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Top 10 Advice to Future Brides & Grooms from me

10. Schedule your engagement pictures to be taken at least 2 months beforeyour wedding date. Find a photographer that includes them with your wedding package, like me.

9. Don't skimp on your photography budget. If you plan on relying on your guests to provide pictures with those disposal cameras, you may be sadly disappointed. Those pictures rarely turn out, especially indoors. And people lose them. Or their kids do.

8. Talk to your DJ about having the Dollar Dance at your reception. It provides a good opportunity for pictures of the bride and groom with many of their guests. And you can make a little extra cash for your honeymoon.

7. If you hire a videographer, make sure to tell them to stay out of the photographer's way.

6. Future brides, allow for at least 30 minutes of photo time between your hair and make-up appointments and leaving for the ceremony. Personally I prefer at least an hour.

5. Future grooms, allow at least 15 minutes for photo time before you and your groomsmen start drinking.

4. Pull the cake table out. Cut the cake behind the cake table, not in front of it. Your guests want to see your faces more than your backs. And the pictures look better.

3. Bouttonieres go on the left. Your left.

2. Wear comfortable shoes on your wedding day. Or none at all . . .

1. Enjoy every moment. Things are bound to go wrong. But everything works out in the end.(And ask your caterer ahead of time to box some leftovers. It'll be way to hectic to enjoy your dinner in peace.)

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