We are a sister team!!! Latina sisters that live in Indiana and Colorado. We have been in the wedding business since 2016. We’ve designed invitations for people in California, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, and Chicago.We have been featured in Wedding Magazines and Blogs as well showing off our collaborations with wedding vendors. We love mingling.
When working with XOXO Invites you are working with a professional Graphic Designer that graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts majoring in Visual Communications. So when we talk I am already starting to envision what I can create for you. I have been designing since 2005 and have won the 2010 InHouse Design Award in GD USA Magazine. I have designed for some big name places like the City of Chicago and Sears Holdings. I truly enjoy designing and it’s not a hobby.
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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.