Wedding Wednesday! I, as primarily a portrait photographer, would like to express my concern with weddings and the photographic industry as a whole.

Weddings are costly! Just go to google and type in “average cost” the first suggestion that shows on the list reads: “average cost of a wedding”. People want to know what they are financially getting into.

Why do you think the average marital age is 27 years old? If you look around just at people you know 27 feels still too low for most people out there.

The best guess, and it’s hardly a guess, for people choosing to wait longer these days to get married is because of the money! To supplement this change, vendors from every service in the wedding industry have been giving more for less. This change seemed like a great idea, until… vendors began giving a lot for just a little. That brought out more competition, this change had devalued products and services, more and more of your long standing professionals have gone out of business trying not to change while the market increases for the armatures.

I’m not against photographing a wedding for $500.00 and giving the customers a disk of images, I’m against photographers who make a person believe what they are getting is a good product, and not following through on that idea. Here is one of very many cases on YouTube.

To be honest the price you set as a professional photographer is your business; the product you give is also your business. It is just frightening how may brides get garbage for their 1 special day, all because they stopped looking. There will always be better prices, until you find me and always better work… again, until you find me. J Just saying, if the average wedding costs $28,762.00 you may as well find everything you really want for that kind of price.  Until next time… I now pronounce you, good and night!