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I had this problem for the first few years in this business. This was the film days when everyone had a 35mm. Wasn't quite as prolific but still the same principle.

I began a program of doing all the formals before the wedding, including those of the bride and groom together. Doing it this way, allowed me to get those important images of the bride and groom alone and together, and also allowed me to control who was in the shooting venue at the time.

Of course, there is a technique to being able to get the bride to commit to doing all the photos before the wedding and I was very successful at using it. Once it got going, brides would come to me for the initial consultation and tell me they wanted everything done before the wedding before I ever even mentioned it.

I am not going to go into as to how I accomplished this here because it would take too long to type it out. Suffice it to say, it worked well for me and since changing my way of doing business, I have never had a bride refuse to do them before the wedding.

Just something to think about.