1st. Ask for public liability insurance, this will rule out any cowboys and tell you your photographer means business; this will also give you peace of mind as every year more wedding venues are asking for it and they might refuse any vendor that doesn’t have it. 2nd. What cameras is the photographer using? Some old models like the Nikon D3 and the Canon 5Dii or previous had such a noisy shooter that I witnessed some photographers being told by the priest to stop taking pictu