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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daz" data-source="post: 524237" data-attributes="member: 37228">Well for my first Wedding a friends sister asked me to photograph it, I said sure, told them it was my first wedding and that I would do it for just the travel cost £150 all in (Around $220),Why did I price it so cheap I hear you ask?Well they weren't going to have photographer to start with, so there was no expectation or contracts etc written up. so in essence if I screwed anything up then I could just not deliver those photos and what they do got was better than what they would have had (nothing).Every wedding photographer is different, as in, how many shots they will take on the day, how many they would edit etc. Getting out there and doing the shoot gave me a good first hand experience in shooting a wedding which can be stressful.I was able to also gauge how much my time is worth in a real wedding and as such, I am now priced where I want to be and have 3 weddings booked in <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />But long story short, if you have no experience in weddings, price it realistically for the first one, then when you have the images in your portfolio and the recommendations you can price higher, the worst thing to do is price high and under deliver on your first wedding IMO.</blockquote>