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Ryan Richardson Photography is an editorial/fashion inspired wedding and portrait photographer based in Southeastern Massachusetts and serving New England. Massachusetts Wedding Photographer.

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What is a normal budget for a wedding photographer? | Boston Wedding Photography

Wedding sticker shock is real. So many Boston couples planning their first weddings are surprised by how quickly the costs for a wedding can add up and how much certain line items can cost. How do you know what’s a normal price and if you’re getting a good deal? After more than a decade as a wedding photographer, I want to help you break down wedding photography pricing and roughly what you can expect to pay in New England (though don’t just take my word for it).

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Making A List: Popular Wedding Questions

What questions should you ask your wedding photographer? If you type that into your search engine, you'll likely find hundreds of thousands of answers. They're everywhere from theKnot to Yahoo answers, infecting the internet like cute pictures of cats.

Like the aforementioned cats, most of these lists are derivative. They all encourage you to ask about RAW processing and photojournalism, throwing around technical words and phrases like someone's high school term paper. As a professional meeting-taker I've spoken with a lot of brides who have simply slid over a list of questions for me to go over line by line while their eyes glaze over.

The problem is that the answers don't often have any context. While photography has become more accessible in the past 150 years, most people just don't care enough to read up on the finer technical aspects. These questions can only help you find the right photographer if you know why you're asking them.

So today, in the interest of being servicey, I've compiled a top ten list of wedding photography questions, my answers and why you should be asking them. After this, I will also take the five worst questions and mock them.

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