You go Jimbo!!!
And one other factor that you left out is your (relatively) short wedding season (compared to other more temperate climates).
Franz in Lake Tahoe has a similar weather pattern to what you see in Maine: his wedding season begins in late May when all the ice melts off the roads, and after Labor Day the wedding business tapers off. He has four-five months of good weather---and he charges accordingly.
Here in the Central Valley and the lower Sierra foothills (where I live at 2000 feet elevation)---I have 7 or 8 months of "wedding season".
When you have more viable weekends, you're able to work more often and can afford to charge less for the jobs...
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