I’ll tell you what I want….

These are actual quotes from conversations I’ve had from couples who have recently booked me about their experience searching for someone to photograph their wedding.

I don’t usually ask them to tell me something about their experience so far, it often just comes up in conversation, and given the comments I think it says something about the overall planning process and how for some people, things can get pretty frustrating and confusing.

“We almost gave up looking. Every wedding photographer was saying the same thing, almost like they all used the same AI prompt to write their websites and I couldn’t tell who was who anymore”

“If I see one more photograph of a bride laying in a field, or the couple holding each other while rubbing their noses or foreheads together….”

“I actually ended up hanging up on the last photographer because it felt like she was reading a script and trying so hard to be relatable to me, but it just felt like she was going through a checklist of questions and getting herself ready to sell me on all these features and options, and I didn’t want that sort of relationship with the person that would be with me all day…”

“Of course we want nice photographs of us and our wedding, but I don’t want it to be a thing! I Just want someone there that will hang out with my family and guests and show me their perspective of what it all looked like because I know I won’t be able to pay attention to everyone and everything”

“Andreas, I’ll tell you what I want…a set of photographs that I’ll actually enjoy looking at, not generic but also pretty images that are basically the same as the last wedding that the photographer just shot…and what I don’t want is to be told that for a certain amount of time it’s “photo time”. No…just…No! If you can promise me that you’ll just shoot what happened without making me feel awkward I’ll book you right now”….