p.4 #2 · How many weddings will you shoot next year?
paparazzinick wrote:
if you cant make a living with 20 weddings then your doing something wrong. or have a day job.
with our average booking price we make well into the 6 figures with 20 weddings booked. and if you cant live off of $100,000 or more then you need to rethink your spending.
not saying anything bad about you just saying in general.
plus where i live the average income is $35,000. so in y city I would be considered upper middle class.
maybe i am lucky for where i live?
wouldn't having a day job increase your income?
anyways, thats certainly great money. how much more then $5000 a wedding do you get on average?
p.4 #4 · How many weddings will you shoot next year?
I have about 20 booked, and I'm getting enquiries for 2010! I think I'm a bit too cheap and soft though (can't say no...it was only supoosed to be occasional thing!)
People are still going to get married regardless of the vaguaries of the stock market... and guess the photographer is going to be one of the last things to get cut...I would hope so anyway!
p.4 #6 · How many weddings will you shoot next year?
im not sure why the financials isnt effecting us but it isnt. my guess is that the clientele we book will always have money so they arent holding back.
You will probably be affected more after the first of the year. Most of the current slowdown has been caused by stock market losses, equity deflation in housing and general uncertainty about the future. There will be another step in the slowdown when businesses start waves of layoffs in the first quarter of 2009 to try to counter the decreased financial outlook for the next few years.
p.4 #7 · How many weddings will you shoot next year?
5 with one pending. Would like to do 12 next year to double what I done this year in my second season. We'll see what happens. Advertising on The Knot has not been as fruitful as I had hoped but maybe it will improve. Oh, and one is in Scotland in September
