Average Cost of Wedding Photographers Atlanta Georgia

https://skysimonephotography.com/contact-atlanta-wedding-photographers/The average cost of wedding photographers in Atlanta GA is approximately $2995. There are ‘sausage factory’ wedding photographers (large companies that hire teenagers and students to go and shoot 20+ weddings in a day to capitalize their profits) and there aer boutique wedding photographers who spend their life perfecting their craft. The average cost of wedding photographers in Atlanta GA is obviously impacted by much higher prices, as well as much lower prices. The cost of wedding photography b y any one photographer can vary based on many factors. For a bride and groom to understand how wedding photographers determine what they charge for their Atlanta wedding photography packages can help you to figure out what is most important to you when choosing a wedding photographer.

Brides and grooms should prepare themselves with a realistic wedding budget and photography and video should be given absolute priority as those are the things that last forever. There is no point having the most spectacular wedding venue, wedding cake, or beautiful wedding gown, if you don’t have the captivating wedding photography and video to preserve the memories and capture the moments in time.

Brides and grooms should have realistic expectations on the correlation to wedding photography quality and wedding photography prices so that they can find their ideal wedding photographer.

One of the most simple and beautiful wedding photography services that many photographers include is an engagement session. You may feel tempted to ask your photographer if you can get a discount if you bypass it. However I would not reccomend this and you should be prepared to be told no. Engagement images help you to get to know your photographer. In fact a good idea is to book an engagement session with a photographer that you are considering, to see if you like the photographer. Many photographers will then take that cost off your wedding photography package when you confirm a booking with them for the wedding. What an amazing way to confirm you like eachother. On top of this, most wedding photographers will include a complimentary engagement session because it helps them to get even more beautiful images on the day because they have already gotten to know you in front of the camera. This aspect is truely priceless.

If a wedding photographer includes an engagement session in their photography packages, then it’s a good indicator that they genuinely care about you and your finished product.

If you hire Sky Simone Photography and mention this article, you will get a bonus engagement picture slideshow.

Many wedding photographers in Atlanta have an average starting price point of $2995 for one photographer on the wedding day for 6-8 hours. Ask the photographer if you get the primary photographer on the day, and do you like their style? Or do you just get a random photographer that works for a major company.

Most wedding photographers will include an in person (or on video chat) detailed interview to go over your wedding day timeline to help you understand the times needed for your photography.

Something else to keep in mind is that under Georgia law, if a photographer provides you with ANY physical product, even as simple as a DVD or USB stick, the law requires you to pay sales tax on the photography service as well as the product. The law in Georgia does not allow photographers to separate their service and their product when it comes to sales tax.

If your Atlanta Wedding Photographer is providing you with a USB stick or DVD but has told you that there is no sales tax, they are actually breaking the taxation laws of Georgia. It is best to work with a photographer who respects the law.

Sky Simone Photography is an Atlanta Wedding Photographer who gives her clients free consultations and allows her brides to be as pesky as they like with emails and calls about little details.

Most of my brides and grooms opt for 10-12 hours of wedding photography because they are so in love with the wedding photography style and they want every minute of the day captured.

Something else to keep in mind is that the average wedding photographer in Atlanta will only give you 400-800 wedding images even for an 8 hour day. Sky Simone Photography absolutely loves giving her couples over 1200 beautifully edited wedding photographs. In fact, the average 10 hour wedding couple recieves approximately 2000 edited images from Sky Simone.

The cost of wedding photography is determined by many factors. It’s absolutely not just a matter of dividing the package cost by the hours you recieve on the day. For example the average professional wedding photographer will have a business running cost of $30,000-40,000 per year. This includes licencing, professional insurances, education, software and hardware computer upgrades, camera maintainance and cleaning, camera and lens upgrades and replacements, and so fourth. You probably found your wedding photographer through their advertising, and The Knot alone charges photographers $400 per month just to advertise and the average wedding expo is $1600 for the photographer. This means if a photographer does 30 weddings per year, your wedding is costing them $1000 to attend. That means a $3000 wedding photographer after deductions and taxes is probably only $1400 or so and you  must also factor in that each wedding is around 2 weeks of work for the photographer. That means for an 8 hour wedding photography package, the photographer will have 40-80 hours of editing, post production workflow, and including the engagement session and all of the time liasing over the phone and in person, that means your wedding is around 80 hours total.

All of a sudden $3000 after tax and deductions lets say is around $1400, divided by 80 hours all of a sudden becomes $17.50 per hour and now it doesn’t sound so expensive does it?

When you hire an Atlanta wedding photographer you must always make sure that they send you their booking contract. Ask them if they have insurance for liability. Most venues require proof of $2 million dollars in liablity insurance.

The booking contract of the wedding photographer should also indicate whether or not your wedding photographer operates within the law. Do they explain copyright or sales tax? What does their contract say about it?

I would love to chat to you about your wedding if you are interested. Reach out via the contact page and I would love to talk to you soon. Sky Simone Photography completely discloses her prices on the Investment page. Many photographers will hide their prices to try to trap you in a conversation in hopes to convince you as to why they should hire you without knowing the price. We believe in completely and utter transparency. The information on this page is a free guide for brides to help them understand the average cost of wedding photographers Atlanta Ga.

Of course photographers also offering video such as myself have an even greater skillset, and much more time is put into the final product as videography is much harder than photography.