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If you have a night wedding, do you miss out on the nice colorful pictures?

I have always wondered, if you have your wedding in the evening, are you not able to take pictures in the day? For example, you book a venue with a beautiful garden, but your wedding is at night, and you don't want the groom to see you before the ceremony. How did you do it, did you take "day" pictures if you had a night wedding? and how did you work it out? If you had a night wedding, and didn't take pictures during the day, did they look nice or were they all dark? I think I will be having an evening wedding (venue availability) but I wanted to take the pictures during the day with flowers, etc, and I also didn't want my HTB to see me before the ceremony. I am feeling this is one of those cases where I can't have my cake and eat it too lol. Thanks!

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1. take engagement pictures and ask the photograper to include some with a long zoon to include the surroundings. Good luck
2. I feel the same way and have the same dilemma! My fiance won't be seeing me before the ceremony, but by the time it is over it will be 7pm (in April) so I doubt there'll be much daylight left. I'm hoping the photographer is skilled enough to give our pictures more light than they really have, to take great indoor pictures, and that maybe there'll be some daylight left (after daylight savings time and all that jazz) for us to take a few pics outside. Good luck and congrats!
3. Well, the not wanting the groom to see you before the ceremony is a big problem. That wasn't an issue for me, so we took all the posed family photos before the ceremony. There was still a good hour of light left after the ceremony, so my husband and I took the photos of just the two of us after the ceremony while guests were at the cocktail hour. Either get the venue as early as possible on the hopes that there's still some daylight after the ceremony, or see if you can go back some other day for photos.
4. My wedding will be at 5pm 03.14.09. However since our reception place is booked 5-11, we will be having most of our pictures taken before the ceremony. However, I am hoping the after pictures will still be bright enough to take about 5:45pm. If not I am guessing I may have to do them before which I would much rather not. Talk to your photographer and see what they suggest.