[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by gemz 1

Pixie, i went to garth dawson and cheapest package was £800, i don't get it though, why so much for pictures?!

You aren't just paying for 30 or 40 photos or even for the extra film used you are paying the photographer's time and some of their hourly rates are incredible if they have a known "name". Garth Dawson studios is famous in Accy and has an excellent reputation.

Also, most photographers will take far more pics than you eventually buy and you choose the ones you want from a set of proofs from which they may already have eliminated ones which they don't feel come up to scratch. So in effect they are also charging to cover the "wastage"

The type of equipment used isn't just your basic point and shoot digi cam either because they have to be capable of being enlarged to impressive sizes for people who want large pics to hang on the wall.

By contrast Ray Royle's budget wedding package is simple. He takes one set of photos (34 I think) and they go in an album. Those are the only ones. No proofs to select from. That's it. Plus one of them framed at 10x8 size. You may say you gets what you pays for. That costs £326 including album.