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I can't help :(. My SIL is my photographer and she is doing it as my gift. Although, my future SIL just got married and for 2 hours and a cd of the pics paid around 750. However, the photos suck. The guy sucked. He didn't get photos she asked for and he said he got. Everything was orange. Plus he wasn't that nice.

You might find a bit of info in the comments for this post from last month. I know I posted my photography package there. :)

I don't know that I can help much. A friend of my husband's is a professional photographer and he did our wedding for $600. What we got was all day coverage, retouched and photoshopped pictures on a cd with all of the rights to them, along with all of the original pictures so that we could retouch and photoshop them ourselves (husband is an artist). But that's knowing someone.

Tell him, every dime paid for a GOOD photographer is worth it. I had to squeeze my wedding photography budget and regretted it every single day after the wedding.

We paid about 1200 and that included:

-rehearsal photos
-about 12 hours the day of the wedding
-a book of nearly 250 proofs
-digital negatives totaling nearly 800 pictures
-a copyright release so that we could take the CDs to Meijer or CVS and print as many copies as we wanted
-engagement sitting and reprints
-the NICEST lady you would ever want to meet

That said, we did pay her to come up from Ohio (she did my sister's wedding and I didn't know who to trust up here). Her name is Nikki Fox, her website is www.nfoxphoto.com and her e-mail is nfoxphoto@aol.com if you'd like to talk to her. The price I quoted above included paying for her hotel room and a fee for taking her more than 50 miles from her town.

And I totally agree with the girl above me who said it's worth it to pay for a good photographer. We didn't do a professional video, so those photos had to cover all our memories. And they do.

Almosthusband is a photographer, too.

We have one guy spending two hours with us at the ceremony for $400 (this does not include prints, all photos will be digital and on a disk.) Then we have a friend trying to build a portfolio who is going to come and photograph the reception (which is in a nightclub) and that will again only be a couple hundred due to his amateur status and no prints.

My best friend paid $2,000 and while the lady did phenomenal photo editing (my son was blown over by a fire hydrant and his face was scraped to hell and back) she only gave her 114 prints.