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.
We paid $2500 and I think it is the worst money we spent on our wedding day.
The person who was supposed to be doing our photos couldn't make it so he sent his partner, who had no people skills at all. She couldn't look us in the eye when speaking to us, she actually looked away when talking to us.
She took stupid pics of us hugging everyone after we got married. Just useless back-of-the-head shots. She was sitting down eating when we did the garter & bouquet throws. I had to ask her to take photos and she didn't get 1 shot of our wedding cars
If I had my time again I would probably spend the money on a good camera and have someone I trust to take the photos. Trust me, they would have come out better than the ones we paid for
I think about $3300? That included both of us getting ready, beautiful natural shots, massage for DH, and then he hung around at the reception for ages (only half an hour was included in the package, but I think he was having a good time!) and took some gorgeous shots there. We got a full set of regular photographic size prints, and $400 worth of enlarged prints.
The photos are amazing, and I don't regret spending the money for a second. That said, the photos that friends and rellies took are amazing too, and a wonderful complement.
I would go with the Fijian photographer, and get some family and friends to take their own photos as well. We had a BBQ the next day, and had a laptop there, so we got everyone's photos together and shared them.
Alternatively, what about flying a photography student over with you? Bit cheaper, and you'll still get amazing stuff. They're also often not as bound by copyright, and more open to sharing options.
our ceremony was a bit different to normal, so our photographer altered the price to suit us. It was a night and outside aswell so needed a really good photographer who could pull it off.
In saying that it only cost us $1500 for 2 hours of her time. and that included before hand, the ceremony photos afterwards and then moving to another location and havig more photos taken.
We got unlimited photos on a dvd - which she had colour version and b&w versions of them all (think there was over 2000 photos) and a few she edited extra.
it would have been extra to get prints/album though.
I was really really happy with the photography. if you want i can give you her details, or show you some of ours so you can see what a great job she did.
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