Wedding Tips - Choosing A Wedding Photographer
August 31, 2008
Your wedding photographs are tangible records of your wedding and will serve as reminders of the moment you both promised to love, honor and cherish one another. This is the reason why choosing the right person or persons to take your wedding photographs is so important. Your wedding photographer must be a person that you are comfortable and will enjoy working with. During your wedding day you, your family and guests will be interacting with this person all day. Therefore, your decision to hire a photographer should be based on their style and personality, not just on price alone.
With the usual budget for wedding photography estimated to be between 5% to 10% of your total wedding budget, you and your future husband need to consider several questions before hiring a photographer. These series of articles are intended to help you make the right decision in hiring the person who will take lasting memories of your wedding day.
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Setting Your Budget for Your Wedding
May 18, 2008
Setting Your Wedding Budget
Prior to setting your budget, you and your fiancée should have decided on the size of your guest list and the type of wedding (either formal, informal or semi-formal). As you research your reception site, figure on about 80% of your wedding guests will come to the reception. In addition, the more formal the wedding, the more expensive it would be. Also agree on who pays for what. In previous days, the bride’s parents pay for the wedding while the groom’s parents pay for the reception. This is no longer the norm in this century. Most engaged couples are now paying for the wedding expenses themselves. With the cost of weddings these days, it is not uncommon to ask your parents to pitch in with the expenses, if they so please.
Just because the average wedding now costs upwards of $28,000 (see our post Planning A Wedding - Where to Start) you do not need to spend that much to have your perfect wedding. If you have this kind of money saved, then go for it. But, if you would rather spend less [Read more]
