Can we see some full wedding galleries, not just some of your best shots?

My website is brimming with full wedding galleries, so that you can see the consistency of quality of images across a whole wedding day. Any London wedding photographer can get a few good shots, but the job of photographing a wedding day is about capturing hundreds of lovely, fun images that take you right back to the day every time you look at them. On my portfolio page, you will see links to about 50 wedding galleries. You can also visit my pages for each of the big London town hall wedding ceremony venues, which each contain links to about 10 full wedding galleries. I’ve shot over 100 weddings at Islington Town Hall, about 50 each at Marylebone Town Hall, Hackney Town Hall, Chelsea Old Town Hall and Lambeth Town Hall, and dozens across Stoke Newington Town Hall, Wandsworth Town Hall and Camden Town Hall.

Do we have copyright over our wedding photos?

The simple answer is YES (but the more nuanced legalistic answer is that you are given a full licence to use and print your images). If you pay me to take photographs, they are YOUR photographs. I will provide all the images to you in a high resolution, suitable for printing at up to 12”x8”. As long as you don’t sell them commercially or pass them off as the work of someone else (!), you are free to do whatever you want with them.

I think a lot of other wedding photographers can be really unreasonable on this front. Many will only provide you with high resolution images that are printable at 6”x4” and make you pay for larger files. Some won’t even give you the digital files at all. So even if you don’t use me, do select a wedding photographer who will be happy to give you large size high resolution photos without any nonsense about copyright!

What if you fall ill or you have an emergency or crisis on our wedding day?

I take my work extremely seriously, and I’ve never cancelled or been late. I know that your wedding day is one of the most important days in your life so I can only conceivably imagine there being a problem if there was the worst kind of family crisis.

While there has never been a need for it, I can arrange a back up. I am a member of a collective of professional photographers so that if there is a crisis, I can ask a reputable, professional wedding photographer to step in.

Why are your wedding photography prices so low / why are other London wedding photographers so expensive?

If you've done any amount of research into London wedding photographer prices already, you'll hopefully recognise that my prices are considerably lower than most other professional London wedding photographers. I regularly check my prices against other high end photographers and my prices are considerably lower.

As I mention in my bio I don't want to be associated with the 'wedding-industrial complex'. I don't want to mark up my prices just because the wedding 'market' is considered lucrative.

See my prices and packages here. I offer a high-end service, producing artistic, high quality, high resolution images at affordable prices. You will see from my reviews page that my clients have been impressed with the aesthetic quality of my work, the quick delivery of the finished product, and my flexible, relaxed good-humoured and highly organised approach.

Despite my prices being considerably lower than the market average, occasionally people do contact me and ask why I can't photograph a full day wedding for £250! Taking photos is less than half the job. Much of the work of a professional wedding photographer is in the post-production. This is where good photos become great photos that you will cherish. The fees I charge mean that you get a great deal of care and professionalism, before, during and after the event. If you factor in all the work I do for your wedding, I would say my fee works out to about £250 a day, which is a lot lower than most freelance rates.

But if you really like the style of my photos but I’m out of your budget range, do contact me and I can offer you a low cost wedding photographer package.

Are you insured as a wedding photographer, in case we, you know, decide to sue you?

Professional wedding photographers should have Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance. It’s important for you that your photographer is insured, for example in case of accidents (e.g. if someone at your wedding trips over a tripod and hurts themselves). If your photographer is not insured, in some circumstances it can mean that you are liable for accidents that involve a photographer you have hired.

Here are my Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance certificates.

What is your approach on our wedding day? Are you going to be all over us like a rash?

There’s a whole other webpage about my approach to photographing your wedding day. But in short, no, I won’t be all over you like a rash. I’m there to take observational photos, and be as discreet as a guy with three cameras and a telephoto lens can be.

We’ve only just started planning our wedding, and aren’t sure what the timelines will be, so it’s hard to know how long we’ll need photography for. Any insight?

I’ve photographed something like 500 weddings, which does give me a bit of perspective. One thing that’s consistent is that no two wedding days flow in quite the same way. That said, I’ve written a blog that sketches out how the timeline looks on average, and how my photography fits around the different stages of the day.

In short, around eight hours of coverage is usually what you need to properly cover all the main beats of a wedding day. I photograph in a very observational, low-key way, with only two short parts of the day that are really about the photos themselves - group shots (around 15 minutes) and a short couple portrait session (another 15 minutes). I keep both as quick and relaxed as possible, so you can get back to your guests and enjoy the day.

You can read the full blog for a more detailed breakdown.

We’re really camera shy / I hate the way I look in photos. So the idea of having to pose for photos is just too cringe.

Believe me, I know. Part of the reason I became a photographer is that I feel that the safest place in the world is behind a camera.

Even when couples don’t explicitly communicate this to me, I always assume you’re going to have some trepidation about the couple portrait session in particular.

Most of us are self-conscious about one aspect of our appearance or another, so I have a default sensitivity to that. But I also recognise that some people are sensitive to the point of having a debilitating fear of being photographed. And I always remain cognisant of that. So I try my best to create a safe space for you to communicate in advance about how you do and don’t want to be photographed. Read about my approach to your wedding day for more info.

But the bottom line is, I take my job extremely seriously, which includes being highly sensitive and aware about body image.