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.Do not, do not sprinkle your floral budget around. So what I mean by that is when you start working on the design aspect of your wedding and you start thinking about a budget for just that. And maybe it’s not exactly where you want it to be, but that’s okay because what you don’t want to do is sprinkle the budget around. You don’t need to have flowers and candles and design in all areas of your Sarah ceremony or reception space. What I usually recommend is taking a large portion of that budget and putting it into one big dramatic bang. So let’s say you’re going to do a beautiful bar as you first walk into the reception and you decide to do a large dramatic floral kind of emerging from the center of that bar that’s giving you the big bang factor, right? The guests walk in, it’s kind of the wow. And it actually could very easily becomes an instagram moment for all of your guests. That’s what you want to do. You want that big bang factor rather than sprinkling the budget all the way through. And it kind of then feels like you really didn’t do much of anything because it’s kind of evenly spread out, right? You really don’t have a lot of impact anywhere. Maybe in those other areas you do lots of candles and maybe accent with rose petals, something a little simpler because we know we’ve had a big bang and that’s what people are going to really remember and talk about. So just keep that in mind when you start to work on your design.
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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.