How much wedding photography coverage do you really need?
Wedding photography coverage can be anywhere from 30 minutes to 24 hours on a wedding day. If you think we are joking about 24 hours, think again. The question that many couples ask themselves is how much coverage do I really need. This is a very good question and one that cannot be answered by your wedding photographer. This question can only be answered by you, the bride and groom.
You are the only ones that truly know what is important to you in terms of coverage. Do you want to tell the story of your whole day? Do you only want the ceremony and a few images captured of the two of you alone? Are you having a Big Fat Portuguese Wedding? The question that we ask every couple that ask how much coverage they need is this…WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU? Most of our clients want to tell the story of their day. This can be told on average between 8-12 hours, and many weddings can take up to 16 hours to cover. It depends on travel and how well your events are spaced on your timeline.
Not everyone can afford to have a photographer there to capture any and all of the events but they can be there to capture the important ones. We have a wedding this year in which we are contracted for 4 hours of coverage. This includes their first reveal, formal portraits, ceremony and the first hour of their reception. This is the coverage they felt told the story of their wedding day, they way they wanted it told. The more traditional weddings fell that they desire the groom getting ready as well as the bride getting ready before the ceremony. Everyone is different, and everyone is right.
As a wedding photographer there are no set timelines that we need to follow to capture the best images possible. Any timeline works for us, we can capture great images in 5 minutes or 5 days. Your wedding photography coverage should be dictated by the ones having the wedding. They are the bosses for that day, the bride and groom are the boss. What the boss wants they usually get. All that you need to ask yourself is what do we want documented and how much time should that take. Allow wiggle room for any unforeseen events as well as weather and travel. This could be 6 or 16 hours of wedding photography coverage. Either way it’s the time you need to capture all of the wonderful events on your dream wedding day.
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