Wedding Photography Pricing - Simple and Transparent

So you like what you have seen and you have made it to the bottom line – what will this all cost?

I know your wedding photography is a big investment and you probably have 10 tabs open at the minute and are feeling a bit overwhelmed. But if you’re looking for someone experienced, calm and easy to be around, someone who’ll give you amazing images without hijacking your day – I might just be your guy.

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I want to be completely transparent and open with my pricing. I hate it when I am looking to book something and get asked to ‘contact me for a quote’. So here you will find out all of the details. No hidden extras.

The main difference between packages are whether you get a pre-wedding (engagement) shoot included and the number of hours you are hiring me for. Whatever coverage you decide on, the method of delivery via an online gallery will be the same, as will the process of booking me.

Simple and Transparent Wedding Photography Pricing

01. All day package

My most popular package!

It does what it says on the tin, from morning prep until well into the party. I will be there to capture the full story of your big day. I generally arrive 2-3 hours before your ceremony starts and leave once I have captured the party. I generally find most weddings end up being 10am-10pm, as a guide.

Wedding dates April 1st – October 31st:

£2200

Wedding dates November 1st – March 30th:

£2000

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These prices are for weekend weddings (Saturday and Sundays). I offer a discount of £200 for midweek weddings (Monday-Friday).

What’s included?

Up to 12 hours coverage. I don’t just disappear after the first dance!

You will receive the full gallery within a maximum of 10 weeks post wedding.

Fully secure back up of your images for a total of 12 months post wedding.

Pre-wedding shoot (sometimes called an engagement shoot) included with all full day bookings. These can take place anywhere within Cornwall. I really recommend doing one, as they help us get to know each other before the big day and get rid of any worries about photos on the big day. Other people charge for these but I really believe they can make a huge difference to your final gallery.

You can expect a minimum of 500 images, individually edited in a mix of colour and black and white.

All travel costs included for weddings within Devon and Cornwall. For weddings outside this area, I can give an additional quote for travel depending on your wedding location and timings.

You will receive sneak peek previews from your big day within 48 hours.

All images will be delivered via a shareable, password protected gallery, where you can print, download and share your images with family and friends.

All of my support throughout the process. I can help with your timeline, recommendations for brilliant wedding suppliers and general wedding advice. I speak to all couples in the week before their wedding, having sent out a comprehensive questionnaire a month before the wedding. Just so i know exactly where to be and when and so we are all on the same page ahead of your big day.

These prices are for weekend weddings (Saturday and Sunday). I offer a discount of £200 for midweek weddings.

02. Half day package

With up to 6 hours of coverage

Perhaps you are having a smaller wedding day without an evening reception. My half day coverage could be ideal, with up to 6 hours of coverage. You get the same support from myself, with help and advice before the wedding, and you will also get your images delivered in the same way, via an online gallery.

Wedding dates April 1st – October 31st:

£1400

Wedding dates November 1st – March 30th:

£1200

Get in touch

Please be aware that half day weddings are generally not available during Saturday’s in the summer months but please contact me for availability, especially if you are booking with less than 6 months until your big day.

What’s included?

Up to 6 hours coverage by myself, times to be decided by you.

You can expect a minimum of 250 images, individually edited in a mix of colour and black and white.

All travel costs included for weddings within Devon and Cornwall. For weddings outside this area, I can give an additional quote for travel depending on your wedding location and timings.

You will receive sneak peek previews from your big day within 48 hours.

All images will be delivered via a shareable, password protected gallery, where you can print, download and share your images with family and friends.

You will receive the full gallery within a maximum of 10 weeks post wedding.

Fully secure back up of your images for a total of 12 months post wedding.

Extras

Pre-wedding shoot

£300

A fun, relaxed session anywhere in Cornwall, perfect for getting comfortable in front of the camera before the big day. You’ll come away with epic photos, ideal for invites, save-the-dates, or just sharing online. We can explore hidden beaches or your favourite spot. (Travel charges apply outside Cornwall.)

Extra Hours Coverage

£150 per hour

Need me to stay later or start earlier? No problem. You can add extra coverage by the hour to suit your schedule. Just let me know what you need and we can tailor the timings to make sure nothing important is missed.

Second Photographer

£500

Ideal for weddings with 120+ guests or where both of you are getting ready in separate locations. A second shooter helps capture more moments, more angles, and more of your story. Especially candids while I’m focused on group shots or key events.

Bespoke

Packages

I get that every wedding is different and sometimes couples need something a bit more bespoke in nature. Please give me a shout and we can create a bespoke package that fulfils your needs.

