{"id":7233,"date":"2013-02-01T16:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridestlouis.com\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2022-08-04T05:17:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:17:53","slug":"why-wedding-photography-is-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridestlouis.com\/why-wedding-photography-is-so-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Wedding Photography is So Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you book a photographer for your wedding day, many couples don\u2019t realize that the time a photographer spends is a lot more than the 6-8 hours spent shooting your wedding.\u00a0 A professional photographer does more than \u201cjust shoot and burn a disk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wedding day is just the start.\u00a0 The workflow after a wedding to process the 800 or more images can be extremely time consuming.\u00a0 After performing duplicate backups, the photographer must select the best 800 or so images from over 1000s of images to remove duplicates and blinkers (those image having persons with closed eyes). \u00a0Then each image is adjusted for color balance, exposure, composition, cropping, and other enhancements as needed.\u00a0 Finally, the photos are copied to a disk and a selection of images is made to place on the internet so family and friends can enjoy the photos.<\/p>\n

A few months after the wedding, a review is scheduled with the couple to go over the initial image selection for inclusion into their album and to select prints.\u00a0 A first album draft is made.\u00a0 Revisions may be requested.\u00a0 Plus, album covers and layouts need to be selected. All the appointments, lab expense, phone calls, and emails will add to the time required.<\/p>\n

The bottom line \u2013 the 6 or 8 hours is usually over 40 hours of time.<\/p>\n

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Wedding photos are a life time investment as they capture a new beginning in your life.\u00a0 It\u2019s the birth of a new family.\u00a0 It records that day in your history.<\/p>\n

Because a wedding as a whole is remarkably expensive, considering the preparation effort alone to become your most beautiful on your wedding day (with the cost of bridal gowns, shoes, undergarments, jewelry, hair, makeup and flowers), it would be foolish to not consider good photography to capture all of the beauty plus all of the events, all of the emotions, all of the memories of that day.\u00a0 I can\u2019t over emphasize the value that should be placed on your decision to choose great photography for this day.<\/p>\n

One bride told my associate, \u201cI\u2019ve learned as a past bride, that you can\u2019t really put a price on your wedding photography.\u00a0 I spent about $1000 on my photos and wish that I had thought beforehand how I would feel about my wedding photos afterwards.\u00a0 For the rest of my life I will regret that decision and my desire at the time to save a few bucks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When you book a photographer for your wedding day, many couples don\u2019t realize that the time a photographer spends is a lot more than the 6-8 hours spent shooting your wedding.\u00a0 A professional photographer does more than \u201cjust shoot and burn a disk.\u201d The wedding day is just the start.\u00a0 The workflow after a wedding…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy Wedding Photography is So Expensive - Bride St. Louis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wedding photos are a life time investment as they capture a new beginning in your life.\u00a0 It\u2019s the birth of a new family.\u00a0 It records that day in your history.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bridestlouis.com\/why-wedding-photography-is-so-expensive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Wedding Photography is So Expensive - 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