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Don’t be like me, I cheaped out and hired a guy just out of art school. His portfolio was good and his pitch was reasonable, but he just wasn’t able to deliver. His photos were fine, but he took soooo long taking them, wasting time on our wedding day. He wasn’t able to –or at least, he didn’t– edit them to the level discussed in the pitch. And he took zero candids.
Thankfully, my sister-in-law bought dozens of disposable cameras and left them on each table. The guests took some amazing pictures of each other and of us, and all but one of our favorites came that way. Even if you have the best photographer in the world, I recommend doing this, you’ll at the very least get some glimses of moments that you’ll be too busy to witness in person at the time.
By not being cheap about it. The professionals have a portfolio, recommendations and a price.
If some guy tells you they have a Nikon D3100 and they can do it for 50$, run away.
We were thinking about a $3000 budget, does that sound decent?
We had a small wedding with just the bride and groom. We spend $1700 CAD ($1,275 USD) for ours and that included the photographer and his assistant. The agreed time was only 60 minutes. However our wonderful photographer spent probably 2 hours with us. He kept taking us other places at the venue for more pictures on his own. He took amazing pictures!
If you have a larger wedding party, or are planning on having travel time necessary between pictures, your $3000 sounds reasonable to me. There is likely a large regional pricing variation though.
