are you a bride that is searching for a photographer for your wedding day today
we are going to share with you how to go through the process of contacting and
booking your photographer my name is Meredith Ryncarz and I own a wedding
and portrait photography business on this YouTube channel we share with
Brides how to have a stress-free wedding day and for photographers to provide a
better experience for their clients now in videos 1 & 2 we talked about
whittling down that list to about 3 or 4 photographers and now it's time to reach
out to them and set up a meeting we recommend that you meet with these
photographers in person because it really gives you the best insight into
who they are their personality and how you guys are gonna interact on the
wedding day we know that it's not always possible to meet in person but if at
most you can meet through Skype or FaceTime that's at least better than a
phone call without being able to see their face once you've set up that time
to meet make sure that it's in a place that's quiet that you can hear each
other and not have to yell over a loud crowd or a coffee shop where the coffee
maker is just making a ton of noise make sure it's nice and quiet make sure that
all of the decision-makers are there for this meeting because nothing is more
frustrating than having the photographer tell you all these wonderful things and
you're ready to book but your parents might be the decision-makers in this if
they're helping you pay for the wedding and they're not there then it becomes an
issue of having to go back to them and hopefully relay everything the
photographer said to you and then go back to the photographer a week later
only to find out that this photographer that you really wanted to book, booked
somebody else for your date ok so now that you've set up the meeting all the
decision-makers are going to be there it's time to actually go meet your
potential photographer the first thing that you
to do when you walk through that door is assess what they're wearing this is a
really good nonverbal indicator of how they will conduct themselves on a
wedding day are there where are they wearing leggings and ugg boots or are
they dressed professionally in a way that appeals to you if they're messy and
frumpy they're probably going to run their business the same way that they're
conducting themselves and while you shouldn't always judge a book by cover
when it comes to hiring somebody you want somebody that displays and conducts
themselves professionally and not necessarily in a t-shirt the next thing
that you want to do is to clarify your wedding date time and location with your
photographer this will do several things it will ensure that a busy photographer
hasn't accidentally written down your wrong date wrong location or already
accidentally booked somebody in your place this also does a second thing when
you bring up your wedding venue they may already be aware of some policies in
place that you might need not necessarily be aware of we'll talk about
that a little bit more later in this video
during the meeting you want to make sure that you walk through some specific
questions that can clarify whether or not this photographer that you're
meeting is the right photographer for you
we could go through every single one of them but for shortness of video we've
listed the additional questions below so first and foremost you want to ask your
photographer to walk through your wedding day this gives you a really
clear idea of what their process is how they like to photograph and how you guys
will interact with him or her on your wedding day and their team honestly as a
photographer we are with our brides and grooms more than anybody else on the
wedding day more than your parents more than your best friend honestly even more
than your husband or your wife because there are sections of the time where
we'll take you off by yourself to do portraits so you want to make sure that
you can get along with the photographer that you are sitting down and talking
with the next thing that you want to go ahead and ask them is if they have
liability insurance the reason this is so important is that it their gear falls
over and hurts one of your friends one of your wedding guests or hurts you
or rips your dress apart who knows but that they are covered for that damage
that they may cause on your wedding day every professional photographer should
have liability insurance the next one and this is a little bit technical but I
want you to hang with me because it's going to really affect your photos ask
them if they shoot DSLR or they shoot film by now you should already know this
based on their website but you may want to double check sometimes it's kind of
hard to tell if they are a DSLR digital photographer you want to ask them if
they shoot with a crop sensor camera or a full-frame camera if they shoot with a
crop sensor camera politely thank them for meeting get up and walk out because a
crop sensor means that you can't print your photos that you're gonna get back
in a big 11x14 or 16x24 it becomes really hard because a crop sensor camera
is not a professional camera it also can't handle dark reception rooms or
venues that don't have any windows to them you want to make sure that you ask
them if they are the photographer that will be covering and photographing your
wedding day the reason that you want to ask this is a lot of photography studios
have associate photographers that means that they have a team of photographers
that works for the lead and oftentimes will shoot multiple weddings on one day
and it may mean that the lead photographer that you're actually
meeting with is not going to be the photographer that photographs you on
your wedding day the last question that I want to go over with you
that's really important if there are any hidden fees or taxes that come in on top
of the quote that they've already given you sometimes the photographer may not
be a preferred photographer for a venue and are then charged extra by that venue
and they pass that fee on to you or there may be taxes or up charges that
they haven't told you about for that wedding day travel fees or other items
so just clarify with them that the price that you're seeing as the quote from
them is the price that you're gonna pay at the very end
now that we've gone over the questions to ask your wedding photographer your
potential wedding photographer now I want you to listen in on a couple that
we really suggest you not ask your photographer the top one being have you
photographed at my venue and the reason we really suggest avoiding asking this
question is because a professional photographer will be able to walk into
any situation any venue any place they have never shot before and comfortably
handle anything that's thrown their way in asking them this question
subconsciously you may be already thinking that they're not the right
photographer for you the next question that we recommend you avoid asking is if
you can see a full gallery some photographers may have galleries they
just can't even show you because of the contract that they have between the
bride and the groom and themselves the other reason is most photographers are
going to pick a gallery that's been whittled down that is their best of the
best work so we highly recommend looking at their Instagram account and their
blog posts for their most recent weddings and by scrolling through those
images you're gonna get a much better idea of the type of photographer they
are then asking to see a full gallery of a wedding day the next question that we
really suggest you avoid asking is how many years they've been in business we
have seen some amazing photographers that have only been shooting weddings
for two or three years versus photographers that have
been in business for twenty years whose work is absolutely horrible their client
interaction is deplorable and yet they've been shooting weddings for years
and years again go back and look at their reviews online look at other
customers and what they're saying about them that will give you a better insight
into what they do on a wedding day and what a good quality photographer that
they are the other question to avoid is how many weddings they shoot in a year
because this question doesn't reflect whether they are a quality photographer
or not they may choose as a boutique studio to only shoot one to two weddings
a month or even just ten weddings a year trying to determine if they're a quality
photographer based on the amount of volume they do will not give you a good
insight into who or what their business does the last question we suggest you
avoid asking is what the photographer's favorite part of the wedding day is
we're wedding photographers we love 99% of the wedding day and so that's like
asking a mom to pick her favorite child instead ask them about themselves their
hobbies things that they like to do that gives you a better insight into their
personality than asking what it is they like about a specific part of the
wedding day I hope that this has helped you prepare for finding the right
photographer for you if you have liked this content make sure that you go ahead
and subscribe we have new videos coming out every single week to help you better
plan and prepare for your wedding day if you missed the other videos in this
four-part series hit the playlist above so that you can see the rest of them and
of course let us know in the comments below what you loved or if you have a
question they
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