Tips for working with a wedding coordinator
Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan
Lesson Info
19. Tips for working with a wedding coordinator
Lessons
What this course is about and how to succeed
01:48 2Why you should become a wedding photographer
01:32 3Business Section Intro
00:28 4Building your kit
06:00 5Where You Should Invest Your Earnings
04:30 6Will's Wedding Photography Kit
09:57Choosing Your Business name
04:50 8Action Item - Choose Your Name
00:25 9How to build your Wedding photography package
06:58 10Setting Your Wedding Photography Prices
10:16 11How to Get Your First Clients
06:54 12Talking with Clients
09:41 13The Importance of Contracts
04:27 14The Wedding business workflow
06:34 15Good Accounting Practices
02:26 16The philosophy of a well run business
03:38 17Wedding Day Overview - Schedule of Common Events
13:32 18Taking care of Business before the shooting day
02:37 19Tips for working with a wedding coordinator
03:31 20Action item - List out the key moments - Try to memorize
00:31 21Know what you will be photographing ahead of time
02:23 22Conclusion to section/ recap
01:32 23Introduction - The meat of the course
01:11 24Equipment checklist/ cleaning lenses and cameras
08:24 25Do you need an Assistant/ 2nd shooter?
05:07 26Being a second shooter
08:32 27What to wear as a photographer
05:09 28How to shoot: Getting Ready/ Hanging out
05:18 29How to Shoot: Dress/ Rings/ Bride details
10:41 30How to Shoot - Groom Portraits & Posing
09:11 31How to shoot: Groomsman
12:51 32How to shoot: Bride Portraits & Posing Interior
04:49 33How to shoot: Bride Portraits & Posing Exterior
08:14 34How to shoot Bridesmaids
12:56 35How to shoot: First Look
03:28 36How to Shoot: Posed Couples Portraits
06:34 37How to shoot: Walking down the Aisle
10:17 38How to shoot: Ceremony Coverage and vows / ring exchange
09:17 39How to shoot: First kiss and walking out
05:39 40How to shoot: Formal family and group Photos
12:26 41Action Item: Save your fav pose
01:14 42Action Item: Find inspiration
02:07 43How to shoot: Reception intro and Grand entrance
01:34 44How to shoot: Reception Details
04:55 45How to shoot: Reception Speeches and toasts
04:41 46How to shoot: Reception First Dance
06:23 47How to shoot: Reception Bouquet and Garter toss
04:46 48How to shoot: Reception Dancing and Partying
05:58 49Recap of “How to shoot”
02:47 50Introduction to Editing Section
01:25 51Photo applications and Profesional Apps
03:42 52Organize, rate, and cull
28:21 53Editing detail shots
31:42 54Editing bride getting ready
29:23 55Editing Demo: Editing Outdoor Ceremony
23:10 56Editing single portraits
52:10 57Editing Demo: Black and White editing
09:39 58Editing Demo: Stylized Editing/ Finding your editing Style
12:20 59Advice on how to edit hundreds of photos efficiently
06:01 60Exporting your photos for client/ portfolio/ print
10:05 61Delivering Digital images to your client
07:06 62Intro to Succeeding in Wedding Photography
00:48 63Being happy as a wedding photographer
07:05 64Making it as a business and sticking with it
03:14 65Getting Testimonials
01:35 66Using Social Media and networking to expand business
02:08 67How to deal with unhappy or difficult clients
04:37 68Competing with mobile phones and family/ friend photographers
01:58 69Working with other wedding vendors
03:16 70Section conclusion
00:53 71Thank you!
01:29Lesson 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.
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