My aim is simply to tell the story of your wedding with lovely images. I'm flexible about the coverage I give, but to give you an idea about costs I have a basic price for the sort of package that seems to work well for couples.
This is coverage from pre-ceremony preparations to the wedding feast, including speeches — and it costs €1400. This includes some important preparation ahead of time,
a lot of photography on the day, and fully edited colour and black and white images on a presentation flash-drive with more-or-less unrestricted use. I put up a private gallery of your images on my website and I can put together a slideshow of around 100 images that you select, to tell the story of your wedding day.
Preparation
I meet with you ahead of the wedding, so we can get to know each other a bit and discuss your needs and preferences, I check out the venues so I can understand the lighting and the best places to work from; and I liase with your solemniser/celebrant, to understand the ceremony and make sure everything runs smoothly.
Payments
I don't take a deposit until we've met and you're completely confident that you want to book me. At that stage we sign a simple agreement
(here's a sample) to ensure there are no misunderstandings about what we are expecting of each other, and you make a €200 payment to secure the date. I'm booked for you at that stage and the balance of the fee is paid in the week before the wedding. Books albums and prints are paid for when ordered. If you'd prefer to spread my fee in instalments before the wedding, I'm happy set that up with you.
Album, Books or Prints
Albums, once the default aim of most wedding photography, are not always wanted theses days, and many couples choose to get digital images to share electronically and some prints to display. I'm a fan of photobooks. They're more affordable than albums which means that you might choose to get several copies to share with family and important friends. Once the first one is put together, any number of copies can be produced as and when you want them. And the same book layout can be produced in more lavish, or more economical versions, to order.
