{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Raw Files","title":"She Got Attacked for Paying Too Little — The Same Week I Got Attacked for Charging Too Much","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2722,"description":"Emily was 18 years old, paying for her own wedding, and doing her best to make smart financial decisions. She found a photography company through Google, liked their galleries, trusted their reviews, and paid $2,000 for six and a half hours of coverage. What she got was a photographer who showed up two hours late without warning, missed three hours of contracted time, left an hour early without notice, and refused a refund when asked. Then — almost two years later — Emily made a casual video laughing about her wedding photos. It went mega-viral. And the internet absolutely eviscerated her for paying too little.\nIn this episode of The Raw Files, Vanessa Joy sits down with Emily to trace the full story: how she chose her photographer, what she didn't know to ask, where the communication broke down, and what actually went wrong on the wedding day. More importantly, the conversation becomes a genuine masterclass — for photographers and couples alike — in how to vet a photographer, what red and green flags actually look like, and why social media content from real photographers is the single most effective tool for educating couples before they make an expensive mistake.\nEmily's perspective is generous, self-aware, and genuinely useful. She doesn't name-shame. She's honest about her own role in the process. And her advice on where she would have spent differently — and where she would look if she were engaged today — is the kind of real talk that changes how photographers think about their marketing and how couples think about their budgets. The episode ends on a high note: a Vogue-published photographer who saw Emily's story offered to fly to Florida and reshoot her wedding portraits. For free.\nKey topics covered\n● The full story behind Emily's viral video — what actually happened on her wedding day\n● How Emily chose her photographer at 18 with no prior knowledge of what to look for\n● Why volume studios that assign photographers are an underappreciated risk for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/baLKRqwUO3d0hQ-3PM_3OVM3mJBW0gwXUbKjS3Q7dhI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYTE4/M2Y1NzVlMGRmYjA2/OGQwYmQzODZiMDY4/ODJiYy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}