How to Spot (and Survive) a Nightmare Wedding Photography Client Before They Cost You Everything

How to Spot (and Survive) a Nightmare Wedding Photography Client Before They Cost You Everything

Every photographer who has been in business longer than six months has a story. Mine involves a $5,000 client, a contract full of gaps I thought were fine, and a dispute that ended with me eating the cost of an entire shoot day because I hadn’t protected myself in writing. That loss changed how I run my studio. It made me ruthless about client vetting, obsessive about contracts, and completely intolerant of the warning signs I used to brush off as “just how some clients are.