Inform your preferred photographer on time and furnish them with all the details regarding the wedding i.e. the theme, venue, etc.
Telling him the theme will help him prepare camera paraphernalia while giving correct timing and venue of both the ceremony and reception will help him create time for both sections of the day. With a short interval between the ceremony and reception, outstanding snapshots of the events can be taken.

Before you consider a particular wedding photographer for your occasion, ensure that the candidate shows you pictures of a previous wedding that they had taken. This will be proof to you that the photographer is really professional and qualified to be part of your wedding. Never accept selected snapshots of the best photos of different weddings, ensure you look at a complete set, or at least ¾ of a complete wedding set of snaps. A good wedding photographer will pride in his work hence will proudly display to you.

Always be cautious of photography companies that hire people to pose as professional wedding photographers. You should also be hesitant of salespeople who would pose as photographers only to win your project and leave you with poor quality photos or no photos at all. To save yourself money and a great deal of heartache, go for photographers who shoot the wedding pictures themselves for a living. You can ask friends and family for any referrals that they may have of some wedding photography work done to their satisfaction and contact these companies or people.

Before you fully book a particular photographer, ask all questions that you might be having, for instance what the entire package entails, whether they’ll be available the whole day, whether the photos will come out black and white or colored and whether they charge extra on top of the cost of black and white photos for colored pictures. Let your interest be known, whether you want digital coloring and if there is any extra charge that it may cost you. Note that the quality of a picture will develop when the colors of the photo are not connected hence will improve once they are printed.

If you aren’t familiar with the world of photography such as the best type of camera to be used in a wedding –whether it has focal plane or leaf shutter – you can always take a family member with you or a trusted friend with some background knowledge on photography. Request to be shown some of the effects that should be expected from the camera he is planning to use at your wedding and then select exactly what you feel is right for you.

In this day and age when almost everybody is capturing life on video using I-pods, cell-phones and any possible gadget, it’s important that you also don’t allow your once-in-a-lifetime moment to slip by not getting a quality video. Note that there is a huge difference between photography and videography, with the most obvious difference being that they aren’t the same. The other difference is that a DVD and VHS are portable compared to carrying a whole wedding photo album to a friend’s house or if you want to send to a relative living far away because they couldn’t make for the wedding. The other advantage is that it’s easy to make a copy of a VHS or DVD and distribute to friends and family unlike still photos.

Perhaps the most important reason to have a wedding video is because when you watch the video, it makes you feel like you’re doing it all over again. When you want to see yourself walking down the aisle, or hear your voice or your partner’s voice while making the vows, it’s possible with a video, exactly as it happened. A photo will only capture an emotionless, soundless, split of a second of the events of your special day. A video on the other hand captures the image, sound, emotion, ambience, mood, fear, tension, joy, happiness, tears, weather, and sadness, everything for every special moment.

They say a photo is worth a thousand words; well a video certainly must be worth a million words. This however shouldn’t be construed to mean that you shouldn’t have a photographer in your wedding. Note however that a video can do without a photo but a photo cannot do without a video – at least for the after-event-memories. Both videography and photography are useful and have legitimate places in any wedding’s budget but lacking a video is like not having music during the wedding reception. While it would be perfectly OK, it could be better. Shop around, look at demo videos and get convinced that a video is something worth having in the long run and you’re guaranteed to get a lot of years of fun out of it.