Edward Fox Photography

Posted by: Dan on Sep 18, 2007

Brooke and I had an appointment at David’s Bridal to meet with Lisa from Edward Fox Photography. Since the appointment wasn’t until 6PM Brooke came over to my apartment for a while – it also gave us a chance to work on planning the honeymoon a bit. Checking prices, calling the travel agency and that stuff (it was all Brooke).

I had my list of questions to ask the photographer all set but like most places we’ve been to they hit almost all the answers as they give their talk. That’s fine by me.

We got to see three samples of wedding albums – the idea was to pick the one we liked which would help figure out our package price. At least that’s the way it was presented to us. Turns out they have a list of packages and prices all set they just don’t show them to you right away. My guess is they do that so you’ll pick the book you really like and when you see the price you’ll shrug it off. So if you had a budget of say $1750 but package you really liked was $2000… maybe you’d think to yourself, “Well it’s only $250 more and I do really like it.”

Great way to make a sale I guess. Doesn’t phase me one bit though.

I enjoyed the albums and right now I’m not sure which I like best. Two stood out and the only reason I liked one better than the other was because of the cover. One cover was pretty nice but the other was just… not ugly, but wasn’t what I’d think of for a wedding album. Brown suede or something like that. The other was this light blue leather. Neither of which really said, “Wedding album” to me. I just tried to picture it with some color I’d like.

The packages we were looking at don’t include the negative or copyright release but we can buy those for an additional $395. This is just insane to me. One day of shooting and I’m not sure how many days developing for around $2000. That does include the album and pictures though so I guess it’s not too bad of a price. But still I never liked the fact that in order to get my own pictures from my wedding (or any photo shoot) you have to pay for the negatives.

Overall I did like the pictures, the lady was pretty friendly and answered all of the questions. The prices seem reasonable too – compared to other places we’ve looked. But we have more places to look.