Weddingbee Blog

After sorting through all of my emails requests and plotting them into my spreadsheet, I came to the conclusion that I was not going to spend over $3000 on a photographer. So many fabulous photographers seemed to be around the $4000+ range, but their costs kept going up by not including taxes, engagement sessions, and requesting $500 plus a hotel stay to travel less than 2 hours for a wedding!

But once you set a limit, it’s much easier to narrow down your options. My three finalists were:

Misty Richmond
Archive Life Photography
Fiona Sarn

Fiona was the first to get back to me, and replied to my e-mails with complete exuberance and happy thoughts. Silly, I know, but incredibly appreciated by a fellow wacky girl. She shared passwords to the engagement and wedding sessions of a client, and honestly that sold it for me. I had seen other photographers who had captured great photos, but when you saw the entire shoot, there wasn’t a lot there. The simple engagement session I saw was taken inside the couple’s home, and it was one of the best portrait sessions I’d ever seen.

Although we gallivant and skip along the ocean waves here quite frequently, Mr. Lemon and I aren’t exactly ones who would pull off the typical SoCal engagement session too well. The other feature that sold me: her amazing group portraits! She definitely knows what she is doing!

After all of the searching, Fiona sold me on her generosity… she offered to photograph our engagement session in LA at no extra charge… and was excited to do so! I simply can’t wait!