Success but never satisfied

Look at this Happy couple, I loved shooting this wedding for Jayna and John it was such a fun time. Great people in a relationship that you know is going to last a lifetime. One of my favorite pictures is when he saw her walking down the isle he started crying

It is an honor to be a part of someone’s wedding day, which brings me to the point of this blog post.

A friend asked me if I was going to advertise in the twin cities bridal magazine, it has huge coverage of the area and vendors and basically any bride getting married will have this to look for everything from reception sites to photographers. I thought about it and said “no”, why would i do that? I’m not trying to toot my own horn here but as a company we have already booked out over 18 weddings for next year, this time last year i had about 3 booked so that is a drastic improvement.

But I was contacted by two potential clients the other day who seemed like they were sold on Capital photography we were talking about getting things finalized with contracts, which made me feel like this

But then I was contacted by one saying that they went with another photography company and another saying that they were checking one more option before they made a choice. My heart sank. I felt like I was a middle school relationship that had gone south and I was left eating my lunch alone for the first time since my relationship had started over two weeks ago.

Kind of Alone!

Of course people need to have the photographer that is best for them and with how busy we are going to be I’m not worried about filling the dates. For any number of reasons they decided to go with someone else. But why do I feel this emotional connection with potential clients let alone the clients I have or are going to shoot.
I thought about it and it became clear. I want every couple that gets married to have awesome photos and not be disappointed in any way about the results from their wedding photographer. And the only photographer I can control is myself, I know I’m capable of taking great wedding photos as well as making the wedding day photos fun for everyone involved. So when someone decides to go with someone else I worry for them thus causing my heart ache.
So in the end there is no real point to this blog post except the fact that I’m a saap and I’m way to invested in producing quality results for my clients
To distract you watch this commercial for Capital Photography below

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