Same-Sex Wedding Mexico – After having spent years capturing love during weddings, engagements, anniversaries, and even underwater photoshoots, we have fine-tuned our skills and techniques to properly focus on a certain number of poses and subjects, which we normally go through, every time we cover an event.
Don’t get me wrong. Shooting a wedding, if properly done, can never be done mechanically. At the end of the day – let me quote Cartier-Bresson – photos are always made “… with the eye, heart, and head.” Nevertheless, over time, experience makes wedding photographers much more confident in what they do and more responsive to almost any kind of situation they face.
However, since the number of same-sex weddings has been progressively increasing, not being anymore an exception as it was until only a few years ago, the photographer’s securities may falter or may need to be recalibrated.
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Same-sex wedding Mexico
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Same-sex wedding Mexico
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For this reason, when planning on how to shoot a same-sex wedding, a huge priority must be given to getting to know the couple. If it is not possible to meet them physically very early (e.g. in case of a destination wedding) a skype video call is almost mandatory to establish a connection. The photographer needs to know the couple and understand how the two brides (or grooms) interact with each other. On the other hand, the couple needs to build a trust-based relationship with the photographer. By doing so, everybody will be much more relaxed and easy-going on the wedding day. This can have a massive effect and positive influence on the quality of photography itself.
For example, poses which normally work for heterosexual couples, might not work in a same-sex wedding. In the first case, masculine and feminine roles are defined. In the second one, they are not, even if many photographers try to overlap those roles also to a same-gender couple.
Therefore, getting to know in advance as many details as possible is certainly beneficial. E.g. if they will be wearing a tux and a gown, or two gowns, or two tuxes…
Even the way the photographer asks them to pose should be more flexible than during a traditional wedding. And being generic is probably the best way to go. E.g. asking them to hug each other, without specifying how. And let them do it in the most spontaneous way.
Last but not least, most of the terms used during a wedding are normally gender-related (bridal party, bridesmaids, groomsmen). Generally talking, using gender-neutral terms is preferred. Although funny neologisms can ideally be used as well. For example, during Isabel and Victoria’s wedding, we addressed to “groomsmen” calling them bridesmen. And everybody enjoyed the word!
Finally, the most important thing is the spontaneity. Both for the couple and for the photographer.
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