Here are our top 4 Kauai wedding photography tips, to ensure you get the most out of your Hawaii wedding photos:

1. Put your ring on slowly from underneath the hand, not from on top.

If you put it on from underneath, the photographer can get a much better photo angel, and if you do it slowly she can take more/better ring photos during the beach wedding ceremony.

2. Hold your bridal bouquet over your belly, not your chest.

Hold it down over your lower belly. If you have a flower bouquet, don’t hold it up high! I wish the photographer at my wedding had told me this! I look so silly in some of my own wedding photos because I was holding my bouquet up too high.  Hold it over your belly, not your chest. If you get confused, just think of a place on your body you would like to have covered up….and for many of us it’s not our chest, it’s our belly!

3. Make sure your photographer is great at checking details!

As a Kauai wedding coordinator myself, as well as a photographer here on Kauai, I find this easy.  It’s second nature to me to scan the couple for whom I am taking beach wedding photography before nearly every photo to see what they would not want in their photos. (This is an extremely important quality to find in a wedding photographer whether your getting married on Kauai or anywhere else!) Ask your photographer (and your bride’s maid or mom or anyone else too) to just do consistent visual scans of things you would want fixed. (As a woman I know very well that it does not matter how good a picture is, if there is something in it I do not like about myself, I won’t like that picture very much.)

4. Make sure to hand your wedding photographer a list of photos you would like to have.

If you have certain poses you really want, pick them out ahead of time and explain them to the photographer. If you have guests at your wedding, think if you have any “must have” combinations of family photos. Give a clear written list to the photographer AND to someone you trust in your wedding party.  Instruct the person in your wedding party to be in charge and not to leave for any reason until all the photos are done and have the next guests standing and waiting in their groups. This way the photographer does not spend their time looking for your family members (who they do not know so it is not as quick or easy for them), but rather spend their time actually taking photos.  The better organized the groups of people waiting are, the better your photos are, and the more wedding photos you will get!