Designer Package
More on the new business with Samantha Hook Photography – Samantha and I started to work together last August. We covered around 7 weddings together last year and we were really pleased with the pictures. We work well together at a wedding and our mixture of styles makes for a good balance of coverage on the day. So one of the reasons why we created a new, joint business is so that we could offer a true two-photographer offer – which we have called the designer package.
The benefit of doing this as a joint business is this approach uses two professional photographers who have established a good working relationship – and this is different from just hiring a second photographer for the day. Just putting people together does not make a team, the team comes from working together over a period of time. There is no personal connection between Samantha and I, so people really are getting two professional photographers, because the only basis is a professional one.
Many of our bookings for next year have opted for the designer package, which is a real encouragement to us. We like to shoot together and we love the pictures we create, but obviously not everyone’s budget can extend to two professional photographers.
In essence, the designer package means you get both Samantha and me at your wedding day, with no restrictions on time on the day. The other main element is the photography and the package are built around the couple. The concept is different – because we spend more time with each couple to understand in some depth their day and what they want from their photography. It is more a case of commissioning creative professionals to work with you rather than buying an off-the-peg package. We get more involved in your day and you, which means more time for us and hence a higher cost, but the resultant photographs are the best we can produce. We would like all our weddings to be the designer package, because that's when we take our best pictures, so we don't charge silly amounts but obviously we have to pay two wages from the one wedding.
We often say to couples that good wedding photography is a partnership between us and the couple. We can do our best to photograph the day, but how the day is planned, the setting, and the contribution from the couple and their guests are big factors in the type of photographs we can get. And in short, that is what we do in the designer package.
The benefit of doing this as a joint business is this approach uses two professional photographers who have established a good working relationship – and this is different from just hiring a second photographer for the day. Just putting people together does not make a team, the team comes from working together over a period of time. There is no personal connection between Samantha and I, so people really are getting two professional photographers, because the only basis is a professional one.
Many of our bookings for next year have opted for the designer package, which is a real encouragement to us. We like to shoot together and we love the pictures we create, but obviously not everyone’s budget can extend to two professional photographers.
In essence, the designer package means you get both Samantha and me at your wedding day, with no restrictions on time on the day. The other main element is the photography and the package are built around the couple. The concept is different – because we spend more time with each couple to understand in some depth their day and what they want from their photography. It is more a case of commissioning creative professionals to work with you rather than buying an off-the-peg package. We get more involved in your day and you, which means more time for us and hence a higher cost, but the resultant photographs are the best we can produce. We would like all our weddings to be the designer package, because that's when we take our best pictures, so we don't charge silly amounts but obviously we have to pay two wages from the one wedding.
We often say to couples that good wedding photography is a partnership between us and the couple. We can do our best to photograph the day, but how the day is planned, the setting, and the contribution from the couple and their guests are big factors in the type of photographs we can get. And in short, that is what we do in the designer package.
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