BG Productions

Sorry this post is a little late today- We have been swamped!

Todays posts is geared towards the importance of building good relationships! This is important when couples are looking to book their wedding vendors. But it is also important for us as wedding professionals to build relationships with our clients as well as other wedding professionals.

The most important thing when booking with BG Productions should not be the price, but the relationship you build with us. After all it is much easier to have someone who is taking your pictures and video all day to be someone you Actually like! lol!!! Now we do hope it is our artistic way of capturing such special moments that first attracted you to us-but we hope you booked us because of the warm fuzzy feelings we all have for each other! lol!!! We find it really important that we are a match. If we don’t think we are the best people to capture your Big day, we will be totally honest and let you know that. We don’t have any problems turning down a contract- we are not all about money. It is much more important that we are all comfortable with each other and can meet your needs. It also helps the day be even more fun to capture when we get a chance to know a client better!

Over the years we have built some AMAZING friendships with past clients. Sometimes I forget thats is how we actually met!! lol!!! All of our good friends now are either past clients or other industry folks (or both!!). Our wedding planner Stacey )from Create the Moment)has become an excellent friend and someone we recommend all the time. Bellas’s Awesome doggie nanny Suzen  and her husband Landy are tops on our list to hang out with! Marci, Mike and their adorable girls we have watched grow from the hospital when Lyla was born- they call us “Aunt Cat and Uncle Al”-how AWESOME is that!! We miss Janel terribly who moved to ATL and know we will see her next year when we travel there for Imaging USA.  Mike and Fran have started their own invitation/ stationary design company (Little Woman Design-Fran’s graphic design work Rocks!) and we love hanging out with them at dinner eating goat cheese and talking about Dr. Who!! and Johanna (also a Fabulous artists) is my “girl time” for many lunches in Center City!!! This list could go on and on. The point- building relationships (even if we don’t end up all hanging out after the wedding) is the Most important thing to running a successful business!

We continue with this philosophy when we recommend other vendors or use them ourselves for their services. We totally surround ourselves with other fabulous industry people who we have developed a bond and total mutual respect for. We host a Client Appreciation Party and a Christmas or Halloween Party every year and use many vendors ourselves. Papertini has supplied Awesome floral displays and we can’t wait to see what she has come up with for this years client party. Sweet Talk Cakes and Ciao Bella both supply unbelievable cakes (in both decoration and taste) and we use any excuse to get sweet treats!!! Our Thank you cards come from Little Woman Design and our address labels and soon to be BG Productions rubber stamp we get from Simply Designed (whom I have an awesome Facebook and email relationship with). Anyone and Everyone of these vendors we have recommended on many an occasion!

I thought about all this this week when I posted to Facebook that we are looking for second photographers and/or folks who want to apprentice. The response was overwhelming. (we just need someone more local) It made me sit back and think of the past 4.5 years that Al and I have been in business.  How blessed we are and what has made us able to grow and build such a successful business. Are we rich? Do we just have to shoot a couple of weddings and have enough to live on? Not at all! We work hard and unless we are actually out of the house – we are Always home editing!!! But money isn’t connected to what I am talking about. We have enough to pay our bills and do some really great things. But the greatest advice I can give someone looking to improve their business- look at the relationships you build along the way. Take the time to cultivate them. Truly appreciate and realize that your clients are the ones who have trusted you with their most important life moments! Take pride in the work you do and always stay true to who you are and don’t worry about how “others” do it!