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Post by chrissyc72 on Aug 18, 2024 22:22:37 GMT
Has anyone had a content creator for their wedding or kids wedding? It’s a fairly new thing and my sons ex girlfriend is doing my daughters wedding for free and I want to pay her but she won’t tell me what she usually gets! Anyone that has ever had one can you tell me what you paid? She stays for 10 hours. Thanks!!!!
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Post by cakediva on Aug 18, 2024 23:02:21 GMT
So freaking annoyed - I just did a quick scan of the once’s I’ve worked with and follow, NONE of them have pricing anywhere. So I googled and got a blog with ones out of Toronto and the ones with actual websites don’t list prices either.
My biggest pet peeve lol. How are potential clients supposed to know if you are in their budget if you don’t oven have “starting at” anywhere?
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Post by chrissyc72 on Aug 19, 2024 0:14:09 GMT
Yeah I tried googling and looking on Instagram and no one has prices.
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Post by mmmom on Aug 19, 2024 1:35:36 GMT
I had never heard of this before reading an article this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer about wedding content creators. They mentioned prices run from $500-2000 which is a wide range so I don’t know how helpful that will be to you. They mentioned it depends on how many hours of coverage, photos and edited videos clients want. My daughter gets married next month and she is having photographer and videographer but not content creator as far as I know.
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Post by chrissyc72 on Aug 19, 2024 2:09:30 GMT
I had never heard of this before reading an article this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer about wedding content creators. They mentioned prices run from $500-2000 which is a wide range so I don’t know how helpful that will be to you. They mentioned it depends on how many hours of coverage, photos and edited videos clients want. My daughter gets married next month and she is having photographer and videographer but not content creator as far as I know. If she wasn’t a family friend we wouldn’t be having a content creator either. We have a photographer and vidiographer. |
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Post by Lurkingpea on Aug 19, 2024 5:21:33 GMT
Why don't you have someone you know pretend to be contacting her for her rate. They don't have to get indepth or waste her time. Just contact her saying they are having a wedding and want to know what her rate might be for such and such hours. N
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Post by cakediva on Aug 19, 2024 12:12:34 GMT
Why don't you have someone you know pretend to be contacting her for her rate. They don't have to get indepth or waste her time. Just contact her saying they are having a wedding and want to know what her rate might be for such and such hours. N I hate that anybody should have to do that. Here's the thing (and take this from somebody who has been in the industry for over 14 years) - all the coaching/podcast listening I've done, the biggest advice all the pros give is to be transparent about your pricing. It really sucks that a potential client has to go through so many hoops just to find out if somebody is in their budget or not. Not that chrissyc72 can do anything about it lol. It just seems to be the "thing" all content creators do - they either have NO website, just TikTok or Instagram, with a "dm me for pricing" or a website with packages listed and at the bottom of the page "fill out this for a quote" - SO frustrating! |
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Post by chrissyc72 on Aug 19, 2024 17:39:26 GMT
Why don't you have someone you know pretend to be contacting her for her rate. They don't have to get indepth or waste her time. Just contact her saying they are having a wedding and want to know what her rate might be for such and such hours. N I can’t do that because that would just have her thinking she will possibly get a new client. |
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Post by Merge on Aug 19, 2024 18:08:11 GMT
My guess is that their pricing is "dynamic" based on how much they think you can afford.
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Post by Lexica on Aug 19, 2024 18:49:36 GMT
I had never heard of this before reading an article this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer about wedding content creators. They mentioned prices run from $500-2000 which is a wide range so I don’t know how helpful that will be to yo u. They mentioned it depends on how many hours of coverage, photos and edited videos clients want. My daughter gets married next month and she is having photographer and videographer but not content creator as far as I know. I don’t understand what a content creator actually does. This tells me they have something to do with photos and video editing, but isn’t that part of what the photographers and videographers do? Do you request them to give you just the raw product and charge accordingly, then pay the content creator to do the finalizing that the original people would have done? And if so, what is the advantage of doing it that way? Or are they creating “content” for another purpose than just the bride and groom and their families to have such as their (the client’s) website if they are a famous person? I am confused. I was married so many decades ago that all anyone ever hired was a photographer. And some people put baskets of disposable cameras on the tables so guests could capture candid shots of the reception. And that didn’t always pan out as anticipated. I knew one bride that did that and instead of taking photos of the reception and then leaving the cameras for her family to get processed, people took them home, probably still unused. There was the hope that they were going to get them processed to save the couple the cost of doing so and would forward the pictures and negatives to the couple, but not one single person did that. She received about 10% of the cameras back in the return basket after the reception. And I saw the container of cameras on the table. There was a nice sign attached requesting interested guests to take candid shots and return the cameras to a second marked basket to be processed. The cameras were not just sitting there like they were a wedding favor. That means 90% of the guests just took the disposable cameras for their own use. That really sucked. I was so angry/disappointed for her. She lost out on what she hoped was the ability to see candid pictures of the reception and how it was going since the couple were quite busy and missed a lot of their own reception. |
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Post by cakediva on Aug 19, 2024 18:58:03 GMT
