Day 10: PICK YOUR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
Now that you have researched wedding vendors, it’s time to pick your wedding photographer! If you are using a full service planner, they can help you through this process and present to you wedding photographers that will fit into your overall wedding. Why is this so imporatin? Three words: Wedding Engagement Pictures and those should be done sooner than later! If you’re planning on using your engagement pictures for your Save The Dates, you want to get these done pretty early on in the planning. Another reason to pick your wedding photographer is, most included an wedding engagement session into their pricing, huge win! I’m sharing my 4 tips to pick the best Wedding Photographer for you!
4 Ways to Pick Your Wedding Photographer
- Do your research on the style of photography you want for your wedding. Do you want editorial style photography? Maybe fine are is what you’re looking for, or a more moody style of photography with saturated darker colors. Whatever your style is, make sure you hire a photographer that does that style.
- Ask them for full galleries of weddings they have done in the past. It will give you a good look at their style as a whole. Also ask them for photography of conditions that will be at your wedding! For example, if you’re having a wedding in a hotel ballroom, you want to make sure you see photographs that were taken in a hotel ballroom.
- Make sure you connect with your photographer, they will be with you all day long, and if you don’t connect with them it might create an unfun environment for you and your fiance.
- Make sure they offer at the very least 10 hours of coverage for your wedding day. I can’t tell you how many times I have had a couple book a photographer before I was involved and we have to renegotiate the contract and add more hours.
*Pro Tip: anything less than 10 hours of coverage is not enough for the average wedding especially if you have multiple locations, such as a getting ready location, a ceremony location, and then a separate location for the reception. 10 + Hours is what you’re looking for.
+ Comments