How much did you pay for your wedding photographer?

We are paying $650 for two photographers for 6 hours of coverage on a Thursday. This includes their online gallery for 6 months, a disk with all of our pictures edited & finished with rights to print, etc. Does not include an album.

This was my package

Full day of coverage

Unlimited photos

Host website for you and guests to order from

1 CD of images (for reprints at your leisure)

1495.00

And im on the east coast

I paid $1200

I guess i lucked out i found a great photographer...fosr 600 dollars..this includes a disk and full writes to his pictures

I am getting it as my gift from my cousin. She is ameture/just starting out professionally and I know that I am going to sound like I am cheap and what not. I have a budget for the whole wedding that wouldn't buy almost any of your basic photog prices. I know her skill and like her style so I am ok with less than amazing results because its that or nothing really.

Melissa - this is the one we went with

I must be lucky too, mine is $250.00. I am getting a disk, on-line pics and full rights to the pics.

We are paying just under $3000

We got

- Engagement Session

- All day coverage with the photogropher

- an additional photographer at the start of the ceremony

- CD with all shots and printing rights from e-shoot and wedding.

I'm getting full rights to all of our pictures, all of them touched up/edited, 2 photographers for 5 hours for $800 and his work is amazing. He has blogs going back a year or two, and I've spoken to previous customers of his and they raved about him. So I'm really excited. FH and I just couldn't afford to spend more than 500, but the photogs set us up to only pay half now and half right before the wedding, which worked out for us well.

$400.00 and he will bring equipment to print 5x7's to sell for 10.00 each to the reception. So if friends wanted to get some group shots done they can take them home that day!

Like 2dBride, I found our photographer on Craigslist. He had a package for $600 that included 3 hours (but he agreed to stay longer at no charge, if things ran a little longer, such as the cake cutting), one photographer, all pictures on disc with full rights, online gallery, 8 X 10 album, and (I think) 10 - 12 prints (5 X 7, 8 X 10, and 11 X 16). We had a very small wedding, and it didn't last all day, so finding a photographer last minute-ish (we booked him a month before the wedding - thankfully, another couple had to postpone their wedding, so he had a cancellation), who was willing to take on a job for less than the usual 8 - 10 hours on a Saturday in the middle of summer, for around a $1,000 or less was a bit of a challenge. And Corbin was really easy to work with, and we both liked his work!

$1,200 for:

7 hours on wedding day

2 hours for Trash the Dress the next day on the beach

dvd slideshow with music

cd with printing privleges

8.5x11 20 page photobook for us

online gallery for 60 days

I told the FH about the cost of the photographer I like and he didn't even bat an eye. Said that $4,000 would be fine. I think he knows something I don't....

$1600

hes awesome - full day coverage, 1000 edited photos, the full disk of all photos taken, high res images, and the rights to all the photos.

heres his link

http://www.westphoto.biz/

@ Brian - that's what I mean when I say full rights [printing rights]. I guess I should have been more clear.

@ Sharon - Love that picture...your photographer got so many great shots of you guys!

Refused to skimp on the photog, I had to have this guy! lol

We are paying close to $4,000. That includes 2 photographers, all day coverage (beginning 2 hours before ceremony and ending 3-4 hours into reception), unlimited locations between ceremony and reception, engagement session, boudoir session, 12 x 12 flushmount story book album, 8 x 8 signature album from engagement shoot and 8 x 8 album from boudoir session, disk from all three shoots with the rights to print and 50 % off of all enlargements.

We paid 3100 for ours which was all day, a disc of images with printing rights, 2 photographers, and engagement session, and... i think that's it. My photog is amazing though!!!! Love her to death!!! Totally worth it, like Sharon, I refused to skimp on photography... It was the only thing that I wanted to spend tons of money on! really that, your rings, and a dress in a box is all that is left at the end of the day...

Um... mine quoted me from $300 to $600.... (yes, only two zeros) but most are more, and she's just starting out in photography, but i love the work she has done so far! Its absolutely amazing!