The First Look

[WebLady]

I was checking out the "Savvy Scoop: OneWed's Bridal Blog" and found this post (http://www.onewed.com/blog/savvy-scoop/2009/02/18/expert-answers-enhance-your-photos-first-look)about seeing each other before the wedding.

So it made me wonder what all of you did/plan to do ... do share :grinhappy:

*poll coming*

[savepaws]

We have to see each other before the ceremony because that’s the only time we can do pictures. So we are going to have our photographer take “first look” photos like in that article. Then we are going to spend a few moments alone before we start taking pics with everyone.

[MrsGrady08]

We had a "first look" We did it mostly for pictures because I wanted to get as many pics of us as we could. But it aslo helped me with my nerves A LOT. At fist I kept saying no way you are not seeing me before the wedding. But the more I thought about it I liked the idea of it. And it also gave us some us time before everything got crazy!


This is my favorite first look pic of us:)

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v292/167/125/594538713/n594538713_968933_8092.jpg (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=968934&id=594538713)

[KMS]

After our rehearsal dinner we went our separate ways and didn't see each other until I was walking down the aisle. That was something that Chad insisted on and I was happy with as well.

[SerendipityCrafts]

We actually figured that it would be more stressful to figure out where he might sleep the night before the wedding, than it would just to skip the traditional stuff.

He saw me with my make up and hair done but I wouldn't put on my dress until he left. I saw him all dolled up before he left for the church.

[ikkin510]

WE did not see eachother before the ceremony. And my MOH wouldn't let me talk to him before hand either...LOL. So we called and left each other short little messages on our phones in the morning.

[*andrea*]

i'm not sure yet....i love the idea of not seeing each other before the wedding--but i also think that it would be less stressful to go ahead and get the pictures done beforehand...

[Docsgirl]

I'm pretty sure we're waiting until I walk down the aisle. DH wants it to be a surprise, although we're already married. Hehe. I think he just wants that one "shock" moment. I'm just waiting to see if he's going to smile, tear up, or both. lol

[Ninedays9]

We're going to see eachother for the pictures. We won't see each other probably from right after the rehearsal dinner until the pictures. The main reason we're doing that is for the surprise element. And I think we both want the night beforehand to hang out with our friends.

Our photographer had an example of a picture she took of the groom seeing the bride for the first time, and Eddie really liked that idea. So that's what we're going to do. Hopefully we can set that up to work 'cause the "getting ready" area at our ceremony place is one big wide open room... with one tiny, claustrophobia causing room for the bride (it's really cute, but I can't imagine actually being shut up in there).

[wannabeNurse2]

We are doing pictures before the ceremony, and we are spending the night before together. We will get ready separately though.

[MrsDM]

We aren't going to see each other until I walk down the aisle. We can't wait to see each other's reactions!!

[gwenshack]

We're very non-traditional about almost everything, but, for some reason, FH is being really weird about this one! Were it up to me, we'd get ready in the same room! But he has decided that he doesn't want to see me until I walk down the aisle, so I'm more than willing to give him that if it's important to him.

[mj512]

We didn't see each other until the ceremony. Matt didn't want to see me before then, while I was all for doing pictures before :)

[Danielle9608]

We're very non-traditional about almost everything, but, for some reason, FH is being really weird about this one!

This was really the only "traditional" thing we choose to do.

[mitch]

We went way past the Traditional stuff.

I woke up next to Him on the Wedding Day. :bbeek:

Yep We stayed in the same Hotel room. I saw DH all suited and booted before He went to the Venue. But i didn't get changed until He went across the hall to where the Kids were sleeping.

He first saw Me "Dolled Up" as i walked towards the Venue. Past another Bride having Photos done. Who incidently i knew, and so did the Lady who drove Me there. And We both walked into the Venue together to do the Legal stuff and go through the Marriage Certificate.

[Kay]

We were discussing photos this weekend & I actually mentioned this to FH ~ he said NO WAY ~ he said it's bad luck. He's not usually so traditional & I didn't really have an opinion. So, we plan to part ways after the rehearsal dinner & not see each other again until I walk down the aisle!

We are moving in together *hopefully* next month ~ which means 5/6 months of living together before we get married ~ but I'm spending the entire week before the wedding in a hotel with my sister from Washington and he's staying at the house with his groomsman from Colorado. THIS was my idea! :winktongue:

[caligal85]

FH was ticked when I told him we'd be spending the wedding night apart and I wouldn't see him until the ceremony. l very rarely get to surprise him and this is like the ultimate surprise, though, so he'll have to deal.

[WBandMe]

We'll be separating after the rehearsal and not seeing each other until the doors open for me to walk down the aisle. That means though that with how our chapel is set up, I have to walk around the outside of the building in order to keep him from seeing me--but I'm going to do it because it's pretty important to me and VERY important to him.

[NOTKT]

We did not see each other after the late night after party at a bar. When it turned midnight, everyone was DETERMINED to kick me out so we would not see each other. Kinda made me sad actually, but their intentions were good. :)

We did call each other before the ceremony but we had to! Just trying to organize everything. I called him and we both paused and said "uhhhh, are we supposed to do this?" lol. But we just brushed it off and started talking like normal. :)

[sandy03]

Nope, we are being very traditional. We'll do separate pictures before to help cut down on some of the stuff after the ceremony, but after the rehearsal dinner he won't get to see or talk to me until I come down the aisle.

