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

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

My last blog looked at spring wedding photos. Let’s just follow the wheel of the year, and talk about summer in this one.
And saying wheel of the year, I have already talked about specific dates that might have a spiritual meaning in my blog How to choose a date for your handfasting that is perfect for you. It also covers the moon phases.

For now, let’s talk about your summer wedding photos!

What does your perfect summer wedding photo look like?

Imagine your UK summer wedding!

Do you imagine yourselves in the middle of a rose garden, between beautiful and fragrant blooms forming a sea of colour and bathed in glorious sunshine?

That might be your wedding photos.

But then, it might not!

Reality check: worst and best summer wedding photo scenario

Best case: you are lucky enough that the roses at your venue are in bloom and the sun does shine on your wedding day.

Early summer can have lots of flowers and the roses at your venue might even be in bloom. If the sun is also shining, bingo! You got your dream wedding photos.

Worst case: this summer turns into another drought and your venues lawns are yellow and the leaves on the trees are curling up because of the lack of water.

Or you are lucky enough that it has rained not too long ago and the plants look lovely. But now you are getting eaten by mosquitos or the ground is really soft making photos on lawns tricky.

Most probably, you will find yourself somewhere in between.

And the reality is, while there are flowers and shrubs that are in bloom during summer, it really is mostly a green season.
If you want a sea of blossoms, spring and early summer give you the best chance to have that.
Or you could get married at a venue that has beautiful greenhouses which lend themselves as photo backdrops.

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

As always, it is all down to the weather.

And with the changing climate, weather events have become more extreme, and the extreme events in turn have become more frequent.

You can ask the venue what it looked like on the date of your wedding over the past few years. This is the best indication you can get, but it is no guarantee.

The climate is continuing to change and you might be unlucky and get married during the first year to have a drought or monsoon-like rain on your wedding date.

But there are of course other things you can do to make sure will get dream wedding photos.

So what are those things?

My advice for getting the perfect wedding photo in summer

If you want flowers, find out what is planted around your venue. Not all plants flower in summer.
However, please remember that there is no guarantee that “your” flower will be in bloom right at the time of your wedding.
So make sure to have alternative photo locations.

Your best bet to get stunning wedding photos in nature is to find a venue with a bit of variety in their outside space.

If it is all grass or the same type of hedge, it might all be yellow.
If there is a mixture of farmed fields, grass and various trees and various types of hedges nearby, something will be there that makes a nice backdrop to your photos.

While a photo with a wide landscape opening up in the background can be gorgeous, it is not always your best option in summer. Once fields have been harvested, they can look quite messy in photos.
The venue is unlikely to be able to advise when the fields are likely to be harvested, since it fully depends on what crop is planted that year and the weather. So always have an alternative, just in case.

If you are getting married later in summer, being near water can help keep the plants look green for a little longer. Should you get married somewhere where midges and mosquitos thrive, they will drink all your blood and you should avoid being near standing water.

A backdrop that works in all seasons is a beautiful building, nice garden walls… As I said earlier, variety is the best insurance policy against wedding photo disappointment.

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 before we pass judgement.

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

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

If you are already set on a summer 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