Photography was one of the things that I prioritized and really really wanted for the wedding. But I am really having a very difficult time fitting it into the budget, enough that we may either cut it out or provide disposable cameras to the guests.
I'm having a really tough time with this. The cheapest photographer that i'd want to go with is 2 photographers, unlimited coverage, included engagement session, and highly recommended by friends and family for $2500. I really really want to go with them but that only leaves about $1500 of our wedding budget (without cutting into our 3.5k-4k honeymoon budget which I'd rather not cut into) for the non big ticket items like floral (which isn't high on my priorities), decor (which I plan to go pretty much all DIY), and the rings. Which strikes us as being very very tight to fit that all ito 1.5k.
I'm also torn because an option i've seen is to get disposable cameras for people but have seen such overwhelming distaste by everyone here and on other blogs for. but it would free up so much of that money that could be used for extra padding in the honeymoon.
So I'm going so back and forth on this and this is frustrating me to pieces because I really want it, and I can't really cut much else. We have cheap and fun catering, our MC is professional and only about 1.1k (we could cut but an MC is really nice to have organizationally), dessert is nicely priced and my dress is beautiful and only 415$. Even our Venue we found really nicely priced for an awesome barn location (2.4k).
Will I really miss photos like I think I will? Will I hate lower quality photos of the guests? I'm so torn.
