re: Going price for wedding photographer?

Our photographer made me sick. His pictures were very very shitty and he didn't even try to touch up or edit. I actually had to purchase software to make them half way decent to put in an album. We almost sued him because he didn't get me my album for over a year and a half (only 1 month for me to touch up photos). He said he got robbed and all of his stuff was stolen. So when the album did show up, we knew all of his stuff wasn't stolen since they had to be sent off to print. All of our photos we have around the house are from my mom.

We paid like 4-5k.

we paid $5k for out photog and it was worth every penny

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$5k is ridiculous for pics. That should be the whole wedding budget. Save $$$ for house or pay off student loans.

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That's all fine and dandy, but maybe it's not your money to save? It's not like if you don't spend the money on the pics you magically get the $5k since most weddings are covered by the bride's parents who aren't just cutting you a check and telling you to do with it what you want.

Then don't use overpriced, overinflated ego photographers.

I can't wait until there are photobots to cut out the fleshy middle man entirely.

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$5k is ridiculous for pics. That should be the whole wedding budget

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our photog costs more than the rest of the entire wedding

I didn't pay for him though, so I didn't care

MTS photography. She does great work

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Yea, you must not live in a real city.

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Backyard country wedding at family place. Invitations from mail order. Stamps. Sams for liquor. Frat guys for bartenders. Disposable cameras for guest to take pics and a relative during the ceremony. Preacher, tables & chairs borrowed from the church. Food from the BBQ joint. Flowers from local florist. Aunt to make the cakes. Jazz quartet. DJ friend to fill in.

Bout $5k. Good to go!

I am an amateur photographer. I shoot landscape and street scenes.

A friend of mine contacted me to do her daughter's wedding this weekend. I first told her no because a wedding photographer and a street photographer are two different animals.

After telling me about the other photographer that will be at the wedding (a family member of her ex-husband) and how that when she did her other daughter's wedding, all the pictures were of her ex-husband's side of the family and the mother of the bride was left out of most images, I told her I would do it for free (for the practice) but don't be mad if I do not get one good image.

I have seen the other photographer's stuff, she is not that good, looks like she used a point and shoot.

I have high-end amateur equipment, nearly $6000 just in bodies, speedlites, and lenses. I know a good professional camera body runs $6000+ by itself.

Some people here mention "Facebook Pro Photographers" (thats what I call them). If you do not follow even the basic of photography rules of composition, lighting, etc, you will never get a good image.

That price is about right. As other people said, I found the most valuable thing having copyrights to the photos. I got like six packs of CDs full of my pics with copyright releases from the photog in them.

Also consider whether they will charge you for travel, etc. My package included engagements, bridals, rehearsal/dinner and the entire wedding day (probably about 12 hours because she showed up for EVERYTHING). She didn't charge me to travel from LC to BR for bridals either. She's going to Houston for my sister's.

If you really need to cut, you can always not do engagements or bridals and just look for a day-of package.

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I'm not very happy if I'm not getting some split-tail

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But then they can go home.