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Reduce Your Wedding
Photography Costs
With wedding photography costs sometimes exceeding thousands of pounds, it’s one of the biggest expenses on your budget. Here’s a number of ways to reduce the costs of your wedding photography.
Ask a budding relative or friend
We’ve all got a friend or relative who loves to take photos and more importantly they leave us green with envy when we view their pics.
Well, perhaps they’d photograph your wedding as a gift? As a back-up it might be worth asking two people to do it, that way, you can be sure one of them will have got it right!
For my wedding, I had two sisters take photos. One had a photography degree and the other a love for taking pictures. The one with the degree had problems with the processing and unfortunately I’ve never seen the photos. The other sister’s results were great – perfect pictures every time, and we saved a fortune on our wedding photography.
Photography students
By using a photography student as your wedding photographer, you’re giving them a great opportunity to enhance their portfolio whilst saving yourself a packet.
Contact the photography or arts department at your local university or college and ask if you can place an ad to source a student photographer.
Cut the hours
With professional photographers, the most expensive part of the quote is the labour. By cutting the hours the wedding photographer spends at your big day you should be able to reduce the quote.
You could do this by having all the photographs done in one place or at one time (all the group shots before the ceremony, all the reception shots immediately after the ceremony), reducing the number of shots or making sure you have someone to get people in the right place at the time. This of course only works with quotes that are based on hours and not packages.
Cut the number of shots
There are endless possibilities for shots at weddings, so you could have your photographer hanging round for hours. By reducing the number of shots you have could reduce your photographer costs significantly. Ask your photographer if this will make a difference.
Get the negatives/proofs and print your own
Photographers often keep the negatives or hi-res shots so they can charge for each additional print that gets requested by family or friends.
Find a photographer that will give you the negatives or hi-res shots of the photograph. You can then print them out at your local photographers and save a fortune.
Buy the wedding album yourself
Many wedding photography packages include an album which is often heavily overpriced. By sourcing your own album, you can reduce this significantly.
Finding an album is easy as there are many online stores and department stores that stock beautiful wedding albums (at a fraction of the cost of photographers).
Create the album yourself
When you have your prints, put the album together yourself. It’s easy to lay down photos in an album and you can put them in the order you want. By doing this yourself, you are reducing the number of hours the photographer works and the materials they use, so you’ll reduce your costs significantly.
Get copies of all the guests’ shots
These days everyone uses digital cameras, which makes it easy to share and copy photos. Get your guests to send you their shots and you’ll end up with literally thousands of pictures to choose from, each at a slightly different angle.
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