The great wedding dilemma
It’s certainly been a while since I sat at the laptop and wrote out any sort of ideas that I had floating around in this head. Saskatchewan has brought so many wonderful changes to my life in the past year. I’ve experienced this beautiful prairie and some of what it has to offer, with still so much more to go. In doing so, I’ve realized a few things about myself and what I want out of photography. Let’s talk about it.
While driving in from the East, I had a very keen vision of what I was going to do to rebuild the company that 2020 sunk(and we all know why). I settled in and unpacked. I met some new people and got out and explored. I lived a different way of life than I had grown accustomed to back in the land of the “woke”. Somewhere near the end of the summer, it hit me. All summer, people had been asking me if I photographed weddings. I had been quick to tell them that I had done many, but wasn’t sure if I’d be continuing. The more I was asked, the more I stored thoughts in the back of my brain about relaunching into weddings with force. Would it work? What was the market like in Saskatchewan? How could I build a base of clients in an industry that relies primarily on reputation?
One random evening, I sat down with a drink and began answering all of my questions. I searched for wedding statistics in Sask. I searched for those who would be my competition. I spent time understanding what the people of this beautiful province expect from their wedding photographer. The more I searched, the more I was pulled back into a world of photography that I hadn’t thought of continuing on this new journey. I saw a bustling wedding industry with couples who had been together for years. High-school sweethearts was a common thing again. People were falling in love on a bench seat, cruising down a grid road, and drinking beer in the box of a pickup. The superficial world that I had come from, and had subsequently made me question my desire to photograph weddings was left back East. Here was this new world of all the right reasons for couples to be getting married.
I realized that the high-stakes, action-packed days of capturing couple’s celebrations was exactly what I needed to be doing. Though, if I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right. I’m going to book my summer full and take the skills I’ve learned from all the past weddings, all of the product shoots, all of the motorsports, and all of the lifestyle shoots, and I’m going to put a dent in the Saskatchewan Wedding Photography world. If I’m going to do it, it’s going to be big. Wait, there are too many “ifs”…
I’m going to do it.
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