Destination Wedding Photography Pricing in Portugal and across Europe
Wedding day is a unique event, full of various emotions and colors. A wedding photographer must not only be able to catch every hint and shade of your mood, but also be able to work accurately and unobtrusively, to prevent any awkwardness, tension, or discomfort, which can be reflected in your faces.
The cost of shooting wedding day in Portugal starts at € 700. But every wedding is unique, so email me and together we will be able to choose the package that works best for you of all.
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Q&A about wedding photography rates and prices
Wedding is a very important stage in the life of the newlyweds and selection of all the contractors for the wedding can take a long time. In this case, good and rare specialists are supposed to be hired in the first place. So the sooner you find and book a photographer for your wedding, the more likely you are to choose the one that suits you, not just one of those left free.
Why does a wedding photographer ask for a booking service to reserve the date?
When you plan a wedding you meet a lot of new suppliers, and taking it on trust alone is not a business approach. That is what a contract is for.
Reserving your date with me is a separate service, called the booking service. It is not a part of the coverage price paid early. From the moment your date is reserved I decline every other request for it, so the service is performed in full at that point. The coverage on the wedding day is a second, separate service with its own price. Together they add up to the total we agreed, and you see both lines on the invoice before you pay anything.
When do you pay a wedding photographer?
On the day of the shoot, or earlier if that is more convenient for you. The booking service was paid when the date was reserved, so what remains is the coverage itself. Settling it by the wedding day is there so that on the day you are with your beloved one, not with questions that are already decided and only need a mechanical step. The bigger the wedding, the more suppliers there are, and everyone has to be paid. When the decisions are made, the papers are signed and the payment is done, both you and I can rest assured: all my attention goes into the photos, and you do not think about money on your wedding day.
Why is the wedding photographer's charge so high?
A professional photographer is a specialist and a businessman who invests in his business, work and has to provide for himself and his family. Yes, the cost of a photographer is most often considered as a work hours at a wedding, but the photographer's rating is formed based on many parameters:
- Experience and knowledge. Learning photography is time consuming. Practical skills come after many years of experience. Professional should invest large amounts in their education and growth on a regular basis.
- Photo editing. Selection, color correction and retouching of photos takes place in the days and weeks after the wedding. The photographer is also obliged to take this time into account when forming his hourly value on the wedding day.
- Shooting equipment. Professional equipment costs a lot of money. The equipment must be maintained in good condition and regularly updated.
- Computer. Image processing requires high capacities. With poor technology, editing will increase the time you receive the ready material. Keeping a large number of RAW photos in a safe state requires expensive storage devices. And the reliability of the storage also requires additional costs.
- Business. Let's not forget that photography is a business that involves taxes, business visa expenses, office rent, studio maintenance, etc.
- Advertising and marketing. Every photographer has to spread information about his business: to develop advertising, pay for services of marketers, designers. Support the site, engage in SEO and invest again in advertising.
- Personal life and family. Working at your wedding and processing pictures in the office, the photographer is away from home. Therefore, he has to pay for babysitting services for children, Eat out, etc.In addition to "business expenses compensation", it is also necessary to have some money for paying bills etc.
- Frequency and seasonality. A photographer can only shoot 1 wedding in 1 day. But there are especially popular dates and some days of the week for wedding shoots. Most often it is Saturday in the high season. So it turns out that a photographer usually gets 1 wedding in 1 week. And if you subtract the months when the season is "low", the photographer still has to pay the bills regularly.
Based on the expenses, listed above, the photographer has to fit them in has hourly rate or other wedding photo packages.
How far in advance should I book a wedding photographer?
It all depends on the season and the specific date. I recommend booking 6 to 12 months ahead. For popular dates, earlier.
Reasonable and inexpensive wedding photographer. Are you?
My price is not very cheap, but I'm sure that my rate is absolutely reasonable for my work. Wedding photography requests to be "everywhere in same time" and in same time be watchful to all activities and events what's happened around of the big area during the day. And it doesn't mention on conditions, number of people or density of events what happening around.