ive been searching all day for photograpghy and they all seem very pricey and h2b thinks i was joking with him when i told him were looking at about £650. how much are paying and how many hours coverage do you get? x
CommentAuthorUnknown
we are paying £1045. that is from me getting ready until after the first dance. photography is expensive but i think it is worth it as they are with your for life! we havnt got a big budget but decided to really use our top end of budget for photographer!
it depends what is included in the package aswell xx
CommentAuthorCharlz
just find one photgrapher who does all inclusive from getting ready to first dance for £495. has 26 years expearience think im gonna email him and check out his work and availability x
CommentAuthorUnknown
make sure you ask him about albums as that seems too cheap to me! xx
CommentAuthorCharlz
it says on his website that it includes an album and 30 mounted prints. One package, one price, and one day, your day for £495 Photography, choice of album's, with prints, DVDs and a copyright free CD of you photographs. From getting ready to the first dance.
choice of albums (photographs included), two DVDs to choose your photographs from and a copyright free CD to do your own re-prints.
That's really good, we are paying £590 for getting ready to first dance. We are getting a free pre-wedding shoot but he normally charges extra for that. We only get the CD for this price but I fell in love with his work so I'm happy. x
CommentAuthorjoey86
The quotes I keep getting range from £400 up to £2,500! The prices vary so much and it's hard to narrow it down. A guy I work with who got married last summer said that the best advice he could give us was mainly to pick a budget for photography and stick with it and just approach photographers and say this is what I want to spend, what can you do for me. However, I'm yet to try this lol. I started out with about twenty websites and slowly been narrowing it down over the last few weeks and gonna contact a few in the next few months to see more of their work and go from there! Good luck, I'm sure you'll find a great photographer for a great price :-) x
CommentAuthorDi B 83
We are paying £950 from bride preparations to first dance, engagement photo shoot, copyright free CD, storybook album and 20 prints x
CommentAuthorclaire1984
were paying £800 for 60 prints and a photo album x
Maisie Moo Moo
CommentAuthorJoey
we are paying £700 for two photographers. They are with us all day and we are getting all photos on disc for us to do whatever we want with. They originally wanted £1000 but we haggled him down. Haggle haggle haggle My h2b is very good at it :) xxxx:
CommentAuthortilomilo
we are paying £450 for ours, from getting ready to first dance, that includes 2 photographers, a pre-wedding shoot, the disk with all high quality edited pics on so we can print our own, and a photobook with 30 prints in. Ive seen work he has done, and he is really good :) his leaflet is on my profile
we didnt want a photo album, as we were going to make our own photo story book, we have used a site before and it was fantastic - dont know why some photographers charge £900 just for the book, when you can buy them for £100 (i know it isnt the graphistudio or queensbury book, but for us they are just as good)
One ring to show our love, One ring to bind us.
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CommentAuthorKinkyemo
How have you all found them for £450??
The cheapest I could find wanted £800 so we have decided not to have an official photographer and we are having our friends take them! My mother has a great camera that most will be took on and the ones she needs to be in her hubby will take them!
All along I have said I want to create my album as I was training to be a photographer before and I did my mom's photo's
I want all the silly ones the REAL moments of the wedding! we are a bit crazy like that lol
CommentAuthorLiz3yy
£650 is cheap! we booked our photographer yesterday, she charges £1,400 for a whole days coverage frpm her and her husband. We get an engagement shoot a month before the wedding, 300 photos on disc, a DVD slideshow and a website.
Can't wait until the day I become Mrs. Johnson :)
CommentAuthortilomilo
i just went on the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers website hun and emailed loads of people, finally got one in my price range, and love the work he does, makes me feel better knowing he has the SWPP after his name too xx
One ring to show our love, One ring to bind us.
One ring to seal our love, and forever to entwine us.
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CommentAuthorhjl2001uk
£1250 but will end up paying more when I fall in love with the pics I know. I love her work.x
Can't wait to be the better half of
MR & MRS SMITH
Brad and Angelina eat your heart out!
