An Arkansas Photographer’s Guide to Get Ready for Your Wedding Day

Believe me when I say I know exactly how much planning, thought, money, time, work, and effort you have put into your wedding day. Because of this I wanted to dive into why wedding photographer’s may charge as much as they do to show up to your venue on your wedding day and capture your once in a lifetime day!

As soon as you send your inquiry to your desired wedding photographer we start planning your day. I immediately start checking my calendar, sunset times, thinking through what season Arkansas will be in, and that’s is just the surface! After the initial emailing happens we usually will get a call scheduled. Now, this call actually requires a lot of planning as I like to have as much information as possible going into this call!

I am talking about your venue, ceremony time, how you want your wedding day to feel, stressors of the day so far, and so much more. After those questions are answered and you are ready to book we start the big work! We are now working together to make sure that your preferred engagement session date is on the calendar, we are looking at bridal sessions, reaching out to the planner to coordinate timelines, and making sure everything is detailed.

Then the wedding day is here! Hear me out on this. You want a photographer that knows how to adjust their settings in a moments notice to capture the big and small moments of your wedding day. You want to feel comfortable as they are part of the intimate and vulnerable times with your soon to be spouse. You want to have no doubt in the world that your photographer can see the moment happen before it even happens. How can you really know they will do this though? Their work speaks for itself.

Not only their work, but how they know you and your family will matter too. A photographer that knows that your grandma is so excited to see her granddaughter in a wedding dress while three generations are all together. That the bond between sisters on one of their wedding day needs to be documented with love and care as they start a new chapter in their relationship too.

This is just a small reason why wedding photographers are one of the biggest budgets for most brides. Can I tell you something though? Your memories are worth the investment. Ready to chat?