PICTURE PERFECT
Photographs are one of the only things you’ll have as keepsakes of your special day. MB on how to get the best picture memories possible.
How To Shop For Photographers
Your wedding photographer is one of the most important people at your wedding. After all, when the rings have been exchanged, cake cut and bubbles in the champagne fizzled out, you only have your pictures (OK, there’s video, but that’s different) as memory preservers.
Start shopping for your wedding photographer as early as eight months to the day of your wedding. Any later than four months and you’ll be scrambling to book a photographer who hasn’t already been booked up. Book your photographer early, especially if you’re getting married on a weekend, or in popular months like June, September or the last quarter of the year. Remember, weddings are a big business in Singapore and if you don’t snap up your first choice photographer and hold him to a date, some other bride will.
The most telling sign of a good wedding photographer is his portfolio. Take your time leafing through it.
A good actual-day photographer should have a portfolio of pictures that:
• Show a selection of tidy, well-organised groups of people with everyone in the group positioned in the frame. No one should be cut off at the edges
• Show details of the dress, wedding cake, flowers and people’s faces •Have relaxed faces, not just of the bride and groom, but also of the bridal party and guests.
• Ask for a complete set of pictures from one wedding, rather than a collage of only the best ones from different events. The album you see should tell a complete story of the wedding.
A good portrait photographer should have pictures of couples that:
• Look natural and relaxed, not stiff as wax works
• Are posed tastefully, not in cheesy positions straight out of the ’80s
• Don’t look particularly bug-eyed, washed-out or bug-toothed. All these should have been taken care of by the photographer.