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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