1 .You legit ARE photogenic. Your wedding day is completely different from a normal day. You are automatically way more radiant, happy, and bursting with other emotions. You have the people around you that make you the happiest. This is already a wonderful start. You will naturally be smiling and laughing and having an amazing time, and it’s your photographers’ job to capture you at your best. Which leads me into my next point!

2. Hire photographers who are more lifestyle/documentary/candid! This means the photos you get will be genuine, real, and unique to your day. This means your photos won’t be all posed, stuffy, and you won’t have that fake smile you’re so worried about. Your photos will be authentic, beautiful, and capture the two of you as a couple like you actually are! In the real live world! Also, embrace your silliness and weirdness, make faces, do your thang, it’s part of you!

3. And when it’s time for posed photos, hire a photographer that knows HOW to pose you naturally. A good photographer will know how to set you up in positions together that incite emotion. They give you prompts to react to, so posing might exist sometimes, but the smiles, laughter, and silliness is all genuine and all you.