e._hughes Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>Help! Yikes, I have never been asked to travel to a wedding thus far, and so I have never really figured out how much to charge extra. I have been asked to travel about 310 miles from my current location. I can drive it just fine, but I would need 2 nights in a hotel room and gas... Any opinions on what you might do in this situation would be greatly appreciated!<br> Thanks,<br> Erin</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illusive dreams Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>Charge them mileage plus room and board. Figure .44-.52 cents per mile. Im not sure what the going travel rate is though.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimee_pieters Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>Erin,<br>Jason has a good formula, but he has forgotten about the 2 days you'll be in your car. You need to decide what that's worth to you as you could be doing something more important like shopping? It also depends if you're going somewhere that you'd like to visit and turn this into a vacation at the same time. You could also work up a special package for your customer and give them one blanket price including travel rather than nickel & diming them...-Aimee</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daverhaas Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 <p>Erin -</p> <p>Check the IRS website for their current millage figures. As a rule of thumb - I charge mileage at the IRS rate plus room and board for the day before and day of the event.</p> <p>Also do a cost value analysis and see if it makes more sense for you to rent a car as opposed to throwing the 600 or so miles on your car. Check around and see if you can find a coupon for free or discounted rentals...</p> <p>We (my day job) just sent me to on a trip to our other headquarters 400 miles away - price of airline ticket was $400. Someone had a coupon for a free rental car - we ended up paying $1.60 for the rental for 4 days and 800 plus miles. Not too bad.</p> <p>Dave</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_carless Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 <p>Charge $1 / mile (both ways), $100 / day for food & expenses (shooting & travel days), plus hotel. Never travel on the day of the event. You need time the day before to scout the area and get ready. So $620 for mileage, $300 expenses, + hotel.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathy_and_david_bock Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 <p>$1/mile. Or just charge a flat rate. Find out cost of hotel stay plus how much it would cost for gas and tell them flat out. Just give them 1 number. :)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marta_cajiao Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 <p>Erin,<br> You should have added the cost of travel and lodging as a factor in the cost of photographing the wedding--before agreeing,checking out the facts how much would it cost you to stay at a hotel/motel etc. Photographing plus travel expenses. Whatever you charged them to be the photographer factor in another half of that money paid. E.g. $1,500.00 for photographing divide that in half and add it on to the fee...it's fair. Ask yourself this? Did you expect to make money on this gig or lose money by having to pay for expenses? It's your call...you are a photographer yes? But,also a businesswoman.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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