Hey ladies,

Just wondering what people think is an acceptable price to pay for photo and/or videographer!? Just seen a wall post on my wall from *************** I quite like the look of their full package for £1620 which includes (and I quote!):

"Full colour hard back coffee table book. Up to 100 of your favourite images in colour or black and white.

PHOTOGRAPHY DETAILS

Photography coverage on the day is shot in both formal & reportage styles and includes bridal preparations, the service, formal bride/groom portraits, wedding party portraits, family & friends portraits, reportage reception shots, cake and ring detail shots, speeches, cake cutting, first dance and the band/dancing.

- 8-10 hours of reportage and traditional photography.

- Up to 700 edited & processed images on disc.
- All images supplied on a disc in high & low resolution in colour and black & white.
- No copyright of images.


VIDEOGRAPHY DETAILS

We produce your wedding video just like the movies. Your day will be captured using a minimum of 2 professional high definition camcorders and can provide a TV and/or cinematic look.In your wedding video production we will feature interviews with your guests,documentary and news style showreels with music of your choice.In addition to a ‘coming soon’ trailer to show family & friends via the internet.

- 8-10 hours of attendance for filming your day

-editing to DVD with music. Preparation, arrivals,ceremony (on approval), photoshoot, reception, speeches, cake cutting and of course the first dance. The atmosphere of your day will be captured forever.

Price £1620"




But i just told my mate about it n she was like no way you can get the full lot for £500 if you look around - im thinkin that means the quality and time will be compromised!? I mean this guys looking at doing it from bridal prep to the first dance!

Im looking for somethign vibrant and quirky which seems to be what he offers. Not sure.

Any advice or just let me know what your paying n what it includes xXx


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i have 2 that I'm planning on meeting and they are about £1000+ for a similar package minus the videos you can get them for about £500 but know where near what you have put there £500 is a basic package

this is the basic package from one of them

Your day
•Arrivals: Coverage of guest arrivals, groom & groomsmen and bride's arrival.
•Ceremony: In discussion with your celebrant I'll arrange to cover as much of your ceremony as possible (without making a nuisance of myself.)
•Groups: Although this style of photography is going out of fashion many brides do like to include family and friend groupings for their guests.
•The two of you: No wedding would be complete without bridal portraiture. Take a little time after your ceremony, at the church, venue or both and I'll make sure that your day to remember is captured forever.
•Reception: Low key reportage style photography that captures the true feeling of your event.

Your images

Preview box

Following customer feedback I've added a new element to the way you select your wedding images. As well as the traditional online gallery you'll also receive all of your finished images (80 to 100 on average) printed on 6x4 inch photographic paper in a smart black presentation box.

Online Gallery

Once you've chosen the images you'd like your friends and family to choose from I'll post copies of your pictures to a password protected area of the gallery. Your guests and friends can then order high quality prints directly.

Wedding Album

If you'd like to add a wedding album to your package you can choose the style and length of your album at your initial consultation (lots of gorgeous books for you to handle and browse) or you can wait until you've seen your images to decide on the length and size of your perfect wedding book.

All of our wedding albums are handmade and high quality and you can choose from digitally printed or traditional matted albums to suit your own taste and style. Prices start at £155.

Notifications

If you'd like to appear in print (and who wouldn't?) I'll also submit an image to Lincolnshire Life , Lincolnshire Pride and your local newspaper.

We are paying £1695 and this includes two ppl unlimited time and unlimited photos.

The pics come on a disc and this is copyright free along with a catalogue.

Make sure that all your photos are copyright free otherwise they can sell ur photos to other companies and I'm sure u don't want that.

You can shop around but that was the one thing I wanted to pay out for as they are going to be with u for the rest of your life.

We are paying £1600 for unlimited time on the day including a photobooth - and an engagement shoot, with all photos on a disk. Our photographer just put his prices up by £250 and is fully booked.

Photos mean a lot to us, and as h2b works on a design magazine getting the right photographer was really important. We could of gone for someone a lot cheaper but no one else compared, even people who cost more!

We are only having a photographer (or two as we get two for the whole day, one to follow h2b and one to be with me from first thing in the morning). We are paying £600 which is the most expensive part of the wedding but I'm happy with the company so think it's worth it xx

I think from the description he's given and for what people are paying around the same price as he's quoted for, i think its a good deal but im knew to this so aint gotta clue! his portfolio looks amazing. Im waiting to see if he'll travel from london to manchester though for no extra charge! lol x

I think that's pretty reasonable for what you're getting. I've come across photographers who would charge double that for half of what you're getting. But then again, I've come across ones who charge half that and you'd still get all that and I've been impressed with the quality of the photos.

It's a tough one to call I think. I've found it so much harder to compare photographers and packages/prices than say with venues. For me, it's not just about what you're getting and how much it is - it's about getting on with the person who's gonna be there, documenting your every move on the day! Speaking to some photographers at wedding fairs, some of them had packages that cost the earth, yet the photographer was completely unlikable and no matter how good their photos were, I wouldn't feel comfortable with them on my wedding day.

But in terms of price, I don't think price is everything - I imagine there are wedding photographers out there who haven't been doing this for very long and therefore they probably can't get away with charging a lot of money for their services, yet their photos might just be as good as someone who's been around for years and therefore can charge however much they want.

Sorry if that was a bit confusing - I've got photographers on the brain at the moment! I'm very impressed you've managed to narrow it down to one! We've got a shortlist of 8 that we want to meet...!!!

Jillybean I could always give u the telephone of my one if he doesn't travel as I know Steve does as he has gone abroad for weddings before.

mrsk2b can you message me or link me his website or details? that'd be useful :-)

yer i vikki i thought £1600 sounded about righ - especially for 8-10 hours of photography and video footage plus images, discs etc.

