I've just been quoted £1800 for a photographer and I don't know if this is reasonable or not. He has to travel about 150 miles each way which is included and will stay with me for the whole day and well into the evening taking what i call action shots as well as the standard posed ones. There is no limit to the number of photos I can have taken. Apparently he took 1500 at one wedding that was edited down to about 400.

I have seen lots of his pictures and really like his photo style. He's taken a few photos of me in the past when I've been at gigs and they have always looked great. He just sounds quite expensive. What do you think?
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that sound brilliant if all that is included hun.. ours is £850 but ours is local but she brilliant xxx

mines £300 to cover everyone arriving, the ceremony and the reception up to the speeches, DVD with the pics on and rights to print. Which is fine as we have just bought a new super dooper printer anyway! And I think they do prints for £4.95 if we want them done professionally.

Yeah I think it depends what is included in the package. Ours is £1,200 but we get cd, online gallary, 40 prints and a storybook album. He covers from getting ready to first dance so we think it is def worth it x

I think it includes a DVD and all rights but he also has offers on a wedding book with a free mini book for the parents too. Staying for as long as I need him from when I get ready right past the first dance and into the evening. The last one he did at this package took 10hrs and 1500 photos.

Perhaps he's not so expensive after all and I haven't tried negotiating him down yet!

Thanks girls
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Sounds about right to me that's what I was quoted by a few companies..give or take a few quid. My friend said she wanted to do the photography as a gift to us...she is an amazing photographer...I wanted her to be a guest but she said she would feel honoured!! I'm sooo lucky xxx

go for it its a lasting memory of the day and if you know you like him then its not too much at all good luck knocking him down x x

mine is £100 but she is a friend, she usually charges £700 for local weddings more if she travels x

hey hun ours is £695 for two photographers all day, we are having an album plus a large canvus print plus all on disc and two coffee albums for the parents

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ours was £460 i think,that covered me getting ready,everyone arriving at the registry office,in the office,all the after shots,planned by the castle and then back at the reception,we had an album with 30 prints in it and its beautifull

edited to say we had 2 photographers with us on the day,one capturing the planned shots and the other taking off guard shots,which proved to be fab

Sounds about right to me.

By the way, the engagement shoot actually might be really good for your H2B's, gets him used to the photographer and the camera in advance will help him be more chilled on the wedding day.

If you really can't get H2B to come to the engagement, then think about a boidour shoot instead and surprise him on the wedding night !!

- Simon Walden, Wedding Photographer