No matter what your wedding budget is, some expenses are vital. Especially, a professional wedding photographer. Eirik Halvorsen is one of them and he found a brilliant way to prove why specialists like him are essential to every ceremony.
“I recently came across a thread in a wedding group on Facebook where a bride-to-be said they wanted to save money by not hiring a professional wedding photographer and let the guests be in charge of the photos,” Eirik told PetaPixel. “I mean, they will take pictures, right? You just have to get everyone to dropbox you the photos after and you can make your own album and look back on those special moments forever.”
Not quite. Eirik married his wife almost four years ago and hired his dream photographer to capture all the precious moments. So he took the photographer’s images and compared them with actual photos from the same wedding, taken by the guests. Composition, lighting, image quality and other features differ dramatically. “All I know from the experience of getting married is that all that is left today is the photos,” Eirik said. So if you want those photos to look great, they should be taken by someone who knows what he’s doing.
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“[These] photos are actual photos from our own wedding taken by our guests,” Eirik said
The couple came up with this idea while scrolling through a wedding photography group on Facebook
“A bride-to-be said they wanted to save money by not hiring a professional wedding photographer”
“I mean, they will take pictures, right? You just have to get everyone to dropbox you the photos after…”
“… and you can make your own album and look back on those special moments forever”
Can you though?
Luckily, the couple haven’t followed this advice and had hired a photographer instead
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Quite the contrast, right?
Image credits: Jeff Newsom
“Me and my wife <…> cut cost everywhere possible to be able to hire our dream photographer”
Image credits: Jeff Newsom
“All I know from the experience of getting married is that all that is left today is the photos”
Image credits: Jeff Newsom
I have photographers who could cut me a deal, but I'd rather spend my money on the honeymoon, and my future with that person. I feel like the more pricey the wedding, the more stressful.
Studies show that the pricier the wedding, the sooner the marriage breaks up.
Couldn't agree more.
I don't really care about photos, I'mma just spend my whole budget on the cake tbh.
hahaha, you have my attention ... i need to know what sort of cake would require the bulk of your wedding budget!
I think I'd like to just hire a chef to completely invent a new cake altogether, that'd be pretty sweet, and then like, 78 layers. yeah that should do it haha
I would just buy a cake the size of a small car
One that looks like George Clooney, isn't afraid to get rid of a body and understands the fine details of a fat life insurance policy I reckon!
Richard Walker love
When are you getting married again. And am I invited? (*likes cake*)
Hahaha yabsolutely, first I gotta find me a husband though lolol
I'm inviting myself to your wedding. What am I saying, free cake, I'll be your bride!!!
Let them eat cake.
I agree, those photographer's photos are a thousand times better, but it kinda seems like the point of this post is to explain that photos are the most important part of the wedding. They are a nice plus, but to some they are more important than others.
As a photographer, I think the point is to show people the difference before they ask their guests or grandfather to take some pictures instead.. if you put all that money/effort in your wedding, it would be a shame if you only have bad quality images, right?
Yeah ok, that's fair. I agree photographers don't get the respect they deserve.
I am sure a professional photographer would have taken better photos at my wedding. But the bad photos were real. They were memories. My memories. The artfully crafted professional photos may well be great artistically, but they lack authenticity. For me. But that was my wife's and my choice. I cannot say if that is for any one else. And sure. Photographers need to make a living too.
Gabriel Goh there are "photojournalist" style wedding photographers that specialize in only reportage style shots of wedding if that's what you want. Most will do formal posed shots and candids during the wedding
Gabriel Goh love
i think that although the day is special, years later you want something just s special to look back on. You only have the one day and memories fade over time. Why not invest in that one day and make the photos special too.
I have photographers who could cut me a deal, but I'd rather spend my money on the honeymoon, and my future with that person. I feel like the more pricey the wedding, the more stressful.
Studies show that the pricier the wedding, the sooner the marriage breaks up.
Couldn't agree more.
I don't really care about photos, I'mma just spend my whole budget on the cake tbh.
hahaha, you have my attention ... i need to know what sort of cake would require the bulk of your wedding budget!
I think I'd like to just hire a chef to completely invent a new cake altogether, that'd be pretty sweet, and then like, 78 layers. yeah that should do it haha
I would just buy a cake the size of a small car
One that looks like George Clooney, isn't afraid to get rid of a body and understands the fine details of a fat life insurance policy I reckon!
Richard Walker love
When are you getting married again. And am I invited? (*likes cake*)
Hahaha yabsolutely, first I gotta find me a husband though lolol
I'm inviting myself to your wedding. What am I saying, free cake, I'll be your bride!!!
Let them eat cake.
I agree, those photographer's photos are a thousand times better, but it kinda seems like the point of this post is to explain that photos are the most important part of the wedding. They are a nice plus, but to some they are more important than others.
As a photographer, I think the point is to show people the difference before they ask their guests or grandfather to take some pictures instead.. if you put all that money/effort in your wedding, it would be a shame if you only have bad quality images, right?
Yeah ok, that's fair. I agree photographers don't get the respect they deserve.
I am sure a professional photographer would have taken better photos at my wedding. But the bad photos were real. They were memories. My memories. The artfully crafted professional photos may well be great artistically, but they lack authenticity. For me. But that was my wife's and my choice. I cannot say if that is for any one else. And sure. Photographers need to make a living too.
Gabriel Goh there are "photojournalist" style wedding photographers that specialize in only reportage style shots of wedding if that's what you want. Most will do formal posed shots and candids during the wedding
Gabriel Goh love
i think that although the day is special, years later you want something just s special to look back on. You only have the one day and memories fade over time. Why not invest in that one day and make the photos special too.