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Why You Need a Professional Wedding Photographer

Wedding photography is the most important part of any wedding event.

We as photographers know this to be true but how do you convince your client? How do you sell them on the idea that if they are going to spend money anywhere they need to spend it on a good photographer? There’s several ways you can do this like throwing a few packages at them and see if they go for anything. Try and figure out their budget and work something into the amount that they feel is reasonable, or you can try my approach. I try to sell them on the fact that what I offer will outlast everything else.

A wedding is a once in a lifetime event. You may get married more than once but every wedding truly is a once in a lifetime event. Think about it for a second, never again at this moment, at this place in time, will these two people be standing in the same place, repeating the same words, with the same love and intensity as they do in that exact moment. This moment is a memory to be cherished for their entire lives and they are sharing that moment with their closest friends and family. A wedding photographer captures that moment to be shared by generations of this couples family to enjoy. What I, as a wedding photographer, offer my clients will stand the tests of time itself. Read More→

10 Quick Ways to Increase Your Wedding Revenue

Ah wedding photography! A goldmine or business land mine?

However you feel it’s going with your wedding photography business the chances are it could be doing a little better……. am I wrong? Here are 10 quick ways you can increase your wedding revenue.

  1. Work out your value and charge day rate for your time……nothing else….. just your time… everything else comes later!
  2. Make sure you’re product costs are not higher than 20%
  3. If you must offer ‘shoot to burn’ then why not consider per image pricing.
  4. Sell storybooks using per page pricing.
  5. Pre-design (or get someone to do it for you) pages of your clients storybook. Let them eliminate the pages they don’t want….. it’s the opposite of up-selling!
  6. Don’t worry about offering packages but instead introduce a minimum product credit spend to be paid upfront. Read More→

8 Ways To Turn Wedding Guests Into Your Next Client

Wedding Group Shot

In an ideal world every one of those twentysomething bridesmaids at your last wedding is newly engaged and in the market for a photographer and it just happens you build up a superb report with all them during the prep photos. Sadly this doesn’t always seem to be the case but it’s worth remembering that nearly everyone at the wedding will at least know someone who is getting married in the next 12 months. It’s not easy marketing yourself to 200+ people all at once but here’s a few ideas that might help you along the way…… Read More→

The Good Ol’ Days: by Dominic Lee, AMPA

My Aunt nabbed me at a cousins wedding recently and complained that I never sent her the photos from the last family event as promised.

I told her I had emailed them to her son but his mailbox was full so they bounced back to me. To which she replied: “well send them to me; if my mail box is full sure the Postman will just knock at the door”.

So it’s little wonder that this same lady is bewildered with the notion that her daughters wedding album is costing exactly the same as the house & farm they bought in County Cavan back in the 50s for £3000 (Old Irish Pounds).

Farm House in Cavan Read More→

The 10 Commandments of a Successful Wedding Photographer: by Dominic Lee, AMPA

Wedding Photo1. Never ever take a booking without a booking fee (average 10%). A deposit is refundable while a booking fee is non refundable.

2. Never ever smoke or drink alcohol while working and always dress as if you are a guest at the wedding. If you want to dress like “an artist” then take up wildlife photography.

3. Never ever give the client printable files on DVD (unless you intend changing career within 3 years). They will print them on cheap fax/copy paper using the printer they got free with the computer which has all the colours of the rainbow in one cartridge!!!!.

4. Never panic, (if you are impatient, dont be a wedding photographer).

5. Always carry a spare camera, flash and spare batteries that are fully charged, (anyone want to buy my old Hasselblad?)

6. Never take photographs during the Gospel or during the Consecration, (it’s as disrespectful as doing a jig during the Nation Anthem). Read More→