How much for Engagement pictures?

Ours was included in our package, but would normally cost $500. We didn’t do outfit changes (though were given the option), it had about 75 digital proofs and was about 2 hours. One location only. We are located in a HCOL area (Southern California), and our photographer is on the higher-end and has been published.

I honestly think that sounds pretty ok for the price

We paid $145 ($115 for session + $27 parking fee for photog, due to where we chose as our location). Our session was 1.5 hours & included 4 locations (all within the same larger location though, so walking distance- we didn’t need to drive to each location). We had the option of outfit change, but didn’t do it. We got 200+ edited digital photos with full rights.

Paid $100 and got 140 pics

That sounds great to me—I’m looking at a $1,000 session, which is why I haven’t decided on adding it yet. Photographer I’m considering does not include it in the package. It would be about 2 hours & would come with an album of some of the photos for a guestbook. I believe an outfit change is offered, and you
choose an area & then walk around so no limit on backgrounds. I haven’t seen the contract so no set number of photos that I know of, but the galleries we were sent all have 100-110.

She’s a bit more expensive than some others we’ve looked at, but I haven’t seen below $500 for an engagement session, & I’ve seen up to $1,500 (New England area)!

Our engagement shoot was included in our wedding package.

Our engagement shoot was included in our package. However, this pricing sounds great. Like my mother-in-law, it sounds like your future mother-in-law is out of touch with how much things for weddings cost. My mother-in-law freaked out at the cost of how much hair and makeup was which sent me into a panic. My sister-in-law assured me that the costs were in line with what hair and makeup is for weddings.

Our engagement session was included in our wedding package, but our photographer’s website lists engagement shoots as starting at $350 for a 1.5 hour session- if you want outfit changes/multiple locations, she charges more.

View Quoted Comment That's what I was thinking!

View Quoted Comment Dang, that sounds like a great bargain. May I ask which region of the states you live in?

View Quoted Comment Okay, that sounds like a good deal.

View Quoted Comment Oh my! I would not pay that bc I'm too frugal. I would have to resort to a college student or armature photographer.

View Quoted Comment Yeah she is a bit older and is out of touch. The other day she told me she spent $100 and something on her wedding pics back in 1971! I Googled How much that woukd be today and it said $600 and something dollars so I was surprised she thought $235 was a lot.

View Quoted Comment Whew that is expensive to me bc I'm a bit frugal.

View Quoted Comment We thought it was a great deal too! To be honest, I didn’t even shop around to compare prices, so I didn’t know what a great deal we were getting! I just knew as soon as I saw her photos, that’s who I wanted to shoot our engagement pictures! We live in the Chicago area.

View Quoted Comment Weddings definitely aren't as cheap as they used to be. I just wouldn't even talk to her about money in the future.

View Quoted Comment I don’t blame you—it’s making me hesitate for sure! We don’t absolutely need engagement photos at all, and our main motivation would be to do it with the photographer to get to know her style, so tbd haha.

View Quoted Comment Yes! It was. For 8 hours of coverage and boudoir shots of my husband then of myself was q total of $1150

View Quoted Comment Wowwwwzzers that's a cheap deal for that area for sure. And this was a professional? Not an amateur?

Our engagement photos were included in our package, but normally would have been $500.