Megan is a mental health therapist turned photographer and has been in the wedding industry since 2017! Megan has been published in multiple magazines, is featured on The Knot Best of Weddings and has had work displayed in an Art Show in the San Francisco Bay Area. Megan is a lifelong learner and is constantly investing time in growing her craft.
Okay, now that we have that braggy stuff out of the way, Im Megan, your big time dreamer, serial entrepreneur, wears her heart on her sleeve, emotive photographer. I blame my love of candid, emotional images on my background in social work. Feelings are just kind of my thing! Its my job to capture stunning images on your wedding day, but I’ll also be your hype woman, your time keeper and your security guard when its all a bit much!
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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.