Choosing your Wedding Photographer

   You have your dress (or you have at least fallen in love with a dress or several!) You have chosen your accessories:

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 You have booked your dream wedding venue, and now it’s time to choose your wedding photographer…

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A beautiful bouquet and a happy bride

    It is a big decision because your wedding lasts but one day, and your photographs will last  a lifetime.

  So I thought I would share a couple of tips with you:

1. It is really important to meet your potential wedding photographer.

Try to schedule a meeting as early as possible with your preferred wedding photographer. There may be several within your price range whose style of work you like. You may not personally like him/her (the first one you meet), so time to choose another one. It is perfectly acceptable to see several photographers. Not only to look at albums, but to see that you get on really well (after all, this person is going to be with you in some of the most amazing moments of your life!) (However think twice about the young and beautiful! You may get wonderful pictures! Flirting with the man/woman behind the camera definitely adds a sparkle to your eyes but too much flirting on the day may well annoy your other half, unless he/she is super tolerant).

2. Picture Perfect.

Many photographers nowadays offer an engagement shoot. For those of you who love being photographed, this needs no explanation! It is an opportunity to have a gorgeous image of the two of you on your wall in the year building up to the wedding. But, for the majority of the world, who are camera shy, perhaps I should explain… An engagement or “pre-wedding” photo shoot will help you feel more comfortable on the day: there will no longer be a stranger behind the camera but someone who feels like a friend. It also gives your photographer a chance to see what angles flatter your face (and those of your other half). Unless you are both professional models some angles will flatter you more than others.

  Your wedding photographer can create magic that you might not have thought of