Wedding planning myths

So we have been a little more busy planning wise in the past couple of weeks than we certainly have in the past couple of months. We ended up talking to a different photographer because the first ones kept taking along time to get back to me and this new one has a much better deal than the other ones. More stuff for less money and we are supposed to maintain full legal rights to all our pictures which is a big thing these days. We have also more or less lined up a string duo for the ceremony music. Just have to iron some detail out on the contract and that will be all set. So two things down, how many to go? lol

The thing that I find interesting is that when you start to plan a wedding, if you are like me and don't know the first thing about it, you usually turn to the closest resource available to you for information: Google. Now in perusing the plethora of wedding planning sites out there, you usually will stumble on some version of a wedding time line which breaks down when you should do certain things and such. There are some things on those time lines that I will agree with (i.e. buying the wedding dress 6-8 months beforehand since they will need like 3 months to make it assuming you don't buy off the rack, plus time for alterations and such) but there are some things that I in theory was supposed to do like 3 months ago that I am just getting to now and it seems to be just fine. They seem to make it sound like if you don't book everything 12 months in advance that you are s.o.l. I agree that this is true for the venue, but other things it turns out not so much. So far, for both of the photographers and the musicians that we have contacted, they are all available on the 16th. I was a bit worried that because it is now less than six months that they would all be booked up, but they are not. Of course waiting until the last minute is not conducive to getting the prices/people you want, but you definitely do not have to book it as far in advance as they would like you to believe.

After talking to the second photographer, another thing that seems to be common within the wedding industry is photographers keeping your negatives in order to force you and your family and friends to pay exorbitant prices to get pictures of you. Luckily this person is not like that. They hate that part of the industry and therefore will give us the "negatives" (such a funny term these days since everything is mostly done using digital photography...I guess they give us the photons? lol) and even have reasonable rates for people to get prints or download the files of the pictures they like. So yay!