Wedding Advice · With Robert Evans
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.
From my book, for your destination celebration
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.
Before, during & after
Articles, quick tips, and videos shaped by a lifetime of photographing people and celebrations.
Article · Before the Wedding
Look for a distinctive eye, a comfortable connection, and experience that carries across an entire celebration.
Read the article: Choosing the photographer for your destination wedding weekend
Article · Before the Wedding
Choose a meaningful setting and make time to feel comfortable together before your destination celebration.
Read the article: An engagement session with a sense of place
Article · Before the Wedding
Plan the photographs around your guests, the journey between places, and the experience of the whole weekend.
Read the article: A destination wedding timeline with room to be present
Article · Before the Wedding
Match the photography team to your locations, overlapping events, and the moments you want remembered.
Read the article: Does your destination wedding need a second photographer?
Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding
Let your shared priorities guide the destination, the events, and the photography.
Read the tip: Choose what you want to remember from the weekend
Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding
Give your planner, photographer, videographer, and local team one shared plan.
Read the tip: Connect your destination wedding creative team early
Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding
Clear responsibility gives you more freedom to be part of your own celebration.
Read the tip: Let your destination wedding planner hold the schedule
Wedding Tip · Video · Before the Wedding
Decide what may be posted from the welcome dinner through the farewell, and who shares first.
Read the tip: Set the sharing boundaries for your destination wedding
Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding
Bring your photographer into the lighting conversation before the celebration moves from daylight into evening.
Read the tip: Plan the light at your destination wedding reception
Article · Before the Wedding
Look beyond a day rate to the experience, coverage, travel, care, and finished work behind the proposal.
Read the article: Understanding a destination wedding photography proposal
Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding
Settle coverage, travel, additional events, and delivery while there is time to make clear decisions.
Read the tip: Confirm the whole weekend before you travel
Wedding Tip · Before the Wedding
Coordinate photography, design details, credits, and privacy preferences from the beginning.
Read the tip: Planning to submit your destination wedding for publication?
Article · Before the Wedding
Use these first-look and ceremony-first examples as a starting point, then adapt them to your venue and weekend.
Read the article: Two photography timelines for your destination wedding day
Wedding Tip · Video · Before the Wedding
Separate the ready-by time from portrait time, and allow for moving around an unfamiliar venue.
Read the tip: Build breathing room into destination wedding preparations
Article · Video · During the Wedding
Help traveling relatives arrive comfortably, know where to meet, and enjoy the time together.
Read the article: Family photographs at a destination wedding, without the scramble
Article · Video · During the Wedding
Invite guests to experience the vows together and keep the photography and sharing requests clear.
Read the article: An unplugged ceremony at your destination wedding
Article · During the Wedding
Use the time together to preserve relationships, familiar expressions, and the quieter parts of your destination wedding.
Read the article: Photographing the people who made the journey
Article · Video · During the Wedding
Coordinate a short pause with your planner and photographer, using the light at your actual venue.
Read the article: Make room for sunset portraits at your destination wedding
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Know where the dress, shoes, veil, and personal details will be before preparations begin.
Read the tip: Keep your wedding attire together at the destination
Wedding Tip · Video · During the Wedding
Make space for anticipation and coordinate coverage from both ends of the aisle.
Read the tip: Protect the final 20 minutes before your destination ceremony
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Thoughtful plans and genuine reactions can belong in the same destination wedding story.
Read the tip: Leave room for the unscripted parts of the weekend
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Prepare a comfortable alternative and let changing conditions become part of the story when appropriate.
Read the tip: A weather plan for destination wedding photographs
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Plan a few minutes together before returning to the people who came to celebrate you.
Read the tip: A quiet moment after your destination wedding vows
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Coordinate meals with the event schedule so the team is ready for the moments that matter.
Read the tip: Plan the photography team’s breaks across your wedding weekend
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Give yourselves—and your photographs—a moment with the setting your designer has created.
Read the tip: See your destination reception before the doors open
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Plan when you will wear it and let the setting suggest comfortable photographic possibilities.
Read the tip: Give your veil a moment at your destination wedding
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
A breath, a comfortable touch, and relaxed hands can change the feeling of a photograph.
Read the tip: Feel natural in your destination wedding portraits
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Coordinate the beauty schedule and transport so you can begin your photographs without waiting for the whole group.
Read the tip: Plan your own getting-ready route at the destination
Wedding Tip · During the Wedding
Set friendly boundaries for cameras throughout your destination wedding celebration.
Read the tip: Welcome guest photographs without losing the important view
Article · After the Wedding
Understand selection, editing, delivery, privacy, and the story that connects your wedding weekend.
Read the article: After the destination wedding: shaping your finished collection
Article · After the Wedding
Preserve the complete weekend in print, and give your digital photographs more than one safe home.
Read the article: Bring your destination wedding home in a finished bookThe destination, the people, the time together—I’d love to hear what you have in mind.
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