"I have it on good authority that the average pro photographer wishes the Internet and all its copyright-violating denizens would just go away"
You say it. I have been unable to find a photographer who could take a picture of me that I could just use on all the social networking sites, no strings attached. I told a friend she should become a "Web 2.0" photographer offering exactly that kind of thing, and she said she couldn't - I think out of solidarity with the other photographers or something like that. I guess somebody else will eventually step up to the task.
My local extended family actually did get a photographer who would assign copyright recently. It was all about finding someone who needed work and didn't suck. We paid her to come out to our neighborhood for a couple hours, and we got a ton of pictures of everyone. It turned out pretty well.
I got married in 2007, the cost of the photographer actually included publishing rights and hi-res digital copies on DVD so we could print and share them as we saw fit.
He still retains the copyright, but had no objections to us sharing them around. Nice guy!
What's it written in, and what's required for hosting? I'm getting married in 5 weeks, but I've let my new job and house take priority over creating the website.
Hmmm ... is there no way to private message someone on here?
edit* If you are willing and you have a reddit account, could you private message me so we can take this offline? I have the same user name. Thank you.
Im guess ing you were the guy asking about this last night on chatterous.
I'll be interested to see how this goes forward (though I dont think users from this community will be great test subjects) and if you can fix out the main problems.
That's interesting - there was a guy on last night that was asking peoples opinions on trying to tap the wedding planning market...
The main problem that was pointed out is that your dealing with a very emotional point in someones life. Or as Troy Simpson noted last night (accurately):
> its something about how society projects it as the 'most important day of your life' that makes everyone involved really demanding and evil
At the end of the day if something your building interrupts the process or screws up to "spoil things" (using that term loosely - with the emotions involved spoiled could have a very diverse/off-the-wall meaning) then you could end up being blamed...
However it was also pointed out people are willing to lavish money on weddings - so if is has value people are very likely to pay :D
I guess it's a perfect example of taking the rough with the smooth!
EDIT: I'd like to add I love the idea btw! One thing about weddings is their one of the few mass-family and inter-family "joy" occasions. Lots of people together having fun. Now that more and more people are online and interacting it's a great opportunity to extend the "fun" either side of the wedding day too.
I'll just have to make sure the site doesn't screw up :-)
As far as planning, I see my project as facilitating some forms of it in a very lightweight way--not a "serious" planning app. I'm going for beautiful, fun, informative, and friendly.
The convergence of interest in this space is--interesting! I just got an email from someone saying he'd like to help, except he's working on a competitor.
I know you want to look in your online communities, but I have a friend who is a wedding photographer who can introduce couples with specific dates. Let me know if interested.
True, I'm sure. I only want a handful of users for alpha (too many to communicate with and I won't make my schedule), and I wanted to ask in my own communities first.
not what I meant, I meant that he might get the wrong type of feedback, because the brides that people on a site like HN know have different priorities compared to the "airhead" type bride on one of the wedding forums
"Hey, I'm new at wedding forums dot com, but I wonder if any of you airheads want to try out my new wedding website service?" Contempt for customers is always a great place to start.
Seriously, if it turns out my alpha users are disproportionately nerdy (which adjective I use with all love) and/or smart and they turn out to be misleading about what "airheads" want, then I guess I'll have built the wedding website service for nerdy/smart couples. I can think of worse positions to be in.
