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Tips for working with a wedding coordinator

Lesson 19 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

Tips for working with a wedding coordinator

Lesson 19 from: Getting Started with Wedding Photography

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

19. Tips for working with a wedding coordinator

Lessons

Class Trailer

Introduction

1

What this course is about and how to succeed

01:48
2

Why you should become a wedding photographer

01:32

Starting Your Wedding Photography Business

3

Business Section Intro

00:28
4

Building your kit

06:00
5

Where You Should Invest Your Earnings

04:30
6

Will's Wedding Photography Kit

09:57
7

Choosing Your Business name

04:50
8

Action Item - Choose Your Name

00:25
9

How to build your Wedding photography package

06:58
10

Setting Your Wedding Photography Prices

10:16
11

How to Get Your First Clients

06:54
12

Talking with Clients

09:41
13

The Importance of Contracts

04:27
14

The Wedding business workflow

06:34
15

Good Accounting Practices

02:26
16

The philosophy of a well run business

03:38

Wedding Day Overview

17

Wedding Day Overview - Schedule of Common Events

13:32
18

Taking care of Business before the shooting day

02:37
19

Tips for working with a wedding coordinator

03:31
20

Action item - List out the key moments - Try to memorize

00:31
21

Know what you will be photographing ahead of time

02:23
22

Conclusion to section/ recap

01:32

How to Photograph a Wedding

23

Introduction - The meat of the course

01:11
24

Equipment checklist/ cleaning lenses and cameras

08:24
25

Do you need an Assistant/ 2nd shooter?

05:07
26

Being a second shooter

08:32
27

What to wear as a photographer

05:09
28

How to shoot: Getting Ready/ Hanging out

05:18
29

How to Shoot: Dress/ Rings/ Bride details

10:41
30

How to Shoot - Groom Portraits & Posing

09:11
31

How to shoot: Groomsman

12:51
32

How to shoot: Bride Portraits & Posing Interior

04:49
33

How to shoot: Bride Portraits & Posing Exterior

08:14
34

How to shoot Bridesmaids

12:56
35

How to shoot: First Look

03:28
36

How to Shoot: Posed Couples Portraits

06:34
37

How to shoot: Walking down the Aisle

10:17
38

How to shoot: Ceremony Coverage and vows / ring exchange

09:17
39

How to shoot: First kiss and walking out

05:39
40

How to shoot: Formal family and group Photos

12:26
41

Action Item: Save your fav pose

01:14
42

Action Item: Find inspiration

02:07
43

How to shoot: Reception intro and Grand entrance

01:34
44

How to shoot: Reception Details

04:55
45

How to shoot: Reception Speeches and toasts

04:41
46

How to shoot: Reception First Dance

06:23
47

How to shoot: Reception Bouquet and Garter toss

04:46
48

How to shoot: Reception Dancing and Partying

05:58
49

Recap of “How to shoot”

02:47

Editing Wedding Photos

50

Introduction to Editing Section

01:25
51

Photo applications and Profesional Apps

03:42
52

Organize, rate, and cull

28:21
53

Editing detail shots

31:42
54

Editing bride getting ready

29:23
55

Editing Demo: Editing Outdoor Ceremony

23:10
56

Editing single portraits

52:10
57

Editing Demo: Black and White editing

09:39
58

Editing Demo: Stylized Editing/ Finding your editing Style

12:20
59

Advice on how to edit hundreds of photos efficiently

06:01
60

Exporting your photos for client/ portfolio/ print

10:05
61

Delivering Digital images to your client

07:06

Succeeding with Wedding Photography

62

Intro to Succeeding in Wedding Photography

00:48
63

Being happy as a wedding photographer

07:05
64

Making it as a business and sticking with it

03:14
65

Getting Testimonials

01:35
66

Using Social Media and networking to expand business

02:08
67

How to deal with unhappy or difficult clients

04:37
68

Competing with mobile phones and family/ friend photographers

01:58
69

Working with other wedding vendors

03:16
70

Section conclusion

00:53

Conclusion

71

Thank you!

01:29

Lesson Info

Tips for working with a wedding coordinator

We've gone over the overview of the wedding day. We've talked about doing business beforehand. Um But let's talk about the wedding overview in regards to working with the wedding coordinator. Now, bigger weddings will have a wedding coordinator and some wedding coordinators will have a whole team of people and have everything to A T and sometimes wedding coordinators won't necessarily have everything organized or sometimes there just won't be a wedding coordinator. So being able to adjust on the fly for that wedding is something that you need to start to think about and start to learn. It's part of the reason that you should know the structure of a typical wedding. You never know when you're going to have to step in. And in fact, so many weddings I've been to where the default for what's going on in the day people look to you. People will look to the photographer because they know the photographer knows what photos they need to get and they know what's happening and when it's supposed ...

to happen. So keep in mind that sometimes you will become a default wedding coordinator. We'll talk about that in a sec. But to start with working with a wedding coordinator. Now, they'll always, usually reach out beforehand. Sometimes it's months in advance. Sometimes it's a week beforehand, they'll send you a schedule and it's your job to kind of go over that, make sure you work with them. Just like we talked about working with the couple. We wanna work with the coordinator because at the end of the day, we're all on the same team. You don't wanna be fighting your wedding coordinator and you don't wanna cause more stress for them. The wedding coordinator can be an incredible ally for you as you're photographing the wedding, they can also be a job referral. Typically, some people will find their wedding coordinator before they find their other vendors. And if you can get in with a really popular good wedding coordinator and they like working with you, they will start to recommend you as a photographer. So building that relationship with wedding coordinators is really important and a lot of them really have everything planned out. And so working with them will not only give you, uh you know, calmness throughout the day, potential jobs in the future, but it'll also teach you about the general structure of a wedding. If your first couple weddings, you're, you're shooting with a wedding coordinator, you're gonna learn so much from just working with them. And it's really, really great on the flip side not having a wedding coordinator or often the couple will maybe not pay for a wedding coordinator and have a family member do that. It can get kind of rough. The thing to remember again is to take your PDF out that you've gotten from us. Look at the structure of the wedding, make sure that the times line up with them and the venues that you are uh photographing at and stay calm. The only thing you can do is stay calm and the only thing you can do is remember that the most important thing of the day is that they are getting married and that should be king among other things, we don't need to be rushing and we don't need to be running so late that people are uncomfortable, but we also wanna make sure that they actually are calm and enjoying them getting married because that's the only way they're gonna look great in your photographs. So if you, by some reason become default wedding coordinator, you need to be able to bring back up what you've learned in this course and what you have on your PDF as far as a schedule goes, I love getting schedules from wedding coordinators or building a schedule with a couple. And I like actually putting it on my phone as the lock screen. So it's something I can reference very quickly. Just a quick little tip.

Class Materials

Bonus Downloads

Wedding_Photography_Key_Moments_List.pdf

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