Marrying people put a big deal of an effort into countless details of a wedding day celebration. One thing everybody forgets after being as far as half way through a wedding reception is how nicely decorated the hall was.
It’s your mandate to keep that beauty captured for eternity.
During cocktail hour or prior to it enter the big room and get few shots. You don’t need much, but make sure you have a wide shot or a pan through the room, shot of a head table, a single dinner table with centerpiece. Look around and wherever you see the accomplishment of a human effort, shoot it.
If you are lucky, get a shot of a waiter lighting candles. If it is too dark for your camera, ask the caterer to bring the dimmers up.
different modes of hall decoration
Thanks for the tip. We actually ask photographers to shoot the hall if they get a chance. I will send them to this site as a reference. Thanks again,
Bill Nixon
Thank you Bill. I came to understand the significance of that shot after watching the final wedding video. The realization of a so fragile and a short-lived beauty of the banquet hall stroke me and caused to spend extra time filming it every time I do a wedding video.
You have great photos on your site, by the way.