Real Brides Reveal - One Thing You Should Know Before Booking Your Photographer & Videographer

The key to finding the wedding photography and videography team you love? Bookmarking this page! Your photographers and videographers are going to spend all day with you, at all events. So, in addition to loving their style, there are a lot of things you need to know before you say ‘I do’ to them. So we asked the ones who have been through the drill – our real brides –  what is the one thing that every couple should know before booking their videography and photography teams, and this is what they said!

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Riya says

Talk to references who have worked with them. You can easily find out couples who have been tagged on their work on social and reach out to them for an honest, unfiltered review. This will help you to understand how they are as a team and how they function on the day of the event. These are very crucial points I feel.

Vedika says

Your photography and videography teams can be separate. Sure, the same team will give you a better deal in terms of money but what I realised post-wedding was that my team was a good team of photographers and not so good as videographers. So, I got great pictures but sub-standard video which you don’t want so I recommend two teams!

Pooja says

Ask them about every single detail before you book. Will they charge separately if you want cinematic reels created? You want a sangeet performance video as well as people’s reactions to it in the video, how will that work? What if you are planning a bridal entry dance? Ask ask ask. My experience was that I did not mention all this so they charged it to me as add-ons, which ended up being a bomb!

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Tanvee says

Don’t check their social media as a work portfolio. Social media has only high points of each wedding they cover, including reels and all. Ask for 10-12 recent weddings they have done and ask which team members did which ones. That way, the style you like the best, you can ask to work with those videographers and editors.

Kaamini says

A lot of high-end videography and photography teams have different photographers and editors, depending on the package to choose. I hired a certain celebrity photographer and they explicitly told me that under the package I booked, the celeb photographer would come only for the wedding and the secondary team would come for the rest of the events. Know what your getting is all I say.

Jyotsna says

Don’t forget basic details. How many hours are included in each package? If your wedding or event runs overtime (which happens in India) how will they charge you or will they leave for the next event? Do they have a contingency plan for any kind of lockdown/emergency situation? We may figure out the important details but we forget the basics.

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Payal says

This one is a budget hack if you are looking to negotiate. The key is not to negotiate over money, but rather deliverables. Videographers and photographers are more likely to do extra things like a free reel, maybe throw in a portrait session or something smaller if you choose not to haggle over money.

Tanya says

Do not hire two separate teams for the grooms and bride’s sides. First of all, you end up paying double because the same team would give you a much better rate for filming both sides. But also, imagine 4 drones and 8 photographers staring into your face when you have a 4 kg lehenga and no food while everyone else is enjoying. Don’t do that!

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