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On October 17 from 5:30-7:30pm we will be having a happy hour for Pittsburgh Photographers and other wedding vendors. It will be at the Sharp Edge in Peters Township.
Email me or call if your coming. I will need to know if your coming so if there are a lot of people we can reserve a section if possible there.
Just come down and meet some other locals and join our referral network.
This past Saturday we did a wedding at Southpointe Gold Club in Washington, PA. I have not been there since my wedding 2 years ago and I have to say it was just as nice this past Saturday as it was on my wedding day.
Kathy and Justin had the perfect day with blue skies, nice and cool weather and lots of fun. We also worked with Gordon Schu http://gordonschu.com/ who is absolutely one of the best videographers we have ever worked with. They did not sit down one bit. They were nice, fun and all over the place capturing the day right with us. I cant wait to work with them again.
Here are a few from Saturdays wedding.
I was in a discussion with some of my photographer friends and a topic came up that is a huge concern for a lot of us. The topic was about planning or photography on your wedding day. Brides need to leave enough time to take the photos they want and for the amount of people that will be participating in them. 20 minutes is not enough time and in fact, an our is sometimes pushing it if you have a lot to get done and a lot of people in them.
You are paying over $30,000 for a venue and another few thousand for us to capture your day, so work with your photographer to make sure we can capture your day and all of the special moments. We dont need hours of time but talk with us about your plans and needs and we will see how long we think it will take. Trust our advice as this is something we do every weekend and have seen almost every situation that could arise.
You book us for a reason, our style, our expertise and our quality. You loved our portfolio for a reason. To get the images in our portfolio took 50% our skill and knowledge and 50% of the participation and time from the client.
With that said, we look forward to helping you plan your day for photography and please, if you have any questions make sure you contact us so we can help.
Yep I said it, FREE!!!!!!!
I will be conducting a free workshop for photographers, sorry brides this one is not for you. No it’s not that I dont like you, I love working you my clients. This is just a closed workshop for professionals.
So what is the workshop, where is it, when is it?
What: I am going to begin a monthly get together for photographers where we can just shoot the $h it about photography, the business and just about any photo related topic. This week is just a get to know me session and a few tips in color correction, printing, new cameras (nikon and canon), editing software lightroom and aperture, plugins such as noise reduction software, and well the ever so popular [b]school.
When: September 24th from 6-8pm
Where: To be disclosed through an email to registered photographers. To find out where this will take place, email me or post a comment on my blog from your business account with your business name and website and I will add you to the list. I will send out an email September 22nd to all registered photographers.
Thanks
Nick
Well all I can say is this wedding is one from Platinum Weddings!!! From every little detail, to a perfect day and a perfect couple; we had so much fun at this one. Bella Sera has to be one of our most favorite places to do a wedding after this amazing party!
Megan and Matt, we wish you the best with your marriage and hope that all of your dreams and wishes become a reality! Enjoy your honeymoon and we look forward to sharing the rest of your day with you when you get back.
Normally I only post 5-7 images from the day but I could not resist. I had to tell the complete story in this post.
Check out Becker’s B school, if you a photographer. Some pretty awesome stuff coming soon!
Most people that get engaged and married are only getting married once and have no clue how long it actually takes to plan a wedding. If you want to get everything you want for your wedding such as the perfect venue, photographer, church, cake, dress ect…. you need at least 10 months to plan if not more. On average you will need 1 year - 18 months in advance to get what you want. I have to tell you that I am friends with a lot of other vendors in the Pittsburgh area and a lot of us are booked 10 months - 18 months in advance.
So what do we recommend are your 2 most important things to get booked within 2-3 weeks after you get engaged?
1. Wedding Reception Venue - this is where the memories and fun will happen. Find a location that is close to a hotel for any out of town guests or has easy access to transportation to a hotel. You don’t want anyone getting a DUI driving home from your fun event.
2. Photographer - second most important vendor to get booked. The photographer is the one and only person who will be there to do one thing and one thing only. Capture your day as it happens and tell the story of memories that will last a lifetime from generation to generation.
After you get those two vendors booked, everything else will fall in to place. You will find your dress, invitations, flowers, cake ect…
So the past 2 months I have had many of my brides and other vendors ask me if I was on facebook. I have always though facebook was a high school/college thing. I began to look around and found a ton of well respected wedding vendors on facebook. I began to think that this could be a new and fun way to keep in contact and network with other vendors.
What does this mean for my brides who have asked about facebook? Well what we can do is post your favorites not only on our blog but on facebook so you can share them with your facebook friends.
So today I joined facebook and will use it strictly for business. If you ask to be my friend and your not a client or a wedding vendor I will have to reject your request. Sorry, not trying to be a jerk but I have to keep business separate.
So today I was talking with, Dan Moose of Moose Ink (www.mooseink.net), and he was telling me about this website his company designed. He was going on and on about this product that this lady created and I should check it out. As courious as I was, I had to take a look. At first glance I was amazed with how cool and affordable this custom jewlery was.
So where do you find the jewelry you might ask? Go to Holly Riddel Designs and take a look at the amazing work she does. I called Holly and talked to her about her work and I have to say, she is a very cool lady with some very nice work.
I will post some pictures soon of her work so you can see what they look like.
This would be a very nice gift for bridesmaids for weddings!
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