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Friends and Family asking for me to work for them for free - wedding business edition 🫠
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The wedding industry attracts freeloaders like honey draws flies, except these particular insects arrive clutching sob stories about blown budgets and overseas relatives while demanding professional services disguised as wedding gifts. Friends master the art of therapeutic lunch invitations, luring unsuspecting business owners into strategy sessions that end with detailed vendor recommendations and zero bookings, followed by requests for free photobooths plus cash contributions because apparently friendship comes with mandatory financial participation. The underlying math never adds up: they book photographers, videographers, and venues elsewhere but expect the photobooth to materialize through pure sentiment, operated by equipment that apparently runs on good vibes and social media tags that never actually appear.
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The psychology becomes even more twisted when brides appoint amateur coordinators who inevitably panic and dump responsibilities onto the person they refused to pay, then claim credit for the successful execution. Watermarks get cropped like inconvenient price tags, business cards vanish faster than free samples at Costco, and promised reviews exist only in the same fantasy realm where exposure pays rent. The final insult involves cheese knives as compensation for twenty-four-hour workdays, because nothing says professional appreciation quite like kitchenware from the clearance aisle.
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This particular wedding entrepreneur discovered that combining business with friendship creates a special kind of economic purgatory where expertise flows freely but payment remains optional. When life imploded through divorce and homelessness, the same people demanding free services became experts at assuming she would still show up despite being hospitalized and publicly humiliated. Sometimes the most expensive education involves learning that friends who treat your business like a charity never intended to pay for the lesson.
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Wedding business owner tired of being bombarded with friends and family demanding free photobooths bails on entitled bride’s big day: ‘I had bigger things to deal with than a free Photobooth booking’
The saying goes keep your friends close and your enemies closer but when this woman started a wedding business, every personal relationship transformed into a charity evaluation committee, and your skill set becomes communal property distributed through guilt trips and vague promises of future promotion. She found out this applies to customers just as well as enemies. or friends. Not really sure who's who at this point.
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