I may send him a note while we are getting ready, but no talking or seeing one another.

[ChristineLS]

Well, we're planning on staying at my parent's while we are in my home city, for cost cutting reasons, and so are my bridal party and his groomsman. (My MOH is my sister, who lives there, my bridesmaid is a friend... his groomsman is his brother, his best friend is the BM... and my parents have a big house.) If we did the traditional thing... FH would have no place to go! So, probably not.

[nutfry]

I don't really care what we do as long as my fiance doesn't see me all dressed up until I walk down the aisle, but he's insisting that we not see each other at all the day of until the ceremony. Apparently the plan is that I'll go home and he'll go to his dad's house after the rehearsal dinner.

[Katiegirl]

The plans as of now are to do the traditional thing. We'll probably go our own ways after the rehearsal dinner. I'll probably stay in the hotel with my BMs. I'm sure I'll miss him terribly. :bbredface: The wedding doesn't start until 4pm!!

I think I'll be busy with the gals doing the flowers and hair and make-up thing, and he can be in charge of setting up chairs and stuff at the ceremony site! :)

[Deanna2112001]

You know I was not going to see Rick before the ceremony. But after reading this blog. Were doing it! Now I just got to get FH on board. He is totally against it.. Says its bad Luck! But hey.. its not the 1980's


http://www.onewed.com/blog/savvy-scoop/category/photos


Anyone else seeing each other before the ceremony?

[WebLady]

You know I was not going to see Rick before the ceremony. But after reading this blog. Were doing it! Now I just got to get FH on board. He is totally against it.. Says its bad Luck! But hey.. its not the 1980's


http://www.onewed.com/blog/savvy-scoop/category/photos


Anyone else seeing each other before the ceremony?
I moved your post to the thread already on this topic ;)

[Deanna2112001]

I moved your post to the thread already on this topic ;)


Thank you. I didn't know there was one already started.

[f77g4]

We're keeping it traditional mainly because of the time aspect, etc plus I really want to see the look on his face when the doors to the church open and there I am. Like Tara - I want to know if he's gonna tear up or smile or both..lol...It's a moment like that I was wishing we could afford to have 2 photographers since I have a feeling the photog will be focusing on me and my dad at that moment but I think I"m gonna talk to him and see if he can get one of Matt when he first sees me.

[RosieAngel]

We woke up next to each other on our wedding day, I ironed his shirt, and he prettied himself up next to us at the salon... but I didn't let me see me in my wedding dress until I was walking down the aisle.

[Nekochanpurr]

We kept it pretty traditional. I slept at a hotel while he slept at home.. He didn't see me till i was walking down the isle. Steve likes surprises. =3 He didn't see my dress AT ALL and didn't know what he was expecting till then.

[PGDesigns]

DH and I spent the night in the hotel room together the night before the wedding. The guys went to the venue to set up (and get dressed there) while most of the girls went to the salon for hair and makeup. The girls got ready in my hotel room.

The plan was to have wedding party pics before the ceremony but the guys were running late. We still saw each other beforehand though, and some of our guests and family members who were at the venue early to help out were freaking out and trying to keep us apart, but we WANTED to see each other. LOL

Him seeing me all dressed up before the ceremony did not keep him from tearing up during the ceremony. :)

[Moon.Dust.]

We will see each other before the wedding since the wedding party pics will be done before the ceremony.

However, we will not spend the night prior together. which will be weird 'cause we've been together every single night since we moved in together in 2005.

[EarlyBird]

fh is so traditional about this(and pretty much everything else except living together before the wedding). he will not let us see each other past 11:59 pm the evening before !

to me, its a little more stressful cuz he has a tendency not to get up to the sound of alarms. my fear is him not being there on time hhahah its just a silly fear though :)

[Katiegirl]

So I mentioned the whole picture-before-the-ceremony thing to FH, and he actually sounded interested in it! I'm not so sure....one one hand, it would be nice to get the pictures over with, but on the other, I really wanted to surprise him. Geesh...I don't know!!! :bbredface:

[Chele&Chris]

We weren't going to see each other at all the day of until I walk down the isle but we're having the reception at the firehall and we can't set it up until the morning of at 6am because they have BINGO on Friday nights from 10pm till Midnight. So we will see each other that morning to set up but he still won't see me all sexified until the church doors open!

[Katie-ryn]

We're doing pics before the ceremony, since our wedding and reception are at the same place, right after one another. So obviously we will see each other before I walk down the aisle but I'm sure even though he will see me in my get up before the ceremony that he'll still be emotional when I come down the aisle.

I do want to do "first look" pictures to capture that moment, so that means at least driving separately to the park to get pictures done.

[jessicermoon]

Nope. We're keeping it traditional. He is going to his parents house the night before and I am going to my parents house. I really wanted to see him before hand to do some pictures, just him and I, but he said NOOOO. haha

I wanted to have that special moment beforehand instead of in front of all of our guests, but he wants to strictly stick with tradition on that one. So... we will be. :)

[vicky_vicky]

We are not going to see each other not only before the wedding but i believe it will be like three days before. He will move to his parents home for these days. There are traditional celebrations for each family seperately and things are different for bride's family and groom's family.
Traditional couple here!