To say I was a bit taken aback when I read what this photographer accepted as payment for a destination wedding in Italy would be an understatement.
The couple’s photo album cost £1,200, which includes the £500 they spent on John’s flights and two nights’ stay in the four star Aquila D’Oro Hotel.
Then come to find the payment included 500 pounds for travel and that he went early on his own dime at the cost of 200 more pounds.
Let’s do the math:
- 1,200 UK pounds = $1774 US
- minus 500 UK pounds = $739 US
- minus 200 UK pounds = $295 US
That’s a grand total of $740 US (500 pounds) in order to travel from the UK to Italy for 5 nights/6 days! Surely a paltry amount for services rendered. Then let’s add insult to injury and subtract the price of an album (which according to the article was included in their package) and per diem rates for expenses such as food, parking, cabs etc. Which when you add it all up could have easily left this photographer paying out of his own pocket in order to shoot this wedding.
So my question to you all is “Would you shoot a destination wedding even if it cost you money?”.
ddd
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Controversial though it may be, I would indeed travel to do a wedding. Photography is about so much more than money, and although it makes no business sense to do it regularly, I think that as a one off I’d go for it.
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