We paid about $3600 I think it ended up being back in 2000. That included travel, black and white shots, and we had them for 7 hours - so they didn't have to stay for the reception we pretended to cut the cake and pose as if we were dancing. We originally only paid $1500 for an album with 40 photos but when went to create the album (4weeks after wedding) he'd taken over 300 pics and there was no way known we could condense our day into only 40 photos. So we doubled it and went to 80. We also got a 20x24 mounted wall photo and an album of all proofs (this was back in the day when digital cameras and photos were only new and our photographer didn't trust the technology to produce good photos). We don't regret the cost at all. Our photos are amazing and we look at them often. Other people I know who have gone the cheaper route have always regretted it.
Our best friends don't even have their photos after the photographer said she would put them in an album for them and then she left town and they never saw their photos again. All they have of their day are the few photos their family took.
A friend of DH's had one of their friends take the pics for free - she was an amateur and 95% of the photos are just of the Bride (they were besties in a single white female kind of way LOL) and none of the bridal party.
A close friend of mine had her photographer run out of film half way through (again back in the good old days LOL)
DH's brother and his wife had someone take them who was a friend of a friend. We have never seen the pics because SIL does not want them to see the light of day. She said they went to pick them up and as soon as she walked out of there she cried they were that bad.
And SIL had two women do it semi-professionally and I could have taken better photos. A lot of them were really good, but the ones they took of my girls (flowergirls) were just crap.
You have no idea how helpful your replies have been for me.
Lisa- I am so sorry to hear that your photographer turned out to be so crap. I would have been massively kicking up a stink to the owner.
That is awesome to all the people that got great shots from family and friends. I know that this is likely but I feel like I shouldn't risk it just in case.
Okay maybe the deal I have been offered is not that bad after all.
This photographers work is amazing and his attention to detail is present everywhere.
He has given me two options
1. $3500 for a full package with
- a 10x10 designer leather & glass wedding album.
- This will also include approx. $1500 on accommodation & travel.
- It will also include 2 x A3 framed images OR 1 A1 image (large professional framed & printed images).
- 2 dvd slideshows of your favourite photographs to tell the story of your day to your favourite love songs.
- Plus all images from the day (breakfast, getting ready, family shots, ceremony, location shots, reception start to finish) on a dvd/cd in HIGH resolution. I will also photoshop any imperfections (if you wish) out of any photos and include some black and white, artistic & sepia images as well.
ALTERNATIVELY
2. $2800 with
- FULL resolution images on dvd
- high definition slideshow with your love songs, i can do 2x the slideshow with cover etc for your family if you like for this price.
- travel & accomodation
Either way it is still a lot of money but I LOVE his work and have seen it first hand at a wedding and then the final products. Arhhh decisions.
Yep I would go option 1, sounds like excellent value to me! And if you know his work it will be all good I am sure.
Again, I seriously think it was the best money we spent on the whole wedding, I am so so happy I didn't listen to all the people telling me to not bother and just have a couple of friends with cameras on photo duty. (Made that mistake of not having a DJ or anything and ended up with no wedding dance, and nobody dancing, because there was basically no music...sucked! lol)
Yep I would go option 1, sounds like excellent value to me! And if you know his work it will be all good I am sure.
Again, I seriously think it was the best money we spent on the whole wedding, I am so so happy I didn't listen to all the people telling me to not bother and just have a couple of friends with cameras on photo duty. (Made that mistake of not having a DJ or anything and ended up with no wedding dance, and nobody dancing, because there was basically no music...sucked! lol)
We paid about $500 in 2009 - initially we were going to skimp on photography all together and rely on guest to take pics - best $500 ever spent!
All I wanted was some great candid shots thru out the ceremony, a few pics prior with me getting out of the car etc, and group photos - then some location pics of just DH and I, we got married in the Zoo lol, after hours so we had beautiful landscapes galore to have photos with. I got it all on a disc within 7 days and had the rights to print them out to whatever size I wanted, whenever I wanted.
So I picked out 7 of my fave pics and organised them on a massive canvas, and created a hardcover photo book thru Big W photos online - all up those two items cost $130.
Why not insist everyone bring a digital camera and take pictures for you. after all, they will probably all take photos anyway and being in Fiji, you won't need a good photographer, you will have great weather and a great backdrop, family tend to catch those more special moments too..
We got married in Bali in 2008 and had 15 people attend our ceremony including 7 family members. Ours was small but we were going to elope that's another tale...
Everyone took photos of us during the ceremony and of eachother too, so we got pictures of my mum crying off hubbies dad and vice Versa......
After the ceremony we walked along the beach and everyone was constantly taking snapshots whilst we were posing and playing, we got lots of kodak moments
Then we sat on some steps near the reception for more pics etcand everyone had their cameras out. And all through our small reception and partying all night.
Afterwards we ended up with Great Quality , special moments that were captured when no one realized or was looking, there are some really special ones like dh having a tear slip down his cheek saying his vowels etc.... About 2000 or more.
5 DVDs burnt for about $10 each at a kodak shop
Over 500 prints at only 15 cents each..... Sorry can't calculate.... Will add up and edit
And mil made up a special hard cover book with heaps of great shots, all professionally done and personalized for us for about $30.00 in Melbourne
We also got a wedding album a huge white silk one as a wedding gift so we filled that
And we bought massive authentic Balinese albums made from natural products in Bali and brought it back through customs, and filled them with more pic, so we have four huge albums , five DVDs full of pictured and a video our friend made of the day for free as a gift..
All up
Free excepts for albums and printing costs and I have not seen professional pictures better.
We also printed a heap in black and white , you can do that too these days lol.
Last edited by Mum2Romone; October 16th, 2010 at 10:28 PM.
: $75 for prints $40 on albums. :)
$2500 for;
2 photographers that were with us for roughly 10 hours (right thru til reception, i think they left aorund 10.30-11)
a photobooth
a proof album
and a thumbdrive of each and every single photo they took that night.
fantastic photos, the only issue i had is that it took EFFING AGES for us to get anything back... we only got out proof album back around 3months ago, and we've been married a year already.
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