Will still keep looking round tho, its early days yet xXx

I agree 100% with OWD.

I'd never ever pay £600 for a deal that includes more but whose style I don't like. I only choose according to the style of photography.

I also agree that this is the most important thing for me - I'm doing a bit of a gamble. I'll asked an aquaintance to do our photos. I saw her photos and just loved them, she uses the style and filter I am after. I doing a deal with her that she can use the pics forever for whatever she wants - portfolio, advertising... I don't need the copyright as long as I can do what I want with them. Not planning on selling :-)
It is a gamble because not only is she not a professional (which worries me less, there are countless so-called professionals with no talent) but she's never done a wedding. So it will be a risk - but I trust her and her pics are just so convincing for me.

We had separate photographer & videographer.
Photographer was £650 for 3/4 day (no bridal prep, ceremony, reception to about 1 1/2 hours after 1st dance) - 470 hi res images on disc (no copyright), we didn't ask for an album.
Videographer was £550 for same (although we had a half price deal, should have been £1100) - 3 DVDs & 25 mini discs (and we got a free blu-ray disc for the testimonial)

We weren't going to have a videographer until I found the half price deal.

We went round and visited a few and felt we really noticed the difference with different personalities and cost packages - our photographer is coming in at 1650 but this includes an engagement shoot with all hi res images on disc, all day wedding photography from getting ready to the evening (about 11pm) with 2 photographers, a photobook album designed etc, a web gallery with web-friendly res photos and a disc of all edited hi res images that we can print from (this was really important to us as we want to send pics to overseas family etc with their thank you cards) - we saw some cheaper photographers and thought the style and photo quality wasn't what we wanted, it didn't seem worth the 500 for the day, and to get the hi res disc some wanted to charge us 450 anyway!

Video we got from a supplier on here, again it's full day from prep to end of the evening, 2 videographers, full editing to music, dvd menus with chapters, and 6 copies on disc with boxes etc for 800 which was discounted with 20% power user discount - again, it was the only videographer we found who we felt the videos weren't too cheesy...

If any of you want details then let me know and I'll message you :-)

i'm getting married in cyprus and our photographer is about 550. he's there for the full day from getting ready until the last person has dropped into a drunken stuper (if we want). we're getting all the photos on a cd and we'll get a wedding album when we're back. it's too heavy to bring back in the suitcase

i think that is a 'normal' price to pay for what we want...although we don't really have much of a choice in paphos lol

If I had the money, our photographer is one thing that I wouldn't compromise on. The most important things for me are the style of the photos and that we feel comfortable with the photographer. If you want them and have the room in your budget then go for it, at the end of the day the photographs are one of the few things that last beyond the wedding day. x

We paid £2500 for pics from getting ready - first dance.
Our album, 2 parent albums and all pics on disc

our budget was £800 and this guy was the only one we found A - within budget and B - liked his style of photography, we aren't bothered about paying him to print stuff as we can sort that ourselves, FIL2B has contacts at printing places as he worked for a large card company and other companies previously

you can get little books printed at big supermarkets for £10 these days anyway so i'm not worried about it, as long as i get the printing rights i can print them to my hearts content :-)

does anyone know of a cheap one near newcastle?
I SO badly want photos, i wonder if we cant squeeze it into the budget somehow, put the wedding off a little maybe.

im paying 995 quid and that is for full day coverage, pre engagement shoot and consultation, all images throughout the day put on cd for us, private website viewing.x

Were paying 500 for the photographer. We get 200 printed and all pictures taken on the day on a disk - all high quality. We have him from bridal peperation til 9/10 at night..

We also have our photos on the website for 6 months and full copyright.. His london based but willing to travel. Any books are extra. xx

I am quite lucky to have a few photographer friends so I had a few options before I even considered a company. Our photographer is my MoH's friend, she's a very talented photographer and is doing the entire day as well as makeup for me and my BMs for less than £500 which is including travel costs to Spain! I'm also lucky that my MOH will be there with her camera as well so there will be lots from her too.

don't get hung up on the copyright issue - the main thing is you want a disc of edited, high resolution images, watermark free that you are able to reproduce - our photographer pointed out that he can provide this for us, but the image copyright is still his - which makes sense as he may want to use them on his website or for his portfolio etc. H2B was quite impressed he knew the difference as he works in business assurance and compliance, there were other photographers we saw who either wanted to charge up to £400 for such a disc or completely hold the images and you could only order prints from them!

@bridalmiss Please can you give me details of your videographer. xxx

We are looking at paying £350 for unlimited pictures put onto a disk as a family member has bought us an amazing photo album we want to use. My friend recently used the same photographer and her pictures were the best i have honestly ever seen, so many taken!!

Videography will be done by a family friend which has got the cost down a lot.

x

Most quotes I've looked at range from 450-1200 but we have found some one who will do images on to disk for 250 i think what u pay for photos depends on what u want if u only want professional photos all day and lots of them ure gonna pay the higher prices but if like us budget is a strong factor along as the we have some professional photography we are happy

Ours is costing £1240 which doesn't include any prints an album or a cd. The cd cost is an extra £315.
Our budget for photography was £800 but I fell in love with the guys photos, he is absolutely amazing, and nothing like anyone else I have seen. H2B refused point blank to pay that much until I dragged him to meet the guy & we left in agreement that we had to use him.
We have him and another person all day from the bride preps up until the evening, including romantic shots after the meal, which is where his photo talents really are amazing :o) I think the photography is important, and more so that you feel comfortable with them. I met loads of different photographers at weddings fairs, cheaper and more expensive than what I'm paying but some of them I just couldnt imagine having there on the day! X