I'm going to use the hotel photographer, the quote I got from Sungold was over $1000, NOT worth it for me because I only want a few prints. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the one who had the guy show up half way had a professional one as well, where as if they know that they are the main one, they will show up on time. And you can haggle with the prices. And if the resort photographer is going to be your main one, you can schedule him to take the getting ready pictures, or a few pictures before the wedding, you just have to tell them what exactly you want. Spending $2500 for pictures is cringe worthy to me, there is NO WAY I could throw away that much money on 3 pictures. I'm not a scrapbooker, I'm not going to have albums full of pictures, I want a few nice shots. I'm only going to get one printed for the house, and send the same one with my canadian invites. Plus my dad is buying a super expensive camera, so I'm sure he's going to take TONS, hahaha.