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So, long story short, our photogs (who we have known for years and dearly love) went and cancelled on us about 9 months before the wedding. Luckily, no money was exchanged yet so there were no legalish issues, but we had grown pretty emotionally attached to three things:

Them (A quirky, married couple)

Their photos (Definitely very artistic and photojournalistic)

Their homie-hook-up rates

So now we're back on the hunt, and while we've found a few photogs whose styles match, they tend to be quite a bit more than we can afford. We've also found ones we can afford but their photos are 'on' about 80% of the time (and that's a risk we're not comfortable taking). And we've found one or two that we love, that are already booked.

Sooooo. While we know how to search for the STYLE of photogs we like, we're having some trouble finding ones that are actually COUPLES. Any of you Bees happen to know of some?

Cheers

A+J

I got married in July and used Ben Becker and his wife.  You can find him at beckerweddings.com!

Wow, I totally forgot we posted this bulletin in the heyday of panicked searching. The good news is we found our photographers after about a month of searching. Love their style and their personalities and they were exactly what we were looking for when it comes to price range, too. Nichole Jordan photography (www.nicholejordan.com), and if you find your way down a few posts you'll see our engagement session that was wicked awesome (we're ali and josh).

My apologies to anyone we offended with our "couples-specfic" post. Though I'm inclined to say "personal preference is up to us, so getting worked up really isn't worth it", the reason we want a couple is that in our searching and dealing with solo photographers we found that, when it comes to second shooters, we were constantly being told "and we'll bring an assistant/second shooter that I'll find about a month before your wedding", meaning that we wouldn't get to meet them before hand, nor do we have any guarentee they're up to the standards of the primary photog we're looking for. So that said, we wanted someone with two shooters, and we don't want the second one to be some random last-minute commitment.

And I don't think the criteria is so offensive and crazy. I know that there are a lot of folks who just want someone to snap pictures at an affordable rate and aren't concerned about inspiration or background or passion or those things, but we've found that, on both sides of the camera, photographers with a dynamic that works together (see: in a relationship vs. associates/friends/etc) tend to shoot with a style and eye that is very complimentarty of each other, and tends to turn out photos that WE find stronger collaboratively than the other option.

So there you have it. Sorry if we offended people (though I think the offended posters will see a decent list of 'couple' photogs that other bees have posted for us), and KLP2010, equating our personal preference to racism is about the most uneducated thing I've heard someone say. Sorry that takes you off the market, but I'm guessing that, with that attitude and mentality, we wouldn't have clicked with you anyway, couple or not.