WE Got a cover!!!

PhotoLasVegas

This is one of the 3 major Wedding magazines in Las Vegas (used to be called "Wedding Extravaganza" but was changed to Bride and Groom and this is the 1st issue). About 25,000 copies distributed in various wedding related venues and retail outlets here in Vegas.

Sorry for the bad scan - looks like we need to clean our glass! And the color - looks too red on the scan, not bad on the cover...

LeeHowell

Awesome! Gotta love it when you can get that kind of publicity...I'd be interested to hear how your sells do after that gets distributed.

smurfy

Congratulations! And it's a lovely image. Traditional and elegant without being boring or old.

Surfdog

Very nice. Congratulations!

Agnieszka

YAYA!! Congrats, that's a big one ...

PhotoLasVegas

Thanks for the comments - we were offered the cover by the publisher based on our entire range of work, but when it came down to the meeting to choose which specific photo, we had a pretty big difference of opinion!

The publisher (an older lady) is very "traditional" - we picked out 10 favorites from the last year and she quickly said "no" to ALL of them. She hated them - they were very "contemporary" - 2010 wedding photography basically. Another shot from this bride and groom was one of our "faves" and after having 10 "no" votes, in frustration I clicked on this series.

At first, she chose this one but said, "I'm gonna have to flip the flowers so they are pointing up".. While I agree that "traditionally" flowers go up, they just wouldn't work with this photo OR with this couple, plus I didn't want her editing the photo!

I showed her several other photog's samples and then she agreed to leave the photo as-is. I was so worried, I actually made HER sign a release stating that they would do NO editing except for "cropping, but only to fit the magazine layout". They did futz with the color a little bit but left it otherwise untouched.

As for extra business - the mag has been distributed for about a month... we also have a full-page ad in the mag, as well as a full page ad for the DJ side of our business.. we have had ONE call tracked to the ad - we carefully track EVERY lead so it's the only call we've had from this magazine (it booked, about $2500 total). I wouldn't mind getting a booking per month from it at that rate!

PhotoLasVegas

By the way, it's VERY hard to choose a pic for a cover - mainly because the composition has to lend itself to a cover! The 10 pics we chose were not really our complete faves, but they were our faves that were #1 portrait-oriented, and #2 had enough neutral space to allow for text overlay. We really don't shoot our wedding photos with "ok, compose this for the cover of a magazine" in our minds...

Although that's not entirely true anymore- we've been chasing the cover of another mag in town that has a contest every year - you submit 10 photos and they choose from the 600 or so total submissions. Last year they told us we made the "top 5" but didn't make the cover... so when we have a very attractive bride/groom we have been trying to shoot "cover" shots to submit to this contest

Snowgirl

Congrats on the cover and, as has been said, it will be interesting to see how your business is affected. Keep us posted!

I can understand your concern about letting the editor loose with your photo.

rstwohee

Congratulations! It's a beautiful picture and I loved reading the story to go along with it. I can't imagine what the lady was thinking when she wanted the flowers to point up. Is that where you internally roll your eyes, scream loudly, take a deep breath and then outwardly put on your best salesmanship?!

Thanks for sharing.