CommentAuthorbecky
We're paying £800.00 with 2 photographers. 4 story books and we also get 4 cd's as well. But ours is an old school friend of mine so is on the cheap side. x
CommentAuthorlala "mod" bunni
im lucky that one of my guests is a wedding photographer and is doing my wedding for nothing
just got to wait for a dvd to come now with all his work on it as to whether we use him for our wedding. But looking at all your comments i think his price is really good. My friends are enquiring for me into how much a guy that did her wedding pictures would cost me as she got them for free as he was her freind and did them free for her. x
CommentAuthormrsquinn2b
Our photographer is costing us £1145.
I know it's a lot but she is with us all day and wil be doing a lot of running around. The package we have booked is the biggest one that she does, with an album and then a cd with all the prints on aswell so we can create another album if we wanted! She is also doing us a parent set of albums and other things!! She came highly recommended and is worth every penny. xx
CommentAuthorbecky
I believe its not what you know its WHO you know. You can get a lot better deals from friends or friends of friends. i today have found out the lady who we was using for our cake also does hair, flowers, nails nearly everything i need. If you dont ask you dont get. Also do you have f/book? Could put a message on there asking about things you need and if anyone can reccomend people to you x
CommentAuthorsuzky123
we got the 1200 package right down due to very good timing as they were having a jan sale. We now have top package where the pics are just as good as the prof we were going to give 1500 to, top video, album storing 100 pics, copyright disk, 2 parent albulms, 2 confetti canons, a3 photo framed and a 3 tier undecorated wedding cake for 1346. whoop
cant wait to be Mrs Evans less than 3 weeks woooo
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weight now 8st 4.5 lbs
total loss to date: 24.5 lbs now need to maintain!
CommentAuthorKinkyemo
OOOOH A Photographer friend of my mothers is going to come out and do them for £50 so I'm a happy bunny now I get best of both worlds
:D
CommentAuthorsarahwasabride
ours costs £500 for a 100 page printed album and 4 large prints and CD of all images xxx
CommentAuthorKinkyemo
OOOOH gets better mother is paying :D
CommentAuthorMrs fairytale
our photographers didnt want anything, but we are giving them £50 for travel costs. one of them will be with me in the morning 10am whilst getting ready and the other one with be with H2B whilst getting ready, they then doing the service, arrival at venue, photos there, cake cutting, then they are coming back and breakfast for first dance and the evening, we are getting discs with every one of the photos they take. i phoned up the unis etc.. and asked if there was any one that is finishing their courses that would love the chance/experience of doing a wedding xx
cant wait to renew my vows, love my hubby sssssooooo much xx
CommentAuthorHayley
we haven't decided on a photographer yet. We can't decide if to go for a semi-professional that's around £500 but he will only take 150 photos, prints them all but with no album and gives you copyright to cd. Or if to go for a proffesional one that's costing anywhere from £895 to £2,500 depending on packages. They really are expensive - think they know that we all want nice photos and try get as much money out of us as possible!! I'm still keeping my eyes peeled for the perfect one at the perfect price xx
CommentAuthorLisa Ramos
Charlz - Can you put his link on my wall please?
I love my lickle Ava
CommentAuthorFuture Mrs Doublé
can't afford a photographer. will just have to do with informal photos from Friends :(
Soon to be Mrs Gary Doublé
Everything is now booked
Getting really stressed and excited now
CommentAuthormcewan07
ours is £800, its all day but only a cd.Though i dont min as my mum and gran say, after the first few months/year you never look at the album again (and i know for me personally that will be true as well) The package should have been £900, but i got £100 off for having a weekday wedding.
My original choice had only been £675 but he decided to take a 2 week holiday and my wedding is in the middle of his holiday :s I personally see that as daft as the end of july/begining of August is one of the busiest wedding times, i would go at a slower period but i guess each to his own, and i am glad he did, as i love the one we have booked now.
CommentAuthorCharlz
posted it on your wall Lisa Ramos x
CommentAuthorGregorysGirl
We were getting ours done for free by a brother of my h2bs close mates. But now I am not sure if it will go ahead, as my h2b posted some comments on fb that were a bit offensive towards Japanese people, which was really stupid especially as they are going through a horrible ordeal at the moment. Anyway this guy and his wife read the comments and I don't think they appreciated it, not many did including me, and now I just don't know if he will be willing to do us that favour. Wish h2b would think before he acts sometimes. I know his grandfather was a POW held by the Japanese, but he fails to see that it isn't todays generation that is to blame *sigh*. You are right though, it is expensive, but if you have the funds it is worth it to have those memories captured forever. xx
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Never to part again
This Saturday I will finally be Mrs Codling!
