The Usual Christmas Wedding Album Rush...

Every year, without a fail the same thing happens, about two thirds of my wedding clients from throughout the year sit on their album orders until late Oct or early Nov and then put all of their orders in at once, expecting a christmas delivery.

Albums take time to produce, particularly the digital style book albums so popular these days. I do try to please everybody, all of the time, but I can't please everybody AT the same time! On the very deadline last year I received orders for 8 wedding albums and around 1500 prints. Thanks guys!

Last year I was forced to shut up the portrait studio over christmas which is commercial madness in order to service this last minute rush. I was up until 3 and 4am most mornings for about three weeks. It wouldn't be so bad but I did write to everybody and ask them to get their orders in ASAP.

This year I've taken a very different approach, I've not stated a deadline, but a guideline that if the album order arrives in late Oct or early November, it's unlikely to be received in time for christmas, and wrote to my clients advising them of this.

There was the usual expected late flurry, but this year I'm taking on the portrait work and those who have ordered their albums late are simply just not going to get them in time. It's a shame, but I simply can't fit two thirds of my annual production into two weeks between the end of October and November!

Wedding - Farnham House Hotel

Tired and exhausted but satisfied, it's relatively quiet this time of year for wedding photography and so it was good to blow out some of the cobwebs building up since new year and shoot the wedding of a really lovely couple.

The weather, while very overcast, remained fairly mild for this time of year and most importantly, remained dry!

The couple had a great day and it was lovely to see a couple so obviously in love, I wish all my clients were so affectionate towards each other!

More Postal Problems with wedding albums

Never a dull moment with the post. This time one of my wedding clients moved home and set up a redirect on their post. Rather than send to their new address in Australia, they asked me to post to their old one so it would be redirected......you guessed, it came back today return to sender!