection, and experience that carries across an entire celebration.

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An overhead view of a couple together at a café table.

Article · Before the Wedding

An engagement session with a sense of place

Choose a meaningful setting and make time to feel comfortable together before your destination celebration.

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A wedding couple stands with their officiant and two dogs during an intimate ceremony.

Article · Before the Wedding

A destination wedding timeline with room to be present

Plan the photographs around your guests, the journey between places, and the experience of the whole weekend.

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Flower girls watch a wedding ceremony from the back of a church.

Article · Before the Wedding

Does your destination wedding need a second photographer?

Match the photography team to your locations, overlapping events, and the moments you want remembered.

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A bride approaches an outdoor ceremony while a photographer records the moment.

Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding

Choose what you want to remember from the weekend

Let your shared priorities guide the destination, the events, and the photography.

The view from the band’s stage across an evening wedding reception.

Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding

Connect your destination wedding creative team early

Give your planner, photographer, videographer, and local team one shared plan.

A wedding planner holds a clipboard beneath an archway.

Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding

Let your destination wedding planner hold the schedule

Clear responsibility gives you more freedom to be part of your own celebration.

Guests hold up phones to photograph a smiling wedding couple.

Wedding Tip · Video · Before the Wedding

Set the sharing boundaries for your destination wedding

Decide what may be posted from the welcome dinner through the farewell, and who shares first.

A couple dances beneath a blue ceiling filled with points of light.

Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding

Plan the light at your destination wedding reception

Bring your photographer into the lighting conversation before the celebration moves from daylight into evening.

A bride and her father stand at the foot of the steps to a church.

Article · Before the Wedding

Understanding a destination wedding photography proposal

Look beyond a day rate to the experience, coverage, travel, care, and finished work behind the proposal.

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A wedding cake stands in the foreground as newlyweds celebrate behind it.

Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding

Confirm the whole weekend before you travel

Settle coverage, travel, additional events, and delivery while there is time to make clear decisions.

Wedding flowers and glass décor frame the New York skyline.

Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding

Planning to submit your destination wedding for publication?

Coordinate photography, design details, credits, and privacy preferences from the beginning.

A bride looks toward the camera while someone helps with her wedding preparations.

Article · Before the Wedding

Two photography timelines for your destination wedding day

Use these first-look and ceremony-first examples as a starting point, then adapt them to your venue and weekend.

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Wedding Tip · Video · Before the Wedding

Build breathing room into destination wedding preparations

Separate the ready-by time from portrait time, and allow for moving around an unfamiliar venue.

A large family shares a group hug around the wedding couple outdoors.

Article · Video · During the Wedding

Family photographs at a destination wedding, without the scramble

Help traveling relatives arrive comfortably, know where to meet, and enjoy the time together.

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Guests watch a bride walk down a church aisle with her father.

Article · Video · During the Wedding

An unplugged ceremony at your destination wedding

Invite guests to experience the vows together and keep the photography and sharing requests clear.

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A bride embraces an older loved one during a quiet wedding-day moment.

Article · During the Wedding

Photographing the people who made the journey

Use the time together to preserve relationships, familiar expressions, and the quieter parts of your destination wedding.

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Newlyweds walk along the beach at sunset.

Article · Video · During the Wedding

Make room for sunset portraits at your destination wedding

Coordinate a short pause with your planner and photographer, using the light at your actual venue.

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A wedding dress hangs beneath a row of colorful artwork.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

Keep your wedding attire together at the destination

Know where the dress, shoes, veil, and personal details will be before preparations begin.

A bride and a loved one share an emotional embrace before the ceremony.

Wedding Tip · Video · During the Wedding

Protect the final 20 minutes before your destination ceremony

Make space for anticipation and coordinate coverage from both ends of the aisle.

A wedding couple shares a playful moment outside a building.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

Leave room for the unscripted parts of the weekend

Thoughtful plans and genuine reactions can belong in the same destination wedding story.

A bride and groom embrace beneath a dramatic sky with distant lightning.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

A weather plan for destination wedding photographs

Prepare a comfortable alternative and let changing conditions become part of the story when appropriate.

A wedding couple stands together on a quiet, misty beach.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

A quiet moment after your destination wedding vows

Plan a few minutes together before returning to the people who came to celebrate you.

A fork, knife and spoon rest together against a red background.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

Plan the photography team’s breaks across your wedding weekend

Coordinate meals with the event schedule so the team is ready for the moments that matter.

A couple dances in a candlelit reception room before the guests arrive.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

See your destination reception before the doors open

Give yourselves—and your photographs—a moment with the setting your designer has created.

A bride holds her bouquet beneath the soft layers of her veil.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

Give your veil a moment at your destination wedding

Plan when you will wear it and let the setting suggest comfortable photographic possibilities.

A bride rests her hands gently on a chair during a portrait.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

Feel natural in your destination wedding portraits

A breath, a comfortable touch, and relaxed hands can change the feeling of a photograph.

A bride has her eye makeup applied before the wedding.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

Plan your own getting-ready route at the destination

Coordinate the beauty schedule and transport so you can begin your photographs without waiting for the whole group.

A wedding guest raises a compact camera to take a photograph.

Wedding Tip · During the Wedding

Welcome guest photographs without losing the important view

Set friendly boundaries for cameras throughout your destination wedding celebration.

A photographer’s editing workspace displays a sequence of wedding photographs.

Article · After the Wedding

After the destination wedding: shaping your finished collection

Understand selection, editing, delivery, privacy, and the story that connects your wedding weekend.

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A couple holds an open wedding album showing their printed photographs.

Article · After the Wedding

Bring your destination wedding home in a finished book

Preserve the complete weekend in print, and give your digital photographs more than one safe home.

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Tell me about your celebration.

The destination, the people, the time together—I’d love to hear what you have in mind.

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