<p>I'm going to be very blunt. <br>
It takes less than 40 hours to process your -average- wedding. Start to finish. <br>
When the average income is around $50k /yr for most people. $3k-10k for a week's work ain't bad. And believe me, working not nearly as hard as many people. <br>
This reminds me of the internet in it's infancy when web designers worked very hard to maintain a mystery about what it took to build a website. And they took advantage of the moment by egregious gouging. Many years later everything reached it's point of natural equilibrium, and websites have become free or amazingly inexpense, yet well designed. <br>
Though consistently good photography takes skill, and sometimes talent, it's not rocket science so much as stategy, luck, and intuition. That's getting hard to find as I sort through dozens of website databases showing the same old overdone subject matter. <br>
The cause of many quality wedding photographers resigning as starving artist, is more often than not, due to something missing in their business model. <br>
All in all there will always be the cheap, the expensive, and the mediocre. If you want to succeed, you have to pick your market and forget this whole business of justifying your price to a customer.... </p>