CommentAuthorNuttynonnie
i posted askin advice bout photographers a couple weeks bak nd im so glad i did! i was nearly goin to pay £1100 for coverage from 1hr before ceremony to the wedding banquet. I wouldnt get any proofs, i would get 30 images in a storybook album and that was it!! i really liked the photographer he was amazin his work was breathtaking but jus couldnt justify that kinda money!! So im now looking at a different photographer who will charge me £800 for a full book of proofs and a dvd of downloadable images, plus a larger sized storybook album in which i can choose upto 100 images to put into it AND i get two photographers there on the day with coverage from 2hrs prior to ceremony to the first dance! Much better value and his owrk is gorge too! xx
we fit together perfectly. . .like a jigsaw puzzle.
CommentAuthorCharlz
aww thats brilliant Nuttynonnie :) i dont want to be spending to much as on a really tight budget but i know if i want a decent photographer you have to pay the price. x
CommentAuthorSoon2beMrsHall
We are paying £545 starting with me getting ready to the start of the reception and then martyns bro taking over
Cant wait to to marry Martyn
Wishes the wedding would come faster
XxX
CommentAuthorshelby
We got ours for nothing. xx
7th May when I officially become Mrs Naylor
CommentAuthorFaeth
I was musing to myself about the cost of photography for weddings, and how in some cases it did appear to be pretty pricey, and there was a good explanation for this from one of the suppliers on here. Basically a Wedding Photographer is not going to get work every day of the year. In fact chances are, they are mostly only going to get work in and around weekends, but they have to make enough money to survive, so the prices need to reflect that.
But then you see others getting deals as low as £300-£500, so how is it they can do the same thing for so little? Then it occurred to me that perhaps (and I don't know this for a fact) there is a difference between "Wedding Photographer" and "Photographer who does weddings"? I know my deal was one of the cheapest I have read about on here, but I know that my photographer does alot of work photographing sports events, and also doing pictures for use in advertising, so maybe because he gets other income this way, he can afford to be cheaper for weddings?
I guess the decision is then, do you want someone whose expertise and experience is focussed (oh the terrible pun!) solely on weddings, or are you happy with someone who has wedding experience but also does other types of photography?
"Of course I'm not wedding obsessed!!"
CommentAuthorMrsC2B
We'll be paying £800. That's from preparation for me and my attendents as well as the grooms lunch which is going on in the bar in the hotel where we'll be married until midnight. We're not going for any prints or albums but instead have asked for a copyright free CD of all the images. It's so easy to arrange those things yourself through various websites. I'm fortunate that I book photographers through my job so knew exactly who I wanted. xx
CommentAuthorshelby
The photographer we have gone with also does other types of photography as well. there are 4 photographers in the company and they all specialise in certain areas of photography. xx
7th May when I officially become Mrs Naylor
CommentAuthortwirler
ours was in dollars so cant comment hun but £650 sounds a good price if you can get what u want for that
Officially Mrs Joseph
back on the diet re set my target
CommentAuthorExcited_bride_to_be
The photographers we are having are a husband and wife team and they're friends of ours. She is originally from Holland and she's won awards for her photography there. My hubby to be is a keen photographer so they were the natural choice for us. They are not cheap though, they usually charge £1500, but they are charging us £1000 and that's not including the album. They are amazing though, I love her work. :) Xxx
CommentAuthorAlex Kilbee
From Faeth:
"I was musing to myself about the cost of photography for weddings, and how in some cases it did appear to be pretty pricey, and there was a good explanation for this from one of the suppliers on here. Basically a Wedding Photographer is not going to get work every day of the year. In fact chances are, they are mostly only going to get work in and around weekends, but they have to make enough money to survive, so the prices need to reflect that."
