Posing couple with parents

This comes under the heading: What I should have known a year ago and was too

stupid to ask.

 

What is the accepted way of posing parents with the couple? I'm talking about

formals at the altar.

 

Do you put the parents of the bride next to her leaving the groom on the end?

 

Do you put the parents of the groom leaving the bride on the end?

 

To me it almost looks like you're excluding the bride or groom in these shots.

 

My last wedding I had the FOG, groom, bride, MOG. Does that make more sense?

 

Thanks

I always put the bride and the mom in the middle, with the guys on each side of them. That way no one looks excluded and look almost equa, with the eception of the bride in a wedding dress. Hope I was of some help.

Actually it does help. It makes sense to me, but I didn't know if there was some type of proper etiquette.

I'm not sure if there is a proper etiquette, it just looks good to me. Here is a picture of what I am talking about so you can see for yourself.<div></div>

I leave the couple together and put the MOB next to the groom and FOB next to the bride, and vice versa with the MOG and FOG. Point being, the sequence is boy/girl/boy/girl. There are two advantages to this set up, although I think the above is also very nice. First you don't have to move the couple at all--just put people around them (time in rearranging train, etc.). Second, if the parents are divorced, you have a pre-made separation.

<p><i>Second, if the parents are divorced, you have a pre-made separation.</i>

 

<p>Or even if they are still married, the separation might be a good thing on a day like that... :-)

 

<p>allan

Thanks Nadine ... makes perfect sense.

I never separate the couple, that's why they got married :) and position like Nadine said and vary it every now and then to make it less boring.

You might have misunderstood. I never meant that you would separate the couple. It was a matter of leaving the bride or the groom at one end of the formal. I agree ... bride and groom are never separated.

I put the bride and groom next to eachother, and the parents next to eachother. If the parents are parents of the bride, they go on the bride's side. If they are parnets of the groom, they go on the groom's side. If they are seperated or divorced, they go one on each side of the bride and groom.

Our standard agrees with Nardine, and exactly the two reasons she gave.

 

Such is how I was taught, I have questioned it all ways possible, no other starting pose ever made more sense to me: fewer movements of the B&G; time and time efficiency = profit and happy customers.

 

WW

B&G in the center together, they are the primary focus and putting them in the center gives them prominence in the composition; parents flank them (usually mom next to groom as the men are all wearing black and I don't want black on black). Group positions are usually determined by a mix of blood line and how it looks as a composition.

I like to keep couples as couples.

At the start of the day I joke to the Dads and the groom that if they are not sure where to be, be next to their spouse.

It makes it simple and does give the sense of who goes with who.

In cases where there are divorces but not remarriage then the Mom next to the bride. Although in a lot of these I don't do the divorced parents in the same shot. No one really wants it and it can cause a lot of irritation especially if there are significant others in the room.

When all else fails let people self select who wants to be where, sometimes the parents like to "claim" the new memeber of the family and be split around them.

Brooke