wedding photographer - how do I reduce the costs!

Reading this interesting article above with reservations. True, we can all save money without having to splurge on a proper professional wedding photographer by hiring a 2-bit unknown who wants to be famous one day like Hilarion Goh or Chris Ling or, Kalyedoscope. In life there is always a give and take situation and personally, there is nothing that's free in this world. Things will come back full circle. We all acknowledge the fact that holding a wedding celebration is not an easy task, let alone the finances behind it. Some richer couples can afford even higher scale wedding planners who can make your wedding into a once in a life time experience. Take people like The wedding butler, Heaven's Gift and even the celebrity planner Eternally Yours by Vernetta Lopez. They help make the wedding couple and their guest experience that once in a lifetime celebration, thinking about it, marriage is supposed to be once in a life-time, so its worth the investment. These popular wedding planners will; in reference to this context of hiring a wedding photographer, get hold of experience and iconic photographers, like those mentioned above. The reason is actually very simple: they have the capacity to ensure those once in a life time moments are captured vividly and sucessfully. And the only way to achieve that is to acquire HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE and only through that, will the photographer can create excellent photos while keeping composure to maintain calm when under pressure. I have seen Hilarion Goh, Foto-U & the those bubbly chaps from Kalyedoscope at my girlfriends' weddings before(no names mentioned here), and I was impressed with how they deal with situations that happen unexpectedly, and still live up to the demands of it. These are very unique hail marks of seasoned wedding photojournalists, which junior and puny from school cannot mimic. If shooting 5 to 8 Actual Day weddings are considered to be experienced photographer, then those big boys mentioned above will probably laughed their toes off, bcos they could have easily covered 100 to 300 weddings in their career by now, and I personally feel these are the REAL photographers whom we can place our trust, and money into, when it comes to that once in a lift-time occasion. You have a one chance moment, you get Flabby from Matrimony School of Arts to come document your wedding and this guy probably wants to shoot how he feels, and while you respect that, you also want this guy to shoot some pictures that YOU WANTED. so you will always be on your toes watching over his shoulder, wondering what he is doing, did he capture my kissing, etc. Micro-managing the photographer is the last thing you should do on your wedding day! If I am wrong, then why do you need to create a working contract and make triple sure this guy can work with large groups of people, do what you tell him, photos must be full length and not from knee up....etc. I personally find those thoughts and worries contradicting bcos on one hand the guy wants a set of good wedding photos, but on the other hand, he wants to cut his losses of throwing a hefty wedding banquet, saving bits here and there; by hiring a flabby-wabby-woo-woo from some educational institution, so that he has some leftover cash to play with. The laws of physics is very fair, you pay peanuts, you GET PEANUTS! If the idea or the intention is to stay cheap, then dont try to manage and demand so much from the poor young fella. Just let him do his job and let him give you what he thinks about your wedding, when he shoots your actual day. Once you stress out the poor chap, he may just take off and never show up with the images after the wedding! What can one do about it? If cheap is the idea of the wedding, then live with the consequences and dont dread on it, or try to prevent it cos your intentions are to pay peanuts so you will probably experience the reciprocations of it, thats all! Nothing personal.