10 Things The Wedding Industry Won’t Tell You…#7
Posted on Mar 02, 2009 under Wedding Venues |7. “We own your wedding pictures — in perpetuity.”
It costs thousands of dollars to hire a wedding photographer, and it doesn’t stop there. Want a simple 8×10 reprint? You could well pay up to $40, since many photography packages don’t include negatives. Some photographers refuse to turn over their negatives until 10 years or more have passed — to prevent their clients from reproducing pictures on their own. Others will sell them only at a high price. That’s only a problem, of course, if you’re lucky enough to have pictures of your wedding in the first place. Sometimes photographers are no-shows; sometimes negatives are damaged or lost.
How often does such a disaster happen? Often enough to have inspired an insurance product called Weddingsurance, underwritten by the Fireman’s Fund. The policy supposedly will cover the reassemblage of the wedding party — including travel, meal and hotel expenses, as well as costs for the cake, flowers and reception hall — in the event of a photo mishap.