Hiring a qualified photographer is an essential step in planning a wedding. After all, your wedding photos are a one-time opportunity. Due to this, hiring an ideal wedding photographer is essential for your wedding in Paradise Cove’s outdoor wedding venues in Dallas.

1. When to hire a wedding photographer

Once you have booked the wedding ceremony and reception in our outdoor wedding venues in Dallas, begin shopping for a photographer. Setting a date for the ceremony will not always assure that the venue of your choice – or the photographer, will be available. Book the venue and reception before the photographer.

In addition, prized photographers are often booked a year in advance, and you may not be able to secure them. Begin comparing photographers early on, but do not book them until the date of the ceremony and reception are confirmed.

2. Preselecting a photographer

Once you have narrowed the choice to three photographers who are available for the date of your wedding in our outdoor wedding venues in Dallas, meet with each one in person. This step ensures that you like your photographer, which is an essential for wedding photography.

3. The qualities to look for in a wedding photographer

The top quality a photographer can have is experience. While creativity is an essential, the ability to carry it out is even more important.

The skill of clear communication is essential, as a photographer who is not concise in his expectations with subjects can lead to friction.

Consistency in style is a necessity. A photographer who jumps all over the spectrum of style in photography will leave you wondering what you will receive. A photographer who consistently produces clean, clear photography is one who will provide a consistent, and reliable quality.

4. Questions to ask during the first meeting

Far too often couples hire a photographer that goes out of business before they receive their pictures. For this reason, ask them how long they have been in business. A stable business provides an assurance of receiving your wedding photos.

Ask if he/she works well with people. You want to hire a photographer who can manage and coordinate groups of people and can handle related issues.

Clarify exactly what you will receive, and the services provided. Ensure you receive the quote in writing, providing proof if there is a discrepancy when you hire the photographer.

Ensure you meet with the photographer who will be shooting your wedding, and not a sales consultant, manager or studio owner. Meeting the photographer will ensure you like the photographer, an essential as you and your wedding party will be spending significant time with him/her in our outdoor wedding venues in Dallas.

Establish the number of photos you will receive. The typical photographer is preserving 50 to 100 photos per hour. This captures all of the details that you may have missed while conversing, and mingling.

5. The high cost of wedding photography

To those not in the industry of photography, the cost may seem excessive. However, consider the costs involved for the photographer. First, the photographer can easily be carrying $15,000 to $20,000 work of equipment and gear. Next, consider it will easily require several days just to edit the hundreds of images made during your wedding and reception.

In addition, the photographer has the cost of software, albums, business expenses (which include taxes, rent, commercially rated utilities, insurance, and other), shipping, and the cost of an assistant if applicable, repair of equipment, transportation, and other. The cost of being a small business is high, and leaves the photographer with surprisingly little.

6. When your choice of a photographer is not available

Once the choices are narrowed and a decision is made, and your first choice is no longer available for the date of your wedding, simply ask them for their recommendations. They probably know a reliable photographer with a similar style, who may be available for your ceremony and reception in Paradise Cove’s outdoor wedding venues in Dallas.

Tips to communicate

• Tell your photographer of special requests you have.

• Provide the photographer for an essentials list. For example, you may want a photo of yourself with your grandmother, or a best friend. Ask him/her to use it as a check-off list to ensure the photos you want.

• Ask the photographer to visit the outdoor wedding venues in Dallas prior to the wedding. This will enable the photographer to note features that will provide exceptional wedding photos, before the wedding.

• Request an all angles view that captures the special details of your wedding dress and veil. In 20 years, you will especially appreciate it.

• Include grandparents, aunts, uncles and other older relatives in your photography session. Over time, as older family passes away these photos will hold special meaning in your heart.

• Request non-ceremony photos to be shot prior to the ceremony. Family and friends can be photographed before the wedding, in addition to your favorite areas of the outdoor wedding venues in Dallas. This will free up the photographer to concentrate on the ceremony and the reception afterward.

are memories captured in time, and you want them to be as perfect as the wedding day itself. Provide your photographer with an essentials photo list, retain a copy for yourself, and include his/her agreement to use it in the contract. Paradise Cove’s outdoor wedding venues in Dallas can ensure every detail of the perfect wedding for your special day, a capable photographer ensures a photographic record of it. We anticipate meeting you and your fiancé in Paradise Cove’s outdoor wedding venues in Dallas.