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Why you should invite kids

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This video is not what it seems. Get your Kleenex ready, it’s a tearjerker.
 
It’s the dreaded question… “can my kids come?”
 
In our “Should Couples” series, our planning experts, Anthony Navarro and Jeff Miller of Liven It Up Events, provide their professional and PERSONAL advice on whether or not kids should be invited to weddings.
 
Hearing their response might even make you reconsider inviting children to your wedding.
 
Jeff’s story about losing so many loved ones right after their wedding hit home for us- especially when he said we tend to gather for “weddings and funerals”.

Who's in this video?

Anthony Navarro
Creative Director & Award
Winning Event Planner,
Liven It Up Events
Jeff Miller
Creative Director,
Liven It Up Events
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Who's in this video?

Anthony Navarro
Creative Director & Award
Winning Event Planner,
Liven It Up Events
Jeff Miller
Creative Director,
Liven It Up Events
Previous slide
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This video is not what it seems. Get your Kleenex ready, it’s a tearjerker.
 
It’s the dreaded question… “can my kids come?”
 
In our “Should Couples” series, our planning experts, Anthony Navarro and Jeff Miller of Liven It Up Events, provide their professional and PERSONAL advice on whether or not kids should be invited to weddings.
 
Hearing their response might even make you reconsider inviting children to your wedding.
 
Jeff’s story about losing so many loved ones right after their wedding hit home for us- especially when he said we tend to gather for “weddings and funerals”.

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    Robin Sloan, The Uncorked ProjectVerifiedRobin Sloan, The Uncorked Project

    This is my favorite video. Inviting kids is can cause so MUCH DRAMA in the planning process! Is this happening to you? Did Jeff & Anthony's story open up your mind to inviting kids? It made me change my mind- after shooting hundreds of weddings, I always was on the "no kids" side of this topic. But hearing how it was less about how the kids would act at the wedding and more about how it included all family made me open my mind to it.

    Are you inviting kids? Why/why not? What's your situation?

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    Robin Sloan, The Uncorked ProjectVerifiedRobin Sloan, The Uncorked Project

    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?

    Cody Pettengill

    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.

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