I know that if you attatch the word wedding to something usually the price jumps through the roof.
I don't really want a wedding with people staring at me, just the thought of it makes me anxioius. I just want to be married to him. He'd like to celebrate with friends so in the spirit of compromise I'm hatching a plan that invovles 10 minutes with a JOP on a beach followed by a beachside BBQ that will be billed as an engagement party and then "oh btw we got hitched before you guys got here".
I want a photographer, not for the party, I'm going for super casual with that, but for the ceremony and maybe for a few shots after. So about an hour if I'm being generous, but I'd like to allow for set up time in there because even standing in front of a camera for an hour sounds positively daunting to me. I do want tangible memories of our wedding though and they just might be what stops my mother from killing me.
The delima I'm having here is I'm not sure how to approach photographers about this. Is the short amount of time just not worth it to them? This will be on a Saturday in the Summer which I guess is prime wedding season and they could probably be making a bundle at an all day affair.
My fiance told me to just book a shoot for engagement pictures and either say hold on one sec and spend 10 minutes with the JOP and come back or see if they wouldn't mind snapping a few shots of the "ceremony". I feel like that kind of trickery is bad karma though.
Is this the kind of situation where I just need to reach out and see what happens because every photographer will react differently?