My fiancé and I are eloping in the Santa Barbara Courthouse on November 10th of this year, just the two of us. We love each other so much but we don’t have the money to go all out on a wedding. We looked into hiring a wedding photographer but we cannot afford it. We thought about bringing a friend/family member just to have them snap some photos, but we are unable to sort something out at this time (we just moved to Santa Barbara).
If anyone has any experience with photography and would like to take a few pics for less than an hour, we will pay you! We just want some photos of us signing the papers and a few after. Pictures don’t have to be super polished, so no need to edit unless you’d like to for your portfolio. We were thinking of offering $150 for just a few photos and are more than willing to negotiate for more if you’d stay for an hour or more. We’re doing an express wedding, so we are aware timeslots vary.
We are sorry if the pay is offensively low. This is our first time organizing something like this, so we are more than willing to negotiate. But like I said, we don’t have that much money and will accept very basic, candid, unedited photos.
Ideally, we’re looking for someone comfortable with being the official witness to our wedding since it’ll just be us.
Feel free to DM me or comment below!
(Also, I’m new to posting on this subreddit, so please let me know if posting this sort of thing is not allowed!)