Skip to content

Wedding Workflow

Organize 2,000 Wedding Photos Before Lightroom Even Opens

The Jade GT workspace with a loaded folder of wedding RAWs on the left and the Details Panel open on the right, ready for batch metadata work. The Jade GT workspace with a loaded folder of wedding RAWs on the left and the Details Panel open on the right, ready for batch metadata work.
A card's worth of RAWs loaded into Jade GT before Lightroom ever opens.

TL;DR

A wedding-Monday metadata pass is six separate treatments — copyright, title, keywords, GPS, rename, stamp — usually spread across six tools and four hours. Jade GT collapses them into a single browser pass before you import into Lightroom. Files never upload anywhere; the only typing is forty keystrokes of wedding-specific detail.

It is Monday. The cards are pulled. The coffee is hot. Somewhere on your desk, two memory cards and a backup drive are holding roughly 2,000 RAW files from Saturday's wedding — and none of them know their own name yet.

If you have been shooting weddings for more than a season, you already know the shape of the next four hours. Rename. Stamp copyright. Geotag the venue. Keyword the ceremony. Rate the keepers. Title the event. Six separate treatments, each one a full pass across the whole card, most of them living in different tools. By the time Lightroom finally opens, half your morning is gone and you have not culled a single frame.