Saturday, January 23, 2010

Budget Wedding Photography Ideas

By Jenny Wong

Your wedding day can be the realization of a lifetime dream; you want everything to be just perfect - and why not - from your flowers to you dress and everything else in between. But, for most people, even though is is a very special day you will still have a budget to work to. But when it comes to high-end professional services like as wedding photography, keeping focused on the budget can be hard. However, with a little bit of research, forward thinking and planning, and a vibrant dose of flexibility, you will be able to keep within budget for sure to ensure you have an affordable wedding while creating the memories you deserve.

Finding wedding photography services within your budget can be achieved fairly easily. So read on.

Start with word of mouth. Talk to all your friends or work colleagues that have held weddings similar in size and scope to what you are planning to decide what photographers worked well within their given price target.

Another casual way is to check with the management at your venue where you are holding your reception. Clearly, reception sites host a mixture of weddings throughout the year; they often have access to quality photographers who offer affordable services.

Many individuals may consider that employing a wedding planner will work against a budget-focused wedding, but the opposite is usually true. Wedding planners will frequently pay for themselves with the money they save you in vendor fees. Wedding planners have a service to provide you and one of these services is to stay within budget! Also wedding planners work with professionals often, they frequently have existing relationships that will save you money in the end.

But when it comes to affordable wedding photography, sometimes setting the run and type services you need rather than choosing a low-priced photographer will help you stay within your budget limit - more is not always better and at the end of the day having high quality is better than high quantity. If you have your heart fixed on a special wedding photographer that works in a way you love, then compromise to get to the price that you need; perhaps have the photographer only take your ceremony and official shots and then ask your guests to help take pictures throughout your reception to be accumulated into an album at a later date.

One really simple idea is to provide your wedding guests with cheap disposable cameras. This will add variety, fun and an unexpected flair to your whole wedding day. Your album will then be very unique indeed.

Another great and creative tip is to invite your friends and family to do part of the wedding preparations for you such as the flower display. Not only is this a great way to involve your friends you can ask them to not give bridal gifts but to do something else instead. And seeing many wedding gifts end up not being used then this can be a great idea. Instead your friends will likely be thrilled and delighted to be asked. This will raise your marriage experience for everyone and spare you money.

Ultimately, affordable bridal photography is about creative thinking and flexibility, time and energy. Being willing to work out of the box and think of small and often creative ways to save money, eventually all those small steps will add up to big savings.

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