You. Hi, I’m Lyn, a New England wedding photographer, and I want to talk about one of the things I see go wrong. A lot that is easily fixed on a wedding day, and that is a bride really struggling to get into her dress on her wedding day and finalize her outfit and then running late because of it, late to the ceremony, late to the first look. And this is easily avoidable if you just make sure that you try on your full wedding dress, including all of the undergarments or boob tape and all the other things you’re going to do for that day before the wedding day itself. You want to make sure you take the time to put all of those garments on to button every single button, to hook every single eye. Hook whatever you have to do to make sure that you have your full wedding look on yourself to see how long that takes, if it’s going to take you a lot longer than you thought, or if the tape that you need to do actually shows through. Or maybe there’s a finicky piece that is going to take longer to deal with now, you know, and you can budget time for that so that you’re not running behind and getting stressed.
Outdoor and auxiliary noise during your ceremony. Hi, I’m Jason Monroe. I’m the owner and operator of highway 61 films. We’ve been making wedding videos in Chicago since 2009. And one issue I see, and especially with weddings that are happening in city centers, is if you’re doing a ceremony outdoors and you are in a city center, you’re close to the action. A lot of times there can be auxiliary noise that is just really undesirable. Perhaps you are close to city transit trains. If your city has a train system in it, and the trains can be very loud going by during the ceremony and you’re saying your vows or emergency vehicles with sirens going off sometimes can be very disruptive of ceremonies. I’ve seen people pause and wait for several sirens to go by or several trains or let’s say you’re close to an airport. A lot of times, planes landing off or landing and taking off can be problematic. And especially this is something I noticed, too, for us. We’re doing video and we’re trying to capture audio of your ceremony. And sometimes I’ve seen it where it can be funny in certain moments if the efficient knows how to spin it, but a lot of times it can be bad. And we don’t want to discourage people from booking outdoor ceremony venues, but it’s just something to be aware of.
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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?
Do companies think that they can charge more for weddings since the bride and groom may be willing to spend more on their dream wedding?
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.