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swanseamale472003
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Date Posted:
Feb/14/2018 6:49 AM
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I'm going to have a grumble now, about weddings. For those who don't know the bulk of my work is weddings, we do have a studio but I leave that to one of the other photographers I work with.
My main grumble is brides and grooms, they come in to see us and theres always a tight budget, oh we can't afford this package and we can't afford that album, money is tight, can you knock the price down a bit etc etc!
Then at the wedding I find the rubbish table decorations cost £800 ($1107) the sweet trolly cost another £500 ($692)there was a popcorn stand and a hotdog stand, heaven knows what they cost.
My problem is the only thing they have left after the wedding is the photographs and the dress, the sweet trolly was hardly used, I didn't see anybody eat popcorn. That money could have been spent getting a better album.
The venues.
Time and time again I go to wedding venues and A. theres nowhere to take any photographs, many places have the space but they have no background. One place has a lot of grounds but disused falling down wharhouses behind it. A row of quick growing connifers and job done, you only need about a 30 foot strip
Then theres B. the top table.
Why do they like to put mirrors behind the top table? The guests dont want to see the back of the grooms head and the bride and groom cant see them without turning around. It just means we have to watch out for our reflections when shooting the speeches.
The moody look!
It's popular here in the UK for venues to have the "moody look", heavy curtains and bugger all lighting. By "moodly look" I really mean "black hole of Calcutta "look. I mean how daft do you need to be to book a wedding in a venue so dark you need night vision goggles to see what your eating?
Me, I like to see what I'm eating.
So rant over, I'll get off my soapbox and shuffle out the door. Thank you for reading to the end.
Wayne
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