NTTGPR: Playing off of those wedding regrets. . .

jchickiem · February 2014

As I was reading the wedding regrets thread, I couldn't help but notice how many of you had complaints about your photographer. So, for those of you who loved your wedding photographer, or at the very least were pleased with the end result, why? Attention to detail? Lots of images? Good package prices/choices? I'd love to hear your perspective!

Irishcurls · February 2014

I am thrilled with my pictures, but had to do a lot of the "directing" for big, posed group shots. That is because my photographer is a professional photog who doesn't do weddings, but does beautiful work. She's a friend of my step mothers, gave us a killlllller deal and caught some of the most gorgeous, genuine moments and captured actual emotion and detail from the day. So I had to tell her where to stand Grandma Jean. No big deal at the end of the day. She also did my boudoir pics, and will most likely do maternity/new born pics if/when the time comes.

My SIL paid (percentage wise) loads more than I did, got a zillion and one pics of the posed bridal party but he was overbearing and VERY annoying to guests. But she got what she wanted so I guess it's all in personal priorities? I feel badly for people who hated their photographer!

anitad84 · February 2014

Our photographer was fantastic! We had agreed to him showing up at 3pm, and instead he arrived at noon saying this was a wedding and there was no where else he'd rather be. Knowing he took time away from his own family to help make our day special was awesome. He ended up eating dinner with us and getting to know almost the whole extended family.

snooks721 · February 2014

Overall I was very happy with our photographers. First of all, they were in our budget. Our package included 2 photographers, engagement session, 5 hours of wedding day coverage, wedding album and an 11x14 print. I think there was something else but I can't think of it. My friend had a really crazy (in a good way) photographer who took really cool artsy-looking pictures, however, her photographer was like $3,000 and didn't include half of what ours did. OK now I'm rambling... basically our photographers weren't crazy-artsy or anything like that but they got the shots we asked and they looked like professional pictures which was the most important thing.

Milagros315 · February 2014

I loved (and chose) our photographer because I liked his style. He wasn't big on posed portraits and neither am I. I just wanted awesome photos of the day as it actually happened and that's what this guy was good at. He was also a cool guy which helped make us feel really comfortable and I think contributed to getting such nice pictures. Because normally I look awkward as fuck in pictures.

The price we paid was also great, but that had to do with where he was based and not on his level of experience of something like that. If he was working in the US, we would have paid double at least.

SidraJedi · February 2014

I'm just glad to actually have photos. I had 3 photographers, one was great, the second was okay. The third has never sent me the photos and we are still friends long distance.

My favorite set of photos are because the photographer was creative with angles and composition. She was also good at getting people's good sides

also, she was the most prompt in getting the photos back to us.

The second photographer was using a very old (think tray of poofing powder) camera and I think that her photos will look better Sepia toned B&W. she was very shy and not good at directing her subjects. The photos she gave me were in full color and not edited, but the cool part is that she sent the negatives.

The third is coming to visit next month from 2,000 mi away and I will ask her about the photos!

YellowBag · February 2014

I loved mine and will have them take photos of all our big moments. They did not take too many photos, but I loved how all of them turned out. More than that, they were really great people to be around. You don't realize how much of your big day you spend with the photographer, so it is nice to have someone pleasant.

peggels24 · February 2014

Our photographer was awesome. He did both traditional and candid shots focusing on candid. I did not want to spend entire day posing or being posed for pictures. He also had nothing else booked for that day. It was important to me that I could purchase the negatives.

Our only complaint was that there were too many pictures and it was very hard to pick for albums.

BabyCowbell · February 2014

I loved our photographer. I spent tons of time researching photographers and I couldn't say exactly what I wanted, but I knew that there are some pictures I love and some pictures that others love that I just don't think are that great. So, after the fact, here's what I loved:

Bright colors, but thats a personal preference
Not too many posed shots
She was so fun and cool, and I knew that whoever I picked would spend so much time with me on a really important day, so I wanted to like them personally
She made me feel important, rather than like I was lucky to have her
Real candid pics, some photogs I talked to don't want to stay for the whole reception so they wanted us to take posed pictures pretending to cut the cake and what not, and I felt like I would ALWAYS know it wasn't real, so I wanted someone who would stay until the end

I picked a package that was just a disk of engagement pics and a disk of wedding pics, so I did our album on my own, which was tons of work, but kind of fun too.

ngolimento · February 2014

My photographer was a friend of a friend (we all are chicken enthusiasts).

I picked her because she offered unlimited hours on the day, was incredible at outdoor photography, and really had an attention for detail.

FemShep · February 2014

We adored our photographers. We spent lots of time looking at the most-recommended photographers in the area, and I interviewed a few of them. We wanted a good personality who meshed well with our fun, eclectic style and a crisp, photojournalistic aesthetic. While the pictures were pricy, we were thrilled with them and in retrospect it was worth the splurge.

norweigan · February 2014

My strategy for picking a lot of my vendors was to look at Minnesota Brides magazine (we got married in Minnesota) see who the was ranked the top 3 vendors in every area, and go with the cheapest one. It worked great with my photographer (and really, all my vendors). He and his wife were really great! They were very easy to work with, quick to get back to us and give up our edited pictures after the wedding, and were just really talented. I think it depends on your style, but I like more candid wedding photography, and they were really good at that.

However, during the wedding, my sister informed me that our photographer was her f**k buddy in college. I had no idea. since he wasn't an actual boyfriend, I had never met him. She waited until after all the formal pictures to tell me because she didn't want me to feel awkward. Her husband's reaction was "well running into one of your former f**k buddies was bound to happen one day" (he was kidding) and she only thought it sucked because she was 7 months pregnant with twins and according to her "wasn't looking her best" (which every girl wants to be when they run into someone like that). I think it had to be the most awkward for the photographer, or the photographer's wife if he told her about my sister, considering they both had to take lots of pictures of her.

laurenstar18 · February 2014

i loved my photographs & photographer because she's:

-talented and has a great eye

-great personality

-edits photos (included with her service)

-honest

-one of my good friends so she gave me a discount and I was comfortable on my wedding day

and she's pretty awesome!

AnonymousNurse · February 2014

I'm so glad we splurged on getting a good photographer. Quality of pictures is the #1 reason. We also had a super fun photo "booth", and a big display at the reception with a bunch of pictures from the ceremony/inbetween photo ops. We ended up spending almost 3x our original photography budget and it was worth every dollar. He stayed almost 13 hours the day of the wedding, and we got some awesome pics from an engagement shoot. I recommend him to everyone.

Gizmo36 · February 2014

I knew my photographer before I even got engaged, and after seeing her work, I knew I wanted her to shoot my wedding (I had taught two of her kids). We got together at the location of my ceremony and walked the grounds to see where we would do pictures. She knew I was also stressing about weather, since the rain would have moved the ceremony to an indoor location with no scenic picture opportunities. She said that if the weather moved the wedding, she'd be willing to get together after our honeymoon, have us get all dressed up again, and we'd go to pictures (for no additional charge). It ended up being a gorgeous day, but it was nice to have that offer in the back of my mind.

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