5 YEARS ON - THE WORKSHOP
13th March 2025 - 9.30am - 4pm
£250 - max 15 places - SOLD OUT
IMPACT INTERNATIONAL // KELSICK GRAMMAR // AMBLESIDE // CUMBRIA
We all know what happened 5 years ago in 2020. I went fully self employed 3 days before lockdown, with 46 weddings in the diary and within a week I’d lost over half of those bookings. What followed over the next 6 months was a mixture of panic, frustration, lots of tears, financial stress but also lots of time adjusting to being a new mummy, a slower pace of life and the biggest f**king business education I could ever have hoped for. How else to learn how to run a business than lose it all and start again?
2021 - 2024 were brilliant years but ones in which I experienced burnout, exhaustion and severe mum guilt that made me re address my life, what my priorities are and set me on a journey of health and wellbeing to try and find balance. It didn’t happen over night, in reality it’s been a three year plan which has now finally started paying off.
This year marks my 17th year of photographing weddings, and whilst I haven’t counted how many that adds up to, I know that since the covid lockdown I’ve shot 271 weddings. I’ve learnt more in 5 years than I have in my entire life. The wedding industry has evolved so much in this period and I often feel out of place, old fashioned and counting my days till I’m booted out and working at a venture studios or worse…. kids birthday parties…..
However much I criticise myself and worry, I’m booked up (to my own personal standards of what booked up looks like for me) , keeping busy and have finally found the right balance for family, health and business. I see so much panic online about lack of bookings, social media struggles and people quitting the industry before they’ve even started that I figured I’d try and offer a bit of insight into what’s worked for me over the years.
I’m no expert, and everything I will tell you is what works for me.
So, if you’re feeling a bit lost, overwhelmed, needing some direction, absorbing too much bullshit online which is causing confusion and a feeling of hopelesses then this might be just the thing you’re looking for. The topics I’ll be covering are:
MARKETING - Social media, website, wedding fairs, styled shoots and supplier relationships
PRICING - Target market, Lifestyle aims, to show prices or not to show prices, flexible pricing
WORKFLOW - Client journey, Communication, CRM Systems, Using AI and automation, Editing, Deliverables
WELLBEING - Social media, Burnout, Fomo, Mindset, Finding your people and Imposter syndrome
Q&A - ask me anything
Please note that this is an educational workshop only, there is no styled shoot and no need to bring cameras, however luckily this workshop falls a day before a styled shoot taking place at Holesfoot in Penrith which looks incredible (I have severe fomo I can’t attend) but check it out here.
(I’m not affiliated in any way but I do shoot at Holesfoot occasionally and It’s a stunning venue to add to your portfolio.
WHAT IT INCLUDES
6 plus hours of chatter, discussion and hopefully helpful info
Tangible examples of marketing materials including deliverables, welcome packs, albums and marketing materials
Lunch, snacks and refreshments
Car parking
Stunning views over windermere
No gate keeping - ask anything, nothing is off the table
Once I have received your information I’ll send over an invoice so you can pay in full. The workshop is first come, first served and non refundable. If you cannot make it, then you are welcome to try and sell your ticket. Please allow a few hours for this, I’m manually doing it whilst managing bath and bedtime :)
GETTING THERE
Kelsick Grammar, Stockghyll Lane, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 OQY
Please take your time driving up a big badass hill road. There will be lots of hikers, so try not to kill them, or worse, roll into the waterfall. :)