y some estimates, as many as 10 percent of all weddings take place outside of the couple’s home
area, and many of those are even out of the couple’s home country. This small but growing seg-
ment of the wedding population is also among the wealthiest of all potential clients out there. They travel
to exotic locations and put on lavish ceremonies for their guests. They certainly don’t want to miss out
on the unique photo opportunities that this sort of wedding presents. In fact, all the extra work and
money they put into the event seems to make them that much more concerned with finding just the right
photographer to capture the images and preserve the event in a way that they will enjoy showing off for
years to come.
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Part II✦Shooting Weddings on Location
The very nature of a destination wedding requires that everyone must travel from somewhere to get to
the event, so when a couple starts looking for a photographer, it really doesn’t matter if that photogra-
pher lives just down the street from them or on another continent. This fact, combined with the world-
wide shopping potential of the Internet, opens up the search for photographers to include a large portion
of the globe.
Destination wedding couples are computer-savvy ...
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