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The knowledge to start a Wedding business

Sue Maisfield, Grade 1
Simon Brice, Grade 1
Andrew Ginger, Grade 1
Fiona Curtlin, Grade 1
Paul Bye, Grade2

All those on our recent Wedding Course should now be in a position to create a successful wedding business.

The first thing to do is decide your price list. Those who have been on our course know to charge the proper amount from the start. Discounting and giving a cheap price is a cycle that is very difficult to get out of. If you need to get a portfolio together do the first two or three weddings free, charging only for lab or album costs. Make sure your customer knows what you normally charge. This way you get portfolio pictures and your customer gets a fantastic deal and will recommend you to friends.

If you can get a couple of weddings in this year you will be ready for the booking season which starts in October and we find most are able to pick up about six full price weddings in their first year. These will usually be £1,350 packages which, with re orders and additional albums, add about £600 to £700. In the second year we expect between 15 and 20 to be booked, and by the third year about 30. A pretty good part-time living!

Shown above are five of last Sundays nine students with their Barrett & Coe diplomas.

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Andrew Coe is great grandson of Albert Edward Coe who founded the Coe photography businesses 150 years ago. He is recognised as one of the leading teachers of wedding and portrait photography in the UK having been commissioned by City & Guilds to write the first module for the Higher National NVQ Diploma in Portrait in this field. He has also been commissioned to give seminars in New York, Las Vegas, Madrid, Cologne and many other international venues. He owns the franchise for the largest group of wedding and portrait studios in the UK which has photography contracts with many national retailers and other major brand names. He founded the first chain of one hour mini labs in the UK (all with wedding and portrait studios attached), the largest advertising and commercial studio in East Anglia, a leading professional colour lab and has trained more people to become full time photographers than anyone else in the UK.

Andrew Coe is great grandson of Albert Edward Coe who founded the Coe photography businesses 150 years ago. He is recognised as one of the leading teachers of wedding and portrait photography in the UK having been commissioned by City & Guilds to write the first module for the Higher National NVQ Diploma in Portrait in this field. He has also been commissioned to give seminars in New York, Las Vegas, Madrid, Cologne and many other international venues. He owns the franchise for the largest group of wedding and portrait studios in the UK which has photography contracts with many national retailers and other major brand names. He founded the first chain of one hour mini labs in the UK (all with wedding and portrait studios attached), the largest advertising and commercial studio in East Anglia, a leading professional colour lab and has trained more people to become full time photographers than anyone else in the UK.

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