Choosing The Best Photographer For Your Wedding

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Choosing The Best Photographer For Your Wedding

Wedding preparation is both exciting and full of challenges. You have time sensitive decisions and investments to make and I know it can be a daunting task. Here is a complete guide to choosing the right wedding photographer from Carissa Kruse, a wedding pro in the know. Regardless if you are hiring Weddings By Carue Team or another studio, we have created some helpful tips and questions for you to use to find the perfect photographer for your wedding day.

Wedding photography is an art, it is not about a nice camera and taking a lot of pictures to just cover the bases. The goal of this article is to help you choose the best photographer for your wedding. You will find a lot of freelance photographers that dabble in weddings, so making sure you hire a dependable and reliable photographer is so important. You are probably booking a wedding photographer around 9 – 12 months in advance and paying a deposit, so you want to make sure they will be around when your wedding day comes.

Make sure your wedding photographer passes this 11 item checklist before hiring them:

  1. Professional Website
  2. Quick and Responsive (24 hour turnaround)
  3. Reviews (The Knot, WeddingWire, Google)
  4. Presence on The Knot and WeddingWire
  5. Wedding Portfolio (not just any portfolio, a specific wedding portfolio)
  6. Dedicated to Weddings Full-Time
  7. Professionalism
  8. Social Media – Facebook / Instagram Presence
  9. Have a Backup in case of an emergency
  10. Services Contract 
  11. Insurance

Be sure your wedding photographer includes the following 8 items in their packages:  

  1. High Resolution Digital Files
  2. Printing Rights to Your Photos
  3. Online Viewing Gallery (so you can share with friends and family)
  4. Wedding Timeline Creation
  5. Professional Editing of Digital Files
  6. Flexible Payment Options
  7. Ability to Share a Pinterest Board with Your Ideas
  8. Helpful Wedding Resources / Recommendations / Planning Tips 

Having been interviewed by, having consulted with countless couples and experienced a lot of couples weddings, no wedding is the same. Every wedding is different and every family is different, but it is important to just do you! 

Work with your photographer to find out what is most important to you on your wedding day. Once we know what is most important as a photographer, we can work with you to build your wedding day timeline to ensure we capture all those important moments.  

If you are still searching for a wedding photographer, let’s chat as Weddings By Carue passes the 11 item checklist above and we include all 8 items in our contracts/proposals.

Send us a message and let’s chat in more detail! 



 

Learn more about Weddings By Carue:

Wedding Philosophy: Your Vision. Your Style. Your Day.

Hey! I’m Carissa! I’m so excited you stopped by. Weddings By Carue is an all-inclusive wedding team of fun-loving, award-winning storytellers. We provide services to Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois as well as other Destinations.

Our wedding services take a fresh, professional approach to each wedding with unmatched artistic style, vision and creativity. Choose one service or multiple services for a package savings.

Photo  ♥︎ ​ Video  ♥︎ ​ Photo Booth  ♥︎ ​ DJ Services  ♥︎ ​ Invitations

We pride ourselves in having what our couples are looking for. Knowing you do not do this everyday, we are more than just another vendor. We are wedding partner, a resource through your wedding planning. Our quality, service and pricing is among the best you will find. With Weddings By Carue you’ll be in the most caring of hands, won’t break the bank and appreciate our attention to detail.

From first contact to final delivery, there’s not a company in town who competes with our professionalism, our sincerity and our passion. It’s your day, we’ll be sure it’s captured the way you imagined. All we do is weddings!

Say “I Do” with Carue! Let’s Chat – Tap here!

XOXO, Carissa

Create a Unique Wedding with Alpine Inspired Decor

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Are you looking for that unique element to add to your wedding? Are you wanting that mountain, Colorado themed wedding? Then you want to check out one of our favorite vendors in Colorado. The alpine inspired rentals from Last Chair Customs are what every mountain wedding needs to have included in their decor.

