Rainy Day Wedding Portrait Ideas
- Stand in a garden or park gazebo with your sweetheart, looking out at the rainy landscape, for a wedding portrait that will evoke the coziness of a solid relationship and the classic Bob Dylan sentiment about a lover being a "shelter from the storm."
- Rain can give you the chance to stage a lighthearted, natural-looking portrait.Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images
Pose in front of your wedding venue, standing in the rain under umbrellas -- or a single, large umbrella. Your facial expressions and the types of umbrellas you use will determine whether an umbrella portrait looks lighthearted, romantic or ultra-playful. For example, if one member of the couple is mid-laugh under a kids' green "frog" umbrella and the other member is grinning under a ladybug umbrella, the wedding portrait will come out whimsical. If, on the other hand, the wedding portrait is shot in sepia with the bride under a lacy parasol-style umbrella and the groom in a top hat and sporting a black umbrella, the portrait will look elegant and old-fashioned. - You can be looking out the window or at each other.Digital Vision./Digital Vision/Getty Images
Sit side-by-side on a windowsill or window bench seat with your sweetheart as rain pours down the glass. You could even be sipping tea or reading books together. This kind of portrait would be particularly appropriate if both members of the couple are bookworms. - Puddle reflections can make an original photographic effect.Creatas Images/Creatas/Getty Images
Throw the convention of the static, posed-looking wedding portrait out the window and have your photographer snap a lively shot of you and your beloved hopping over or playing in the puddles. This approach to a rainy day wedding portrait works especially well if the bride is wearing a tea-length wedding dress or if neither member of the couple is too concerned about keeping the wedding attire pristine. A puddle jumping wedding portrait would suit a casual farmhouse wedding or a garden wedding.
