This is a great question. Here are my top three tips. Number one, consider the venue very carefully. Think about the location and how convenient it is for where most of your guests are coming from and to where you want to be located for all the things on your wedding weekend. Also, think about if the venue has most things in house, like tables, chairs, linens, lounge furniture, tabletop items, and the food and drinks. If that stuff is in house, then you don’t need a bunch of trucks coming and going on your wedding day to make deliveries and pickups. This will significantly cut down on carbon emissions. Number two, book local wedding vendors with ecofriendly practices, especially caterers and florists. If they are eco friendly, they will have smart waste management and prioritize composting. They source their ingredients and flowers locally and seasonally, and they don’t use things like flower foam styrofoam to transport. Number three, provide a shuttle for your guests. This will significantly cut down on the number of cars coming and going on your wedding day. All right, that’s it for now.
Hi, guys. Eco friendly weddings and stationery. We love to talk about this. There is actually so much more you can do than just the simple. Hey, don’t forget to recycle your invitations. I know, right? So one of the things that I definitely recommend is using a stationer at this point. If you have an eco friendly wedding, please use a stationer. Because ss stationers, we know what to look for. We know which paper mills can offer the best environmentally friendly papers and what can give you the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to your wedding and your theme. We look for certain logos. We look for certain types of paper, like cotton and linen and the recycled paper. So we tend to use a lot of nina paper products and we know what they offer. And look at all of these awesome logos and all these awesome things just other than the recycled logo. Look at fsc certified, the chlorine free one. These are really good things. These are some of the things that we look for and that you can look for yourself when you work with a stationer or you’re looking for paper. If you can’t work with the stationer, one thing that you can do yourself is condense everything to just one card. I know it’s crazy, but you can do it. Okay, put at the bottom of your invitation to rsvp online. It’ll eliminate that rsvp card, your accommodation and details card, that extra envelope, and that extra stamp. Not only are you going to save money by doing this, but you’re saving the environment. So a simple thing that you can put at the bottom is please rsvp online and then put the date. For more information, details, and accommodation as well as rsvp online, please visit our website at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then put the date. Tons of tons of great things, right? So if you can’t work with the stationer, condense everything to one card. If you’re having the opportunity to work with the stationer, ask for these awesome logos. And look, there’s more that you can get than just a typical white and cream paper. Okay? Look at there’s actually even a black available. Who would have known, right? Black and paper and environmentally friendly. You would have never thought it. Ask us too. Reach out to us. Email us, dm us. You would be surprised. A lot of stationers would love to help you. And you don’t even have to book us. These are questions that we love, especially when it comes to environmentally friendly weddings. Reach out to us. We love you guys. We love to help you. I hope that helps.
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Do you feel like the industry charges more “because it’s a wedding” and they know it’s an emotional purchase?
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Hey wedding pros – is this higher price tag justified? Why? Do you charge more for your service if it is a wedding?
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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.