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Social media really can screw with our brains. We’re constantly pressured to look a certain way, be trendy, have the most impressive wedding pictures, etc. Mix those with the wedding industry’s perfect-bride standards and you’ve got a dangerous cocktail.

Photographer Cara Garbarino talks about the importance of showing up for yourself every day. She says it’s easy to blame social media, but it’s really up to us.  

How do you deal with the wedding pressures you see on social media and traditional wedding sites? Do you feel more pressure from social media now that you are planning a wedding?

Let’s talk about staying sane amidst the “picture perfect” standard of the wedding industry.

Who's in this video?

Cara Garbarino
Photographer & Owner,
The Atelier

Who's in this video?

Cara Garbarino
Photographer & Owner,
The Atelier

Social media really can screw with our brains. We’re constantly pressured to look a certain way, be trendy, have the most impressive wedding pictures, etc. Mix those with the wedding industry’s perfect-bride standards and you’ve got a dangerous cocktail.

Photographer Cara Garbarino talks about the importance of showing up for yourself every day. She says it’s easy to blame social media, but it’s really up to us.  

How do you deal with the wedding pressures you see on social media and traditional wedding sites? Do you feel more pressure from social media now that you are planning a wedding?

Let’s talk about staying sane amidst the “picture perfect” standard of the wedding industry.

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    Robin Sloan, The Uncorked ProjectVerifiedRobin Sloan, The Uncorked Project

    There have been times when I need to take social media breaks. All the scrolling made me feel bad. Seeing all the beautiful people doing beautiful things with their beautiful successful spouses. Barf. I would argue that the wedding industry has to be at the TOP of the list of offenders. Do you agree?

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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?

    AvatarCody 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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