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Contact us as soon as you have your venue and your date sorted.

We can meet up online or in person, we think this is important as you want to make sure we are not weirdos! Lol (we are not).

If you are not ready to book, still get in touch, and we will confirm whether we are available or not, but importantly, we can keep that date and update you if someone else enquires. From here, we can give you a 24-hour window to book us before we speak to the next couple.

We do receive many more enquiries than we can physically fit into a year, and we do get booked up quite quickly, with most key dates going around 18-24 months.

Keywords: Booking, Deposit, When to book

Why 9 hours? 9hrs will cover about 90% of weddings. Many, many times in the past, we have stayed all night or covered the whole of a bridal prep. But to be honest very little is added to a story by staying so long. We found that so many of our shots were repeats or similar and guests, especially at night, get annoyed with us keep taking their photos especially, as the numbers dwindle. So 9 hours is usually good.

However

Sometimes, you may need us for an hour or so more. Firstly this can be decided anytime before and leading up to your wedding. We ask you, along with other wedding day-related questions, six weeks before your wedding day. For 90% of weddings, additional time won’t be needed; however, if you’ve got an early ceremony, an hour or two may be needed.

You can read more here

If you need additional hours, it’s £200 for two photographers and £150 for one photographer.

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How do we book you? What’s the next step?

Just use the contact form to send us a message about your day. We will check our availability, and if we are available, then we can either meet up or, if you are ready, you can book us for your date.

Booking

Everything is straightforward. All forms are done online, and we accept all major credit/debit cards for payments with no additional charge. We require a 30% booking payment, with 30% due six months before your date and 40% 30 days before your big day. This can be customised if required. Don’t worry. We’ll send you receipts and reminders.

Key Words: booking, deposit, secure date

Yes, no problem at all. You can purchase albums at any time after your wedding, and we’ll happily design this for you.

Key Words: Albums

We require a 30% booking payment as a retainer, with 30% due six months before your date and 40% 30 days before your big day. Don’t worry. We’ll send you receipts and reminders.

This schedule can be customised upon request.

Keywords: payments, deposit

Yes, of course. Public Liability Insurance £5M

We carry backup cameras, lenses, memory cards, batteries, flashes, and several other items along to the wedding. Everything covered.

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Regardless of the illness/emergency, we would always look to fulfil our commitment to you and your day. Firstly, I’d like to point out in over 600+ weddings we have thankfully never had to call upon the emergency cover and certainly never been in a situation where we have had to let someone down. We are active, fit and healthy people with good health insurance cover. However, we are realistic, too, and while we try our best to stay healthy, illnesses and accidents can happen. So, to counter that, we do have several local wedding photographer friends who we have an operating agreement. We are a member of a national emergency Group, too.  Where we are fortunate in this respect is that we are a two-person photography company, so if one of us was suddenly unable to make the wedding, we could then at least capture the day with the other photographer.

Keywords: Illness, accident, emergency

In short: Normally 6 weeks – Busy periods add a week or two.
We’re typically very punctual about this, and we do everything (including caffeine-fueled late-nighters) to keep to it. We want you to have your photos while your day is still fresh.
April to October weddings are our busy months, and this keeps us busy editing until December.

Keywords: Wedding Photos, When, Ready

Sometimes, we must stay longer; usually, an early ceremony triggers this. If you want us to stay longer, then we charge £150 for two photographers and £100 for 1 Photographer. We will ask you about this and allow you to request this in your wedding day form

Our honest advice is this, though:

It’s not worth paying for us well into the night unless there is something, in particular, you want us to photograph. Once we have captured some dancing and guests laughing and messing about it’s all on repeat! So we suggest saving your money. One hour after the first dance is about the max. But if you want us to stay longer that is fine too.

Keywords: Hours, coverage, extra, more

Since 2008!

Food on our wedding day

Well, we wouldn’t say no! We don’t mind. The critical point here is that we know exactly, so we are prepared and get it right. It is a long day for us, and the last thing we want is for us to be foraging around for some food somewhere (anywhere!) when we should be concentrating on your photos. Imagine being on your feet for 9 hours plus with little food.

We will ask you about this on your final wedding day form

Dietary Requirements

The only thing we do not to eat is lamb. Everything else, Yum Yum!

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Yes, we still shoot family group photos. We also don’t limit you to a certain number like other photographers. The most important thing for us is that you are happy and comfortable with your number of group photos. We would hate for your drinks reception to turn into some photo marathon with you rooted to the spot. Honestly, keep it real and only shoot as many as YOU want and not what is expected of you.

Efficiency- We are pretty good at getting through group photos quickly. Typically 15-20mins for 10-15 groups.

Keywords: groups, family photos

Yes, This is something we cover on your wedding day form.

The story we will capture, it’s what we do. So you don’t need to provide a request list of key moments from the day as we are well versed in this. However, you may be wearing something sentimental like Grandma’s ring, or you want to re-enact a photo with your cousins from 20 years ago, or you may want to make sure you get a specific photo at a particular time. Our wedding day form covers these along with all the family and Group photos that you can request.

We’ll travel to wherever you want us to be. For distances further from home 50 miles from Northampton, then we may need to stay over the night before. For destination weddings, then we would need our travel costs covered too.

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