Bridezilla (from WTD)

[wolfepakt]

Tell me do you photogs ever feel like saying that?

 

[DeepSpring]

ahahahahah that's great

 

[MommyOf4Boys]

:lmao: too funny!

 

[mysteryscribe]

my favorite was the bride who left my studio with all the proofs but no negs, then called me within thirty minutes. Said I hate them all want my money back. I told her to have all the proofs back in thirty minutes and she could have her money back. I explained that they were numbered and I would know is she kept any. That I had no problem giving her money back but I wanted to make sure she did not go to walmart to make copies.

I never saw her or heard from her again..... I have no idea to this day what it was all about.

 

[memphis]

I won't shoot weddings, although I could make a fortune --- I just don't have the temperment for it....

 

[Meysha]

I shot my first wedding a couple of weeks ago!!!!! but it wasn't doing photos ---- I was taking the video! eeek! That was nerve wracking... in itself - now my computer's playing up and I can't import it to edit it.... and I'm too scared to call the bride. :-(

 

[mysteryscribe]

take a couple of deep breaths figure out why it wont import and fix it before you confess too soon. Not only good for customer relations but marriages

 

[thebeginning]

I won't shoot weddings, although I could make a fortune ---

a bit confident, are we? :mrgreen:

 

[ShutteredEye]

I won't shoot weddings, although I could make a fortune --- I just don't have the temperment for it....

In my limited wedding experience as a photographer, and having just gotten married recently, I've come to realize if you don't have the temperment, you won't be raking in the cash.

It's all about attitude.

 

[mysteryscribe]

I'm only going to say this about making a fortune at it....

I never met anyone who made what I would call a fortune....

but everyone who ever started thought there was a fortune to be made at it.

 

[thebeginning]

I'm only going to say this about making a fortune at it....

I never met anyone who made what I would call a fortune....

but everyone who ever started thought there was a fortune to be made at it.

not necessarily, some 'start' just because it's something they enjoy...although they might have thought that a fortune could be made.

I haven't met many wedding photographers...but I know that there definitely is a fortune ( I'm not sure what you all consider to be 'fortune'...I'm thinking $400k a year and up) to be made at it...you can make a fortune with just about anything. everytime I read articles on wedding photogs in magazines like professional photographer and rangefinder, they all seem to have made a 'fortune'.

 

[mysteryscribe]

In my area of the world a top end wedding is going for about 5k now and that's about triple what it was when I retired. And there are not going to be more than ten of those a year in this area, to be devided up by the photographers here. Most wedding here will average more like 2 to 3 k max and thats with all the reorders included. If you want to work on dec 10 you likely will be working cheaper than that.

A high volumn studio might do about forty weddings a year around here and that is very high volume for this area. So if that studio is doing 40 a year and he only does 5k weddings it 200k but.... there is nobody here that does that many wedding a year at that price. the high end wedding photographer here is more like max 100k... and that is a good living but not a fortune by any means.

And for the one man who is probably doing the 100k there are a hundred more doing 25k a year if that. and driving a taxi during the week.

So Like I said in thirty years, I never met one who made a fortune at it. There might be a thousand who do but not where I am. And a fortune in North carolina is not a fortune in LA or Dallas. But most of the guys who start have read rangefinder to.