At what point does a person decide, “hey…I’m going to be a wedding photographer?”  Lets analyze this for a minute.  A doctor cannot simply wake up one day and say, “hey…I’m a frikking doctor.”  A lawyer cannot wake up one day and say, “hey…I’m a frikking lawyer.”  Heck, even a mechanic has to have some type of knowledge to consider him/her self a mechanic.  So, why the heck is wedding photography an industry where someone can just wake up one day and say, “hey…I’m a frikking professional wedding photographer.”

There needs to be a professional organization created that you have to apply for and get accepted.  Something broader and much simpler than PPA, WPJA, or WPPI.  Something that would be considered, the “baseline.”  The organization would have “safe photographers” that are “cheap” but are still producing “safe” work.  This protects the industry from being under-valued and under-paid, while protecting brides from getting ripped off.

Hmmm….I smell another project brewin.