Rehearsal + Food

is it expected to be served food if you attend the rehearsal?

I don't know. I don't care either way. Basically, I'm going to understand the flow of the wedding and how it will all play out.

No, never expect anything.

never attended a rehearsal.

But for weddings, if I'm shooting the reception, I'm gonna want food. It's even in my contract.

I dont do the rehearsals... but in general those dont take long, maybe a couple of hours so no, I wouldnt expect food. My contract (for the actual wedding) states that if I am booked for more than 5 hours then a meal has to be provided

I include the rehearsal as part of my package. The bride and groom invariably ask me to attend the dinner afterward. I usually capture some pretty neat candids while the guests are waiting for their food. It often the first time the brides friends/family and the grooms friends/family get a chance to meet. It's worth it for me.

Kevin

I wouldn't expect food at a rehearsal, unless you're shooting for like 4 hours solid beforehand. At a wedding it's in my contract that I eat at the same time as everyone else.

We turn down food when offered, were there to work and we have a lot to do when the guests are eating so we take some packup (very nice packup actually) and just ask for a room or place out of the way where we can do our stuff ... i.e. downloading all cards and making the honeymoon album and slideshow. It would feel very weird leaving a wedding with just one copy of the images, it feels much safer having them on a macbook and the cards as well and also knowing that weve been ab;e tp read all the cards before we left is reassuring. This really works for us but of course each to their own.

When we shoot a friends weddings is the only real exception to the above, weve shot two of those this year and because were sat with everyone else for the meal it really throws us out, much easier shooting when were just the photographer.

Banbert - are you talking rehearsal like the OP asked or the wedding?

tim wrote in post #4017338
Banbert - are you talking rehearsal like the OP asked or the wedding?

For weddings, I definitely wouldnt expect food at a rehersal either though.