Bees, we talked to a lot of photographers. Pittsburgh is a pretty awesome city, filled with tons of great photo options. In fact, most of the pictures in my last post were taken by Pennsylvania photographers! And I preeeetty much contacted all of them, and then some. Here’s how the Dreamcatchers caught our dream photographer. (I’m sorry, I had to. :P)
Step one: Google the crap out of them. Find their portfolio, reviews, blogs, and any other info on the web. If you like what you see, proceed to step two.
Step two: Send an email asking for pricing. We set our budget to (what we thought was) a fairly high number, so if their packages started over our budget we moved along.
Step three: If I still liked them after reviewing their portfolio yet again, we met face to face.
Step four: Ask to see multiple full albums, especially of weddings that will be similar to yours! This is a very important step, bees!!! When you?re reviewing it think about it this way: If these were your photos, would you be happy with them" Obviously every couple has different preferences (some want more formal family portraits, others want a million detail shots, and some want to focus on getting the best couple shots.) Just be sure that you are confident in your photographer?s ability to capture everything that is most important to you!
Step five: Narrow down your options! I made side-by-side comparisons in my wedding binder on the following parameters.
1. Response time. This was a huge pr...