If you're getting ready at one location, married at another and partying at a third, we need to account for the time it takes to travel between. Even if Google Maps says it'll only take 5 minutes to travel from point a to point b, make sure you're factoring in roughly 30 minutes. I would hate for you to think it'll take 5 minutes to get from the hotel to the church and then we hit traffic, resulting in you being 30 minutes late for your ceremony. 
If there are no travel hiccups, awesome! That means, you have more time at the new location to take a breather and soak in some stressless moments. Instead of increasing your stress from being late to the next event. 

If you have a first look, I advise we do family formals before the ceremony. This way we have less to capture after the ceremony and your family gets to enjoy cocktail hour. 

If you don't do first look, we can still do some family formals before the ceremony. Often times, couples want some individual portraits with certain family members (for example - bride & dad, bride & mom, bride & siblings, etc.). If those images interest you, let's capture them before the ceremony, it'll cut down on the number of images we need to capture after the ceremony and will give us more time for other images post ceremony. 

Either way, if you're doing family formals before the ceremony, that definitely affects your family's timeline and when they need to get ready and what time they need to arrive to the ceremony location. 

You've just spent the last year or so planning out the tiniest details, pieces that have meaning to you and help tell the story of your day and sometimes even the story of the two of you. I want to make sure that I have enough time to capture those details. 

If you have a ton of details, I'm going to need more than 30 minutes to capture your bridal details. If you have an entire tent full of 20 tables with different centerpieces, and a cocktail hour space with even more details, I need time to capture those details. 

So we need to build that time into your timeline somewhere. 

And of course, if you're not detail heavy, then 30 minutes for your bridal details will be more than enough and so I can show up a little later and stay later into the evening. 

If you're planning a sparkler or bubble exit or something else, do you want me there to capture it? 
Are you open to staging a fake exit with just family members and bridal party? 
Would you prefer I arrive earlier in the day to capture more of your day or do you want more dancing photos? 

As long as I have roughly 20 minutes of open dancing, you'll get a good look at your dancing reception.
My recommendation is that I arrive earlier in the day and we stage a smaller (non-drunk) formal exit with family and bridal party. 

But of course, this is all up to you! We'll discuss it more during your consultation call and then finalize those details 4 weeks before your wedding day at the latest.