Weddingbee Blog

We met with a few photography teams pretty early on in our planning, after obsessively stalking their online portfolios. At first the cost of photography felt like a gut-punch, but I’ve since come to understand why they’re priced the way they are. However, it’s still a lot of money, and I wanted to be thorough with our decision. The questions we came up with yielded a ton of great responses and really helped us get to know each photographer.

Assuming that the photog’s website detailed the packages/prices/digital rights/etc., these were our questions:

1. How long have you been practicing photography?
2. How many weddings have you shot in the past year?
3. Do you have any formal education? (Not a deal-breaker, but a plus.)
4. How would you describe your style?
5. Are your shots similar to or different from one another? (when interviewing a two-person team of photogs)
6. What would you consider your greatest strength as a photographer?
7. What happens if you fall ill? What is the back-up plan?
8. Who are your personal favorite wedding photographers?
9. How do you manage if the bride and groom are awkward and not photogenic? (Like us.)
10. What’s the average turn-around post-wedding?
11. Will you Photoshop every picture until we are much better looking? He would like to be edited until he is Christian Bale (in Batman), and I would like to be edited as Zooey Deschanel’s face on Christina Hendricks’ body. Thank you.

Admittedly, some of these questions might be a little much. (And the last one is a joke.) But it’s a lot of money! I wanted to get inside these peoples’ brains, figure out what they’re all about. We came up with a handful of wonderful options.

So…if you’re feeling a little intimidated by deciding where all that money goes, feel free to pick and choose from my list.

How did you make your photography decision?