Description
You can spend a fortune on florals and still have a flat room, because a room only ever looks as good as its light. Lighting is also the most cost-effective change you can make — a few uplighters and a pinspot on each table will do more for a plain function room than another tray of flowers.
The Wedding Lighting Design Guide teaches you to plan light in layers, specify it properly, and hand a venue and a photographer a plan they can work with.
What is inside
- The four layers of a lighting plan — ambient, feature, atmosphere and task
- Colour temperature explained in plain terms, with a quick-reference table from candlelight to daylight
- Six rules for uplighting that looks intentional rather than accidental
- Festoon, fairy lights and hanging installations — heights, rigging and venue fixings
- Candles and the safety rules that come with them, plus a candle safety checklist
- How to work with a venue’s real power supply, cable routes and generators
- A printable site visit power and lighting notes sheet
- A lighting plan by area, from car park to dance floor
- Lighting for photography and video, and what to ask your photographer
- A timed lighting cue sheet and a sign-off checklist for before doors open
Who it is for
Wedding stylists and planners who brief lighting suppliers, venue coordinators who want better rooms, and anyone who has watched a beautiful set-up disappear the moment the sun went down.
After you use it, you arrive at a site visit knowing exactly what to photograph and ask. You specify colour temperature instead of saying “warm”, you catch the candle policy before it becomes a problem, and the room you built at 3pm still looks like your design at 10pm — in person and in every photograph.
What’s inside
- The four layers of a lighting plan
- Colour temperature quick reference
- Uplighting rules that look intentional
- Candle safety checklist
- Venue power and site visit notes sheet
- Lighting plan by area
- Lighting for photography and video
- Timed cue sheet and sign-off checklist
