Hi, everyone. I'm Jamie Delaine Watson from JamieDelaineWatson.Com. Thank you so much for tuning in this week. Today we're going to be talking about rainy
wedding days, how to handle them, how to communicate to your clients, and how to actually shoot
those rainy wedding days to deliver the best imagines possible.
So let's get started. Tip number one is communicating with your
couples in advance. Our goal is to always answer client's questions
before they even have to ask them. So what I mean by this is Vancouver is a very
rainy climate.
We get a ton of rain in the winter, not so
much in the summer. But rain is something that brides are very
worried about and there's a very high chance there will be rain on your wedding day if
you get married in Vancouver. So if I see rain in the forecast, see rain
upcoming a week or two weeks in advance or if we're in a rainy season like October through
April, that's the rainy season here, maybe November. I'm going to reach out about two weeks before.
I'm going to say, "Hey, don't mean to stress
you out. Here's what the forecast is looking like. Here's how we're going to attack this together. Here's my rain plan.
I have umbrellas. I have this. I have this. This is what I've thought about." So right away that's going to put your clients
at ease and help them to trust you because you will have answered their question before
they even asked and give a firm plan with here's how we handle rain, and that'll really
improve your photos.
Tip number two is prepare your gear bag. So a few things need to be done. Number one, I use all Canon Professional L-Series
lenses, which means that they are weather sealed. Weather sealed is not waterproof.
You don't want to be taking these in a pool
or in the ocean, but what it means is that they can be rained on and there isn't going
to be any issues with the equipment breaking down. So that's an amazing to not need to be worried
about like covering my equipment in every single point on a rainy wedding day. It is all right. The next thing I'd recommend in your gear
bag is a rain sleeve.
If you don't know what I'm talking about,
it's a plastic covering. They're usually very cheap. Just a couple dollars. I think maybe up to $10 at your local camera
store.
It covers the entire camera body except for
the end of the lens. So it doesn't effect the picture. I've never actually had to use any of these,
but I did buy them last season when a huge rain storm was predicted. I had two weddings in October in the same
weekend.
In the end, the rain escaped us. We got lucky. But anyway, I have these now in my gear bag. So this way, if you did need to be in the
absolute pouring rain and you're worried about your gear or you didn't have weather sealed
gear, this would be what you'd want to buy.
So you can click the link in the description. That'll take you right to where you can buy
them. Next one might be obvious, but you're going
to need a rain jacket and a rain jacket with a hood. I find it really, really helpful to not have
to worry about holding an umbrella over myself and I just have a rain jacket.
I'm good to go. I can peel it off when I get to the reception. Doesn't matter how wet I get. Now, if you are worried about your equipment,
you don't have a rain jacket, you can also buy just a massive golf umbrella and have
your second shooter hold that over you and your camera while you're shooting because
that can be helpful as well.
The final thing you'll want in your gear bag
is a set of umbrellas. If you live in a rainy climate, this is going
to be so key. Not only is it a bonus to your clients to
know that, "Hey, I have all these umbrellas. You don't need to worry about a thing." I have, I think, eight black umbrellas, and
two clear umbrellas.
Eventually I'd like to get all clear. I just haven't got around to it. But it's nice to have that as a back up. I let the clients know they're always with
me.
They will always, always be in my trunk. Of course, if they want to buy some in their
wedding colors, go for it. But a lot of brides, that's something they
don't think about until maybe the month of the wedding, and they're like, "Oh my goodness,
thank you so much for saying that. Thank you for having these umbrellas." So if you want to look like a star, buy a
set of umbrellas and let the bride know you're bringing them.
Okay. So tip number one was communicate with your
clients. Tip number two was prepare your gear bag. Tip number three is evaluate the timeline
and locations.
What I mean by this is rain, especially pouring
rain, it's going to make you slower. You're going to be taking longer to get places
because you'll balancing umbrellas and the bride will be worried about her hair and the
bridesmaids will be getting the bottoms of their dresses wet. So you really need to build an extra time
into this timeline. Location wise, I mean two things.
So the first is, just a good example, a wedding
I did in December. Originally I wanted to shoot kind of in a
middle of a forest. Now, it was going to be raining. I'm not going to have the wedding party and
the bride and groom walk 10 minutes, the girls all in heels, into the middle of a forest
when it's raining.
It would be ideal in the summer, but it's
not going to work. So what I chose in a spot on the trail that
was a 30 second walk from the cars, just to eliminate all of that transit time when we're
dealing with the rain. So you kind of need to have a plan a and a
plan b. The other thing is when it comes to actual
locations.
In Vancouver, I usually have three plans,
as silly as that sounds. Plan a is a sunshine plan, the summer plan. Plan b is a sprinkling rain plan, which requires
maybe shorter walking time, umbrellas, rain jackets, that kind of thing. Now my plan c is the pouring rain plan, so
this is the plan that nobody wants to have, but if it is pouring rain, you're going to
want to look for local locations that are undercover.
So you're looking at parking garages. You're looking at city streets where there's
an overhang so the wedding party can be covered but you're out in the rain. Planning and giving the bride all this information
the month before is going to help her feel super secure and honestly, between the sprinkling
rain plan and the pouring rain plan, that's something we make a decision on the day of. I communicate all this with the bride as she
trust in me so it's not a problem to make that call kind of last minute on the day of.
So if you want to be prepare to shoot rainy
wedding days and anything the weather throws at you, download my free email template that
will help you communicate the rain plan with your brides and grooms and increase their
trust in you so the wedding day it won't be a stressful thing if it's raining. It'll just be, "Ope, we know what to do. We got a plan b. Here we go." So if you want to download that email template,
you can go to JamieDelaineWatson.Com/rainplan and you can grab that for free.
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