Q: My event details changed AFTER I sent out my save the dates/invites. What should I do?
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What do you do if the event details have changed after you’ve already sent out the save the dates or the wedding invitations? Ideally you can collect email addresses or cell phone numbers and just type away. So a simple email. Or if you want it to be a little more put together and polished, you could do something like a flyer on paperless, post or one of the other awesome sites for online invitations similar to an evite, but less ads. And that would be a great way to communicate with people. And then I think you can also see if they’ve opened it and read it. Text is another way or the last thought is just do like a quick postcard and send it out. That’s a little more money as far as printing and postage, but I think digitally is the best way to try to get the word out about your changes. And if everything is on your wedding website, then the text or the email can say there’s been changes to our schedule, please check the wedding website. So those are some thoughts. Things happen and using the technology available to us is probably the quickest and easiest way to update your guests.
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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.