Selecting your Wedding Photographer

Your marriage, wedding bands, and quality photographs will last for generations as a witness and memories of your big day.  You only have one chance to capture the images you will treasure for your lifetime.

Experience and Skill

Ensure your wedding photographer has the experience and skill required to produce the image quality you are seeking.

Photography Style

There are several different wedding photography styles.  Make sure your photographer has quality examples of each style you would like included in your wedding photography.

Bait and Switch

This is a sad reality of some studios.  Make sure the photographer you are interviewing and researching is the same person that will show up on the day of your wedding.

Personality

Do you enjoy the company of your photographer?  The last thing you need is to pay someone who gets on your nerves to follow you around on your wedding day.

Value

A real professional photographer and artist places the greatest value on their abilities and images.  Some larger studios may charge similar prices but that price is related to offsetting their operation costs.  Make sure you get good value by taking this into account when comparing prices and packages

Delivery

How long will it take before your photos will be ready?  How much effort and care will be taken to properly digitally correct your photographs?

Product

Will you receive prints, albums, and enlargements with your wedding package?  Will you have to print your own?  Will you be given a DVD with the digital proofs?

Contract

What are the details of the contract?  Is everything spelled out?  What happens in the case of a cancellation, or no-show of the photographer?

High Pressure Sales

Do not be pressured into making a premature decision.  Ensure you've properly evaluated each of your concerns before proceeding.

References

All respectable photographers will be able to provide quality references.  Be concerned if they are unable to provide any, and call the references to ask about their experience.

Other considerations:

• Will proofs be marked or not?
• Will your photographer have an assistant?
• Will backup equipment be available in case of technical problems?
• What will they wear to your wedding?