I recently watched a video where Barbara Corcoran, best known from television’s Shark Tank, describes beating Donald Trump in court. The segment isn’t political by any means, but to hear what Corcoran did after she won is worth a watch! See the clip here

I started in this industry as a wedding videographer at 18 years old and was admittedly, very naïve. I was so passionate about the industry and wanted to work with everyone, but didn’t have enough experience to know that I couldn’t work with everyone (obviously at this point I didn’t have the relationships either).

When a friend introduced me to a photographer and he started referring me I didn’t think much about it. After a couple of weddings, he told me that he didn’t want me to take any videos of his picture taking. He was concerned that he might lose money on print orders. This was a huge problem because I wouldn’t have anything to film. My wedding contract stated the number of hours and times I was to film for each wedding. The photographer had two photographers taking pictures of the bride and the groom in different places.

I only had three solutions.

• Arrive early at the wedding and not be paid for my time.
• Film guests or ceremony decor (which would not please the bride and groom).
• Work with the photographer so he could use my footage as a promotional piece. This sounded like a good compromise.

I thought I had come up with the perfect solution and the photographer seemed satisfied with the last one. As Donald Trump said during the debates, “Wrong!”

My husband and I were filming a wedding with this photographer in Kentucky. In the spirit of Murphy’s Law, everything went wrong.

It rained and the couple didn’t have a backup plan or wedding coordinator. What was supposed to be a gorgeous outdoor wedding turned out to be a disaster.

The couple ended up going into a small room in the house while guests were holding umbrellas outside watching the couple exchange vows through a small window. Doesn’t this sound like something that would happen in a sitcom?!

After the ceremony the couple took pictures and I was filming…alright, back on track. Or so I thought.

All of sudden this photographer’s assistant stood right in front of my video camera, which took me completely by surprise. The groom saw what was happening and said something to the photographer. The photographer said that if I was filming the pictures that he would leave. The groom told the photographer that if I couldn’t film than he could leave. The photographer left and I was stunned!

You see the photographer never gave me any warning that anything was wrong. All of this came to me, and more importantly the bride and groom, by surprise.

After this happened, the photographer told brides not to work with wedding videographers in the area that stood up to him, including me. He would only work with videographers that would follow his rules. He didn’t care about brides or couples, just his bottom line.

What would you do? Would you stand up for what you believed in or just follow the rules because it would hurt your bottom line?