I had never heard of this before reading an article this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer about wedding content creators. They mentioned prices run from $500-2000 which is a wide range so I don’t know how helpful that will be to yo u. They mentioned it depends on how many hours of coverage, photos and edited videos clients want. My daughter gets married next month and she is having photographer and videographer but not content creator as far as I know. I don’t understand what a content creator actually does. This tells me they have something to do with photos and video editing, but isn’t that part of what the photographers and videographers do? Do you request them to give you just the raw product and charge accordingly, then pay the content creator to do the finalizing that the original people would have done? And if so, what is the advantage of doing it that way? Or are they creating “content” for another purpose than just the bride and groom and their families to have such as their (the client’s) website if they are a famous person? I am confused. I was married so many decades ago that all anyone ever hired was a photographer. And some people put baskets of disposable cameras on the tables so guests could capture candid shots of the reception. And that didn’t always pan out as anticipated. I knew one bride that did that and instead of taking photos of the reception and then leaving the cameras for her family to get processed, people took them home, probably still unused. There was the hope that they were going to get them processed to save the couple the cost of doing so and would forward the pictures and negatives to the couple, but not one single person did that. She received about 10% of the cameras back in the return basket after the reception. And I saw the container of cameras on the table. There was a nice sign attached requesting interested guests to take candid shots and return the cameras to a second marked basket to be processed. The cameras were not just sitting there like they were a wedding favor. That means 90% of the guests just took the disposable cameras for their own use. That really sucked. I was so angry/disappointed for her. She lost out on what she hoped was the ability to see candid pictures of the reception and how it was going since the couple were quite busy and missed a lot of their own reception. I just did a styled shoot, and there was a photographer, a videographer, and a content creator involved. The content creators (there was a team of 2) walked around with their iphones and captured content from the entire day. Similar to the other two media people, but they were going at it more from the angle of social media content. When we got back all the footage, theirs was a little more candid, behind the scenes, short snippets (all edited of course). They also put together a longer piece from all the snippets they gathered. |
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Post by AllieC on Aug 19, 2024 22:59:12 GMT
My daughter got married in April and her sister-in-law gifted her a content creator for 5 hours. I was a bit “why” and my husband was “WTF is that LOL” but oh my goodness she was amazing. They didn’t have a videographer so her videos were wonderful to have but it was all the behind the scene stuff that she took that was priceless. She worked with the photographer and picked up so many little moments and there were so many photos of guests etc that we wouldn’t have had. The package included some reels and there my favourite thing. One she did of my 2 year old granddaughter had so much that my daughter didn’t see on the day. And I’d much rather watch 10 two minute videos than an hour long one. As for rates, this is tricky because they do vary a lot. I’m in Australia so our rates are so different. Here are a few reels from my daughter’s wedding if you want to see what type of thing they do www.instagram.com/reel/C7BiGSdyTpT/?igsh=MTVqcWE0bXU0NnE2aw==www.instagram.com/reel/C7OhewNytdX/?igsh=ams2OG14Z3l3bmJqwww.instagram.com/reel/C73P5wTSx6IpL6KRY88iLfZtksHnraPNc6nsys0/?igsh=ZnVweGtpaXNqZnlj |
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Post by Lurkingpea on Aug 19, 2024 23:30:19 GMT
Why don't you have someone you know pretend to be contacting her for her rate. They don't have to get indepth or waste her time. Just contact her saying they are having a wedding and want to know what her rate might be for such and such hours. N I can’t do that because that would just have her thinking she will possibly get a new client. I get that, but that is probably the only way you ever gonna find out what she really charges. I wouldn’t spend any time engaging her. I would just say “I’m looking for content creator at such and such hours how much do you think it would cost?” I imagine she gets lots of emails that she probably takes two minutes to answer and moves on. I wouldn’t waste any of her time, but I personally don’t think it would be harmful to ask. I don’t know how else you’re going find out what she actually charges because like all wedding people I’m sure there’s a wide range. It was a long time ago when we got married, but photographers were all over the place with fees, same with florist even though we wanted the same flowers. it was crazy the varying rates we were given. I imagine if every pea had gotten married in the past year and had a content creator at our weddings and we all listed what it cost us the rates would be all over the place. |
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Post by chrissyc72 on Aug 20, 2024 1:07:26 GMT
My daughter got married in April and her sister-in-law gifted her a content creator for 5 hours. I was a bit “why” and my husband was “WTF is that LOL” but oh my goodness she was amazing. They didn’t have a videographer so her videos were wonderful to have but it was all the behind the scene stuff that she took that was priceless. She worked with the photographer and picked up so many little moments and there were so many photos of guests etc that we wouldn’t have had. The package included some reels and there my favourite thing. One she did of my 2 year old granddaughter had so much that my daughter didn’t see on the day. And I’d much rather watch 10 two minute videos than an hour long one. As for rates, this is tricky because they do vary a lot. I’m in Australia so our rates are so different. Here are a few reels from my daughter’s wedding if you want to see what type of thing they do www.instagram.com/reel/C7BiGSdyTpT/?igsh=MTVqcWE0bXU0NnE2aw==www.instagram.com/reel/C7OhewNytdX/?igsh=ams2OG14Z3l3bmJqwww.instagram.com/reel/C73P5wTSx6IpL6KRY88iLfZtksHnraPNc6nsys0/?igsh=ZnVweGtpaXNqZnljBeautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!!!! |
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Post by chaosisapony on Aug 20, 2024 1:15:45 GMT
Well I officially feel old. Never heard of this and my initial reaction upon learning more is "huh, ok but why??". The links of someone's wedding posted above are cool but that is something that traditionally would have come from a photographer. You wouldn't need to hire another person.