For elopements and small weddings, prices start from £500 for two hours of coverage.

FAQs

Many photographers market themselves by saying that you will not know that they are there, shooting photos from a distance, like some creepy weirdo in the bushes. That isn’t my approach. I like to mix things up, sometimes close and involved, other times just watching and documenting what is happening. I have captured enough weddings now that I have a good feel for the day and where I need to be and when. I want to seek out and capture all the little moments of your day, the interactions between you and your family and guests. The moments you don’t get to see on the day, in the whirlwind that is a wedding day! My style is fun, natural and relaxed. To achieve this, I will be chatting to everyone, blending in with your family and friends, trying to be everywhere. I ultimately want it to feel like I am one of your friends who is also taking the photos and I have plenty of reviews that say that that is how it felt to them.
I like to say I capture authentic moments and relaxed portraits. When it comes to the dreaded ‘posing’ I believe less is more, but there are definitely some posing tips and tweaks that can make or break a photo. What I want is to capture you at your best and if that means giving a little direction, I am not afraid to do so.

I would say 99.9% of my couples say to me that they hate having their picture taken or they look terrible in photos. I am one of those people myself! But I promise that when you are enjoying the best day of your life, you won’t be worrying about how you look. I have loads of tricks up my sleeve to get you relaxed and having fun during the day. I also really recommend a pre-wedding shoot (included with all full day wedding bookings) as they are perfect for proving to you the fun we can have and how easy it is. By the time your wedding day arrives, it will feel like you know me well and you will have zero worries about being photographed on the day!

I do and I encourage you to book one! I truly believe they will help elevate your wedding day experience and that is why I include them with all full day bookings. The reason is that a pre-wedding shoot helps us to get to know each other before the wedding. It builds trust and when you get your photos back, it will prove that you will both look awesome on the day and that the camera (and me) are nothing to worry about. This trust and confidence in me, rubs off on your family and guests and allows me to be accepted by your wedding party on the day. When your friends and family see how relaxed you are, they feel the same and that almost gives me greater access to capture those awesome little moments that happen at every wedding.

So it is super easy! Firstly, complete the enquiry form on my contact page here. I will reply to you and ask for your availability to have a zoom meeting or we can be old school and go for a coffee if you are nearby. I can answer any questions you have and importantly, we can check that we are a good fit for each other. We will spend a lot of time together on the wedding day and it is important we click! I can also send some full galleries for you to see what you can expect from me, either from your venue or similar venues.

Once you have decided you would like to go ahead, I send you an invoice and contract online and require a 25% booking fee to secure your date. The booking fee can be paid via bank transfer or via stripe using a credit card. Once received, that is me booked for your wedding! My typical payment plan is a further 50% payment 4 months before the wedding and the final balance due 1 month before the wedding date. I then send out a questionnaire for all the details of your big day and we then organise a zoom call roughly a week or so before the wedding. This is a planning meeting just to check we are all set with the plan for the day! If you have booked me for a full day, we also book in a date for a pre-wedding shoot before the wedding.

For a full day, 12 hour wedding, I say a minimum of 500 images. It is often more than this, but i also believe in quality over quantity! Every wedding is different as well. For smaller weddings with less in the way of an evening party for example, the total number of images will probably be less than a 150 guest festival wedding.

I deliver a sneak peeks preview within 48 hours of your wedding (often the next day) and then the full gallery will be delivered in 6 to 8 weeks post wedding, but in busy times it will be a maximum of 10 weeks post wedding.

Absolutely! I like to speak to all potential couples before they book, as it is important we click and feel like we are a good fit! I love to meet in person and go for a coffee (and cake!) if possible, but inevitably it is often a zoom call where we find out more about each other.

The last 12 months has definitely seen a shift in people booking closer to their wedding than before. I would advise that you book as soon as you have your venue booked. Otherwise you run the risk of missing out on your favourite suppliers. But as a general rule, most couples tend to book 12-18 months in advance of their wedding date.

Not a problem! The best advice i can give is expect it to rain and have a plan for it. Work with your venue, what happens if it rains and where will your guests go and what will they do? Once you have that plan, you will feel better about it. It is the one thing you have zero control over and the one thing that people can allow to ruin their day. Don’t let it. You will still get awesome photo’s!

I am fully insured and can provide my insurance details if required. Venues often request to see it when you book, just ask and I can send it over. I carry plenty of lenses and cameras for when they inevitably do break. I always have two cameras on me at any one time and your images are always backed up.

