As the owner of Seas Your Day Events, a renowned wedding planning company out of Orlando, Florida, Aubrey has been striving to help as many couples as possible enjoy a stress free wedding day since 2019. Aubrey graduated from Fiance to Wife in 2018 and planned her own wedding. Realizing the amount of work required to plan a seamless wedding while trying to be the guest of honor made her search for ways to help couples avoid to stress and pitfalls of her own wedding day. After seeing how her wedding planning company’s unique organizational strategies were helping their planning and coordination couples, Aubrey felt there were so many more couples that could be saving time, stress and money if they could only have the knowledge of her team of wedding planners.
This drove her to create the first ever Done-With-You-Wedding-Planning Journal, Winning Your Wedding Planning. Just because you don’t live in Florida, or perhaps decided a wedding planner isn’t for you does not mean you shouldn’t be able to have access to the knowledge a wedding planner possesses! Now don’t get us wrong, there is nothing that can replace an amazing coordinator on wedding day, but Aubrey and her team believe that everything leading up to that day should be as organized and stress free as possible and they wanted to provide you with direct access to the exact information to Win Your Wedding Planning!!
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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.