Ceremony and portraits
from$1,650
- Ceremony, confetti, family groups and portraits
- Around 300 edited photos
- Online gallery within six weeks
Your wedding, from the first button to the last dance
Documentary wedding photography with a gentle hand on the portraits. We cover the whole day, deliver an online gallery within eight weeks and make albums built to outlast every hard drive you own.
10 hourson the whole day collection
2 photographersat every full day wedding
8 weeksto your finished gallery
A wedding day, hour by hour, through the lens
Every wedding keeps its own timings, so this is one full day we photographed, shown as an example. Your version is written together on a planning call a month before the wedding.
| When | Moment | What we photograph |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 | Getting ready | Dress and suit details, the rings, letters exchanged, hair and makeup being finished |
| 12:45 | Before the ceremony | Guests arriving, the room still and empty, nerves at the door |
| 13:30 | Ceremony | The walk in, the vows, the rings, the kiss and the faces in the front row |
| 14:15 | Confetti and family | A confetti exit, then up to ten family groups from your list in twenty minutes |
| 15:00 | Couple portraits | Twenty quiet minutes away from the crowd, back before the canapés are gone |
| 17:30 | Speeches | Every speaker, and the reactions around the room |
| 19:30 | First dance | The first dance, the floor filling and the last of the evening light |
Religious and civil ceremonies each have their own rules on photography and flash. We ask the officiant before the day and keep to them exactly.
Three collections, one way of working
Every collection includes a planning call, an online gallery to share with family and the right to print your photos wherever you like. Prices cover weddings within 150 km of the studio.
The whole day
from$2,900
- From getting ready to the first dance
- Around 700 edited photos
- A lay flat album with 30 spreads
- Online gallery within eight weeks
Weekday elopement
from$850
- The ceremony and a walk for portraits
- Around 150 edited photos
- Online gallery within four weeks
Once we confirm the date, a booking fee of 25 percent holds it for you; the rest falls due a month before the wedding. We invoice directly, and travel beyond 150 km is quoted before you commit to anything.
Albums made to outlast the hard drive
Files get lost in old phones and forgotten folders, while an album sits on the shelf and comes down at every anniversary. Ours are lay flat books with thick pages, so a photo can run across a whole spread without a fold through the middle.
Once your gallery is delivered, you mark your favourites and we design the layout. You see every spread before anything is printed, and we change it until it feels like your day.
- Linen or leather covers in eight colours
- 30 spreads, with more at $40 each
- Smaller copies for parents
- Printed and bound in about six weeks
Moments couples ask us not to miss
Send your own list before the planning call. These are the requests we hear most, and they travel on a card in the camera bag on the day.
- A grandparent arriving
- The first look
- Letters read before the ceremony
- Hands during the vows
- The rings, close up
- The confetti exit
- Children on the dance floor
- Speeches seen through the crowd
- Cutting the cake
- The first dance
- Sparklers at the end of the night
- Portraits at golden hour
Family groups go fastest as a written list with names. We keep it to ten groups, so nobody spends the drinks reception standing in a line.
Stories from recent weddings
One frame from each part of the day, taken at different weddings over the last two seasons.
Written by couples afterwards (example reviews)
We barely noticed them on the day, and then the gallery showed us moments we never saw, like a grandmother wiping her eyes during the vows. The album now lives on the coffee table.
The family photos took fifteen minutes from the list we had sent, and everyone was back at the drinks before the ice had melted.
A Tuesday elopement with eight guests looks like a full wedding in the photos. The portraits by the river are the best pictures ever taken of the two of us.
What couples ask first
How many photos will we receive?
Around 700 for the whole day, 300 for ceremony and portraits and 150 for an elopement. We deliver every good frame rather than a fixed count, each one edited by hand for colour and light.
Can we print and share the photos?
Yes. You receive a personal licence to print, share and post them as you wish. We keep the copyright and show a few in our portfolio only with your written agreement.
What happens if the photographer is ill?
Full days always have two photographers, and we keep a short list of trusted colleagues with a similar style. If one of us cannot attend, a colleague steps in and the editing stays with us.
Do you need a meal during the day?
For collections of six hours or more, a meal for each photographer is appreciated, served when your guests eat so we are ready again for the speeches.
Will you follow the rules of our ceremony?
Always. Many religious and civil ceremonies limit flash or where a photographer may stand, so we ask the officiant beforehand and work quietly within those limits.
Can we have the unedited files?
No. Every photo in your gallery is edited, and unedited files are not part of any collection, because they do not show the work you booked.
Ask about your wedding date
Send the date, when the ceremony starts, the town or kind of venue and about how many people are coming. Inside two working days we write back to say the date is open and suggest a call, or tell you honestly that another couple already has it.
- Nothing is booked until we confirm the date
- The booking fee is arranged directly with us
- A planning call a month before the wedding
Meet us before you decide
Calls and studio visits are by appointment, and meeting to talk the day through costs nothing.
Talk to the studio
A studio by appointment in the riverside part of town, photographing weddings within 150 km
Studio hours
| Monday to Thursday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 to 14:00 |
| Weekends | Out at weddings |
See one wedding from start to end
Ask and we send a complete gallery from a recent wedding, shared with that couple's permission, so you can judge a whole day rather than a handful of favourites.
Ask for a full gallery