Every now and again I will get asked if I can hand over the RAW files after I have delivered the full gallery. For those not in the know, a RAW file is like a digital negative. It is an unedited image file. During the wedding, I take a lot of pictures. My cameras at certain points of the day will capture 20 frames per second, so it can mount up. When I upload my memory cards, I sit and cull all of the images, before individually editing the selected images. The images I leave out are duplicates/out of focus/unflattering images like when you’re mid blink for example. Or pictures of my feet when my second camera is swinging from its harness. So i do that work so you do not have to. Then editing is how I turn the RAW file into the finished product. I shoot a certain way with my editing style in mind. For this reason I do not provide RAW files. If there was a certain image that you think was missing, I can always go back and check but if I can deliver an image, I will do so in the first place. I do not look for perfection in every image. Moments are more powerful than technical perfection. But sometimes I may miss a moment, or something doesn’t get captured because i wasn’t there or maybe i just missed it, I am a human after all.

The short answer is often not. I am perfectly happy working by myself to capture your day. When I do recommend a second shooter, it is for big weddings with more than 120 guests and also for weddings with different venues, like a church and then another venue for the reception. Or if you want to go for couple photos somewhere post ceremony, away from your venue, then it is a good idea to have a second shooter. I can discuss this more when we chat!

I do not yet provide albums. The reason why is because of the huge number of styles and costs available. Instead, you can order albums from your gallery from a number of different suppliers, as well as prints and other products such as canvas prints, acrylics etc. I also provide discount codes when I deliver your gallery. But there is no obligation to use the shop and you can download your images and source printed products wherever you choose.

It hasn’t happened yet due to illness! I have missed two weddings so far and that was when my father passed away. I am lucky to have a great network of contacts with great photographers who I can call upon to cover. What would happen in the event I could not make your wedding? I would firstly try and source a trusted photographer (or several) for your date. I would then contact you and provide you with the details of those photographers who were available. I would refund your payments to me in full and you could then either book with one of the photographers I had found or whoever you wanted to use. This is what happened when my dad passed and I made sure both couples had an awesome photographer, within budget and they were very happy and also super understanding, which I really appreciated as well.

I do not currently offer Videography. I prefer to concentrate on photography and giving my absolute best at every wedding I go to. I feel that I would compromise that by trying to capture, often fleeting, moments and having to prioritise one over another. I have been lucky enough to work with some awesome videographers over the years and can provide details of them for you to check out.

I love capturing emotions the best! That hug! That kiss! That handhold. I love the challenge of them, reacting to each venue, each space and capturing moments that my couples will look back on for years to come and love.

Yes and I always send out full galleries for you to see what you can expect from me. We all show our best work on instagram but it’s important that you see a full day. You will likely also speak with other photographers and my advice is to always ask for a full gallery or two so you get to see the whole product! Instagram is a great way to see my most recent work and to keep up with what I am up to. Go and give me a follow!

Because you want a true professional who deeply cares about every wedding he captures. Because you trust the awesome 5 star reviews from real couples on google who were all in your shoes not that long ago. Because you want just amazing images to treasure forever and you want all that from someone who feels like a friend.

I mostly cover the southwest, Cornwall and Devon but I am very happy to travel wherever you are getting married! Bonus points for mountains, lakes and coastlines. Iceland is on my bucket list!

I don’t enter loads of awards as I am mostly bothered about the reviews I get from my couples! Every time I get an amazing review, it feels like winning an award and I am really grateful when they take the time to leave one.

I believe in continually improving my skills and my business so I am a member of several photography institutions and educational groups such as Fearless photographers, This is Reportage, Ninedots, PKIR and Flashmasters. I was super stoked when I won a Fearless Award in 2023 as they are really hard to get. I was also ranked in the Photographers keeping it real Wedding Photographer of the year 2023 Top 10. I won the Southwest Wedding Awards 2023 Contemporary Photographer category on the first time of entering which was great. I went to the finals to receive my award. What was special about it is that it relies on real votes from actual couples and not just a popularity contest where you pay to enter like some. I was a finalist in 2024 as well. I have also been a regional finalist in The Wedding Industry Awards 2023 and 2024.

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Wedding Pricing

So you like what you have seen and you have made it to the bottom line – what will this all cost?

Straightforward Packages

Simple and
Transparent

01. All day package

My most popular package!

£2200

£2000

What’s included?

02. Half day package

With up to 6 hours of coverage

£1400

£1200

What’s included?

Extras

Pre-wedding shoot

£300

Extra Hours Coverage

£150 per hour

Second Photographer

£500

Bespoke

Packages

FAQs

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