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Wedding Planning Survival Guide: Let's Make a Deal
Wedding Planning Survival Guide: Let's Make a Deal
Photographer,

We'd like to offer you a very special opportunity to showcase your work at our upcoming event! We're looking for up and coming vendors interested in exchanging their services for promotion to our hundreds of guests. We are talking to several vendors in your category and wanted to give you a chance at this opportunity.

Our wedding will be held on [BUSY DATE] at [FANCY COUNTRY CLUB]. We have many friends that are looking to get married in the near future, as a fabulous network of guests who can share your business with their own friends and family. To promote you business at the wedding we are offering our selected vendors a featured ad in our program and a special table where you can display your materials and leave your business cards. I hope you can see what a great chance this is to grow your business.

Regards,
Bride*

This was the first shot fired in a chain of e-mails that should serve as an object lesson to every couple in precisely how not to negotiate with wedding vendors. 

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Making the Most of Your Wedding Photography Part 1: The Art of the Deal

So you've found the perfect wedding photographer (after all, you're on this website), but is it at the perfect price?

The bill for the average wedding in New England comes out around $24,000. From the invitations to the venue, all of the thousand little pieces that make up your special day can really add up and you want to make sure that you get the most out of every dollar. Wedding photography, which can be one of the largest line items on a wedding's budget, is one area where brides try to scrimp and save.

Over the years brides have approached us from a lot of different angles, some have been efective others have been a little insulting. We think that you'll love our packages and our prices without the hassle of haggleing but if you want to ask about special pricing then you might want to follow these guidelines.

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Crisis teams build rapport while seeking resolution

 

This article originally appeared in the May 7 issue of the Old Colony Memorial, it is the third in a series by several authors.

All around the duplex, the area is flooded with light and sound. Yellow tape and sawhorses stand between police vehicles holding back neighbors clutching cups from Dunkin’ Donuts.

Police officers draped in black grab gas masks and assault weapons. Commanders bark orders. Sirens blare. Snipers are stationed at high points looking into windows at the barricaded suspect.

Away from all of the commotion, Isabel Eonas and other members of the Metro Crisis Negotiating Team wait by the phone.

“All of the training in the world really doesn’t prepare you for the crises that always tend to happen just after midnight,” Eonas said.

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