Wedding photography pricing, Cheshire and the North West
One package.
All day. £3,000.
No hourly tiers. No bronze, silver and gold nonsense. No “packages from” that turn into something else on a phone call. Two photographers, all day, one price. Here is the number, and here is exactly what you get for it.
The full shebang
Two photographers, prep to party. No time limits, no watching the clock, no leaving before the good bit.
- Full day coverage, from getting ready through to the dancefloor
- Two photographers as standard, never an optional extra. It means both of you get covered while you are getting ready, and the ceremony gets shot from the front and the back at the same time
- Use of the drone, weather permitting, for the shots you simply cannot get from the ground
- A minimum of 600 edited images, and usually a good deal more
- Your own private, password protected online gallery
- Instant download of every image, with no restrictions for you or your guests
- Me. Bringing all the noise, sorting your uncle out, and telling your nan she looks incredible
If you don’t want me all day, I’m not coming
That sounds stroppy written down. It isn’t meant to be. It’s just that half days never work, and I’d rather tell you that now than take your money and watch you regret it.
Here is what actually happens with a six hour package. You buy coverage up to the first dance, the day runs late, the ceremony overruns, and you spend your reception watching the clock instead of enjoying it. Then I leave, and the best two hours of your wedding go unphotographed. The speeches nobody could have scripted, your dad on the dancefloor, the bit at half eleven where everyone has stopped caring what they look like. That’s the good stuff. It is always the good stuff.
So there is one package and it is all of it. I take twelve weddings a year, which means I’m not knackered, I’m not juggling your emails with four other couples, and the day I spend with you gets my full attention. I am not a wedding photography factory and I have no interest in becoming one.
Things you can add on
None of these are required, and none of them change the photography. Add them now, or years later when you finally get round to it.
Your wedding album
A bespoke designed 12 by 12 inch album, 20 spreads across 40 pages, holding 60 to 80 of your images. Vegan leather, photo acrylic, suede or velvet covers. You can add extra spreads at any point.
Parent albums
Two exact replicas of your album, slightly smaller at 10 by 10 inches. Handing these over at Christmas will get you a very good reaction, and probably a cry.
Saving your date
A 25% booking fee reserves your date. That fee is non refundable, and here is the honest reason why: the moment it lands, your date comes out of my diary and nobody else can have it. With twelve weddings a year, that is a real decision on my side too.
The rest is due 28 days before your wedding, and I’ll nudge you about six weeks out so it never creeps up on you. No hidden extras, no mileage surprises, no invoice at the end for something you did not know you were buying.
Straight answers
Do you offer half days or hourly coverage?
No. One package, the whole day, prep to party. Half day coverage means leaving before the part of the day that produces the best photographs, and I would rather not do that to you.
How many photographs do we actually get?
A minimum of 600 edited images, and in practice usually more. They arrive in a private password protected gallery that you and your guests can download from instantly, with no restrictions and no per image charges.
Do you travel, and do you shoot destination weddings?
Yes to both. I am based in Cheshire and shoot regularly across the North West and the wider UK, and I have photographed weddings in eight countries. If yours is somewhere further afield, tell me where and I will quote the travel honestly.
Can we add an album later?
Absolutely. Plenty of couples book the photography, live with the gallery for a while, and order an album once they know which images they cannot stop looking at. Prices are the same whenever you order.
What if it rains, or the venue is really dark?
Then we carry on. Off camera flash is the thing I teach other photographers, so a dark barn in November or a downpour at four o’clock is a normal working day rather than a problem. You will not lose your evening photographs to bad light.
“We received over 1000 digital photographs for download. It was very hard to pick our favourite 100 or so for the album. World class.”
“The care and quality she puts in to her work mean we have got the most incredible wedding pictures. She kept us all calm and all our guests have commented how amazing she was.”
Still here? Good sign.
Send me the date, the venue, and who’s going to be first on the dancefloor. I’ll tell you straight away whether I’m free, and there is no hard sell waiting at the other end.