Investment guide
Most couples have never hired a wedding photographer before, and the choices can feel arbitrary. They're not. This page explains what each decision changes, so you can spend where it matters to you and nowhere else.
Hours
Eight hours covers a ceremony, portraits, dinner and the first dances. Ten adds getting ready and a real stretch of the dancing. Twelve is for weddings with a long gap, a distant venue, or a send-off you'd hate to miss.
If you're unsure, book ten. Adding an hour on the day is always possible; wishing you had is not.
The second photographer
A second photographer means I can be with one of you while they're with the other, and that the ceremony is covered from both directions. For anything over eighty guests I consider it essential rather than optional, which is why it's built into the full-day collections.
Linen or leather, thick matte pages, designed by me and approved by you. The thing your children will find on the bottom shelf.
Smaller copies of the main album. Parents claim not to need them and then keep them within reach for the rest of their lives.
Archival prints from the gallery, at cost plus a little. Frame the one you love; don't let it live only on a phone.
Questions couples ask
Need, no. But an hour together before the wedding means you'll know how I work and I'll know how the two of you are together. It's included in the full-day collections and it changes the wedding portraits noticeably.
We make rain photographs. I bring clear umbrellas, we find good cover, and the light under cloud is kinder than any sunny afternoon. Some of my favourite weddings were wet.
A third to hold the date, a third six months out, the rest two weeks before. If you'd prefer monthly instalments, ask; I'm flexible about the schedule, just not about the date.
No, and I say that kindly. The edit is half the work. You'll receive every photograph worth having, finished the way it should be.
Only with your say-so. Some couples love it, some want their day to stay theirs. Both are fine and neither changes the price.
Still have questions? Good. Ask them.
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