I was recently hired as an amateur photographer for a wedding. The maid of honor is my finances second cousin. She hired us as her gift to the bride. We spent 6 hours total shooting on a Saturday. I got a sitter for my kids. We have yet to get paid ($100 as we are doing a family member a favor) and everyday the bride and the maid of honor ask me for the photos. It's been 5 days. Im starting to get aggravated. It's a ton of work to sift through, edit, and collaborate the 3,000+ photos we took. My MIL hired a pro for her wedding spent $750 for one hour with the dude and 42 photos 8 weeks later. Am I wrong for being so irritated at their daily requests? Especially considering I'm doing the editing in my free time (if that actually exists) and have not been compensated.
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Definitely do not give the photos until you've been paid. Maybe if you have one or two you could give them just to shut up. But they are being crazy.
@bonniesue, thank you! I'm having trouble coming up with polite wording for fuck off for now 😈 lol. Not to mention I don't want to rush through this and have my name attached to shitty quality pics.
They're very unreasonable. I would lay down the law and text them "I understand the excitement of photos but please keep in mind I am working to give you the best photos I can. I also am waiting on my payment. Keep in mind I will tell you when they're done and I have been paid."
@bonniesue, I think that is where this began. I gave her a "teaser" photo. She then asked for another for her thank you cards since she immediately shared that one to social media and everyone saw it. So I did my best to accommodate that. Now she has tried to blow up the teaser pic (which she can't since I haven't engraved the files to that in editing hence it being a teaser photo) but had asked for a different one she can blow up. Damn. But wow thank you so much for working this out with me! I feel better, didn't blow up on her and didn't back down. You're my hero at the moment!!!