How much did you pay for a photographer?

We are paying $2400 which is a fantastic price for the work this photographer does. Included in the price is 8 hr coverage, epic session, CD digital files, online viewing/hosting of all images, and photo album.

$800 is a great price, for that you should get a minimum 6 hrs of coverage. On Average most couples pay $1500 for photography. I would just make sure that she is good at guiding and directing people where to go and stand as well, with a wedding it can be difficult to maintain control.

$3600 for 6 hours, engagement pictures, and free bridal pictures

Mine is $900.00 for 5 hours. "Wedding Bug" in San Francisco.

$2925 which includes engagement session, 6 hours of coverage, 16x20 wedding portrait, 10x10 bridal album, and rights to print all photos from cd

Mine was $700 for before the wedding through the first half of the reception. Love Love Love her work! We got the discs and full rights to print. Somebody starting out often will give you lower prices but not necessarily be lower quality. If you trust her, have seen her work, and have seen/heard good reviews, go for it. You're doing her a favor by helping her build her portfolio as she's doing you the favor of lowering the cost.

$750 and she is amazing and comes with a second shooter! They are both great with lighting too. It includes 5 hours of shooting time, cd with all the rights, some prints. I feel like there is way more but I can't think right now. Lol

$2300 and its worth every penny imo. Photos are the absolute most important thing to me. I would never trust someone who hasn't done at least a hundred weddings.

For that price we are getting a husband and wife team for unlimited hours the day of, a TTD shoot (since we already had e-pics) and all the pics on cd with print releases. They also host a website with the top pics that our guests can download and print themselves.

Totally agree with Donna R. and Jennifer M. in that your photos are the most important things because they are the only things you will have left for the rest of your life to enjoy from your wedding. So wherever you are located and whatever your budget is for your wedding, look for the best photographer your budget can afford!

Cheap wedding photographer is not the same as having low budget and getting the best possible photographer to fit whatever package into that lbudget.

I am a wedding photographer and have brides who can only afford to pay $400 for their wedding coverage and I also have brides who pay over $10,000. The picture quality will be the same! The length of time covered and the number of pictures will be different and album is not included in the budget one.

If you love her work then go for it...it's a great price. I agree with the above though, definitely get a contract. She may be a friend but she becomes a vendor and vendors need contracts.

We're paying a little less than $2k

Mine is costing me 3800 including tax. It includes engagement shoot with pics on usb drive/disk, 8 hours of wedding day coverage, 2 photographers, online album for 9 months, disks of all edited photos,and 1 custom 12x12 photography with 30 pages in the album.

If you like her photography style, go for it. Photographers are expensive. Around here the cheapest one that I found was $800 for 6 hours and they own your photos, so you have to order everything from them, and their photos are pricy. the one that we are going with is $1495 but has a $150 discount since they are do more than one service (DJ, photo, and video) We are booking DJ through one of their other franchises, and may book video, still debating that. It's 8 hours and we have three photographers to choose from, and WE own the photos at the end, so we can go through their site for our album or we can go elsewhere.

My photographer is $1100 and he is going to be there an hour before the wedding and up to 10pm or until the last thing is done. Which may be a little after 10pm and already cleared it with him. Also he is giving me a hard covered book and a disk with all rights to all my photos so I can just print off whichever ones I want.

$1200 (huge discount through our planner). This includes a 2nd shooter, and 8 hours of coverage.

$1600.00 for a Plantinum pkg for a pro photographer who is still building his portfolio - included engagment photos, 10 hours on wedding day & all the rights to the e-photos & proof books. In Delaware!

$850 for one photographer to travel an hour or two to our wedding and shoot for 2 hours plus a disc of all the pictures and retouching.

We're paying $2600 for a husband and wife team, including an engagement shoot, 8 hours of coverage, all rights to the photos. They also attend our rehearsal. I'm really excited about them.

Mine is $1299 for 10 hours of photo/video, albums, digital rights, and an engagement session

$2800 including 6 hours, a disk with all the pictures, another disc with all the pics in black and white, an online album to send out to my guests, and a second shooter. We looked for awhile and this was the best price we could get for the quality we were looking for.

So many others STARTED at $3000 and didn't even include your own copy of photos! Explain that!

$850 for ALL day, including 2 photographers (one following the guys while getting ready, and then one to follow the girls while getting ready) unlimited number of pictures taken, she will edit 100-200 pictures and all pictures including edited will be put on a disk for me.