How to select the right wedding photographer

What should you ask a professional photographer when considering that person to preserve the most important day of your life?

 It is a difficult task unless a close friend or family member has used a professional service, and has given a glowing endorsement. Even then, you may have liked the images of your friend or family member, but do not connect personality wise with the photographer during the initial presentation.

 Positive Images by Rettberg, Baltimore's best wedding photographer, has put 43 years into the wedding industry, and realizes that there are many more choices regarding your selection of a photographer than ever before. Whether it be us or another, we have compiled a list of questions that any professional should be a ble to answer to your satisfaction. Use this list as a template on any interview, and you will get the person right for you.

1...Do you make your living in photography?
2...How many years experience do you have?
3...How many weddings have you photographed?
4...Do you belong to Professional Photographer Associations?
5...Do you have referrals?
6...What is your style, and are you flexible?
7...Have you been to my ceremony and reception sites?
8...Do you offer both single and two photographer shoots?
9...Can you design a coverage that fits my budget?
10...Can I customize any set plans you may have to fit my time frames and budget?
11...Is your payment schedule flexible?
12...Do you charge for travel?
13...Will you guarantee that you will be my photographer?
14...Are the samples you are showing me, weddings you have personally done?
15...What options do I have after the wedding, regarding assistance with album design, delivery of orders, and placing the wedding images online?
16...Do you have incentives for booking with you?
17...What is your refund policy if the wedding is cancelled or postponed?
18... Do you have backup if you become ill?
19...Do you enjoy what you do?
20...What makes you unique?

 This is a stringent criteria for any vendor, but it is crucial in selecting the one professinal on your wedding day who gives you the investment that lasts more than a lifetime. Add onto all of the above that you must truly like the photographer you will be dealing with, and trust that they always have your best interest at heart.

Call 410-893-3620, or email Positive Images by Rettberg at info@billrettberg.com  to set up a no obligation presentation in your home, or place of convenience. Ask us the questions, and judge the difference for yourself.

Bill Rettberg Jr. is now on Pinterest

Positive Images by Rettberg, Maryland's best photographer has joined Pinterest. Follow our boards under Bill Rettberg Jr. to see the wide variety of photographic subjects we work into our repetoire. It ia a great way to see Baltimore's best wedding photographer in the many different facets of his shooting ability.

Tis the season

Positive Images by Rettberg, Baltimore wedding photographer is preparing for a very busy wedding season. This year is showing a definite uptick in business. This is not because of a significantly better economy, rather a resignation that "we've been holding off long enough, so we might as well bite the bullet and have the wedding we want."
It is tough for brides and grooms now, much more so than in recent memory. Young people now face high housing costs, lower job expectations, high gas prices, national economic instability, and an unknown future in areas of taxes, Social Security, and healthcare.
Bill Rettberg Jr. has seen much turmoil in his 43 years as a professional photographer in Maryland. He hopes that the couples entering the married life this year will look to the future with hope, and an aggressive attitude that they too will enjoy all and more than their parents had.
It is Positive Images by Rettberg's responsibility to give you a lifetime of happy memories of the greatest day of their lives, and use the images created by Baltimore's best wedding photographer as a template for a long, loving, and prosperous life.