Here's another interesting question about wedding photography;
We (fiancee and I) have a friend who's very much into photography; she took
a two-year postgrad course, wants to do photography for a living, etc, etc.
We're thinking about asking her to photo our wedding -- I can't see any way
she'd object, in fact I suspect she'd be flattered; she's doing that for
some other friends' wedding a few months before ours.
Now, I don't doubt her ability as a photographer -- but at the same time,
all I've ever heard from this list is doom and gloom about doing wedding
photos for people you know. I'm trying to work out the etiquette here -- I
don't have any obvious reason to suspect she won't be good, and heck, less
money on photographers = more money for booze -- but on the other hand I
have a sort of nebulous dread brought on by the numerous tales of horror
I've heard..
Can anyone think of a good way to deal with this? I'm trying to work out
some way to find out if she'll be good at the job of photographing weddings,
without sounding like I'm doubting her general ability. On the upside, we'll
be the second one she does so she should have had some experience at this
sort of thing first -- but I don't really want to wait until we see the
shots from that wedding because that'll leave us with very little time to
book a pro if that turns out to be necessary.
any suggestions will be very welcome..
thanks,
-- dan
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