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How To Choose Your Wedding Photographer

Updated: Jun 28


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Your wedding day is one of the biggest, most exciting days of your life, and if photos are a top priority for you, there are many things you need to consider when you're searching for the right photographer to document your wedding day. It's important to find a photographer that you are confident will photograph the day perfectly for you and will be helpful to work with throughout the planning process. However, there is an absolute abundance of talent in the wedding industry and it can be overwhelming trying to find someone you can trust to capture the day. Here are a few talking points to discuss with photographers when you're in the planning process...


1.) Make Sure You Love Their Style

The easiest way to start filtering out photographers is by choosing a style that you love. Do you love edits that are dark and moody, filmy, light and airy, warm color tones, vibrant, muted greens, true-to-life colors, etc...? My personal advice - choose a photographer whose editing style won't be out of style in 5-10 years. You want to love your wedding photos forever, so you want them to look timeless and not just trendy.


Be sure to notice their style of shooting too! Do you love dramatic, posed portraits or a motion-based, unposed approach? Lots of candids with real moments of love and laughter? Or a maybe fusion of it all? You'll want to make sure that the shooting style that your photographer uses will fit with your style and your partners because if you don't feel comfortable it will show in your photos. Don't pretend to be people that you aren't just for the sake of having photos to share on IG.


Lighting style is huge now too. 5 years ago, someone using direct flash would have been laughed out of the business, but now it's back on trend and in high demand. There are photographers who don't use external lighting at all and instead rely on the available light from the sun or ambient lighting that's already in the room. Some use lights on stands to help light a room in a balanced manner. And some use a mix of all 3.