Sorry that is such a rude question but it seems to range heaps!
Also what did you get in your package for the price that you paid?
Did you get a wedding album done straight away? I am thinkng about leaving out the cost of a wedding album and having that done for our first wedding anniversary as a 'paper' gift to each other.
It's still all quite expensive though.
Advice I ahve been given though by so many is to skimp on the photogrpahy as that is what you take away after the occasion is all said and done.
Excluding the reception our wedding photography was our most expensive item. We went over and above what our intitial package cost us as we loved her photos so much that we couldnt resist buying extra pages for the album, in the end we doubkled the size of the package album.
We were married in 2001 and the cost back then was approx $2100 for a 20 page album and her attendance at the wedding, she left the reception by 7.30 - we didnt want her there as then we would have to pose for photos with relatives who would never buy them and not enjoy our wedding as much, we both come from big european families and this was a real consideration of ours. No way was I going to pose with 200 plus people!
Soooo anyway in the end we spent over $5000 on the album and a couple of framed photos. She was an expensive photographer tho, but it was all definitely worth it. People still comment on how lovely our photos are and I wouldnt change a thing, cost and all.
$3000.
Included two photographers, photos getting ready before hand, then they went ahead to do groomsmen etc at teh cremony venue.
Plus all the normal shots after, and then an hour at the reception. All up I think it woul dhave been close to 6 hours.
I got regular photographic size and high quality proofs in an albumn, a coffee table book albumn of the shots I chose, and the DVD of all the shots taken on the day.
She also spent hours airbrushing out all the graffiti from the rotundah (whihc although had been freshly painted the week before the wedding, was covered in hideous tagging the day we got married) which I did not ask for, nor did she charge etc for it, just did it to make the photos better.
They are both professional, courteous, considerate, produced gorgeous photos, were sympathetic to our particular issues on the day (my mum was dying of cancer and not well) so worked around us.
It was the third most expensive thing by a long way - short only to the reception itself and my custom made dress. Nothing else came close to the expense of the photos, but I wouldn't trade them for the world and think that it is honestly the best thing you can spend your money one.
After it is all said and done you may remember very little of the actual details of the day - it is a such a blur or people and conversations and excitement and nerves and planning, it is so so nice to photos of things I wasn't there for (like before the ceremony, walking down the aisle, my mum watching me while I was saying my vows etc) and other little things I don't quite remember.
Not sure where you are, but if you are in Melbourne, happy to recommend, her name is Chistine O'Shea - Coshphotography and she was amazing. If you google she has a website.
I am getting married in Fiji so will be paying the expense of flying a photographer over as well.
I have been in contact with a photogrpaher in Fiji and his work is great and highly recommended and even though it is much cheaper than flying a photographer over, I am not sure I trust the quality/editing process.
Like Lime our photographer also took photos before hand as we got ready and her partner went to the grooms house to take photos. She was so easy to work with, really listened to our requests and took command of the day ( we had a couple of unruly groomsman who just like to play up sometimes!). Was well worth paying her.
$1500-1600 that was us getting ready, the man at the Church before the reception, and the whole way until the first dance after cutting the cake. We got all the discs of all the photos taken as well as a completely gorgeous album. We had over 800 pictures from the photographer on the disc.
We were really lucky - we came across and friend of a friend of my MIL who did professional photography (including lots of weddings) kind of as a hobby rather than full time career. She charged $400, and we were supposed to get 120 6x8 prints and a CD of all the photos, but we actually ended up with 180 photos (at no extra cost) because she said she couldn't part with so many of the photos.
We had photos of us getting ready before the ceremony, the actual ceremony, and then lots of photos afterward. She did the standard 'pretend to cut the cake photo', but apart from that she didn't do any photos at our reception.
How much did you pay for wedding photography?
but it seems to range heaps!
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No way was I going to pose with 200 plus people!
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