Wedding Photography Photo book?

Mpix makes a hard cover book with 100 pound coverstock pages. This stock is suitable for use as a note card and it is quite stiff. It's about as stiff as a playing card, for instance.

http://www.mpix.com/Product.aspx/customhardcoverbo...

I would negotaite out the prints. You can get them done cheaper at a Kodak kiosk. If you are trying to cut costs another good way is to limit the hours of coverage. Do you really need 8 hours? The two biggies are the wedding and the reception, maybe an hour in between for the formal shots. Just think about if you really want to pay someone that kind of money so you can have professional pictures of you putting on makeup.....or would pics taken by the bridal party work just as well? Do you need two photographers the whole time? Having two for the ceremony is a great idea....but do you need two at the reception? During the ceremony guests can't really take pics but during the reception they will be shooting like crazy. If for some ungodly reason your photographer misses a big moment there will be plenty of backups. Do you want to pay for a bridal session? You will have oodles of pictures from the wedding day. How many pictures are they taking that day? Also ask them see an entire, unedited roll of film from a previous wedding. Blind squirells find nuts so make absolutely sure that you aren't hiring someone who may only get 20 good shots out of a few hundred. Also read between the lines when they show you a portfolio and provide you with refrences. They aren't going to give you a number of a bad review and the portfolio is only the cream of the crop in terms of shots. How old are these? If they have a 32 page book did it take a few years to get so many great shots, or are they pretty recent. You have the one big requirement brides should demand of their photogs. ALL THE NEGATIVES AND/OR PROOFS ARE INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKAGE. It doesn't sound like a bad deal depending on their reputation and experience but i wanted to give you a few things to think about.

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