You have returned the net, the wedding directories, read millions of discussions on forums, and you have found the photographer who combines style and budget, he is the one you want super! But be careful now, we will have to move on to concrete things.
Talk To Him.
A phone call is important to get to know each other. The feeling has to pass. The best photographer in the world can work for you. If he cannot make you comfortable the rendering will not be up to your expectations.
Did you seem comfortable? The 1st impression is very important. It is then important to meet you confirm or not you’re first feeling it would be a shame to miss your best for a history of phone calls made at a complicated time of their day! Who has never answered a bit dryly during a children’s homework session?!
Talk About Your Project
The 1st appointment often takes place 1 year or more before the big day. In this case you have not yet completely organized. This 1st appointment is not there to stall everything it is there to get to know you and also to see if your overall project holds up. No question of asking your darling photographer to go and photograph your future during its preparation if it is at mother-in-law’s place 150 km away. Let’s remain realistic, we are not superhuman photographers.
How many guests will you be? What type of ceremony all these questions must be addressed, your photographer must be interested in your project, start to see it take shape and detect if something is impossible to achieve.
Try To Gauge His Professionalism.
Do not ask him for a list of his equipment, but feel that he is managing the situation. The secret of a good wedding photographer is in his ability to adapt to all situations bad weather, faulty equipment behind the word “professional” these are the kinds of questions that your provider must settle without you don’t worry
Personally, you get to know your clients on your wedding day. You need to break this barrier quickly enough, enter your family in your intimacy, this for a way of passing more discreetly. The photographer is the provider that you will see the most during this day you must be at comfortable. If you prefer to see it tell him it will adapt.
The Time Comes For The Contract.
To block the date, you will be asked to fill out a contract, sign it and pay a deposit. At this moment you have chosen your photographer, he is committed to you, you are linked its scary right? Yes a little but in fact no because you could read your contract and realize that this mutual commitment protects you from possible galleys. Everything must be addressed, the place, the date, the type of ceremony the package chosen, the final price and the options if there are any. Pay attention to the closed distribution of images. The photographer remains the owner of your photos, but not frees to distribute them.
In conclusion, the most important for you is to find the photographer who will put you at ease and who will match you not for its price but for its universe. Do not forget one thing, in 20 to 30 years, the memory of your wedding will fade slowly, but thanks to us, the photographers, it will be enough to open your album for all your memories to come back and that is too important to make your choice lightly or on inappropriate criteria.