The journal
Writing about getting married in Canada. What it actually costs in each of the three cities I work in, where a timeline breaks, and how to judge a photographer on something better than their twelve best photographs.
Toronto wedding photography runs from about $2,200 to $5,500 in published packages, with a median near $3,475. Here is what each band of that range actually buys, and where the money goes once it leaves your account.
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Montréal has the widest visible price dispersion in Canada: published packages run from about $1,550 to $5,000. Here is what separates the ends of that range, and what bilingual coverage actually changes on the day.
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Published Vancouver packages run from about $800 to $7,500, and all-inclusive Whistler days start near $8,500. The gap is not prestige, it is logistics. Here is how to tell which product you are buying.
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Most advice about choosing a wedding photographer is about taste. Taste is the easy part. These are the questions that reveal whether someone can actually carry a whole day.
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Almost every wedding runs late, and almost always in the same four places. Here is a timeline built around that fact rather than in denial of it.
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The booking horizon and the sales cycle are two different clocks, and confusing them is why couples either panic early or lose a date late.
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Arman