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1. Price your wedding effectively. To do this a photographer needs to have a good sense of the time and expense needed to provide effective service to his clients. While it may seem like it would easily be worth the while to take a wedding for $1000 that only takes 6 hours to shoot.
However remember you will need to drive to and from the wedding. You will need to meet with the client before the wedding. You will need to download cards, select images, color correct any applicable images, edit the images, process the ultimate order and deliver the products. When you add in your marketing efforts, overhead expense and time commitments each wedding could easily take 35 hours or more to complete.
Take these items into account when pricing your wedding. If the wedding is not worth your time financially, you will be disappointed no matter how well the images turn out.
Photography by Vanessa Honda
2. Strive to develop a good relationship with the client. The wedding day is one of the client's lifetime most important days. Be willing to do whatever it takes to be successful. This will not only earn you points when the checks are being written and referrals are being made, it will establish you as a caring, competent professional.
Photography by Vanessa Honda
3. Arrive early. Plan on something going wrong (traffic, forgotten lense, injury, loss of cards, etc). While most problems can be avoided by early planning there will likely be at least one unforseen event during the course of the shoot. Being at the wedding location early will make many of these "suprises" much easier to mange.
Photography by Vanessa Honda
4. For destination weddings, set-up an online ordering system. You really don't want to be dealing with mailing proofs to the client or traveling long distances for a purchasing session.
Photographing a wedding can be both rewarding and challenging. Following the above suggestions will help make it more rewarding than challenging.
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