Houston Wedding Photo/Video

So I have been looking around for a photographer and Videographer in the Houston Area. Cypress to be more specific. However, it seems weirdly hard to find what I am looking for.

8 hrs of photo coverage (1 photographer)
600+ fully-edited, high-resolution photos
Digital copies of all unedited pictures
Printing rights

8 hrs of video coverage (1 videographer)
60-second Instagram video edit
8+ minute final video to 3 songs of your choice (not set on 8 mins tbh I figured it would be longer)
Audio recording
Raw footage

I figured our budget of $4000 would be reasonable for this, and I figured there were lots of talented photographers and videographers out there. But I guess most people's style doesn't mesh with my preferences? I know it seems crazy, but I prefer the background of pictures to not just be completely blown out white from the sun. Like just adjusting your aperture or shutter speed or ISO could probably fix that pretty easily, and in post production you probably can as well, but it seems 75% of photographers love the blown out background pictures, or the photos in their galleries are literally blurry. And then the other side is that it is hard to find a place that will do photo and video together with 2 people, so maybe I should look separately? But that seems to greatly increase the price. And then there's the predatory contracting agencies where all their photographers vary greatly in skillsets, and they put in the contract "we can change the photographer at any moment for no reason and keep your entire deposit". Do you have any advice or recommendations?

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