Question about metering when bride in white and white back ground in sun light?
Now as to what you could have done, which is difficult as we dont actually know what you did, but if you shot in Raw then great because there would be lots you could do in photoshop, if you shot in jpeg then you have problems in that there will probably be no detail in the dress and it will look as though she is built into the wall, funny yes but not what you want ideally, if you metered off the dress the skin tones will be gone if you metered off the skin then the details in the dress will be gone, its possible you may even have lost detail in both if conditions as you say were very bright, this is where exposure compensation can help a little.
So overall, next time shoot in raw, dial in some exposure compensation, and take a black reflector so you can ask someone to block out some of the light, or tape up the brides mouth so she cant say anything
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