Edmonton Wedding Photographers

Insights into Hiring Edmonton Wedding Photographers

Our Edmonton wedding photographers at Instant Memories love what they do. We pride ourselves in being responsible for capturing the memories on your wedding day.

What to consider when choosing Edmonton Wedding Photographers?

It is vitally important to choose a photographer based on their skill level, experience and portfolios. However, there are more considerations which should factor into your decision making process. The first being the connection you have with your Edmonton Wedding Photographer --the better the connection you have with him or her, the more relaxed you and your fiancée will be on your wedding day, making for better pictures.

The best way to ensure that you work well with your Edmonton wedding photographer is to have an engagement photo shoot with them. When speaking with Edmonton wedding photographers make sure you ask for a no-obligation engagement photo shoot. Yes, a free photo session. After all, they are asking you for $3000 for one day of work so the least they can do is a free 30 minute photo session with no strings attached. At Instant Memories we not only let you “test drive” our photographers, we also let you keep the photos. We believe that you shouldn’t be spending thousands of dollars based on somebody else’s photos. We believe in helping our clients make their decisions comfortably, after they have experienced the photo shoot themselves.

What is your backup plan with your Edmonton Wedding Photographers?

No one likes to talk about this, especially a photographer who is a “one man show”. What will happen if your Edmonton Wedding Photographer gets ill, breaks a hand or simply cannot shoot your wedding one year from now? At Instant Memories, we have several photographers on staff and always have one photographer per weekend on standby to ensure a smooth replacement.

Equipment Edmonton Wedding Photographers Should Use

Serious consideration should go into this choice. Because digital cameras are so affordable, this has lead to an influx of “weekend warriors” in Edmonton flooding the Edmonton wedding photography market with equipment that simply doesn’t deliver the final print results they should. Just because something looks good on a website does not mean it’s going to look good in print. The equipment Edmonton Wedding Photographers should have in their arsenal should be the best possible equipment money can buy. You are paying top dollar for your wedding photographs and thus you should be getting top quality technology for this. We would not recommend having your wedding photographed on anything less than a 12 megapixel camera. At Instant Memories we use all Canon professional gear; our megapixel count is from 16-21.

Ensure you are protected when choosing your Edmonton Wedding Photographers

With the economic boom Edmonton has become a transient city. This means that several people have come to Edmonton with the goal of only working for 3-5 years here, making their money and leaving. These people include the “Weekend Warrior wedding photographer” who meets you at their house or at the coffee shop. What we have noticed is that many of the “Weekend Warriors” have all the best intentions a year prior to your wedding. However, few months after meeting with you and after collecting your deposit, some of them decide to leave Edmonton. Make no mistake they usually take along the couple’s wedding photography deposit with them. If the photographer declares his or her company bankrupt you have no recourse to claim your deposit, but worse, no wedding photographer. One of the ways of protecting yourself from this is to ensure that your Edmonton Wedding Photographers have credit card payment capabilities. That way, if you put your deposit on your credit card and if the photographer skips town, you can claim services not rendered and reclaim your deposit from the credit card company.

In the past two years we have had about 10 brides calling us at the last minute looking for an Edmonton wedding photographer, because theirs have left town. We don’t like to bring this up, but we feel that as a bride, you should be made aware of this.