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Planning For Photography On Your Wedding Day

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.

B School for Photographers

Check out Becker’s B school, if you a photographer. Some pretty awesome stuff coming soon!

How far out should you book your vendors?

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…

Facebook

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.

Trash The Dress Pittsburgh

Hey Pittsburgh Brides… I am sure most of you heard about trash the dress. If you haven’t, then google it. What you will find is what some brides do after their wedding to just have some fun in a dress you will probably never do anything with again.

So what am I getting at here? Well we are taking applications for brides who want to trash their dress or just go take photos in their dress that we normally wouldn’t do on the wedding day, in risk of getting it dirty. If you feel up to the challenge and want to get some fun and crazy pictures in a Trash The Dress Session, contact us now to reserve your spot.

We would like to hold 3 sessions at the end of summer/fall and then 3 sessions in the winter. We are thinking of doing something like a ski trip or sled riding some saturday or sunday this winter.

Any questions? Contact me nick@photosbynick.com

Photographer Tips

So I was thinking tonight as I was working on some weddings and playing with my Apple computers. Yes I know, thinking this hard this late leads to no sleep and bad health. But I’m a nite person, always have always will.

But what I was thinking was how cool it is that I am going to start posting tips for brides and helping them out with their wedding planning. But how much cooler would it be if I also gave some photography tips and some basic computer tips to help everyone out?

So if your my competition and your reading this, I know what your thinking. Woohoo your getting the inside scoop ok how we do things at my studio. Yeah not so much! These are going to be things we should know to do as professional photographer but most common people don’t know. But your more than welcome to call me and meet up and discuss photography with me if your my competition. I don’t mind helping other photographers out.

So what I decided to do is post a short tip anytime I thought of something that I feel will help you out. Especially since i can post from my iphone. Check back often for updates.

First Post From My iPhone

So as a lot of you know, the iPhone 2.0 software came out a few weeks ago along side the 3g iPhone. Of course me being the techie I am, I got the new phone and a ton of cool software.

With the new software, a lot of developers are creating some really cool software like this new wordpress software. I can post right from my phone and provide llive updates anywhere in the world.

So with that said, I want to make this first post informational for the brides and explain what is to come in the upcoming months. We will be adding a section for brides to go to get tips while planning their wedding, find current promotions, and find other wedding vendors for your special day.

Our current promotion for the remainder of July is a free engagement session or extra hour of photography on your wedding day with the booking of your wedding package. Book now for your 2009 wedding as this promotion ends August 1, 2008.

Thanks
Nick

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