So you 
have a camera, and you would love to earn enough to buy a few more lenses. So you make a few business cards and start announcing you’re open for business. People start telling you the easiest way to make money is to shoot a wedding. Why not? Sounds like fun.
Think again.
Wedding photography is one of the most difficult niches in the photography industry.
- You must deal with dozens of different personalities, all in a highly stressful situation.
- Taking a perfect picture of a bride and groom – one in the whitest white, one in the blackest black – can be exceedingly difficult. Especially because you’re very likely going to have to capture the two of them outside in the sunshine, and inside in almost pure dark conditions.
- You cannot control the situations – you have to go with the flow. You have a few short hours to capture hundreds of amazing images.
- You may be expected to be in 2 (or 3, or 4…) places at one time. How are you going to control the situation so you’re not stressed?
- Guests travel from all over the world for this one day event. There are no do-overs.
Which is why as a professional wedding photographer who photographed hundreds of very high-end weddings over the years, I cringe when people say to get their start in weddings.
If you have the desire to start a wedding photography business, here are my suggestions.
