Simple wedding photography tips for saving money!
Your wedding is a day when there is no limit to spend money for you and your family. Why Not! It is the most happiest and much awaited day of your life. Ranging from wedding planners and caterers to photographers, every thing is expensive. Whatever the budget you fix, it seems less. Thus, You start thinking about saving money on several occasions during your wedding. Most of us have learnt the tips from our Naani or Mother for saving money on many stuffs. But what about photography? Wedding photography is emerging in India with the growth of 20-25% every year. I already told you the tips for hiring a candid wedding photographer in my last write-up. Let's talk about wedding photography tips for saving money on your wedding day!
The moment you try to hire wedding photographers, everyone seems expensive and you try to find the cheap one. But as they say, "Cheap does not mean good and good does not mean cheap always." Why wedding photographers are so much expensive to hire?
In almost every wedding the photographers spend 55-60 hours. Most of the full time wedding photographers carry the full frame kit of worth 4-5 lac and it is just a tip of the iceberg. For example, I create 1200-1500 images of three day event and then post processing takes enough time. Surprisingly, their camera kit is not insured also, at least, not in India (I hope the insurance companies must be reading this write up and they would come up with this idea). Moreover, Most of the photographers end up in making less money during their first few years of wedding photography career.
If you are really thinking to save money over your wedding then it should not be the wedding photography. You must invest in the photographer and you will really get your money's worth. Read these wedding photography tips for saving money and get most out of it.
1. Find wedding photographers over online directory pages: If you google the candid wedding photographer, you will find certain links appearing on every search engine. In today's world, everything is market oriented. The more advertisers pay to google or facebook or twitter, the more their advertisements will flicker across your profile or browsing pages. You get the opportunity to see only 10 results over first page of search engines. You hardly scroll through the second or third page of google.
Sometimes, you like the work of the photographers which appears in the first page of the google but they are pre-booked. Sometimes, their quotes do not go with your budget. In this case, You can google for some company which offer complete list of vendors. These platforms give you the opportunity to find out the photographers with in your city under one roof. All the relevant information is given including price, services and experience by showcasing the work of the photographers. Some of these listing pages claim that they have more than Thousands of photographers listed on their platform. I am not sure to what extent it is true. Of course! It helps to zero in on the photographers with in your budget.