How are you going to find your wedding photographer?
You can do a web search, search wedding blogs or via hashtags. If you do a more targeted search you will bring up more laser focused results such relaxed documentary wedding photographer in your London borough for example. You can even search for your wedding venue which may throw up wedding photographers that have photographed in that areas and blogged about it. One of the fastest ways you could find a wedding photographer would be to ask your friends who they used if it was a recent wedding. (I know that some people love to keep their suppliers under wraps because they don’t want other people copying them, but it doesn’t hurt to ask!) You could send a query in a Facebook group or directory, but this will bring up a huge response of varying prices and abilities which will take time to sort through websites to decide who to respond to.
You could even email to find out more with a local wedding photographer covering both London boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich (Danson House Bexleyheath and Woolwich Town Hall registry offices) as well as the whole of London. (wink)
Investigate wedding photographer websites. Do you like their work? How it looks? Meet with them face to face. Is it easy to communicate with them? Do they listen to your ideas and you feel at ease with them? If so, they will be invaluable on your wedding day. Examine their work in person. Viewing an entire wedding day or images in an album gives you an idea of how their work will look printed and what the wedding photographer is capable of in varying lighting conditions throughout the wedding day.
Fear of missing out (FOMO) – are you worried that if you commit to a wedding photographer too soon there may be a better one around the corner? If you have chosen your wedding photographer on their skills, good business practices and personality, then you are in safe hands.
Budget – you might want to save up a bit first for your wedding photographer. Or it seems a massive ask to commit to a wedding photographer. Most wedding photographers will not ask for full payment up front. A deposit/booking fee will secure the day and could range anywhere between 25-50% of the total fee. However, the final payment will need to be made X amount of weeks before the wedding. This is industry standard. With due diligence on your wedding suppliers, this shouldn’t be a problem.
Some photographers even have their own payment plans. Without paying a deposit or a booking fee, the likelihood of another couple booking them instead increases day by day.
