Bride refuses to pay $3,000 to wedding photographer brother after he promised to take photos for free as a gift, parents urge her to keep the peace by paying: "It's unfair to backpedal"

Being a creative can be really difficult when it comes to family members. Unfortunately, most creative careers tend to start off as hobbies, which later progress into full-blown methods to pay the bills. Your family might remember you doodling in your middle school notebooks and posting your availability for free cartoon pet portraits on Instagram back in 2012 and thus haven't caught on that it is your actual livelihood now.

While a friend or relative discount is considered pretty standard, no one should expect to recieve products that required creative labor for free. Well, unless you specifically offered them free of charge. In our story today, a young photographer offers his services to his sister as a gift for her wedding. However, a couple of months later, he charges her way more than she budgeted for with her original photographer. Not only was she completely blindsided by the demand to pay, but the quality of his service was not quite up to par with his price tag.

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Cousin offered to photograph our wedding "as a gift" - now he's billing us. AITA for refusing to pay?

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He was so in the wrong to offer afree services, do a minimum-effort job, and then demand so much money. Perhaps to “keep the peace” they can discuss an alternative price with a generous sister discount and that reflects the quality of his work.
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To me, it seems that her brother is going through it financially, and instead of sincerely asking for help, is gaslighting our protagonist and demanding money and making up a scenario where she owes him money.
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