Disagreement on Photographer

I have NEVER heard of that before. For 4000$ you should be getting the engagement pictures included. I have heard of a few photographers that will price around 1-2000$ and then ask you to pay for the prints separately but 4000 is just crazy in my opinion. I can see why they might be thinking that. Traditionally, the grooms family is responsible for the rehearsal dinner and MAYBE part of the honeymoon if they want (usually varies from couple to couple- we paid for our honeymoon ourselves). As far as engagement parties and showers go, my husband and I never had an engagement party thrown for us (you need to have someone OFFER to do this for you) and same goes for the showers. I had some ladies from my church offer to throw me one (as well as my bridesmaids who helped) and my MIL also threw a shower for me with her side of the family. They definitely need to offer to do these things for you though. If it is still early, I wouldn't worry about an engagement party, as far as the showers go, those that offered to through me showers didn't offer until I was about 7 month away from my wedding. So you still have a lot of time. Also a lot of times the maid of honor will be the one to "host"/throw the shower so maybe talk to your maid of honor at some point?

I have just never heard of someone priced that high for all of that and not include at least a small amount of edited digital copies. Maybe that's because the vendors are priced differently based on location? It just sounds a little sketchy to me as well like PP has said.

I'm paying $1350 for 10 hours of coverage for two photographers plus our engagement photos were included. This included all the digital files for the wedding and the engagement session.

We're paying $3000 for a similar package, but that includes the engagement session photos. We just had them taken this past weekend, and our photographer said she'll send me the link to the finished photos in about 2 weeks. She took about 200 photos. After processing, editing, throwing out the dumb ones (where we're not looking our best), we'll get a link to access ALL of the photos. Our package does not include the bridal portraits. So maybe that's the difference in your package. Do you get those as part of your package, or do you have to pay separately for those too.

We are in Denver. We are spending $3,200 on our photographer, she is pretty well-known & always voted in "The Knot's Best Vendors". That package includes an adventure engagement shoot + 100+ edited images, 8 hours on our wedding day with her assistant and 800+ edited pictures. Both have a print release.

The groom's family isn't responsible for anything, and neither is the bride's family. Traditionally, all the groom's family pays for is the rehearsal dinner. But in this generation, it's more "who can afford what".

Could you get a better deal if you cut out the engagement photo shoot?