Monday, January 11, 2010

Affordable Wedding Photography

By James Wong

Your special day can be the realisation of a long-held dream; you want everything to be just perfect - and why not - from your venue to your flowers, dress and makeup 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 affordable bridal photography can be achieved in a number of specific ways. So read on.

Word of mouth is your best tool to start with. Talk to friends or work colleagues that have held wedding days similar in size and scope to what you are planning to determine what professional photographers worked really well within their given budget.

Drop by at your wedding venue and ask the management if they have a list of businesses that they know. This could save you hours of time plus hundred's of dollars.

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

But when it comes to inexpensive wedding photography, sometimes fixing the run and type services you expect rather than choosing a low-priced photographer will help you stay within your budget - 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 set on a specific wedding photographer that works in a way you love, then compromise to get to the price that you need; perhaps have the photographer only shoot your ceremony and formal shots and then ask your guests to help take photos throughout your reception to be pulled together 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 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. After all many wedding gifts will often never be used so will stay in a cold cupboard. Instead your friends will probably be thrilled and delighted to be involved. This will heighten your wedding experience for everyone and spare you money.

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

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