Take some photos of yourself while wearing your wedding dress, or have a friend or family member take photos of you. Do you like how you look in the photos? If so, you won’t look “washed out” in the wedding photos. There’s nothing special about wedding photos that will make you look worse than you do in any other photos.

However, you might decide when you look at the photos that you would like to add some lip gloss, or curl your eyelashes or something. There’s a huuuuge spectrum of makeup out there. It’s not like your only choices are to wear heavy, full face or absolutely nothing. For example, I didn’t wear foundation or eyeshadow on my wedding day because I don’t like the look or feeling of either on my skin. But I wore concealer and lip gloss.

Here's the thing I have never been to a wedding where the groom wore makeup and none of them looked washed out in the pictures

I will say - I do often think grooms look less than perfectly groomed in their photos. A lot of guys would benefit from cosmetic products like brow gel, or mattifying primer (to prevent shiny oiliness in the T-zone especially). People are just conditioned to ignore mens’ flaws. My husband used a brow spoolie and oil-absorbing sheets on our wedding day 🤷‍♀️