Here's Part Two of Hitched's Article
32 Questions To Ask Your Wedding Photographer
YOU CAN FIND PART ONE WITH QUESTIONS 1 TO 25 RIGHT HERE
Packages and Payment
26. How Much is the Deposit and When Do You Need It By?
So my deposit or booking fee as I call it, is £200 and that will secure your date for you and I'll turn away any other enquiries for your date, it's due within 7 days of receiving the contract, there's the usual 14 day cooling off period and the final balance is due the calendar month before the wedding day.
27. Will We Receive Digital Copies Of All Images And How Many Will That Be?
If you've gone for the Digital Files instead of the Wedding Album you'll get all the edited images in high-res and all of the images resized to look their best across social media. If you've chosen the one of the stunning hand-made album packages then you'll get the album (of course!), the high-res files of your chosen wedding album photos and as a thank you for choosing the album, all of the images resized to look their absolute best across all of the social media platforms.
Now listen hitched, this bit in your article- "most photographers shoot with digital" - YEAH OK THAT'S TRUE!! ..... "so you can expect a full set of edited digital copies of your photos as standard in wedding packages, usually 1000+ photos." AS IF!! TOO MANY!! NEVER HEARD OF QUALITY OVER QUANTITY?? ..... "Get in writing in your contract the full details of what you receive including a personal use copyright licence which allows you to print out your wedding photos." SERIOUSLY COME ON NOW, you're meant to be helping couples here, most people don't understand copyright and it definitely looks like you really don't have the foggiest idea either! As soon as the button is pressed and "click" the photographer owns the photograph and the copyright, couples really only need the reproduction rights or the right to print for non-commercial use, that's it. As long as they can print their photos, that's all they need, come on now hitched, sort it out!! You mean personal printing use, not copyright, don't be giving out bad advice and giving couples questions to ask in your articles that don't even apply. DOH!!
28. Do You Offer A Print And/Or Album Service ?
I've got an awesome online shop in your gallery where you and your guests can order prints and wall art directly and have them shipped straight to you! I also offer a range of stunning Wedding StoryBook Albums, all hand-made in Italy and designed with you, for you. You can see some of the stunning wedding album designs by clicking right here.
29. Is Retouching Included in the Price?
Weird Question (again). Yes it is, I'm not going to deliver unedited photographs straight out of the camera but that said, there'll retouching up to a point. I'll always do my standard edits on all my images, as a documentary photographer I'm taking pictures of what I see happening in front of me so unless it's a guest, I won't edit a T-Rex or any other dinosaur chasing your Bridal Party into any of your wedding photographs.
30. Can We Create a Bespoke Package?
Yeah of course, what are thinking? Let me know HERE.
31. How Long Will the Pictures Take to Arrive?
Depending on the time of year, when it's right in the middle of wedding season it may take a bit longer than it would during the rest of the year but in general I'll aim to get a little sneak peek to you within a week of the wedding, after you've had the sneak peek it's usually 2-4 weeks, maybe a little longer if I'm right in the thick of it.
32. When Will We Need to Make the Final Payment?
As I mentioned in the previous blog, the final payment is due one calendar month before the big day unless we've agreed otherwise.
UPDATE.... So it appears that...
...might just have changed their thinking on some of the points in their article and there's now an update and we're now down to just "29 Questions To Ask Your Wedding Photographer."
I'd say the ones they've dropped probably didn't go down very well across the Wedding Photographer Community.
You can read the article for yourself by clicking on the hitched logo above.