2 weddings 2 days

[gheesom]

whats peoples thoughts on these, and people who have done them how tiring are they?

I am booked for one, and someone has enquiired about the next day!

wadda ya think?

[Banbert]

I dont think there a problem at all so long as you have time to turn all your stuff around and are protected in a few other ways. So you need to backup images to a couple of locations before clearing cards etc , charge batteries and have enough gear so that if you have a failure in something during the first wedding your not going into the second wedding with no backups, so 3 bodies, flashes minimum and an assortment of lens. If a body failed during the first wedding going into the second wedding with one body would not be good!

Weve done a few doubles this year, Fri + Sat and Sat + Sun and those are on top of working a full week at our day jobs as well and sometimes out of the country so at times this year we have worked 20+ days in row, but its a such a fun job it doesnt really feel like work. :)

Only ones we have turned down are where the time between the end of the first one and the start of the second one has been short and there has been travelling involved .... too risky in those situations with all of us in the wrong place and then having to get to another location ....when they are close to home its not a problem though.

[stathunter]

Go for it. It is fun............but make sure you don't call the bride anything other than HER name.......(use note cards).

[jessiper]

I've done it. I've even done 5 is 9 days...and I'll never do that again. However, if it's two short weddings, or you take the next weekend off, and could possibly bring an assistant to make things a little easier and more enjoyable, then I'd say go for it.

[kbbruner]

I just booked 2 for the same weekend in November. Luckily, the one on Saturday is a morning wedding and will be done by 4:00pm, while the one on Sunday is an afternoon wedding. I'll have plenty of time to get everything backed up, burned, and re-charged between the events.

Ksenia

[TimSewell]

We (my wife and I) aren't full-time yet, but doing the maths will quickly tell you that in order to make a good living you will need, inded want, to double up some weekends. And if you're charging decent rates there's no reason why you shouldn't have enough memory etc. to run with even if you don't get a chance to back and burn, although of course you should.

[mizuno]

We (my wife and I) aren't full-time yet, but doing the maths will quickly tell you that in order to make a good living you will need, inded want, to double up some weekends.

My maths tell me that I want to shoot less weddings but charge more for each. It's much more preferable than doing more for less. :cool:

[dmitrim]

I've done 3 8-hour weddings in 3 days. I had no problems. I got really tired by the end of each one,but would wake up feeling great.
I am not as old as some of you guys though :)

[picturecrazy]

no way. never done it, probably never will.

I limit it to one a week, or 4 a month. If someone is asking about a friday or sunday when I'm already shooting saturday, I tell them I'm not even available.

And yes, my theory more or less matches Dan's. I'd love to shoot two $50,000 weddings a year. That would be most excellent. ;)

[Mario.]

I've done it once - I would do it again, however I would not make a regular habit of it. Both the weddings were relatively short (one was only 4 hours from when I arrived to when guests left). From my experience, if they were longer weddings (let's say 2x 10-12 hour weddings), I would probably have to decline one.

[tim]

I've done it a couple of times. So long as you're organised and fit it's fine. Get home, offload cards, back them up (in case computer loses them), charge bats, wash clothes if you don't have a 2nd set, sleep, get up, do it again. It is tough but definitely doable. Now a triple header, that would be interesting. Tough, busy, and profitable too.

[gheesom]

Cheers for the adivce, they're in 2009 so more than enough time to increase my gear. yep it'll be 2 days on top of a full time job. so it'll be tough I was in no doubt of that.

[cdifoto]

I did two eight hour weddings the other weekend. Stayed in a hotel, offloaded to my external drive via laptop & recharged my batteries.

No big deal really. Fortunately though it was dual Bella so I didn't have to do any post work. :) I wouldn't hesitate to do it again for them, and especially for myself. I just wouldn't do it every weekend.

[TeeJay]

I get the feeling that if you people are THAT busy, then you're not charging enough!

TJ

[cdifoto]

I get the feeling that if you people are THAT busy, then you're not charging enough!

TJ

:rolleyes:

[TeeJay]

:rolleyes:

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