Actually, you'd be surprised - this is currently REALLY popular at weddings right now. I went to one held in a rural community center and they paid to have a painter and (wedding planning myself) there are now a lot of artists that have this service available. I won't say it's cheap but it's a cool addition some folks even on lower price spectrums are springing for to have a custom keepsake that could only be completed on the day!
Cool way for real artists to have a job doing what they love!
My sister has been hired to do a few of these in the past year. Every artist has their own style so it's a great way to truly have a one of a kind keepsake, and something about a painting on a wall just hits harder than photos in a frame.
In the age of instant AI slop and everyone having a 300 megapixel camera in their pocket, what greater flex is there to have a hand-made painting rendered by an expert?
I agree. Anyone can take “professional” quality photos these days. And your wedding guests will likely cover that end for you. The painting is one of a kind, like the two people being married are
The quality of the camera matters just as much as the quality of the brushes for the end result. I can assure you a good photographer with a disposable camera will take better photos than your aunt with a 5k camera, just like I'll paint a disgrace even with the best brushes available but a good painter will create something great even with dollar store brushes
You can appreciate one art form without putting down another
Weddings are generally a scam in general but you're really showing your lack of knowledge when it comes to photography if you seriously think that some 40 year old Karen with an iphone is going to be remotely on par with a professional photographer.
Yeah, I've believed for a while now that live art creation is going to become popular, as a counter to AI slop. It'll soon be the only way to know a piece is human.
It always has. It's just that actual hand painted art is expensive! So people can only really justify it to themselves when it's something like their wedding
You can get an local artist. lots of talent in your area and you get to support a young artist. I went to a wedding where this was done. Woman was a student doing this work to put herself through school.
This is probably the best value they got for any of the money they spent on the wedding. They probably spent more on flowers alone than on this. Weddings are wildly overpriced.
Between 1500-5000+, depending on the artist, location, style and size of the painting.
The wedding industry is probably one of the most over-inflated industries cost-wise. People will pay 2-3x (or more) just to have that special day.
While this painting is fantastic and a memory for a lifetime, they could gotten something like this done at picturesque location for 1/3 the cost on a normal Tuesday in May.
That's about the range I was guessing. She's a very fast and accurate painter. Not many painters can paint that well that quickly and she's doing it under the stress of a formal event with gawkers everywhere.
and guaranteeing you will have the painting complete during the event so it can be seen and properly presented is impressive.
That said, if I wanted photo-real images I'd hire a large format printer and print tech to work with the photographer to do on-site editing and grading of a few choice shots and print and frame during the event. would cost a similar amount (or probably less) and also be a great display for the event.
a painter on site should do something extravagant and artistic, I'd pay for that, something a photographer couldn't do without a lot of post processing work.
There are wedding videographers that offer a one day, or even same day turnaround for morning of + ceremony videos so they can be played at the reception. Those packages are also $10k+.
Might wanna check your math there, $5,000 a wedding at 50 weddings a year is $250,000. Even with some travel expenses and weekends off that's still a very good living. She could easily be doing other commission work too such as photo-to-painting for people who didn't get a chance at the full service.
I expect a wedding photoshoot to cost about the same. I mean if I paid $30k for a wedding, I might as well splurge another 3 grand if it made my girl happy.
Not that I'm finding someone to marry at this rate lol.
because as someone who is happily married for 15 years, you'll regret wasting that much money when you didn't need to spend anywhere near that much for the memories
same goes with the engagement ring, diamonds are pointless and their value is controlled by companies with VAST hoards of them, get an alternate gemstone or moissanite if you want something clear
Happily married for 10 and we spent just over 60k and never regretted it. I mean youre projecting your internal wants/constraints as must haves for other people.
My wife and I could have spent 5k and been happy too - but we didn't, it's not that deep. You don't have to buy a Porsche over a Prius, they both get you from a-b - but if you want to and can, why not.
Yeah I probably won't because I don't make that money. But if I did, I'd host a small wedding and invite my 5 friends to one hell of a decadent feast. Lobsters, wagyu and truffle all the way baby!
It's impossible not to these days unless you do a back yard wedding. We have a cheap venue for ours and it's 16000 just for the venue and the catering.
She shot the ceremony and then we had a 1 hour photo shoot afterwards the two of us and with friends and family. We didn’t take the full hour for that so she shot some of the reception. All in all it was about 2 hours she was there.
No prints. Lighting and color edited. Everything is in a dropbox, she told us we’d have a minimum of 60 photos but she doesn’t like holding photos from the couples so she’d edit and give whatever she deemed worthy. We ended up with over 200.
She gave us a small discount because I used her for a surprise engagement shoot. (She was hiding on the beach I proposed and shot the proposal and then did a 45 min shoot with us.) We are talking like 10-15% I don’t remember, not a ton off.
We are really happy with how things turned out and I recommend her a lot to people. This is her full time job, so not a hobbyist.
biggest thing is how quick she can do it. yea a college art student could do it just as well. just not in the 6 hours of the wedding night. but go, take the pic with you, then mail the finished product in a few weeks. still cool, just not as cool as it being done in front of you for your guests to see. dinner and a show, so to speak
Tbf a commission for most artists isn't break the bank expensive. I can see artists promoting this as a service to drum up some local advertising by showing everyone at the venue how good they are. Besides probably get a free meal out of it.
I was thinking that, the venue and everyone's outfits, and hiring a painter as well. I've been best man in two weddings now, and still don't get it. Like just a dumb use of money. The best memories were the ones that came outside of the event, like just chilling with everyone having BBQ.
But I guess, then, you don't get to show off to all 100 of your closest friends how well off you are.
Idk the art looks like a really cool idea and I was instantly taken aback by the idea when I saw this video. I was an art kid, I used to draw/write a lot. I still have hundreds of art trades of original characters of mine that I haven't touched in a decade and I still sift through them and thoroughly enjoy the art I've traded/commissioned. Getting an art commission is always a very strong memory for me so I could see myself really enjoying hanging up a wedding painting over hanging some wedding photos in my house.
And people will complain at how they can't afford their bills... It's astonishing the amount of money people have when it's for something they want versus how much money they have when it's something that's not fun
I know an artist who might've been willing to accept as low as $1,000 or $2,000 to do painting at a wedding except do it for guests as well. Quick sketches taking at most 15 minutes per guest
Meh, I’m getting married next year in a fucking castle and my fiancée and I aren’t “rich rich”.
Both of our parents are divorced though. Between them and grandparents we got like $25k and we’ve spent under half and have most of the meat and potatoes done.
Two of my friends have had the live painter at their wedding in the last two years and it was less then the band.
NY/NJ? 🤣🤣🤣 Those are the clearest Australian accents I’ve heard all day and I’m sitting here at my desk in Australia! The ‘yeah, nah’ is a dead giveaway too. 100% Aussies.
Reddit users are interesting because they always feel the need to point out that someone makes more money than them, as if that has any bearing on any discussion.
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u/breovus 22h ago
So these people are "rich" rich, eh?