How much did you pay

Missterious

For your wedding photographer?

i'm looking for a photographer for about 3 hours, all images on disc and no album, i'm looking so far at about £500, it just seems like such a massive amount of money seeing as me and my family are amateur photographers ourselves but don't want the hassle of doing it on my wedding day!

Stephb1986_2

Try this chap http://www.greystonephotography.co.uk/ very reasonably priced I'm using him for my wedding and I've had a few friends that have already used him

Steph xx

Missterious

Thanks Steph, i've just sent him an email to see what his charged are. I live in Bristol and it says he will travel all over the UK, so fingers crossed!

Roz_V

We paid £2k, which considering our whole wedding came in at 7k was a massive chunk of the budget.

It's the one thing I didn't want to scrimp on and I'm so happy we didn't - I love just lying on the sofa at night watching the wedding pics scroll through (we got all photos & the pre-wedding shoot pictures on 4 digital photo frames which are mounted into an acrylic frame). There isn't a single picture that I don't like from the 600 or so and I grin from ear to ear when I look at them.

With photography I think more important than the cost is that you feel comfortable with the photographer, that you like their work and trust them to do a good job.

Idiophreak

I paid around 2k, too...This covered pre-shoot, two photographers for the whole day (around 12 hours, probably), DVD, album design, big shiney album, parents albums, guest book and travel.

Overall, although it was a lot of money, I felt it was excellent value.

Scotsbride

we paid £500 inc Vat for a cd with photos on it

Stephb1986_2

I'm paying £650 for the £750 package because I've booked his wife to video our wedding there will be two photographers on the day and 2 videographers so for both it's costing £1,150

Both of their work is fantastic

Steph xx

McKneff

£500 seems pretty cheap to me.....

BeenHereBefore_2

Missterious wrote: »

For your wedding photographer?

i'm looking for a photographer for about 3 hours, all images on disc and no album, i'm looking so far at about £500, it just seems like such a massive amount of money seeing as me and my family are amateur photographers ourselves but don't want the hassle of doing it on my wedding day!

That'll be 3 hours taking photos, and probably 18-24 editing them.

Our photographer cost £2.5k and was worth every single penny.

Scotsbride

McKneff wrote: »

£500 seems pretty cheap to me.....

_ it was an in hisight had other photographers been available (first phtographer let us down 3 weeks before the wedding!) I probably would of gone to them as the level of customer service after the wedding was applauling luckily we have wedding pics though alot of the ones family took of the same thing were better

podperson

I'm a wedding photographer and the main body of the work comes afterwards in the sorting through, editing, tweaking, effects etc. For a 3 hour wedding shoot I would probably be looking at a min of 20 hours (probably more) editing hundreds of photos. If you break that down then the fee isn't that high.