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I have all day coverage as part of my package. I want my photog there the whole time. I felt the same what about it, like they might miss something.
For us, it was important to have all day coverage. Our wedding is on New Year's Eve though, so we felt it was important to get pictures of everyone at midnight and especially our midnight kiss, the fireworks, our exit, etc. But either way, I would think that having the photographer there all day would be worth it.
Ours does six hours, but we could pick which six. We decided it was more important to do some photos beforehand while we still have good light (our wedding is outside on a summer evening) and to sacrifice the end of the reception, so I think we're going to do 3:30 to 9:30 for a reception that ends at 11, with a 5 pm ceremony. Since we lose the light around 8:30, that gives us some nice night photos, but not too many---and in exchange we have time for a quiet bride-and-groom session pre-ceremony, which seems worth it.
Hi! it's one of the most important day in your life and you should capture every moment of it. photographer has a huge role so have him till the last minute and do not regret afterwards :) congrats!!:)
Our photog will be there til the end. I would hate to not have pics of our sparkler send off or us getting into our horse drawn carriage.
I just found our photographer and she is amazing! She will be there the whole time, and is being laid back and flexible about the whole thing. She will be travelling 2 hours to our ceremony/reception and isn't charging mileage, and her package includes 8 hours, but she's totally cool with staying longer. She will definitely be staying until the end!
We've got ours for nine hours, until just after the first dance (so capturing everything up until general free-for-all disco the way our wedding is structured).
Honestly, I don't really want professional photos of everyone dancing at the disco. There won't be any big 'moments' after that, and things may well get slightly messy and I don't necessarily want to pay hundreds of pounds for a record of that!
Everyone will have cameras, and you're as likely to get fun candid shots from other people's pics as from the professional photog, in my view. I'm not losing sleep over not having our photog there til the party ends at 1am!
You don't necessarily need your photographer through the whole evening...as long as you have him or her there for an hour or so of dancing, you should be good. After awhile, all dancing shots end up looking the same, so you don't really need your photographer there for a few hours of it! Unless you have something super amazing happening at the very end of the night, you should be fine having your photographer leave before the end of the reception.
I have my photog for 9 hours and she'll be there from 2pm til 11pm (reception is over at midnight). We're not having any type of big exit, so there's not really a reason to have her stay til the very end.
Ours is leaving midway through. When reflecting on my friends' wedding photos, I couldn't remember a single treasured shot that was taken at the end of the night. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but the photos I most want are when everyone is fresh and reasonably well put-together, not tired and sweaty from dancing and blurry from cocktails.
Our photographer will leave early, which is for the best in my situation. We're not doing a big send off, FI and I are more dance all night kind of people. So sometime after 10 ours will leave. I figure that by then we'll have a lot of great shots, and I can't imagine that even more pictures of people dacing will make a big difference.
We get ours for 8 hours and we choose which 8. Our ceremony will be at 2pm, so we'll probably have him from 1 til 9pm, and we have our reception venue until 2am. I'm not too worried, since we don't have anything special planned after the cake cutting and special dances!
We are starting with the first dance and doing a fake cake cut so that we can get him out of there.
@stiletto -- I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment that the dancing shots tend to look the same! Our fab photographer said that same thing, and for that reason it's really not worth paying for him to stay all the way until the end. Just long enough to get the cake cutting and an hour or so of dancing!
we have ours for 7 hours, 4-11 and the reception ends at 12. We're not doing a sendoff so i didn't feel like we needed him until the end.
We have ours for 5 hours, from just before the start of the ceremony (we didn't want getting ready shots) to about an hour and a half before the evening ends. We do have a line in our contract that says she'll come to us when she's about to leave and give us the option of adding an extra hour on that we can pay for later. So we liked that we could wait and see if the party was still going or if it was winding down before we decided if she would stay.
I decided which shots were the most important to a wedding. And...the shots before the ceremony, during the ceremony and just after the ceremony are the most important. As for the party that goes all night, I kept in mind that people will have cameras and I will end up with "free" reception pictures any way. I don't care if my reception pictures aren't "artistic". Thus, my photographer will be there for 6 hours instead of full day.
