RE: [Leica] Ten grand weddings

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Mike - $10K weddings are getting more and more common....B.D.

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[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
Rabiner
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:19 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten grand weddings


Mike Johnston wrote:
>
> > I say 10 grand now for weddings for a few years now.
>
> Francesco Scavullo charges (charged?) $30,000, but he didn't accept many.
I
> only know two people who charge $10,000 or more. It takes a lot of work to
> position yourself at that point in the market.
>
> --Mike

Thanks Mike! Glad to have you back! Things were getting boring around here!
I really am hoping to not do more weddings. And what I'd give them for 10
grand.
But charging what i thought in the past were astronomical prices never
worked.
My first wedding I did for $40 bucks when in college in the mid 70's. I
thought
I have over charged, hell the film and processing cost half that much!
That said at the color rental lab the other day a large bride was coming out
of
the machine, a 24x30 C print.
The photographer had printed his own print.
He told me she was wearing a wedding dress which cost her dad something like
$30,000.
A Rancher from Eastern Oregon.
He had spent much money do deal with her facial deformities. $300,000
perhaps.
So that was supposedly the a reason behind the expenditure of the dress.
Yes, sick and sad beyond belief!
	so it goes!
mark rabiner