Are photographers going to start offering discounts for unplugged weddings?
In my almost-eight years of running Offbeat Bride and working with wedding photographers, I’ve heard of photographers offering potential clients discounts for all sorts of things: discounts for destination weddings, discounts for LGBT-identified couples, discounts for sci-fi weddings or elopements and all sorts of other niche weddings. But yesterday was the first time I saw a photographer who’s offering a discount for couples doing an unplugged wedding. Is this a new thing?
Wedding as fandom? (It might be more likely than you think!)
Since my last rant against all the “helpful” lists and articles on weddings, I’ve been thinking a lot about why I was getting so offended by them. Why I’ve been getting so offended about everything negative and wedding-related. When’s the last time I got this worked up over something that I took so damn personally, and that everyone else took so personally too? And then last night, when I was reading about Dashcon, I realized it. Fandom!
The 3 dark wedding industry secrets I unearthed at a mainstream bridal show
Shortly after my engagement, a friend who was also planning a wedding gently dragged me to a big bridal show in Atlanta. I knew it wouldn’t be the most exciting experience for me. Still, I figured what’s the harm? Maybe I’ll find a booth that inspires me. Maybe it’ll be a little fun, expand my horizons. Maybe there’d even be free champagne? There was no free champagne. And it wasn’t fun. Instead, there were three big secrets I unearthed about the wedding industry from the one and only big bridal show I attended…
The top 5 post-wedding feels that have completely blindsided me, and what I’m doing about them
Or: “Mary goes through it so you don’t have to!” Or: “Married life is way less thrilling than I was anticipating so I’m going to write a post as if I’m giving someone else advice about the situation I happen to find myself in.”