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Jayla
Champion October 2025

Which came first: booking your photographer or buying your wedding dress?

Jayla, on December 11, 2018 at 11:05 AM

Posted in Planning 121

What big budget decision did you make first? Was booking your photographer a top priority? Or did you jump right into shopping for your wedding dress? Which came first for you, and how soon did you check these choices off your planning list? Photo from Fabulous Frocks of Atlanta in Atlanta, GA Next...

What big budget decision did you make first? Was booking your photographer a top priority? Or did you jump right into shopping for your wedding dress? Which came first for you, and how soon did you check these choices off your planning list?

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Photo from Fabulous Frocks of Atlanta in Atlanta, GA


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  • Jayla
    Champion October 2025
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    Lol!!! Its so beautifulSmiley love

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  • Jayla
    Champion October 2025
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    Omg Sara!! Congratulations on your engagement!!!!! This is so exciting!

    Please share about your shopping experience later, we'd love to know how it goes!

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  • kymarmck
    Super March 2020
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    Photographer. She's a friend of mine and did our engagement photos and I absolutely LOVED them so she's doing videography and photography for us! I go January 5th to (hopefully) find THE dress!!

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  • J
    Dedicated October 2019
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    It was like kismet! I walked into Nordstroms with my mom looking for a dress for her... And BOOM. There it was Smiley smile my mom found her dress later at another store lol
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  • Andrea
    Beginner June 2019
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    I have our photographer booked. I still need to go dress shopping. I'm nervous and indecisive so have been putting it off ha
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  • Ginsteeca
    Expert June 2019
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    We booked our photographer in February, I bought my dress in October.

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  • Saraí
    April 2019
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    I bought my dress first, I bought it two months after we got engaged and we booked the photographer back in October!

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  • S
    Savvy January 2020
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    Buying my dress. I know my wedding is so far out and way to early for my dress but the one I fell in love with was on sale so I went in store to try it and loved on even more. So that's how I got mine.
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  • D
    Super September 2019
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    Photographer ! The dress is amazing too though. Im in love
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  • Mmssecrets
    Devoted March 2019
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    I bought my dress Black Friday before last (11/17) so my dress came first.
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  • Alyrae
    Super February 2020
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    I bought my dress before I was even engaged
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  • mrsanda
    VIP March 2017
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    My dress. I got my dress on a whim. I went with my MOH for a fun try on not expecting to buy anything, no other BMs or sisters/aunts/mom could make it. And of course I fell in love with the dress and it was the only one and in my size!
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  • Hannah
    Devoted July 2019
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    They both came around the same time, but my dress was officially first!

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  • Andrea
    Dedicated August 2019
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    Booking the photographer. That is one of the harder decisions:-)
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  • Kelci
    Super June 2019
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    I bought my dress right before I booked my photographer
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  • Aiesha
    Dedicated November 2019
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    Photographer first dress shortly after like a month later!
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  • Teresa
    Beginner June 2019
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    As this is a second marriage for both of us, we have decided to go simple and small. We arent hiring a photogrspher but we still want puctures of course... so we are speeading the word to the few close family and friends we invited that if they take photos we would love to have copies, and between us we have 5 inexpensive digital cameras, so we are going to set them out early with notes to fill them up. Sounds like fun and we should get at least a few great shots
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  • Jennifer
    Super December 2019
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    My dress. It was my grandmother's so technically it was made 40 years before I was born. Grandpa's mom was a bridal designer and made it for her new daughter-in-law as a gift. I decided when I was 6 that I was going to wear it, but it got lost when my grandparents moved after Grandma had a stroke. My cousin found it in her attic when she bought her parent's house all stored items included when I was 27 and sent it to me. I didnt meet my fiancee for a couple years after that.

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  • Brittany
    Dedicated October 2019
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    Booked as many vendors as we could right away. I also started looking at dresses, didnt buy my dress till they were booked.
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  • Kim
    Super September 2019
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    I booked the photographer first as well.
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