We found these questions on the About.com website and they are very useful when it comes time to hire your photographer. First, sit down with your groom-to-be and figure out what shots you absolutely must have, the style you are looking for, what you want to convey in your pictures and then proceed with interviewing:

1. What’s your primary style? Posed and formal, relaxed, photojournalistic, creative, artistic, candid, traditional?
2. Do you shoot in color or black and white? Or both? Do you shoot in a digital format that can create both color and b/w versions of the same picture?
3. What kind of input can we have on the direction of the shots? Can we give you a shot list to work from?
4. Are you the wedding photographer who will actually take our pictures? If not, can we meet the person who will be?
5. Can we meet any assistants who will also be our taking pictures?
6. How many times have you worked specifically as a wedding photographer? How many were similar to the size and formality of our wedding?
7. How many other events will you also photograph that weekend?
8. What kind of equipment will you bring with you? How intrusive will lighting, tripods, other equipment or assistants be?
9. Do you develop your own film?
10. Can we buy the negatives from you?

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