When considering your proposal ideas, you should always consider if you are setting up the proposal in the morning, afternoon, or evening. In a nutshell, what the sunlight is doing will hugely impact what your proposal setting will look like. So, when is the best time of day for a proposal you might ask?
The big consideration here is light. Will it be daylight, will it be sunset or will it be completely dark around you?
Addionally, you wouldn’t want to set up a fairy light setting or big bright light up Marry Me letters in the early afternoon, as you won’t be able to see the lights!
So what type of settings work best at what time of day?
Day
When setting up during the day, don’t bother with fairy lights and candles, your focus should be on flowers and/or draping!
Flowers will photograph beautifully during the day and draping will soften the light around you, if you don’t have any tree cover.
You can keep your setting simple and set up a floral themed picnic or go all out a create an extravagant display to propose in-front of.
The last hour before sunset (a.k.a. golden hour) is also a perfect time to capture beautiful couple photos.
During the day can be a perfect time for a proposal!
Twilight/Sunset
There is something really romantic about watching the day coming to an end with your partner, as the sky fills with beautiful colours and the sun sets behind the horizon.
This is the best time of day for a proposal!
You have the best of both worlds if you time everything correctly.
There is a very small window here to capture the perfect photo though, so make sure you work out when will work best with your setting and also speak to your photographer.
A proposal planner should be able to tell you the best time to propose at twilight. It is a matter of half an hour whether it can be either be too light or too dark.
Evening
This time of day is perfect for a proposal if you propose indoors with light or outdoors with a big light-up feature.
The big light up love hearts or light up marry me letters create enough light that you can still see you down on one knee in a photo.
Fairy lights and candles work really nicely when there is no other light around. But, for the purpose of great photos, always add an extra light source in at the time of the day.
Chandeliers anyone?
xxx
Tania + Gloria
Tania and Gloria own one of Australia’s leading proposal planning services, My Proposal Co. With over 1,500 perfect marriage proposals and romantic dates under their belt, you know you’re in good hands. When it comes to proposal planners, they create the perfect fusion between genuinely romantic and thoughtfully designed events. My Proposal Co. have appeared across national and international media outlets as expert proposal planners in all things romantic.
