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For Miss S. I believe the Vera WAng SAmple SAle is this weekend in NYC.

12/2 and 12/3 Legendary for catfights and long lines, the Vera Wang bridal sale has gowns and bridesmaids dresses for 35 to 75 percent off. The New Yorker Hotel, 481 Eighth Ave., at 34th St. (917-438-4690); 9¢¢â€š¬”5.

kathy: we were set on flat printing. then fi recieved a wedding invite in the mail with thermography, and now he is all about thermography! i thought he didn’t care, and now he is insisting on thermography!

karen: we will spend $4K on 10 hours of pictures with two photogs taking about 2K pictures; we will also get all proofs (in the form of 4×6s), rights and one album.

karen: we are paying almost $3K, not including albums. that’s for 2 photographers, proofs, cd with everything on it, 500-800+ proofs. 11 hours i think is the limit for him and his 2nd photographer.

miss s: RK Bridal

kathy: i went letterpress with parklife press. invite, rsvp postcard and envelopes were about $700 or so. i LOVE letterpress and so, it was worth it.

Karen… we payed $1,000 (the package was reguraly $1,200, but we got $200 off because we are friends of the photographers!).

This included a proof book, an album with 20 of our favorite shots, a CD with smaller resolution pictures on it, an engagement picture session, a signature print from our engagement session and an assortment of enlargements and prints. We had two photographers all day, plus they shot the rehersal and rehersal dinner. They did a great job and I should have the pictures from our wedding posted on my website by early next week.

Both our photographers are right out of photography school and are new in the business. I would suggest checking into students or recent photography graduates for anyone with a smaller budget, because they are usually inexpensive but have a fesh take on photography!!

Karen–we’re paying $1400 (that’s a discount) for 6 hours with a *very* talented photog. (you can get a lot more for your $$ in the south or in the midwest than you can on the coasts). That includes full rights to all the pics, a CD with high-quality digital images of all 1000+ wedding pics, a DVD with montage, and a website for our friends and family to access.

And also…I’m surprised so many of us are home printing our invites! Way to go for us DIY’ers!

karen–we’re paying 10k for eight hours of photography, digital negatives, a day-after-shoot on the beach and local markets, three nights hotel and round trip plane tickets for two photographers to shoot our mexico wedding.

miss s–rk bridal. but like the others have mentioned, the nicer places like vera, monique, mark ingram, etc, will require an appointment. walk-ins are much easier during the week.

Thanks everyone for responding to the printing poll. I am surprised at the % doing home printing. I am not sure what flat printing is unless it is something like laser printing at a print shop??

So do you think if we DIY the invites and make them stunning enough anyone would really scoff at the home or flat printing???? Apparently, from the % we are etiquette rebels! Yeh!

We are paying just under $1000 for our photographer. It includes an engagement shoot (or $40 photo credit), 3 locations, all day shooting, 200 proofs (she’s a film photographer), and $150 photo credit. For $400 more we could have had an album, but my mom is a pro photographer, so she and I are going to put together an album with proofs and prints we’ll order from the photographer. I concur with Miss Blueberry when she said you can get lots more for your money in the Midwest!