They have created a fleet of alpine inspired items to enhance and create a unique wedding! From their Keystone Gondola bar to the snowboard benches there’s something to fit into any winter themed soiree. If you’re a brand and looking to add something funky your trade-show booth, corporate event or hotel for the winter season, they have you covered! They are located in Boulder, CO but love to travel.

Their Alpine Inspired Fleet Includes:
Keystone Gondola Bar
Vail Gondola Seating Area
Double Riblet Ski Lift Chairs
Snowboard Benches
Ski Flake Chandelier w/ LEDs and Snowflake lighting
And more…
Last Chair Customs is created and owned by, The Builders:

Zack and Laura met about 2 years ago when Zack became the mechanic to her car “Jerry”. Both transplants from the east coast, they’ve found their new homes here in Colorado. During that time they learned their skill sets and lanes were complementary to growing the business. What was the same was their passion and drive to create something meaningful, niche and fun.

Laura G Carter

Straight out of the hard streets of Pennsylvania, Laura G was honed like a razor in New York City and has found her bliss in the Rocky Mountains. She has a diverse and eclectic background – from years as the Director of People and Culture at Superfly to an entrepreneur creating unique engagement opportunities for individuals and brands. With a genuine spirit, Laura takes a creative approach to her role in developing partnerships and and building the Event Rental and Sales businesses with fresh eyes and connections at Last Chair Customs.

Zachery Finger

Snowboarder, fabricator, and creative visionary, Zack Finger is all of this and more. From long hours in the shop to first chair on the mountain, Zack finds inspiration in all things skiing and snowboarding. The Founder of Last Chair Customs, Zack has an an eye for detail, a zest for creation, and a passion for preserving ski history. If you too love skiing and admire old ski lifts, Zack is your man!

Wedding Favors Your Guests Will Actually Keep

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The wedding day is approaching, and you’ve gone through a lot to get it all organized, coordinated, and paid for. But you also know how much your family and friends mean to you and they traveled and rearranged things to be there for your special day. You want to give them a little something to take home to show how much they mean to you but you don’t want it to be some little forgettable throw-away item. It should be a meaningful reminder of your wedding and all the fun everyone had. Here’s a few suggestions and ideas for wedding favors that everyone will love.

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5 Ways to Make Your Engagement Photos Uniquely Yours

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There’s nothing quite so special as finding your true love. All the places and experiences you two have done together is part of what got you to the place where you want to be together forever. And while the actual engagement moment can be spontaneous and personal, many couples choose to remember this exciting and special time in their lives with a professional and intuitive photographer that can capture all the special quirks that make you both unique. These are memories that are meant to last a lifetime. Sharing all these personal experiences with a great engagement photographer can turn these precious memories into beautiful images that you and your family and friends can enjoy for a lifetime.

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Why Your Photo Booth Will Stay Full All Night

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There’s a bunch of fun and inclusive wedding traditions: tossing the bouquet, group dancing, toasts and exit lines. Now, there’s a fairly new tradition that is quickly becoming a must at receptions—the photo booth. It’s a chance for all your guests to goof off, have fun, and take home incredible mementos of your wedding…plus, you can have copies of your own to see all the happy faces of your friends and family together. There is a wide variety of different ways to do a photo booth, from a simple DIY set-up to an all-out full-service booth with all the bells and whistles, and new technology is always making things sharable and more accessible. Let’s go over a few photo booth ideas to ensure that yours stays packed all night.

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“I Do…Do You?”- A Guide to Writing Your Own Vows

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Everyone wants the perfect vows spoken at their wedding. You mix hysterical moments, tear-jerking pronouncements of love and gratitude for everyone in the room all into a three-minute speech—leaving your partner and the rest of the guests misty and breathless from the power of your words. After all, you really do feel that strongly about this marriage and your partner, and you want the world to know. So, you and your partner decide to write your own vows, preferably a few months ahead of the ceremony (you don’t want to go against the clock, trust us). You have a pen and a blank piece of paper and all the love and admiration in the world for the person you’re spending the rest of your life with. Now what?

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