Alicia Corey Photography's blog: The Healing Lens

As a photographer I hear "you'll have to tell me exactly what do to, I am not good at this" a lot. My best advice for a bride-to-be who's worries about not being photogenic, is to ignore the camera. I said  ignore the CAMERA, not the photographer. People get uncomfortable with the idea of a photograph capturing all the things they do not like about themselves, so they suck in, or get really stiff because they think they will look better. The truth is doing those things only make you look stiff and uncomfortable, just like how you felt. Photographs are snippets of time where you can see emotion, so if you focus on your spouse, and how you feel towards them, or how excited you are to get to spend the rest of your life loving this person and them you, the photographs will show that.  Try to use the time with your photographer to focus on each other, slowing down, and being present. The wedding day is such a whirlwind already, instead of having your portrait time add to the stress, use it to decompress. The photographers job is to make it look good, your job is to be present in the moment you want captured.