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Who pays for photos/prints after the wedding?

My parents are graciously paying for the bulk of our wedding, with future ILs and FI & me helping out with specific pieces. My parents have hired the photographer, whose package includes her presence for 6 hours + a custom photo album. Any prints/photos will be additional charge.

Is it appropriate for us to give photo ordering information to FI's parents and expect them to order any photos they may want? Or are my parents obligated to order photos for FILs after the big day?
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Re: Who pays for photos/prints after the wedding?

  • I think you can give the photo ordering information to your FILs.  You don't need to buy them all the prints they want unless you want to do that as a gift.
  • FYI -- if your photographer gives you digital copies of your images and the rights to them, then you can go to a photo site like Kodak and make and order your own albums.  My sister did this -- she chose slightly different images for each set  of parents (with more pictures from their side of the family), and it wasn't very expensive.
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  • We're planning to give both sets of parents an album as a thank-you, but if you're doing something else as a thank you instead, i think it would be just fine to provide your ILs with the ordering information.
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  • I think you can give photo information to anyone who may want to order prints.  We made small books on Shutterfly for our parents and grandparents (our photog. package included a disk with digital rights to the photos) after the fact, but also passed along the web link for ordering individual prints if they wanted.  Our photographer put all of our proofs into an online gallery and anyone with the login/password could order what they liked.
  • I would provide your ILs with the ordering information if you aren't already giving them an album.  Actually, regardless they might like the ordering info.  I'm hoping our photog still has a package that includes the album for FI and I as well as 2 smaller replica albums for each side.  
  • H and I paid for our own wedding, but we still gave my parents and H's parents the login to view/buy prints from our wedding if they really wanted to.

    The digital images and reprint rights were included in our package, so we printed out a few pictures at Costco for both our parents for Christmas (for 12 5x7 was like $3 at Costco, our photo site charges $12 for 1 5x7).
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  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_pays-photosprints-after-wedding?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:ebb63dea-87b2-4303-9edd-ff6be8703437Post:416f2e1d-985a-4840-b870-3628c97fdd5b">Re: Who pays for photos/prints after the wedding?</a>:
    [QUOTE]FYI -- if your photographer gives you digital copies of your images and the rights to them, then you can go to a photo site like Kodak and make and order your own albums.  My sister did this -- she chose slightly different images for each set  of parents (with more pictures from their side of the family), and it wasn't very expensive.
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  • lyndausvilyndausvi mod
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    edited January 2012
    you can give your in-laws the ordering information.   

    Although we gave each of our parents a small album.  It's kind-of  tradition in both our families.






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  • Kate61487Kate61487 member
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    edited January 2012
    I'd say whoever's getting the prints is the one who pays for them, unless you're doing it as a gift (in which case YOU would pay for them, not your parents).

    like Loopy our photog's website accomodated the ordering, so everyone just ordered the pictures they wanted.  He gave me a special discount for a one time order (and had told me ahead of time), so I collected a list from Mom, MIL, and g-ma of the pics they wanted.  In the end he gave them to me dirt cheap b/c it took longer than he first expected and felt bad about it - so I just paid for them.
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