Photographers are an important part of your wedding. They will be capturing “your story” to create memories of your once in a lifetime occasion for you and your families to enjoy forever.
When hiring a professional photographer or videographer remember that you are not just paying for a block of time on your wedding day but you are paying for the entire experience. They will be spending a great deal of time with you and your families. To do it right takes time,money,personality, a heart for what they do, education, and skill.
Professional photographers will often put in time for your engagement session, 10-12 hours on your wedding day, and then 20-40 hours on your albums and design. Remember, you get what you pay for!
Thinking about using a friend or family member to take your pictures to try and save money?
Here is testimony on my own wedding photography experience 25 years ago before I trained in planning weddings and knew better. Yes it was a while ago but the experience was one that lasts a lifetime!
My parents had a friend of the family that was a great nature photographer and insisted that we use him for our wedding. (We did not have a wedding planner to help us) Nice man, but very inexperienced at setting up formal shots, dealing with people, being able to capture the events as they were happening, or knowing how important they would be after the event was over. He took very few pictures at the ceremony and formal shots afterwards because he didn’t know how to make that happen in the time we had and he wanted to get to the reception. So we took a few family shots and we were on our way to the reception. The pictures were our gift from him so we didn’t want to cause any issues. We arrive at our reception and when he wasn’t visiting with the guests, he took a few photos of us dancing and opening some of our gifts. After the wedding, he insisted on sending the film to a developer in Florida instead of someone locally. (remember, this was when they used film). We never saw our pictures. The developer lost all of our rolls of film. We had nothing but a couple of slides that we eventually received. (one had a gift in front of our faces and another had no faces at all!)
Don’t let this happen to you! We had nothing for an album, nothing for a wall or picture frame, nothing to share with family or friends and nothing to pass down to our children.
So when you are looking for a photographer for your wedding day, hire a professional wedding photographer.
If you need more help with the planning process, contact the wedding planning professionals at The Organized Partner. We work with you to bring you the best professional vendors in all areas of planning that will satisfy you and your budget. 269.760.9991
by Jody
no comments
link to this post email a friend