Smile with your eyes
Connect and engage with the camera. It doesn’t matter if you
show your teeth or not. Think about the new memories you’re making and even
laugh just for the fun of it. It’s your wedding day!
Try the classic red-carpet pose
A good model trick: Angle your body to the camera so that
you’re not getting shot straight on (it creates a slimmer profile), put your
weight on your back foot and smile. Practice various versions for what works
best for you; then make it your trademark. Feel free to put a hand on your hip.
If you feel you have a “good side,” use it!
Go easy on orange-y
makeup.
Even if you look merely sun-kissed in real life, you might
look closer to carrot-hued in the photos. Also, glitter and other luminescent
lotions /powders can end up looking like sweat, not sparkle, in photos.
Relax your face.
If you start to feel your brow furrow, your eyes squint or
smile stiffen; close your eyes, take a deep breath and relax your face. Don’t
hesitate to ask the photographer to count out loud while your eyes are closed.
On three, open them and turn on that winning grin, knowing you’ll be dancing
barefoot soon enough.
Elongate your neck
Elongate your neck by lowering your shoulder toward the camera and lifting your chin up.
Elongate your neck by lowering your shoulder toward the camera and lifting your chin up.
Hold your bouquet at your hip
You don’t want to look like you’re hiding behind your bouquet or blocking your wedding gown. Instead, keep your forearm at a 45-degree angle to make your body look long and lean.
You don’t want to look like you’re hiding behind your bouquet or blocking your wedding gown. Instead, keep your forearm at a 45-degree angle to make your body look long and lean.
Don’t press your arms against your body
Create a small separation between your body and your arms. This
trick not only makes your arms look smaller, but defines your waistline, which
makes your torso appear slimmer.
Watch how much Alcohol
you drink.
You know that you’ll be in a lot of photos over the course
of the wedding day (we’re talking to you, wedding party), so go easy on the
libations. The last thing you want is to look as boozy as you feel.
Don’t underestimate
the beauty of laughing.
Fake smiles are not flattering, but the same cannot be said
for fake laughs. Next time you need to loosen up for a photo, let out a forced
“Ha! Ha!” And then do it again. And again. The ridiculousness of it
will make you and everybody else laugh for real. And that photo will
be a keeper.
