if they want to see something w/in days of the wedding, do a cheap-o online gallery with batch color correction only (telling them in advance of signing a contract of course). and for the final product, it’s at least 4 weeks, probably more like 5 or 6 weeks. i don’t know if all photographers have similar timeframes, but most of the ones i follow do. those people will try to kill you. don’t help them out.

And strike in contract that all communication is between you and Client – the couple! Not granny, not cousin, not mommy …
Sometimes we get to hating them. But the matter is very often in weak organizing our business.

She’s complaining, why I’m not doing this for free. Are you Serious! Ah because I have to get dinner tommorrow night and I need the cash. What other reason is there? So she finally sends me 85. dollars after 15 emails and in her final email she says “just as long as it works in all browsers” and that was the final straw.

I thought to myself, and now I’m going to be hearing from her every day saying it doesn’t work on Microsoft Word and some freaking browser on a mobile phone. What’s worse is it occurs to me at this point that now I’m going to be cycling back and back with this bitch for the rest of my life over an 85 dollar fix for something that is mysteriously broken that I don’t know what it is.

That’s it. I refunded the money, blocked her emails and blocked her number from my phone. Seriously people, we don’t need to try to live up to your ridiculous expectations for the rest of our lives for 85. dollars. If you don’t have 85. to run a business then you should go get a freaking job.

Keep’em coming man!

By the way, nice touch, that tiny little smile at the top of your page.