Pete HonsbergerI honestly thought the idea of a wedding hashtag was dumb before ours. But, everybody was doing one, so we took a shot at it.
We didn’t take it crazy serious, though, and withg a last name of Honsberger, my wife suggested #HonsNotSolo.
Definitely a play on Star Wars, but it had a nice ring to it, and made some people chuckle.
But the reason I found value in it was our friends and family who used it posted a lot of action shots from the wedding, and we actually went back and clicked the # a bunch of times on our honeymoon, on the way to the honeymoon, and after we got back. Since we were trying to be.in the moment on the big day, we loved to see the wedding from the attendees’ perspectives.
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I have been asked this so many times... does the wedding industry inflate prices when they hear it's a wedding?
Here is my honest answer (as a former wedding photographer)... NO. Did I charge more for a wedding than a 50th birthday party or a family portrait session? Yes, absolutely. I charged A LOT more for a wedding.
Was I taking advantage of the emotional sell? Absolutely not.
The main reasons I charged more for a wedding were: the unseen amount of work involved in the 12+ months leading up to the wedding, the skill level needed on the day, the INTENSE pressure to create perfect "portfolio level work" no matter what the reality of the situation- but mostly it is to compensate for the time AFTER the wedding in post production.
Little known fact about wedding photography - the real job is sitting at a computer editing photos. Photographers spend many hours behind the computer carefully selecting and editing photos. They make adjustments, crop, and adjust colors to ensure each image it's best. Don't forget the time it takes for batching, renaming, importing, exporting and uploading the photos and preparing them for delivery.
Do you think this justifies why photographers charge more for weddings than for other types of shoots?
Couldn’t agree more! And on the videography side its an absolute ton of data + editing discipline.
Its a double sided coin- weddings are extremely high pressure but also high reward when we nail it.
Our products (photo video) in particular are the only thing that genuinely will last forever . Having fun and ALSO nailing the product is worth the price of entry and frankly more.