PHOTO ideas for november weddings when sun sets early

I wouldn't go back the next day, because then you would have to get all made up again. I'm also getting married in November and our ceremony starts at 6. We are doing pictures and first look while its still light out. To me the first time he sees you is no better whether its before the ceremony, or walking down the aisle. So to get good pics, we opted to do the first look.

My only thought is to try and have a wedding earlier in the day around 4 or 5 (depending how far north you are, I'm not sure if 5 is too late). I understand not wanting to do the first look, I'm with you on that one (seeing him at the end of the aisle has been my dream forever). I've heard of some people that go back and do not necessarily a "trash the dress" but a more fun session with the same attire. You won't have your hair and makeup perfect though and if it were me I'd look at the pictures and be like "yeah that's not my actual wedding, just the day after."

Is there a reason you're rushing the wedding? If the pictures are that important to you then maybe you should wait until a good time of year.

I'm also getting married in November with an early evening ceremony. We were concerned about lighting for photos so we opted for the first look. Problem solved!

The key is lighting. We are also having a Nov wedding and our ceremony starts 630pm so ummm no daytime at all as the sun sets at 449pm that day. No first look either. Looks like we will get potraits alone in first and then everything else will depend on the lighting. We have a fantastic venue with chaderliers and everything so we are not worried about getting amazing shots there. Our ceremony venue allows flash photography so that's another thing. Daylight is not enough reason to forfeit the first time he sees me walking down the aisle. Our pictures will be gorgeous even if they are inside

This was/is a concern of mine because we are having a fall wedding, so we ended up moving the ceremony to 3 pm. After the ceremony, we will take our pics and probably run into sunset and get some nice pics in the sunset.

You can check online what time the sun is to set in your location on your date. On my date in our city, sunset is 4:38 and twilight is 5:08 pm.

http://www.sunrisesunset.com

If you're doing a fall wedding and pics outside are the concern, you are going to have to be flexible with your timeline.

I'm with Jennifer. Our wedding is on the beach in November, we moved ours to 3pm as well, because the ceremony should be over around 3:30-3:45ish, and by 4:30-5pm, the sun is going down.

I think your options if you have your heart set on outdoor photos are:

a) first look

b) having an afternoon ceremony

We chose option a for our early December wedding in the Mid-Atlantic

Time changes on November 3.

The church - which has become the biggest problem ( and no it is not an option to not have) does not move ceremony times.....neither does the hall they have set times you can come after the last party has gone so there wont be daylight pics at the hall......the ceremony should let out with some time for pics in front of the church and I guess that will have to do ....agree with hot chocolate and happy in hawaii that , for us, first look is not the way to go but had to laugh when future mrs b. put up time change - thanks but sadly I not only know that but have a calendar grid of every sunset, civil twilight end and nautical twi times for the enitre month of november....if worse comes to worse and i hate it I will have to do hair makep over and just spend the money to do a re- shoot i guess - biggest issue is to wait or not but everyone one is getting older and wouldnt forgive myself if someone wasnt around or something couldnt be done in the end for a photo.....

Who needs the sun?

I'm a november bride, and the sun sets at 530 on my wedding day, so we pushed our ceremony half an hour earlier

Again we cannot push anything with our church or hall...........@we'll always have paris- those are absolutely beautiful, I realize you had the nice whit pristine snow but was your photographer able to use a setting and get that photo at dark or was the sun actually just setting ( which we will miss also here in NY by the time we get to the hall)

Sunset is at 5:45pm and we moved our ceremony to 5pm.

I have the same dilemma with a November 1st wedding in Chicago. We either have a 1pm or 3pm ceremony time, and I'll probably go with the 1pm. It's a bit early but at least we'll have time for some daylight for pictures during the day. there will be a long time between the ceremony and the reception but being in the city, I'm counting on people being able to find something to do.