From: LouAnn

Photos are important and can be
terribly expensive. Make sure you spend your money
well. Interview several photographers. Look at
complete wedding books of their photographs, not
individual photographs as everyone gets an
excellent photograph now and again.

Find out first
if the person you interview is the one who will
actually shoot your wedding. Sometimes you are
paying for a “name” and the “name” won’t be there.

Ask for a dozen references (or more) and call
every single one. Ask what they liked and what
they didn’t like? Did they get what they thought
they were paying for, etc.

Be aware that digital
photographs can be manipulated in many ways to
make blemish free, artistic, whatever photographs,
but digital photographs eventually fade-in the
album, on the wall, on the disk. They fade more
than the old fashioned ones do and there are no
negatives to have another print made from. The
digital images will fade off the disk sooner or
later, so ask your photographer how often you
should make a disc copy to retain your
photographic images.

Do ask fiends that enjoy
taking photographs to bring their camera along if
they would like. Do not let them take the
photographs the person you are paying is taking.
talk to your photographer about their policy. Some
walk out if another person “steals” their
photographic scene.

I couldn’t agree more! This very thing happened at our wedding. The person we interviewed and set up to take the pictures was not the one who took them.

This was the worst part about our wedding was bad pictures! I would make sure that friends and family can take pictures also or you may not have any good at all. Tawra