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Post by AllieC on Aug 20, 2024 4:13:15 GMT
Well I officially feel old. Never heard of this and my initial reaction upon learning more is "huh, ok but why??". The links of someone's wedding posted above are cool but that is something that traditionally would have come from a photographer. You wouldn't need to hire another person. I felt the same but after experiencing it, I’m totally for it. This was my daughter’s wedding and what I posted was just an example. The 2000 photos and huge amount of videos were so different to the photographers and although the photography was absolutely divine, I actually prefer the content creators. My daughter and her husband were amazed at how many little snippets and precious moments she captured that they didn’t see. I didn’t want to post all the content we had from non family members/friends etc hence the links I posted. The other reason people find this attractive is that often you don’t get your wedding pics for ages where the content creator usually drop boxes thousands of photos straight after the wedding. If you want to post pictures you have semi-professional photos and reels to share the next day. |
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Post by christinec68 on Aug 20, 2024 13:09:45 GMT
AllieC - I love those little snippets from your daughter's wedding! And thank you for providing context bc I wasn't sure what a content creator creates but I think it's great!! The wedding day goes by sooooooooooo fast it's nice for the couple to be able to go back and see all these moments that were fleeting for them.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 20, 2024 14:32:05 GMT
Well I officially feel old. Never heard of this and my initial reaction upon learning more is "huh, ok but why??". The links of someone's wedding posted above are cool but that is something that traditionally would have come from a photographer. You wouldn't need to hire another person. This is me too. Maybe people don’t have someone doing traditional video at weddings anymore? Maybe I’m the odd one out but I’m often surprised by some of the really personal things people post online. I guess I can see why it would be nice to have for myself personally but I never share stuff like that publicly online. |
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Post by AllieC on Aug 21, 2024 0:30:55 GMT
Well I officially feel old. Never heard of this and my initial reaction upon learning more is "huh, ok but why??". The links of someone's wedding posted above are cool but that is something that traditionally would have come from a photographer. You wouldn't need to hire another person. This is me too. Maybe people don’t have someone doing traditional video at weddings anymore? Maybe I’m the odd one out but I’m often surprised by some of the really personal things people post online. I guess I can see why it would be nice to have for myself personally but I never share stuff like that publicly online. The thing is, how many people will sit and watch an hour long video? I’ve watched ours maybe twice in 30 years but the small snippets of my daughter’s wedding have been watched over and over. It’s not necessarily shared online either, these were the ones my daughter agreed for the CC to share. There’s many many more that have been kept just for us. Content creation doesn’t necessarily mean it’s posted publicly. |
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Post by gramasue on Aug 21, 2024 13:41:02 GMT
Well, I learned something today because I had never heard of a content creator, either. (Yes, I'm old. LOL) Today's world is so different than it was only a short few years ago, wherein special events are made available immediately. I love that these photographs and little videos can be shared so quickly vs. waiting for wedding photos from the photographer. I think if you have a really good content creator, it would totally be worth it, but as the OP has said, it would be really nice to know the cost ahead of time.
I worked for a couple once years ago whose daughter and her new husband separated before they even got the wedding photos back!
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Post by fruitysuet on Aug 22, 2024 21:20:44 GMT
My daughter is getting married next year. She's chosen a content creator over a videographer, but alongside a photographer. I didn't get it either, but it really does appeal to the younger generation and the snippets are more ideal for sharing. It's also fun to see the movement and emotions which aren't necessarily captured in the more formal posed shots.
ETA we went for a second day of dress shopping today when she said Yes to the dress. It was such a fun day and the experience of dress shopping now are so different from when I got married back in the 80's. Appointments to ensure personal attention, personalised welcome signs and cocktails!
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