What is the best season for your wedding photos: spring wedding photos?

In this series of blog posts, I will be looking at each season and how it will look in your wedding photos. In the end, we will have a bit of a round up, just in case you are unsure what season is the best season for the wedding photos of your dreams.

It has just been Ostara, the official beginning of spring.
The air is filled with the scent of blossoms, the sun rays are finally strong enough to feel warm on our skin, and the birds are singing. All my senses are shouting “It’s finally spring!”

So let’s start the round up on what season is the best season for your wedding photos with spring.

What does your perfect spring wedding photo look like?

Imagine your UK spring wedding!

Imagine yourself in a white dress, in a field of daffodils so bright they shine in front of a blue skies.

Well, is that really what your spring wedding photos will look like?
They might! They might not.

Reality check: worst and best spring wedding photo scenario

Best case, your photos are just that: you in a field or spring flowers on a sunny day in front of a blue sky with the odd tufty white cloud.

Worst case: you standing ankle deep in mud, not a flower in sight and your dress sports a rim of “3 inches of mud” only Elizabeth Bennet (from Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen) could get away with.

Most probably, you will find yourself somewhere in between.

Why the difference and what you can do to get the best possible spring wedding photos

Whether the daffodils or tulips or any other flowers are in bloom on your wedding day entirely depends on what the weather is doing that year.

There can be a difference of several weeks from one year to the next about when the first spring flowers are coming out.

The venue staff will be able to give you an idea of the earliest and the latest date they have seen your favourite flowers, but they can never guarantee what will happen in any given year.

Early spring might surprise you with frost, which means everything will look a little bit dead in photos. Just like in winter when there is no snow.

Spring usually also brings a lot of rain. So there might be mud.

On the other hand, spring might surprise you with the best canvas of flowers in years on your wedding day. 

So what can you do?

My advice for getting the perfect wedding photo in spring

You cannot control when the bulb flowers come into bloom, or whether the trees are full of glorious blossoms, fresh green springs, or still totally bare and dead looking.
You can only make sure your date falls within the window of when they might look their best. Ask the venue staff about when is the most likely time there are flowers in their experience.

And you cannot control the rainfall either, and hence the mud.

My top tip for a spring wedding is: choose your venue wisely.

If you have your heart set on a spring wedding, chose a venue that has all the outdoor space you want, but not all of it laid to grass.

Days long rain before your wedding, will make the grass totally inaccessible. That is why you need some good looking hardstanding areas: this can be a gravel path or a beautiful patio area with a beautiful backdrop.

Be warned: astro turf is not an alternative!
Not only is it an environmental disaster releasing microplastic particles into the environment, it also looks crap in photos.

So what could make a beautiful backdrops for spring wedding photos with the grass is to wet to access?

First of all, don’t rely on trees and bushes. Depending on when nature starts to wake up to spring that year, they might be lush and green or they might still just be bare twigs.

A reliable photo backdrop for a spring wedding is either a beautiful building or a brick wall, or a wide open landscape.
So make sure your venue has one of these in case your perfect photo location won’t be available due to nature not working to your schedule.

So what is the best season for wedding photos

Well, that is a big question and we have only just started looking at the seasons.
Let’s look at each season first.

And while this blog post coincided with Ostara, please don’t worry, you don’t have to wait until the relevant equinoxes for information on what each season means for your wedding photos.

I will be working my way through the wheel of the year over the next few blogs. In my very next blog, we are looking at what summer means for wedding photos. You can find the summer wedding blog here.

Follow me on social media (links in footer) where I will announce when the next blog is going live.

If you are already set on a spring wedding and would like to find out how I can help you capture it, drop me a message via my contact form.
I look forward to hearing about your wedding.

Bright blessings,

Eco-Wedding Photography from the Handfasting And Pagan Wedding Photographer UK and EU