A little over 8 months until the big day! We actually have things on our checklist that need to be done soon! And one of those things is finally deciding on a photographer.
We started looking for a photographer months ago and after scouring websites, blogs, and friend's wedding albums we met with two. Both met us at a local coffee shop. With both we had pleasant conversation and looked over some albums one digital and one print. Both were great. One we decided was too expensive and the other didn't have enough experience.
From these first experiences we decided we really wanted two photographers so we emailed a number of husband/ wife teams. We met with one of these teams at their studio/ house and they served us wine on their beautiful deck. It was early fall and the trees were just starting to turn. We played with their dogs, talked for a long time, and looked through many of the albums, both digital and print.
We narrowed our search to this team or one other, who we had seen in action at weddings twice. There were things we liked about each but felt very comfortable with either.
We emailed both teams and asked for bottom line price quotes, including any travel fees, disk fees, etc. One team got right back to us, explaining each part out and giving us a final number. A couple days later they wrote back, again, saying they would cut the disk fee, and therefor lowering the sales tax, also.
We waited for the other team to email us. We emailed them a second time. We waited two days. We didn't hear anything.
We decided on the first team.
On that day first time emailed us a third time, this time telling us that they had actually decided to retire and would not be able to shoot our wedding.
Hmm... Do we re-open the search? Do we call the second team and ask what is up? The photography conundrum continues...
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