What language should I use to describe the vibe/tone of photos I want to a wedding photographer?

What ever you feel works for you! I feel that all my couples are always different to one another and I am versitile so it works great in every case. I get to know you, and shoot for what is important to YOU! I would use these words if talking about myself: I personally like country vibes, nature, open spaces, and historic buildings, animals and rustic class. Hope that helps!!

I think you will match your style to the photographer that appeals to you most with experience as theres no second chance for your day. 

Photographers are visual creatures, I know I am and even better if you have a photographic memory. 

I always say to customers, please share with me the photos that you have seen online so I can get an idea of what you are after. I also suggest sharing pinterest profiles to get a collection going! This helps greatly for posing and general tone for editing!

Casual, however you like really, send us examples from insta or pinterst always helps. We will work with you and make sure the feel of your photos reflects your store and what you want.

Photographers use many different words and phrases to describe the vibe and tone of their photos and most of the time it will sound like gobldy guk to maost people ahahhaha. What I recomend doing is to save any images that you find you like to either a mood board or to pinterest. Once you know the syle your after look through your chosen photographer's instagram page and make sure that you are connecting with with thier editing style and it matches the images you have already saved. 

Then I would sit down with them and show them the images that style you are after. You and your photographer need to be on the same page the whole time!

Each photographer has there own style, I would reccomend searching through their instagram feed to determine if the look and feel that has you interested is consistent.  If there is varying styles (which is most likey editing styles) show the photographer the images that appeal to you and discuss with them all the things you like about the images.  Photographers use lots of different terminolgy so discussing actual images will help you explain what attributes you like.

Candid and Formal are two clear styles. I see these as being the difference between, free-roaming photography vs very structured, with generally a common them and often static looks with regards lighting.

I often suggest that clients refer to something they have seen already, or we start a dialogue to establish a baseline for working together.

We hear some typical terms like relaxed, natural, posed, formal, bright, dark, happy feel etc. Really though it's like trying do describe a nice coffee, or whiskey, there's probably many different ways you could describe the photos but if you just use terms as you see them the photographers will generally get an understanding of what you mean.

Really though, a great tip is just to show the photographer what you're after/thinking/meaning. We are very visual naturally so showing us will go a long way in helping us understand. Pinterest is a great way of doing this in particular.

As far as tone goes, choose a wedding photographer than has the same editing style that you like, whether it be warm and moody, light and airy, very natural ect. However with posing style you can most often tell your photographer what you prefer whether it be posed, candid or a mix of both. I hope this helped! X 

Yes, there are definitely some keywords to use.

Referring to the editing style:

Light & airy = Bright, natural, colours are more true

Moody = Darker, colours are more muted

Referring to the posing style:

Posed = Traditional static poses, mostly eyes looking at the camera

Candid/documentary = More relaxed, usually uses prompts that involve movement, not as much eye contact with the camera

Some photographers use strictly one style of posing, but some (like myself) do a happy mix of both traditional and candid. So it's also good to ask about posing style.