A lot of the “wedding photographers” who offer extremely low prices don’t have a proper business in place and don’t offer albums at all or only offer cheap of the shelf albums that can be bought by anyone because they are unable to be accepted by the higher end album companies as they can’t be verified as a professional photographer. If we don’t own the copyright to the images, we can’t use them. There is also the issue of copyright of the images provided. Secondly, for us to design an album in the way that we normally would, we need to know the story of the day, it isn’t possible to do that if we were not there on the day. Firstly, it takes time and consideration, we would rather spend that time working on albums for our own couples. The reason we only provide albums to our own couples is because designing an album isn’t an easy task. We often find that these are couples, who at one point considered us to photograph their wedding but decided to go for a cheaper or free option instead. Photography is about using light and composition to produce an image and no amount of Photoshop can fix a bad photograph. We always say no, it isn’t possible to make a bad photograph good by editing it in a different way. We regularly get contacted by couples who decided on the cheapest option available when choosing a wedding photographer or had a friend photograph their wedding for free, asking us if we can re-edit their photographs and provide them with an album. There is also another reason why this data shows that only 25% of couples received an album, this is because of budget wedding photographers. We think that if more photographers did this, a lot more couples would choose an album in their wedding photography package. We are really pleased that we have been able to keep the cost of albums affordable for our clients. Some photographers charge a large mark up on the cost price of albums which can make it more difficult for couples to include one within their budget. We personally think that a large reason that so many couples opted to not have an album is down to cost. Our most popular wedding package includes a storybook wedding album.Īs a photographer we know that printed photographs especially an album have a lot more impact and hold much more emotional attachment than digital photographs viewed on a computer or another device. That is completely different from our own data. ![]() One thing that really surprised us from the data provided on the report is that only 25% of couples purchased a wedding album. You can find further details on how to best back up your wedding photographs here. This is something we are looking at possibly changing in the future though as u.s.b memory sticks are very unreliable as a method of storing photographs and some couples prefer the download option as it is more convenient for them. At the moment most of our couples who are based locally receive a u.s.b and we provide couples who live further away the option of receiving their photographs via a download instead. U.K wedding photography packages what is normally included?Īccording to the survey there has been a large increase of couples choosing to opt for a digital only wedding photography option with no album with a whopping 75% of all couples not purchasing a wedding album and instead receiving there wedding photographs on a u.s.b memory stick or by digital download only. This means that we are around the average in terms of the cost of wedding photography. The data on the report shows that on average couples spent £1,110 on wedding photography not including a wedding album. The average cost of wedding photography in the U.K We have covered this before in another blog post which you can read here. ![]() Every wedding photographer will have their own way of doing things and we found that wedding fairs just weren’t a good fit for us. This is good news for us as we don’t attend wedding fairs at all. Only 15% found their wedding photographer at a wedding fair. According to the report 35% of couples found their wedding photographers based on a recommendation from a family member or a friend and 22% found their wedding photographers online. ![]() Obviously as Northern Ireland wedding photographers this part of the report is interesting to us. How U.K couples find a photographer for their wedding
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