Hertfordshire Wedding Photographer

How to Put Together Your Perfect Wedding Photography Package​

I want to offer you a simple and straightforward way to put together your perfect wedding photography package! Everything I offer is bespoke for you and the reason for this is, as with every couple, every wedding is different, and I believe it’s your day, do it your way! That includes your wedding photography. I want to help you put together a wedding photography package that suits you and your day. Being a bespoke service, you can ultimately have whatever you want in your package. Now, this may seem overwhelming, but when the sky is the limit, where do you start? In this blog, I am going to break it down so you can work out what you would like and how to build that perfect wedding photography package for you!!

 

Where to begin with your wedding photography package?

The first place to start is going to be what coverage (when to start and stop your photography) you would like on your wedding day! What parts of the day you want to be photographed is totally up to you. It is about the aspects and events of the wedding day that you would like captured. I tend to recommend starting a couple of hours before the wedding ceremony. This allows me to cover the last bit of getting ready and those lovely moments with your closest family and friends, and a few last-minute nerves!

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Then it’s a question of when you want me to finish.

Is it just until you sit down for your wedding breakfast or speeches, or until your first dance or beyond? You tell me. I don’t tend to work by the hour and the reason for this is that, unfortunately, weddings generally don’t run on time and I’m just not the sort of person that could say "oh it’s 7 pm, I’m out of here!" So if you book me up until your first dance, and for whatever reason, the dancing is delayed, I will be there until you have done your Dirty Dancing lift (only joking, gentle swaying is perfectly acceptable!) 

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Whatever coverage you choose, you will receive...

1. Full professional editing of your photographs.

1. High resolution photographs on a USB.

1. password-secured online gallery of your wedding photographs.

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Editing:

This may seem a strange thing to include in your package, but it is also a massive part of what you’re paying a professional photographer for. I’ve been a wedding photographer for over 4 years and editing is a highly skilled part of the job. As a documentary wedding photographer, I usually take a couple of photos at any given time to capture those genuine emotional images.This first stage of editing is all about honing your photographs to be the best of the best.

Once I have what I call my first edit, I then process them all through Photoshop, where I tweak things like colour correction, contrast, and, of course, convert some images to black and white. When we have our chat a week or so before the wedding day to confirm the final details of the day, one of my questions is always about the ratio of colour to black and white photography you would like. All of this work is to produce a set of the highest quality wedding photographs that you will cherish forever.