littleme wrote:
With my schedule the way it is, I need to spread things out, especially during Christmas when my free time is spent with friends and family and doing Christmas stuff like shopping or cutting down a tree with the kiddos.
Ooh - you cut down your own tree? That's so exciting! Here in FL, you get what the local Rotary is selling. Oh well.
On that note, our winter weddings are akin to your summer weddings. So I don't ever have to fuddle with camera gear in freezing temps.
My reasoning for not taking a lot of bookings over Christmas is the same as yours - I don't like all my family time taken up with post-processing. I already have something like three or four shoots over the Thanksgiving weekend - I don't want to muddle up my December as well (already have two weddings then, anyway).
You know just where you are, so take everyone else's advice with a grain of salt. Better to not take a job than take it and wish you hadn't.
I hadn't thought about that-- probably most togs out there aren't used to snow and coldness during their winter weddings. Also most of them have probably been doing it longer than a few months, so they have experienced weddings in all 4 seasons .
I wasn't going to, but I guess I will go into why I'm so busy-- basically my hubby and I both work FT, he's in grad school PT and I have photography PT (I'm in a few galleries and matting/framing Christmas gifts-- nature photography), also we have 2 small children (age 1 and 4), and it's Christmas. It's just the season of our lives right now, no pun intended :P. It's fantastic that we are both pursuing our dreams PT, but we need to balance that with being parents and our commitments to our FT jobs-- not to mention family and friends.
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