Do you process your own prints or get a full-fledged photo printing company to do the prints for you? As a wedding photographer, it is our responsibility to make sure that the clients will get high-quality prints of the wedding pictures that they like the most.

Over the years, I have seen colleagues in the industry who have different approaches when it comes to how their work gets printed. First, there are wedding photographers who offer cheap wedding photography packages to their clients. All they do is take photos on the wedding day, probably edit some shots which need retouching and give the newlywed couple a CD which contains the digital copy of the pictures. It is now up to the couple to decide which pictures to print and how they can be compiled into an album.

Second, there are wedding photographers who work closely with their clients even after the wedding. Once the pictures are edited, they allow the couple to choose the best shots from the lot so that the copies can be printed and turned into a good wedding album.

Third, there are photographers who give themselves the freedom to choose their best work out of the lot. Since a wedding photo album is part of the package that they offer to their clients, they do all the after-processing work and just present the final album to their clients.

For me, the best way to please the client is by choosing the second method where they are given the choice to print the best shots that they think should be included on the wedding album.

As far as the physical printing of the wedding photos are concerned, I leave them to the pros. Sure, I do have a pretty decent printer and a collection of good-quality photo paper – but I only use that for the 8R photos which come with a particular wedding photography package that I offer to my clients.

When it comes to printing of most of the pictures, I leave it all to the pros. After all, the bigwigs whose business focuses on printing wedding photos certainly know what they’re doing – so I know that the digital copy of the wedding pictures that I took will be in good hands.