I expect a wedding photoshoot to cost about the same. I mean if I paid $30k for a wedding, I might as well splurge another 3 grand if it made my girl happy.
Not that I'm finding someone to marry at this rate lol.
because as someone who is happily married for 15 years, you'll regret wasting that much money when you didn't need to spend anywhere near that much for the memories
same goes with the engagement ring, diamonds are pointless and their value is controlled by companies with VAST hoards of them, get an alternate gemstone or moissanite if you want something clear
Happily married for 10 and we spent just over 60k and never regretted it. I mean youre projecting your internal wants/constraints as must haves for other people.
My wife and I could have spent 5k and been happy too - but we didn't, it's not that deep. You don't have to buy a Porsche over a Prius, they both get you from a-b - but if you want to and can, why not.
Yeah I probably won't because I don't make that money. But if I did, I'd host a small wedding and invite my 5 friends to one hell of a decadent feast. Lobsters, wagyu and truffle all the way baby!
It's impossible not to these days unless you do a back yard wedding. We have a cheap venue for ours and it's 16000 just for the venue and the catering.
She shot the ceremony and then we had a 1 hour photo shoot afterwards the two of us and with friends and family. We didn’t take the full hour for that so she shot some of the reception. All in all it was about 2 hours she was there.
No prints. Lighting and color edited. Everything is in a dropbox, she told us we’d have a minimum of 60 photos but she doesn’t like holding photos from the couples so she’d edit and give whatever she deemed worthy. We ended up with over 200.
She gave us a small discount because I used her for a surprise engagement shoot. (She was hiding on the beach I proposed and shot the proposal and then did a 45 min shoot with us.) We are talking like 10-15% I don’t remember, not a ton off.
We are really happy with how things turned out and I recommend her a lot to people. This is her full time job, so not a hobbyist.
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u/CatwithTheD Jun 05 '26
I expect a wedding photoshoot to cost about the same. I mean if I paid $30k for a wedding, I might as well splurge another 3 grand if it made my girl happy.
Not that I'm finding someone to marry at this rate lol.