As a photographer, I am always looking at photographs. I love to flip through photo albums from my parents' childhood, peruse my elementary school yearbooks and ogle my wedding photos from last year.
Of course, I also love to click through my past clients sessions and see how happy they are with their loved ones, or how they learned to be comfortable and confident in themselves while flying solo during one of our portrait sessions.
As a photographer, I chat with clients about their budgets for their upcoming wedding photographs all the time. I was married about 11.89 months ago and I can speak with experience from both sides of the bride/photographer table- the most important thing that you will spend your hard earned dollars on will be your wedding photographs.
It seems hard to shell out more than 1,000 dollars for something you can hire your best friend from elementary school with the nice camera and kit lens to do for an 8th of the price, right? True, they will give you a discounted price. But they will also give you a discount in image quality.
There is so much thought, time, skill, talent and effort that goes into photographing a wedding. It takes passion too! Speaking for myself, I L O V E a good love story and telling that story through photographs that my clients will treasure for the rest of their lives- that is my passion.
Yes, we photographers get that budgets are tightthere are many things on the to do list to cover to ensure that you will have your perfect wedding. But what about making room in your budget for the kind of photographs that will insure that you will remember your special day in a way that keeps you staring for hours as you and your future children flip through your wedding album for years to come?
Those photos will be all you have after your cake is gone, your wedding dance is over, the honeymoon is a blissful memory and life continues on, dragging you further and further away from your wedding day and into the years of life and marriage and babies and fun ahead of you! :)
Bottom line, I made choosing a quality and talented photographer the biggest priority in my budget for our wedding last year- and I am so so grateful! I love our wedding photos and can spend hours staring at them if I'm not careful :).
As a professional photographer I recommend to all brides out there who are planning their weddings- find a photographer that you love! Pay them what they deserve for their 50+ hours of work and talent that will go into giving you a wedding album that you will cherish even after the big day has passed. Take the photos now, because you never know when they will be all that you have left!
Below are a few favorites from a 10 year anniversary session I did for a friend who wasn't too crazy (to put it lightly) about her wedding photos! We had a blast channeling their inner newly weds a few weeks ago!
Cheers!
Of course, I also love to click through my past clients sessions and see how happy they are with their loved ones, or how they learned to be comfortable and confident in themselves while flying solo during one of our portrait sessions.
As a photographer, I chat with clients about their budgets for their upcoming wedding photographs all the time. I was married about 11.89 months ago and I can speak with experience from both sides of the bride/photographer table- the most important thing that you will spend your hard earned dollars on will be your wedding photographs.
It seems hard to shell out more than 1,000 dollars for something you can hire your best friend from elementary school with the nice camera and kit lens to do for an 8th of the price, right? True, they will give you a discounted price. But they will also give you a discount in image quality.
There is so much thought, time, skill, talent and effort that goes into photographing a wedding. It takes passion too! Speaking for myself, I L O V E a good love story and telling that story through photographs that my clients will treasure for the rest of their lives- that is my passion.
Yes, we photographers get that budgets are tightthere are many things on the to do list to cover to ensure that you will have your perfect wedding. But what about making room in your budget for the kind of photographs that will insure that you will remember your special day in a way that keeps you staring for hours as you and your future children flip through your wedding album for years to come?
Those photos will be all you have after your cake is gone, your wedding dance is over, the honeymoon is a blissful memory and life continues on, dragging you further and further away from your wedding day and into the years of life and marriage and babies and fun ahead of you! :)
Bottom line, I made choosing a quality and talented photographer the biggest priority in my budget for our wedding last year- and I am so so grateful! I love our wedding photos and can spend hours staring at them if I'm not careful :).
As a professional photographer I recommend to all brides out there who are planning their weddings- find a photographer that you love! Pay them what they deserve for their 50+ hours of work and talent that will go into giving you a wedding album that you will cherish even after the big day has passed. Take the photos now, because you never know when they will be all that you have left!
Below are a few favorites from a 10 year anniversary session I did for a friend who wasn't too crazy (to put it lightly) about her wedding photos! We had a blast channeling their inner newly weds a few weeks ago!
Cheers!
Good advice. And ever good photo should have a v- dub in it. Love your photos!
ReplyDeleteHaha! I know, VW's are the best photo props!
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