Tips to Search for the Best Photographer for Your Wedding
You’ll want to remember every moment of your once-in-a-lifetime wedding, but it’ll fly by so quickly and you don’t get a second chance to document your wedding. This is why the wedding photographer is one of the most important choices and investments in your wedding plans. It’s with the professional wedding photos that you commemorate your special day. You need a wedding photographer whom you can trust to capture the natural beauty of your wedding, visually telling the story and displaying the range of emotions of your wedding.
Follow these three steps to find the best wedding photographer for your wedding:
Start Searching Well in Advance
Give yourself over a year to find your wedding photographer. Before you even consider interviewing and booking, you’ll need time to search for and investigate top wedding photographers in and around your area. The most popular seasons for weddings are non-winter seasons (April to October) when photographers will typically need to be booked at least a year in advance.
Search for Photographers on the Internet
These days, all successful photographers have an online presence where you can skim through their portfolio of wedding photos and learn more about them before you even meet them in person! This is the best way to help you narrow down the top wedding photographers in and near your area without having to make a commitment. Once you have a good idea of which photographers you may want meet, search for each of them at the Better Business Bureau website and on Yelp.com for reviews and complaints.
Reach Out to Your Network
Meet with friends, relatives and coworkers who have hired wedding photographers for themselves or for their family to see their wedding albums and interview them about their experience. When viewing their wedding photos, trust your initial reaction about how successfully they were able to visually tell the story of the wedding.
When interviewing your contact about his or her wedding photographer, make sure to ask these questions:
Could the photographer relax you enough, so you could truly enjoy the moment? Did your photographer ever rush you during photo sessions?
How well did you get along with the photographer’s assistant? (If appropriate).
How would you rate your photographer on professionalism? Customer service? Punctuality?
Did the photographer get along with your friends and family? Children?
Did you receive any compliments from family and friends about your photographer and/or your wedding photos?
Did the photographer attract attention during the wedding or was the photographer more hidden?
Did the photographer keep to his or her word about everything agreed upon before the wedding?
Don’t forget to check out each of these photographers on the Internet as well, as detailed in the previous step.
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