Tipping for Engagement Photos

Following - need to know this as well!

Following as well never thought of that

Umm, we're going to take our photographer to dinner. She's s friend, though and is doing our engagement photos as a gift.

Following - was wondering the same thing! I just booked our engagement pictures yesterday and the photographer doing those is also doing our wedding. Our engagement pictures will be $150 so I was going to give her a check and then slip in like $20-30 in cash as a tip. My only problem is I don't want to give her a tiny tip and insult her, but then I also feel like it's rude to not tip her at all... What does everyone else think?

What do you do if you won the engagement session for free?

FH and I did not tip our photographer. We are going to at the wedding of course. I am pretty sure that I have seen some where on this site, a long time ago that you do not have to.

Hmm we didn't tip ours...uh oh! We are using them for the wedding too, so I figure we'll just give them a nice tip once it's all said and done.

I did not .. but she will be tipped well at the wedding .. typically if they are the owner as most photogs are you dont tip my engagment shoot was more then we anticipated so

We are not tipping the photographer. He owns his own business and sets his own rates, therefore, no tip. We will leave a positive review on social media.

This tipping wedding vendors has gotten way out of hand, in my opinion.

We did tip the photographer for our engagement pictures, but we were in a different situation. Since our wedding is a DW we had to hire a local photographer for our engagement pictures. We tipped him at the end of the session. If it was the same photographer for both, I think tipping at the wedding is perfectly fine.

I have my engagement session this Sunday and I was not planning to.

I just took engagement pictures Sunday and we did not tip because she will also be photographing our wedding. I'm undecided if I'm going to give her a cash tip or a nice gift and note. She owns her own business and is on the pricier side, so I don't know if I should feel the need to give a cash tip on top of that. I'm interested to see what others say.

I was hesitate on this too, but we tipped them $40 at the end of the night. Our engagement session is also included in the wedding package price. There were several things that went into the tipping though. They drove about an hour to where we wanted our pictures to be done. It was a super cold and winy day to do it and I was adamant about not rescheduling. We went about 2 hours when they only said it would be about 1 hour. Also the timing of the shoot was around sunset ish so I'm sure it ended up cutting into dinner times for them because we didn't get done until maybe 7:45 ish or 8.

Really for FH and I it was just to show appreciation that they drove out to where we wanted and that they took time out of the evening dinner type schedule in order to do them. So kind of reimbursement for gas/food.

We didn't tip at the engagement session since it was included in our package, but we did when we finished paying for everything. We tipped her 50 bucks.

We were a little unprepared for engagement photos are truly forgot to tip! I will instead tip generously at the wedding, or perhaps give a small tip when we receive our e-pics.

I'm not tipping for engagement, just after the wedding! I don't think they expect it, since they are doing both events.

View Quoted Comment I completely agree! We are considering giving them a gift card to a local restaurant with a thank you card only because they’ve become friends and they do amazing work but I just don’t understand how $300 for three hours (e-pics) or $1000 for eight isn’t enough?!

When I was doing wedding photography we were never tipped. It's expensive enough lol

Thank you for posting this. My engagement photos are part of my wedding photo package as well and I didn't even think about tipping because I planned to tip at the wedding. Thank you for making me think about it, but I think I am going to just save it for the wedding Hope this helps!

We had our engagement shoot in March, and we didn’t tip our photographer. I think I would have felt weird handing her an envelope of money or a check after the shoot? The engagement shoot is part of our wedding package. We will tip them on the wedding day! They have done an amazing job so far.