Easy Dream Weddings

God, buy a frikin camera and ask your mom to take them instead of spending a fortune on a photographer.

Getting a good photographer is almost as key as your dress..

You could google photographers in your local area, and then go onto the website.. Once there, always always look through the gallery and videos.. Some photographers even offer cd’s of their work!

Personally, I think word-of-mouth is the best way. If your on any social networking sites, like Facebook, put it up as your status and then at least you know that the photographer your planning to use has done a good job, from other reliable sources!

Good Luck!

Well, you should look at their pictures first. Most photographers have websites, just Google “yourcity,statehere wedding photographer”. Based on this you can decide if you’re looking for a regular photographer or the photojournalism twist. Photojournalists take more non-posed pictures… they try to get you when you’re not thinking about being photographed. They will take posed pictures for you, but they won’t want to spend hours doing so. They’ll take a lot of pictures while you’re getting ready, during the ceremony, and during the reception.

You’ll find package prices on the website too. This will give you an idea of where you should put your budget. Around here, I can find a not so great photographer for $500, and I can find a super expensive photographer for $4000! But the good, reasonable photographers fall into the $1000-$1500 range.

You have to decide if you want the photographer to send you a big package of actually printed photographs or if you want to be able to print your own. If you want to be able to print your own, you’ll need a photographer that gives you all the copyrights to your photos in the package you purchase and will provide them either online or on a CD.

Once you have a few in your area that you like and fit in your price range, you can start interviewing them. There’s lots of wedding planners online which include a questionnarie on what to ask each vendor during an interview. You can google that too.

Good luck!

Look at their work online first, give them a call, if you like the sound of their voice and you make a connection, then arrange to meet. If they tick all the boxes, then book them right away as good photographers get booked up quickly. check out Digiquick Photography.

1. Make sure you see a couple of complete wedding albums (as too many newbee photographers will try to blag)

2. Check out the colours of the prints. (and also the price of re prints)

3. Make sure they have insurance and a back up plan if any thing was to go wrong

4. Personality is a must, as you will be spending all day with him or her, you need to be sure that you will get on.

And just have fun

Ask around, ask if you could have some references from other brides. View their portfolios, find out if you like their style of photographing. It really depends on whether you want classic pictures, or stuff that is more fun.

All the good ones are in downtown Lafayette, Indiana. They come here because we have all the good sites for photography (historic downtown, Purdue University, a world-class extensive park system, dozens of historic neighborhoods, etc etc etc).

But you could always get married here, I can recommend some excellent places. I’ve seen a lot of couples tie the knot on the “Pedestrain Bridge” which lies at the meeting point between Lafayette, West Lafayette, and Purdue University. It’s also the downtown district, where nearly all of the photographers are based.

I’ll try to find links:

the bridge (downtown lafayette side):

the bridge (west lafayette/purdue university side)

Popular reception building (sorry can’t remember the name of it off the top of my head):

this could be another choice:

Take a look to his photographs.