Yet, the initial price is usually the one obstacle that prevents many couples from selecting the photographer who undoubtedly could give them the best value for their money. Somewhere along the line, you may feel, you have to give a little. There's only so much money available. One can and should expect to get an estimate for the cost of wedding pictures on the telephone. At the same time, you should not expect to be given details about sizes and numbers, before sitting down with the photographer face to face.
Prices can be as different as the time, talent and technique of the photographers being considered.
Certainly, among competent professional photographers in highly competitive areas, or among photographers in their formative years, you can expect to begin at around a thousand dollars. Other photographers may begin somewhere around a thousand dollars and go upward from there. It may be good to ask the photographer's opinion as to how much do you think that it would cost you in order to get a complete coverage that would please you and, at the same time, make it worthwhile for the photographer to put forth a total effort. There other serious considerations when selecting a wedding photographer. You might ask the photographer the difference between exposing for high quality black and white images and color.