ABSOLUTELY! Doesn’t matter if he is the macho type, a diesel mechanic or manages an art gallery - his hands should be impeccable for that one photo I take of your beautiful hands gently placing his wedding ring on his finger! Please schedule it right now!

Of course they should. And by early that means hours before your ceremony start time. You should have breakfast together, envision your day together, have a mimosa and a breakfast burrito together and get in “wedding mode” right away. This will make a HUGE difference in your pictures.

This is your wedding day. Every memory from it in three years has to be positive and joyful. This is also the time when you decide that you are in charge of your marriage and your life. Today is a round table, tomorrow is how to name your first child. Stick to your guns and go with your gut - it works every time!

Absolutely not - however, they are welcomed to shoot alongside myself and provide you with some shots that will add to the perfect images I deliver. In wedding photography, proven experience is what you are looking for -

You see? That is an excellent question! I make sure that you and I , your vendors and I, my team and I and anyone having a role in your wedding day photographs and schedule flow, are on the same page and clearly understanding what roles each of them play. So I begin with helping you design your wedding day schedule start to finish, I coordinate with your officiant, venue, DJ and ask for any of their requests and I make sure that everyone knows that you are in charge but you don’t have to be coordinating your wedding whle getting married.

Well, that depends.

Is the one photographer very experienced?

Is the one photographer an active and proactive photographer?

Is the second photographer a “second shooter” or a vetted photographer?

Is the second photographer going to cost you twice as much?

Are the results of a second photographer going to be clearly noticeable?

Is the second photographer being pushed on you - as in “studio owner is giving his wife a job”?

Is your wedding very small, or private that a second photographer would stick out?

Interesting questions right?

At the end of the day - most times a second photographer does very little to match or surpass the skill, talent and ability of a great alone photographer - as a matter of fact,. sometimes a second photographer makes things more difficult than they should be.

It is not, for several reasons. One being that a photographer relies on one day a week to work and a partial wedding would severely reduce his income when he could be working a full day wedding.

But more importantly, a partial wedding coverage will every time reduce the content of your photos, the emotion will be hard to capture and everything will be done “on a schedule” not allowing for the natural flow of your photography.

Please consider the very minimum to be 1 hour getting ready, one hour ceremony, one hour formal photos and one hour to do your basic reception events.

The additional money you will spend to hire a photographer for the time he needs to tell yours tory, will be worth every penny.