Guides on how to choose your wedding photographer professionally

There are many professional wedding photographers around town - Kuala Lumpur and throughout Malaysia. Your wedding is a once in a lifetime event to no return unless you have plans to re-marry again and again. So here is my compilation as a guideline to all of you bride-to-be or groom-to-be, to help you select the right photographer for your wedding occasion.

Selecting a professional wedding photographer to photograph your unforgettable moments is one of the hard task in your wedding planning. It is not as easy as selecting your gown where you can fit, touch and feel the real texture. It is also far more difficult compare to selecting wedding cake where you know the final outcome of the cake decor and how many tier to your decision. You can't see the photos you are buying until after your decision. In the end, it is either you have hired a professional and creative photographer or a normal point and shoot photographer as what common people do. So get your pen and paper ready and follow my step-by-step guide here:

Guide #1: Case Study
Build a list of professional wedding photographers. Ask friend, colleagues and relatives recommendation. People tends to be proud of their own photos and they would love to talk and happy to share their photographer with you.

Guide #2: Visit Website Gallery
You are where you are now, just a click away. You should have a list of professional wedding photographer contacts right now. Visit each photographers web gallery, carefully review and concentrate on their photos and not their website. Today you can hire a flash web designer for couple of hundred bucks to design your web page. Quality and creative of a capture photographs is rely on skills and creativity build into a photographer. Ask yourself now is any of the wedding photographers work appeal to you? Put in score for each and every individual photographers.

Guide #3: Visit Website Gallery
Up to this I believe you have selected a few good photographer's work appealing to you. Call them or email them for quotation. Put them into comparison chart of the fee charges and package given. Do not hesitate to contact them further if you find certain thing is not clarify properly. Try to be more fussy and detail in everything.

Guide #4: Make appointment
By now you should have make a decision to meet up with the photographer. Prepare a list of questions you want the photographer. If not you will totally forget what you wanted to ask when you too falling in love with his work during meet up. Get closer and look into details of photographs taken. Remember to take down notes during your discussion and if possible ask him to provide you fresh quotation as per discussion. Make sure you and your partner feel good and building relationship with him. He is as important as you are during your wedding. Ask more questions. The more question you ask, the more communication going on and eventually the relationship builds.

Sounds easy eh? Go back to guide #1 and start make your listing. Do not know where to start? Let me help you;

1. Allen Gong Photojournalist - zero 1 two 2188 930 - gwsallen[@]gmail.com
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