Week 5: Wedding Photo

The wedding invite tells your circle of family and friends that the time has come to share your life with another person.  Moments like this tend to be very special and important in a couples life.  From the moment the soon to be husband proposes to the day after the wedding all the attention is now placed on the bride to be.  The expensive, lavish wedding needs to be recorded in time and that's where a photographer comes in to play.
Weeding Photography can be a very lucrative business and with the right marketing and common  sense a person or team can be very successful. Las Vegas is the wedding capital of the world and here in town if you’re not marrying in a casino you will more than likely will receive the services from a local professional that can charge in the on the low end of $1500.  You get what you pay for so don’t be surprised to hear upwards of $7-10k for such a person(s) and their services.  Time spent to prepare for such a day and the preceding events can quickly add up.  There’s the engagement session, a possible boudoir session, a trash the dress session etc...  The list can include so many options that the costs to the couple can quickly add up.  The advantage of wedding photography is that creativity can determine how much money you make.  If a photographer just adds the basics they can expect a hustle a lot more and get paid just as much as a person who up sells and works half as much.  I’m not saying that its done on purpose but time is money and so is the cost of every little thing expected and wanted from a bride, yes I said bride because we all know she in charge.  Take a look at my post from last weeks blog and notice  the services offered, they’re not cheap and that's exactly why i plan to look at that side of the business very soon.