{"id":533,"date":"2010-01-01T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2010-01-01T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T23:05:13","slug":"great-wedding-photography-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wedding-photography\/great-wedding-photography-on-a-budget","title":{"rendered":"Great Wedding Photography on a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">In these tough economic times you or your family might find it difficult to spend thousands of dollars on a wedding photographer. If that is the case, have no fear, there are methods and ideas to help you trim the fat and get the cost of wedding photography down to a more manageable price range. By informing a wedding photographer of your budget requirements, knowing a bit about the industry, and being realistic with your expectations you can easily save hundreds to thousands of dollars on your wedding photography. Following are some general ideas for cutting photography costs.<\/div>\n<p>Many brides see the packages or prices that a wedding photographer has set up on their web pages or price sheets and assume that those are the set prices. However, as with most service based small businesses there is usually some wiggle room associated with those prices. The wiggle roomvaries with the economy and service availability. When contacting a wedding photographer let them know your budget and your minimum requirements. The trick is to be specific when telling a photographer what you want. We&#8217;ll go into more detail on that in a minute.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-photo.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-534  \" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"wedding-photographer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wedding-photographer-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding Photography\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-534  \" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"wedding-photographer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wedding-photographer-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding Photography\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedding Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having said all of the above, there is a limit to the amount of flexibility a photographer can offer. A wedding photo shoot that lasts 8 hours could mean from weeks to months of editing. In addition, there are other business expenses that have to be covered including taxes, employee&#8217;s pay, utilities, office rental fees, etc. The point is that while most wedding photographers will be more than happy to help reduce costs, they can only do so to a certain extent without losing money. This is their livelihood so when asking any wedding service provider to cut their rate, just ask yourself, &#8220;Am I being fair? Is this a fair compensation for the amount of work being provided?&#8221; Hopefully, your wedding photographer is asking himself the same questions.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve found a budget and narrowed your selection to a couple of photographers you like, how do you go about finding out which one can meet your budget goals? Be specific. Decide on the number of service hours you&#8217;ll need and what types of services (printed images, high resolution DVD&#8217;s, online galleries), and then take that information, along with your budget and present to the choice photographers. Allow them to respond to see if they can meet your budget, or see what they can provide within your budget. Once you have the photography service, you may be able to make purchases of extras such as the photo books, printed images, or high resolution DVD&#8217;s later, after the wedding. I keep images online for my wedding couples for 2 years. At any time they can contact me to order books, images, or high resolution DVD&#8217;s from those images.<\/p>\n<p>Pinching pennies is never fun, but as you are willing to be up front about your budget, while being realistic, you can have the wedding photographer, and the wedding photography, of your dreams.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Justin Gilbert of Captured Art, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captured-art.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pensacola, Florida\u00a0Wedding Photographer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-photo.html\">Top Wedding Photographers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these tough economic times you or your family might find it difficult to spend thousands of dollars on a wedding photographer. If that is the case, have no fear, there are methods and ideas to help you trim the fat and get the cost of wedding photography down to a more manageable price range. By informing a wedding photographer of your budget requirements, knowing a bit about the industry, and being realistic with your expectations you can easily save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[221,220,219,5142,222],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-photography","tag-budget-wedding-photographer","tag-budget-wedding-photography","tag-wedding-photographer","tag-wedding-photography","tag-wedding-photography-on-a-budget"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Great Wedding Photography on a Budget | | TopWeddingSites.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A professional expert explains how to get great wedding photography on a 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