7 WEDDING PHOTOS YOU'LL REGRET NOT HAVING.
by Juan A. Perez Jr.
Getting married in the Rio Grande Valley in 2026 or 2027?
A free guide for couples who’d rather live their wedding day than perform in it. Takes 10 minutes to read. Written by a Wedding photographer who’s worked hundreds of weddings and shot 40+ of his own.
You get one wedding day. Know what to ask for before it starts.
- The shot almost every photographer skips, and why it’s the one your kids will need in 20 years
- The exact 10-item flat-lay list to hand your photographer
- Why your portraits get squeezed into two minutes, and the timeline block that protects them
- The moments nobody puts on a shot list, and how to make sure someone’s actually watching for them
Hindsight is 20/20, and there are no reshoots.
Most couples don’t find out what’s missing from their wedding photos until years later, when they go looking for a specific moment and it isn’t there
Usually it’s not because their photographer was bad. Some of these shots never make it onto a traditional shot list at all. The rest get rushed into two minutes because nobody protected them in the timeline.
What's in the guide
The Flat Lay
The 10 items worth photographing before you get ready
Your Bridal Portrait
and the 30 minutes it needs
The First Look
who it's actually for, and a video trick most couples miss
Portraits Together
The one your parents will call "the nice picture"
The Grand Exit
Including how to get it without booking a photographer until 1am
The Locations
The shot most photographers miss entirely
The Unexpected
The ones nobody sees coming and a little secret on how to get these photos.
who wrote this guide?
Hi, I’m Juan.
I’m a non-traditional wedding photographer in McAllen. I’ve worked hundreds of weddings with Kairos Coffee Catering and photographed 40+ of my own.
I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly.
For some couples a marriage is a dream that’s been built, broken, and rebuilt over a lifetime. (Life happens.) Not to mention when I photograph your wedding, I shoot with the thought process that your kids will be seeing your wedding photos in 20 years.
These photos aren’t for a photographer’s Instagram. They’re for your kids and their kids.
So I made this guide everything I wish couples knew before their day, so nothing gets missed that can’t be reshot.
All of it is written and shot by me. Not made by AI. So what your reading is years of experience compressed into a little 10-15 min read.