<------ Yes, I think one of the misconceptions a lot of people have is that a wedding photographer earns outright what they charge you - for a days work. There of course is far more to it than that. A fairly good average for time spent by the photographer on your wedding photos is around 45hours - so roughly a working week per wedding.
Out of what your photographer charges you has to come various things like equipment, product, insurance, travel etc.
Most photographers I know will shoot on average between 20 and 30 weddings a year. From those 20 or 30, they need to make enough money to pay all the bills and associated costs with the business - and still have an salary..
A lot of photographers in the £500 bracket and under will be earning barely enough to survive on (even if they were doing 26 weddings a year at £500 a pop they would still only be bringing in £1083pcm before tax. If we assume each wedding costs them £100 for travel, insurance, prints or an album etc, that figure drops to £866pcm before tax )
So while you may go - OMG £500 this guy is great and cheap! That guy you're booking for your wedding next year or the year after that - may not be around any more when you try to get hold of him again. ----->
"But then you see others getting deals as low as £300-£500, so how is it they can do the same thing for so little? Then it occurred to me that perhaps (and I don't know this for a fact) there is a difference between "Wedding Photographer" and "Photographer who does weddings"? I know my deal was one of the cheapest I have read about on here, but I know that my photographer does alot of work photographing sports events, and also doing pictures for use in advertising, so maybe because he gets other income this way, he can afford to be cheaper for weddings?"
<------ A lot of the photographers in the £300 -£500 (or even lower) bracket either have another source of income (i.e full time job), or do weddings as a side line from their usual photography work (although these types of shooters are very rare).
Typically they are mostly people who want to earn some extra money - have gone to a few weddings as a guest and decided that buying a cheap DSLR is an easy way to make £300 on a weekend. They may have done a few photography courses, or taken pictures as a hobby for years - but wouldn't you rather pay a bit extra and have the peace of mind that hiring a proper professional will give you?
I know brides sometimes feel like everyone is just out to make a buck from them - but in the photography world, the real scam merchants are not the people who will charge you £1500/£2000/£4000 for photography, but the people who are just out to make a quick £300 from playing at being a photographer for a day.
Go and see the work and albums of a £300 photographer and then go and see a £1500 photographer and tell me who gives you the best value. ------>
I guess the decision is then, do you want someone whose expertise and experience is focussed (oh the terrible pun!) solely on weddings, or are you happy with someone who has wedding experience but also does other types of photography?"
<----- Ultimately the only person who can decide what figure suits your budget is you. All I want people to do is look at bit further than the bottom line figure and remember:
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is and caveat emptor
HTH Alex
CommentAuthorheidianne
£495 2 photographers from preparation to the first dance 2 pre wedding shoots All the photos on a disc and an Album
Tick Tock "why is a raven like a writing desk???"
CommentAuthorSteffie
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we've budgeted £1500-2000 for our photography! but we do want a video as well xxx
CommentAuthorkellyc13
we are paying £00 for ours from getting ready to first dance, he is now retired from wedding photography and a family friend, these days he does photograpghy for advertising and magazines and i love his work and trust him compleately so very proud of my bargin :-)
so little time, so much to do!
CommentAuthorSteffie
Nothing???? WOW!!! x
CommentAuthorMonika
I'm paying £750 for one photographer from the morning till we say he can go home, pre wedding shoot, an album, 2 cds and all pics for us to print x
It's this month! OMG!
CommentAuthorLaticschick Holland
We are very lucky, my mate is student photographer outside of work, he's charging us £200 to do all the photo's. His pictures are really good xx
CommentAuthormcquire81
A very good friend of mine has offered to photo our wedding for FREE!!! She does photography in her spare time and her portfolio is amazing so thats money saved!!
CommentAuthorMrsEverton2b
Nothing lol. My fathers a photographer and my cousin is a budding photographer. so between them they are doing it. lucky for me i guess. lol
CommentAuthorAtaraxia
We're paying £200 for ours, and that's with basically whatever we want as he's a student and he wants to get into the business - he's a brilliant photographer though, I've known him for a while so I know how dedicated he is to getting amazing photos and none of his equipment is cheap, he's got everything he needs to get into the business but not got the experience and I'm really excited to see how we get on with him!
Got married 27th June and blessed on July 5th 2012
Finally Mrs M :3