Am I overthinking our photographer?

[TheBlueRobin]

Getting married in October 2026. We started planning back in July this year and I booked everything quite early, including photographer.

Our booked photographer is experienced, has won awards and knows our venue really well. I glanced at the photos, thought they seemed good and left it there. I was just pleased to get it sorted.

Time has passed and I've seen other photographers who've been to our venue. One in particular just seems to have a style that fits our wedding. They have availability on our date.

They both cost the same but we would lose the £450 deposit.

My main reservations about the one we booked is that some photos look a bit forced/staged and edited with a very cool and bright tone to them. We're planning to have a cosy autumn wedding.

The other photographer has also captured different angles of the venue that I think are lovely.

My partner is quite unbothered. Unless the photographer was absolutely awful he thinks we should stick we what we booked and not lose £450. I just wonder if we'll regret our choices as the photos are all we are left with.

Am I just in my head over this?

Lose the £450.
Every time you look at the photos you’ll wonder if they could have been better.

Tell your booked photographer you prefer warmer lighting and show him examples. He’ll be happy you’ve given direction.

I would also lose the money if you can afford to. You’ll just be thinking what if
the photos are clearly important to you so money well spent

Ask your current photographer if they are comfortable taking direction with regards to their style, if they say no & you can afford it lose the £450, you might as well ask.

Truthfully though, I can’t remember the last time I looked at my wedding photos…. 😅

The photos are one of the few things you actually keep long term so I’d change now if you prefer the other photographer’s style. We adore our wedding photos so have lots printed around the house of friends and family because there are so many joyful candid pictures. It’s worth getting photos you love in my opinion.

I’d do this. You can show them a couple of the angles and styles of pictures you like and see if they’re amenable to meeting your request. I wish we had, our pictures themselves are lovely but the colour is quite flat (we were surrounded by bright coloured flowers and they don’t ‘pop’ like I wanted) so we ended up warming the colours ourselves once we had the digital images. Luckily DH is pretty good at photo editing.

Get the photos right, it will be worth it.