The Best Time for Golden Hour Wedding Portraits
The light that makes or breaks your couple portraits lasts about twenty minutes. Here's how to make sure you're not missing it.
Golden hour gets talked about so often it's become a cliché, but the underlying advice is still correct: the twenty minutes before sunset give you the softest, most flattering light of the entire day, and most timelines don't leave room for it.
Work backward from sunset, not forward from the ceremony
Most wedding timelines are built forward from the ceremony start time, which means golden hour becomes whatever's left over. We ask couples to check sunset time for their date and location first, then build fifteen minutes either side of it into the schedule on purpose.
Steal your couple for ten minutes
You don't need a full portrait session. Ten minutes, just the two of you, away from the reception — that's enough for us to get everything we need, and it rarely feels like you missed anything back at the party.