We're getting our photographer for 10 hours... so he'll be there for everything. Our ceremony starts at 5, and I think 3 hrs before the ceremony will be enough camera time. So from 2-midnight should be okay- I think!
We have our photographer for 8 hours so she will be leaving after the dancing starts. For us it is more important that she be there before the ceremony than at the very end.
For me, it was more important that i had some getting ready shots rather than the send off pictures. Most pictures at the end of the evening everyone is dancing and a sweaty mess by that point. As long as the photographer is there to do the cake cutting you will be fine.
However, I voted that yes my photographer will be there all day and all night. This is because we got an awesome rate.
No, he will leave at 11 although our reception goes until midnight. I don't see any reason for him to stay there until the absolute end.
I dont think so. We have her for 6 hours so I think I'm going to book her for 4-10. Our ceremony is at 5:30 and the reception goes until 11.
Our reception ended at 10:30 p.m., and our photographer left an hour before that, right after our cake cutting. She had gotten all the necessary reception/dancing photos, and we didn't feel the need to pay her for an extra hour when all we would get is more dancing photos, and we didn't do a "grand exit" or anything, either.
We had our photographer for 7 hours - 1.5 hours before the ceremony through the end of the reception. I'm so glad that she was there for the whole reception. You never know what shenanigans might occur toward the end of the evening, and if there's low lighting, guests won't be able to capture the action the way a pro photographer will. Some of our very favorite pictures from our entire wedding were taken in the last hour or so of our reception. If it's in your budget, I'd definitely have the photographer there through the end. If it's not, I agree with pps to sacrifice time at the end of the reception rather than time prior to the ceremony.
every photog vendor agreed that there really wasnt a need for them to stay through the reception (unless we really, reallly really wanted those "drunken" photos. hahA) which, i will be making sure still gets captured, with guests' cameras of course!!
Ours stayed until the end. But really, the pictures were light after the dances and cake cutting.
We paid extra for our photographer to stay for the entire reception. I was really saddened though by the tiny amount of pictures we got after the first dances and cake cutting. We had made sure she knew we wanted candids throughout the whole party, but that's definitely not what we got. There were a lot of good moments that were missed. It was a major letdown and a waste of money.
I would ask if you can see a sample of the photographer's work from a wedding where they stayed until the end taking pictures, and see how many there are.
Mine is a good friend, so she'll actually be there the whole weekend. Her second shooter is joining us the day of, though, and I don't know how long she'll be staying.
My photog will only be covering up to 8 hours so that's right after the cake cutting. My videographer on the other hand will be staying until the end of the reception.
Thanks for all of the input, ladies. Alivoo01's comment reminded me that our videographers are staying until the end of the reception also. I totally forgot about them! I wasn't really going to have a big photo-worthy finish, more good times rather than an extraordinary photo op, so I think the original plan stands. Thank you again!!
Our photog is going to be with us for 6 hrs....she has an 8 hr package, but, based on feedback from my grandfather (a professional photog), we won't need it. Plus my whole family takes LOTS of pictures, so I feel confident that we'll have enough shots after she leaves us. :)
I'm sure your videographer will capture lots of great moments for you, and you won't even notice that your photog left before everything wrapped up! :)
I said no, but I'm technically not having a photog at the reception. Me and my photographer friends are taking care of it. I don't think I could get through the whole night without picking my camera up. After the reception, that ends around 9/10ish we will be headed to Champaign and taking stellar night time shots. It's gonna be FUN! Then we may hit a bar or two in wedding garb, because that's just how we roll :)
I sure hope so! He is my brother-in-law. I love having a professional photographer in the family. 
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So this may be a totally ridiculous item that my mind has created to worry about, but my photographer is staying until 10:00 p.m. and our reception concludes at midnight. I'm thinking about forking over the extra cash to keep him there. I'm starting to worry that he'll be missing some great moments of some more to-be-determined fabulousness and general shenanigans.
Is your photogrpaher leaving before the end? If you're already married, do you have any regrets about it?