Capturing Timeless Moments: Embrace the Golden Hour for Your Wedding Portraits

Your wedding day is a celebration of love, commitment, and the beginning of a beautiful journey. As a bride, you deserve to have your precious moments captured in the most enchanting and ethereal way. Among the many decisions, you’ll make for your big day, choosing the ideal time for your couple portraits, family portraits, and wedding party portraits plays a crucial role in creating stunning photographs. One magical time of day that photographers highly recommend is the “Golden Hour.” In this blog post, we’ll explore why the Golden Hour is ideal for capturing breathtaking portraits and why it aligns with the photography style showcased on our website.

The Golden Hour, also known as the “Magic Hour,” refers to the period of time shortly after sunrise or before sunset when the sun is low in the sky. During this time, the quality of light is soft, warm, and diffused, creating a dreamy, romantic ambiance. The natural golden hues, longer shadows, and a warm glow cast upon the landscape provide a truly enchanting backdrop for your portraits. Shooting mid-day or at other times can produce dark shadows under eyes and chins and be much harsher on the face.

To figure out golden hour:

You can use a website such as SunriseSunset to look up the time the sun rises and plan for portraits and sunrise and the hour following OR, look up the sunset and plan your portraits for an hour prior to sunset.