We paid £1450 for all day photography, all editing work, and 120 picture storybook album, plus DVD slideshow.

:-o Wow! Sounds like the perfect package but that would push our budget a bit. This is where I get confused as she's not professional so normally wouldn't get professional prices, but, her photos are amazing and I believe you pay for what you get! Do you have wedding photos on your page Dove? Im gonna go have a peek :) x

The prices for professionals very HUGELY!
Obviously if its a friend doing it for you you want to be fair but you don't want to pay stupid amounts.
Some of the prices i have seen on here range from £200 to £2000, mine is £1250.

I think the best thing to do babe is work out what you want from the day ie getting ready to 1st dance etc then how many photos and what type of album you or if you
want a cd,then discuss it over with your friend and see what she says?
Because you obviously want to cover her costs, ie printing, labour etc but you want to pay her a reasonable rate without going into hundreds of pounds if you see what i mean???

hi! we are paying for the whole day being covered. from us getting ready to the first dance. All our pictures will be put on a cd and we will have all rights to the pictures and not having them put in a album at the moment as we can't afford it and we'll do it ourselves at some point.
All that for £600

ill put the name of them on your wall and you can see the quality of their pics

xx

we have our friend's sister doing it and she was a student photographer. she said she's do it for free but we've put money aside to get her a thank you gift

:O i woulod love a professional photographer but omg the prices are insane!!!!!!!! we have had a quote and it would cost more than the venue, its rediculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we do have some good photographer friends and family so i think we might just end up with them. i know they will create some lovely images of the day but dear me the money is just outrageous (she says sounding like a cheapskate lol)

i am paying £1100 for ours, that includes 2 photographers from the moment we start getting ready in the morning, all day and all night till the party ends, they take around 1500+photos, i get 500 printed photos and a disk with all the photos on xx

I have a semi professional photographer who has 3 packages.
60 prints for £230
120 prints for £260
or 200 prints for £300
She also puts every pic taken onto disc for an extra £20.
We have chosen option A with the disc so we can have what we want printed.

£995 for 60 photos in album, all on a disc,and a portrait before hand, jaquar car to take us to church/ venue etc,

Our photographer is a good friend of mine who has studied photogrpahy i've seen his pictures and they are great (would really love him to do some color popping pictures with ours) As my friend is in university in sterling at the moment and yet he has still agreed to do our pictures, we are covering his transport (flight and train) from sterling and also providing him a room overnight at the venue. He has said he will check out all the pictures he has taken before putting them on a disc and sending them to me so i can choose which ones i would like to print (he has full permission to do what he feels best) Would really like to have an ecclectic mix of photos ones that are standard and ones that are a little on the edge. He also knows that he can keep which ever photos he think will help his portfolio too.

Rainykins are you paying your friend any cash or just travel expenses plus use of your photos for his portfolio? x

That sounds like a fab package chick x

That sounds like an amazing deal Kerry, I think having a nice photographer/one you know there on the day will make all the difference! x

The ones that we have looked at ranged between 1200-1600 but we still haven't picked one yet

im like you hun my uncle doing it coz its his hobby to and he great only have pay for films for camera and then get them printed so prob be about £150 xxx

im paying £550 for 3 hrs and 400/500 pics all on a disk with copyright xx

[declaration of interest, I'm a wedding photographer]

I'd just like to drop in my usual reminder that cheap is not always good. There are two parts to wedding photographer: (1) being very knowledgeable and quick on the technical stuff, (2) being able to herd a bunch of cats and other people management.

While I understand why you everyone wants to control their budget, remember you are creating your first family heirloom.

So, please ask these questions, and be sure you are comfortable with the answers - particularly when dealing with students, friends of family and other non-pro photographers

- What happens if the camera fails
- What happens if they are ill on the day
- How will they print the images
- Do they have access to any of the trade-only albums and books
- Do they have the all the extra equipment needed
- Can they cope with sun/wind/rain/snow
- Do they know which poses work best, why and when?
- Have they shot any kind of wedding or group at all?
- Do they know the software to do the post processing and editing

None of this is to put you off, but to understand there are risks involved with free/cheap photographers.

ive now paid deposit for mine, went with the man i said about, £995 for car etc:)

I'm paying a lot, but that's because I want a lot. For me, the photos are what will last so I was prepared for money to be spent on them.

I think what you'll have to think about is what work you'll want your friend to do afterwards. If you just want her to take the pics and give you them on a disc, then she would no doubt expect a lot less than if you wanted them beautifully edited and in a luxury photo album. A professional photographer's work is only half done when the photos are taken, because of all the follow-on work that needs doing.

Ours is £700 for both photography and videography.. We're just getting the pictures on the disc and it's free from copyright so we can just print them ourselves.