Wedding Photography

Hello, and congratulations on your engagement!

I’m sure that others will agree, you can fix this situation!

There’s a few options that immediately sprang to mind:

1. Have a meet-up and show your friends the style/shots you like and discuss in detail.

2. Have a conversation where you explain that you would rather your friends be your guests as this is more important to you, and that someone else is shouldering the photographic responsibility.

3. Ask them to maybe capture only a part of the day, maybe candid, informal shots that the “official “ photographer will miss. You can also point out that they wouldn’t then need to be lumping equipment around.

These were my initial thoughts, I’m sure many other people will have lots of good suggestions for you.

Love, Ali xx

I think the last thing yu should do is Ask them to maybe capture only a part of the day, maybe candid, informal shots that the “official “ photographer will miss.

They may take this as a massive insult,like - they are not good enough for you as main photographers but you will allow them to take some snaps.

If you cancel - did you pay a deposit, are you paying them anything, is it their full rate, how long is it before the wedding, they may be out of pocket by this as they have been turning weddings away because they had yours to do. Then you "dump them". I would think they would not then be coming to your wedding only to watch someone else shoot it as they may then be looking for another wedding to fill your gap.

I would say sit down with them to talk about the kind of styles that you like and get some feed back of if they can shoot it for you like that. If they do not feel that they can then the cold feet may come from them and you can then help them pull out by saying you do not want to pressure them and you are quite happy if they want to just come as guests instead.

The most important thing you shouldn't skimp on the photographer))