On Photographers

What amazes me about this whole wedding thing is how far in advance everything must be done. Here we are just under a year out from the weeding and we've all ready locked down the place for the reception and the Sunday brunch, and will, within the next few weeks, have the rehearsal dinner spot picked as well.

The next big thing on the list was photographers. Now I did a bit of research online for photographers in the Portland area and looked at a lot of web sites. I found one woman whose style I really liked, and who was priced appropriately so I sent her site to Irene and dropped a line to the photographer to see if she was available for our date. She got back to me on a Friday saying she was, and by Monday when I wrote back to her she'd been snatched out from under us.

Which sent me back to the web. After a lot more searching I found another photographer I liked and wasn't priced outrageously so I contacted them and secured them right away.

The problem is most photographers wanted to charge way to much for services we don't even want. And then wanted to charge even more for a disc of the original files (which is all I want).

And here's some advice for wedding photographers:

1. Put your prices on your web site. If I have to contact you to get a price list, I skip right on by.

and these last two are advice for all web designers:

2. DO NOT put any damn music on your web site! DO NOT! I listen to my own music when I search and I don't need your cheesy ass love songs blaring out of my speakers at full volume. This actually applies to all web sites every where. If you want to put music on your site, it should be an option the user has to actively set. It's just common courtesy.

3. DO NOT resize my browser window. I've got it at the size I want it and I don't want you messing with that.

Ok, end of rant.

Labels: ken, planning