On the long-awaited wedding day, unexpected rain can disrupt the newlyweds' plans for a planned photo shoot. There is no need to despair and get upset ahead of time - a wedding photo shoot in the rain is quite possible and can give truly magical and unique photographs.
To do this, you can use a few tips from professional photographers to properly learn how to shoot and photograph pleasant moments. The fact is that rain puddles, under the influence of reflective light, turn into thousands of small mirrors, in which the lights of shop windows and street lamps are reflected. The photographs turn out festive, filled with magic and mystery.
Rain on your wedding day
If it rains on a special day, it’s absolutely terrible. There is nothing irreparable about this. To prevent this weather phenomenon from overshadowing your wedding, you need to plan everything in advance.
In our time, it is possible to get acquainted with a fairly accurate weather forecast already half a month before the holiday date.
If meteorologists promise rain on your wedding day, then you need to start thinking through the details.
How to take beautiful photos in rainy weather - tips
When conducting a wedding photo shoot in rainy weather, it is recommended to familiarize yourself with the advice of professional photographers:
- While photographing the bride and groom, you can capture interesting scenes related to rain. For example: capture the young people against the backdrop of a large display window filled with raindrops, or take a photo with the reflection of the young people in a large puddle.
- When photographing in the rain, it is important to find the right shooting angle that can highlight the state of nature during the rainy season. Droplets of moisture on the leaves of a tree, grass with shiny beads of raindrops - all this creates wonderful objects for a wedding photo shoot.
- City streets in the rain create an extraordinary backdrop with beautiful abstract images reflected in the water.
- Carrying out a wedding photo shoot in the city during the rain allows you to create unique photographs, where even familiar city landscapes magically turn into unfamiliar desert places under the rain.
Beautiful wedding photographs can be taken not only in color, but also in black and white. It is this contrasting shooting in rainy weather that helps create original, impressive photographs.
This video contains useful tips on what to do if it rains during a wedding photo shoot:
There is no need to worry once again that wedding photographs in the rainy season will turn out dim and ugly. If you listen to the opinion of professional photographers, cloudy weather allows you to create spectacular, beautiful pictures, much better than on a bright sunny day. With the right angle, raindrops will become a real decoration of the photograph. Would you like to have a wedding photo shoot in the rain?
Celebrate in a cozy, comfortable environment
First, you need to take care of the location of the wedding. If you planned to celebrate your wedding outdoors, then the best solution would be to install festive tents made of waterproof fabric.
To create a warm, comfortable environment, portable heaters can be installed.
The place where the ceremony itself will take place also deserves special attention.
Registering a marriage in nature is a wonderful and wonderful thing, but not when it’s pouring rain. Therefore, it is necessary to look for an alternative in advance. This could be a restaurant terrace or a café canopy.
You can also use an elegant tent. Let the rain be a background, not a hindrance.
If it is impossible to shelter from the rain, it is necessary to distribute to all guests elegant painted umbrellas or waterproof raincoats with hoods, designed in the colors of the significant event.
In addition to the protective functions, all this will give an extraordinary, memorable look to the entire event. Multi-colored umbrellas will bring solemnity and a touch of mischief. They can also be used as an unusual, unique decorative element in the design of a room or surrounding area.
In addition, you can inform your guests that they can keep the original umbrellas as a symbolic gift. Such news will undoubtedly pleasantly surprise and delight them.
Saving outfits
It would also be useful to think about how to protect your clothes, shoes, makeup and hairstyle from bad weather.
Makeup and hairstyle
To ensure your makeup doesn’t let you down, use waterproof cosmetics.
When choosing a hairstyle, you should avoid loose hair - maintaining volume and a neat appearance in the rain is almost impossible. Pay attention to braids, buns and updos.
Outfit
You can save your holiday outfits by treating them with water-repellent or dirt-repellent agents.
The hardest time in the rain and slush is for brides in fluffy long dresses and dresses with a train. To avoid getting your hem dirty, raise it when moving outside. And by the way, it is better to reduce walking as much as possible.
Well, for girls in cropped or short wedding dresses, it will be enough to pick up spare shoes (as an option - bright rubber boots) in case their feet get wet.
Photos of a wedding in the rain
Get ready to light up the raindrops
The best way to get raindrops in your photos is to backlight them. I like to do this with flashes, but it can also be done with light from flashlights or even light from the sun. By highlighting the rain, the raindrops will stand out more in the photo, like small bright areas in your photos.
Watch your shutter speed
If you're not using flash to freeze falling drops, make sure you choose a shutter speed that's fast enough to catch them. It will most likely be 1/500 of a second or faster.
Props for a wedding photo shoot in the fall: decor, decorations, accessories
You can include juicy apples, grapes, blood-red viburnum, sunflowers, pumpkins, and late-blooming autumn flowers in the frame. You can either randomly scatter them or put the bride’s shoe, glove, rings on them.
In addition, to decorate a photo shoot you can use:
- Wreath. The bride's head will be decorated with a lush wreath of asters, dahlias, leaves, and berries. It will add touching and romantic touch to the bride's image. Such ethnic motifs look very advantageous, and shots with them will dilute the family photo archive filmed in the metropolis.
- An arch decorated with floral material will not only be useful for successful and bright shots, but will also be needed for a symbolic wedding ceremony.
- Transport. Vehicles in the frame look unusual and funny: a retro car, a bicycle, a scooter, a moped and even roller skates. If you don’t have a Rolls-Royce, you can easily use an old Volga model for a photo shoot. Transport stylized to match the overall theme of the wedding would look very appropriate.
- Props. Bright satin and silk ribbons, vintage picture frames, helium balloons, kites, signs with funny inscriptions, large letters (capital letters of the newlyweds' names) made of papier-mâché, garlands, beads, lanterns, candles. You can make them yourself, or you can buy them at any specialty store.
Despite the approaching cold and the last rays of the sun, weddings in the fall are no less popular than in the summer or spring. After all, autumn emphasizes the beauty of fading nature, makes wedding photos touching, and the image of the bride especially romantic. And there is no need to be afraid of falling raindrops. Thanks to well-chosen props, bad weather will not be able to disrupt the event. And it can even become an organic component of the wedding concept.
Warn guests
Is there a high chance of rain? Warn your guests about this. Brides, as a rule, constantly monitor the weather forecast before the holiday, but guests do not, so they can choose inappropriate outfits and forget about umbrellas. You can post up-to-date weather information on your wedding website, or if the event is taking place during the monsoon season, write about it in your wedding invitations in advance.
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Author of the photo: Natalya Gladkikh | Wedding of Vadim and Katya
Stock up on plastic bags
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