Generally photography takes up 12% of the wedding budget.

Let me tell you a story,

my husband and I were married in 2011, we had a family friend on each side of our families offer photography for free on our wedding day as their gift to us. We thought that was great, one less thing to pay for. What we ended up with were photos we didn't love, they weren't quite our style, and one of the photographers delivered the photos (all three hundred of them) on a disk. That made them so small we couldn't print them. Please don't make the same mistake we did and do your research for the qualified,

 experienced photographer you feel is right for your special day.