Website advice

[urbanfloral]

I am just starting my website. I have done several weddings, but only feel like I have 6 or 7 wedding bouquet photos that I would want to put on my website. I bought a John Henry wedding book, and it came with a CD of all the photos. And the rights to the photos, AND a suggestion of using them on your website. I would like to use the photos, I just don't quite know how to go about it. Should I give John Henry credit under every photo? Should I just put a disclaimer at the end of the gallery saying some photos are from John Henry? Do you guys think it will look bad to have photos of someone else's work on my website? (Its all stuff I can do, and I feel like its better than not having a website at all...) Opinions needed! Thanks floral geniuses.

 

[Erlene]

I have a mixture of my own pictures, pictures of our weddings from professional photographers, wire services and John Henry. You can see how I've laid it all out at www.mainebride.com.

I see nothing wrong at all with using the JH images on your site. You can't buy all that product, create it and professionally shoot it for what you pay for the book and cd, and the product is beautiful.

 

[BOSS]

the rights to the photos,

You don't need to give JH credit for each image, but you can't take credit for them either...

 

[RJD]

We give them different item codes. On our weddings website, the Teleflora wedding book images are all TW-nnn, and ours are B-nnn. Most people don't care where the images are from as long as we make what is shown (if they're ordereing exact), but if there's a question, we can distinguish whose is whose easily.

 

[Michelle McMichael]

On my site, I put them all in categories by color and the label "inspirations". I noted at the front of each category that the photos were from the JH book on display in our shop. I noted the number (WS-??) so that if the bride called I would be able to find it for her in the book.

I labeled our own photos as our own. I think brides like to see "real-life" bouquets in addition to the professional book photos. It shows them what is possible but also something a little less "over the top" at times. I also priced these out.

Good luck!