How to Write a Contract for Your Wedding Photographer

A contract is for your protection as well as the photographers. You want it to secure any deposits you have paid, assure you that the photographer will arrive on time and will provide you with professional coverage of your wedding. So, get busy and write a contract for your wedding photographer. Here are some steps to help you.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Wedding date
• Contract
• Photographer

1. Write a contract that will cover the entire understanding between you and the photographer. The photographer will reserve the time and date agreed upon and will not make other reservations for that time and date.
2. Make sure you have something pertaining to the reservation deposit. Will it be due at the time of signing the contract? How much of the deposit is non-refundable if the date is changed or the wedding canceled for any reason.
3. Put in an understanding that the reservation deposit is applied toward the contracted wedding photography package. This should be part of the total charge.
4. Set aside a 90 minute window, where the bride and/or groom agree to have at least 30 minutes before the wedding and 60 minutes after, for photographs that cannot be taken during the ceremony.
5. Include things as to the completion schedule, payments, final delivery, purchase if digital negatives and reprint orders.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure your contract covers all the things that are important to you. You need to be protected and so does the photographer.
• Ask other bride and grooms for their feedback as to what problems they had run into with their photographer. Did their photographer do all the things they wanted, and was it done ethically?
• Talk to friends and relatives to see if they can help you write a contract for your wedding photographer. They may come up with things you haven't thought about.
• Find out if the photographer is well respected in your community.
• Don’t use a photographer no one has heard of before.

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