Seeing FH before the Ceremony?

Our ceremony is at 11 and CH at 12 so I think we might do pics before but I kinda want him to see me in my dress for the first time waling down the aisle and all that awesome food at CH I wanna get in on that i'm sure he does too as well as the bridal party especially the MOH and BM they were salivating when we were being shown the pics of the food

I just don't see how we are going to get the pics done if we don't do it before the ceremony

if you guys have a break in between church and recep..then wait

but iu are getting married at the hall with everything following right after..DEF see eachother before..the day flys by and you will not get to enjoy the night because you will be busy taking pics

DH didnt want to do it but when i talked him into it he was thrilled

he said even though we saw eachor before the ceremony it didnt take away from the impact of seeing me walk down the aisle

and you are spending a lot of money on your day..you want to be able to enjoy it all

just giving some newlywed advice

i dont know what to do...we are not going to see each other before the ceremony but at the same time i would love to take pics before that!!!!
ceremony is at 12:00 pm..
any suggestions?

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Posted by mpasquar81

We don't want to. I don't believe in bad luck, but I really want the 1st time we see each other to be when I'm walking down the aisle

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THANK YOU! This is totally how we feel. I want to see him at the end of the aisle waiting for me and I want to have NOT seen him since the end of the Rehearsal dinner the night before. It is so important to us. Some photographers looked at us like we were nuts but it really is important to us!

if we were getting married at a church and had time in between i probably would do things traditional and take photos after church but since we are getting married at the RH we dont have that option....when we booked our hall we extended our CH to 1 1/2 hours hoping that would give us enough time to take pictures after the ceremony and get to see the CH and greet some of our guests - that was important to me because my FSIL wanted to at least SEE the CH and b/c of pics she didnt even have time for that - i couldnt imagine spending all that money and not even seeing how it turned out....when we went to meet with our photographer she told us that even with the CH extended we would be really rushing to take pictures - she told us if we saw eachother before the ceremony we would have more time and we would get better pictures and after the ceremony we would be free to do whatever we wanted and she wouldnt have to bother us for shots...she left the decision up to us....at first i didnt want to see FH before the ceremony, i thought it would take something away from walking down the aisle - but after really thinking about it logically it made more sense....i think we are both glad that we will get to see eachother first and i think we'll both be less nervous and it will let us enjoy the day more - and we'll actually be spending more time together on our wedding day - we also figured that since we are spending so much money on the wedding we might as well enjoy it all and going to the CH was something we both wanted to do and now we will have that opportunity....i think the moment when i walk down the aisle will still be special - i look at it this way - the first time FH sees me that day is the 'reveal' and there will be video and photos of it so the moment will be captured, ive seen pictures and video of people doing this and it really is beautiful - then we get to have another moment when he sees me walk down the aisle - so we actually get to have TWO special moments....we actually decided to keep our CH extended since our wedding is on a friday - we figure that way guests coming from work might still be able to get to the CH - which will be from 6:30 to 8:00pm - and at least we will have time to sneak in and say some hellos...

seeing eachother first is something that both you and your FH have to feel comfortable doing - at first i didnt want to do it this way but there were more pros than cons for our situation and now im excited that we decided to see eachother first some FHs and brides want that moment to be during the walk down the aisle - and some brides dont want to attend their CH....so its all a matter of preference...we thought our parents might think it was weird that we would see eachother before the ceremony and we were prepared for them to bully us into changing our minds - but it turns out that both sets of parents are glad we are doing it this way - they know we are paying for this wedding and they want us to enjoy it - so that was a relief!

omg i realized i wrote like the longest post ever - *** sorry