 On3 Photography |
Does anyone do memorial folders for funerals? Just wondering if anyone has successfully tapped into this market with their local funeral homes. I have had 5 families in the last year ask me to do these customized "folders" (or whatever you want to call them) for their loved one's funeral, and of course they cost more than the same old generic ones the funeral home offers. It's definitely a word-of-mouth or an "I saw what you did for so-and-so's funeral ..." referral system unless you have an "in" with a funeral home. I realize this isn't direct photography and probably more about PS and scanning candid family shots, but am just curious if anyone is involved in this area of making money. Thanks!
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Christopher A. Vedros |
My wife & I have done photo displays, prayer cards, Mass programs, etc. for a couple dozen funerals over the years. It's always been for family, friends, or friends-of-friends and we could never charge money for this. People have always gone out of their way to help us in our times of grief, so we don't see it as a market. I'm not naive, I know the funeral & cemetary business is a huge industry (I've paid enough funeral bills to know that!) - I just couldn't ever see myself making money off of it. Chris
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On3 Photography |
I didn't mean to make it sound like an opportunity to take advantage of anyone's grief. Three of these I've done were for people I didn't even know, whose family wanted something more special than what the funeral home had to offer, and had seen something I had done for someone else. And the funeral homes that saw them were like "Wow" but not sure what else to say to me, nor I to them, since it did cut into their "territory". That's why I presented the question, more to see if anyone has developed a relationsip with a funeral home or some other outlet to provide this service to people who would like something special.
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Debby A. Tabb |
I DO UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU BOTH ARE COMING FROM, TRUELY I DO. I want to share with you what I did for my Grandfathers Funneral. No one seems to care about the Old Family Album sitting to the side, Until..... Then for some reason everybody says I want this and that. So I could not stand it! This was a Man we should be so Proud of and share, so I went through pictures with me Grandmother and we picked the ones she liked. I copied and made 50 books: each book went to the Head of every family. So they whould have something to remember this history by. It was just a thought.
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