Once I have received the booking fee and signed contract, the date is secured for you. Until then, the date remains available to all other couples. 

As soon as possible! Since I can not hold your date for obvious reasons, once the date is booked by someone else, it’s gone! The most popular dates (i.e. weekends of June, July, August and September) are usually booked within a year of the wedding day, if not earlier. Still, there really is no rule, so out of luck you may stumble on the occasional free Saturday in September two months before your marriage, or you might end up picking the only Wednesday in March, where I’m already booked a full year in advance. So the advice is to book your wedding photographer very early in the game, like you’ll do with your wedding venue. On the other hand, if you feel that you may have left booking your photographer a bit late, it’s still worth enquiring and give good luck a chance as the date you require may still be available.

I am certainly available to cover your event anywhere. Travel expenses will simply be charged at cost. Often for nearby locations I won’t charge any travel expenses. In any case, a quick email enquiry is usually all it takes to clear any possible questions.

I’m always happy to greet you in my studio, so that we get to know each other in person, but these days I find myself to meet my clients (even the locals) most often online, via video calls that we can book at any date and time convenient for both.

I’ve been doing this job long enough to be totally comfortable either working alone, or aided by a second photographer. I usually really let the job tell which option is best, and decide together with my clients whether I’ll show up alone or with a second photographer. As a rule of thumb, I recommend a second photographer in those instances, where logistics dictate a second shooter (e.g. bride and groom getting ready with similar timing in different places) or when the venue is particularly vast and guests particularly numerous (e.g. events with over 200 guests). In all other cases, I can usually manage alone. Bear in mind that my style of shooting is very unobtrusive. I like to document the day without interfering or influencing the events with my presence: a sober and friendly behavior, shooting by available light and wearing a suit usually go a long way in going unnoticed. People get used to me and I can do my thing documenting the events working very close to the action, without ever changing the natural behavior of guests. Therefore working alone is not a fallback solution, in fact in many cases just the opposite. Again, my suggestion is to let the day suggest how many photographers are needed. So let’s discuss it and come together to the best conclusion for your wedding.

Of course I can! I’m always happy to extend the coverage of the event to the preparation of the groom. Although grooms are fare less ‘structured’ in their preparation than brides, the groom getting ready is an important part of the day, and as such it deserves to be recorded in pictures. It’s just a matter of careful planning of the day, to make sure that I can manage covering both bride and groom preparations. I’m most comfortable to cover both of you if your are getting ready in the same location, or in places within walking distance or very short driving distance. If you are not getting ready near to each other then coverage of the groom getting ready is offered as an extra via a second photographer – at least until I’m granted the gift of ubiquity.

Absolutely! While my style of shooting during the day is mostly documentary, I always suggest couples reserve a spot for group photos in their wedding day schedule (my personal recommendation is to have them immediately after the ceremony). These groupings are quick, easy, and largely informal and I try to make them pleasant and enjoyable for everyone involved.

Yes, if my clients are happy to have posed portraits taken. As a matter of fact, over the years my portraits of the bride and groom have become a landmark of my shooting style. As a wedding photographer, the portraits I shoot of my clients stand a good chance of being regarded as more than simple photographs. They become cherished family heirlooms and are often printed in large format to take their place in my clients’ homes where they can enjoy them for years to come. For this reason I honed my craft over the years to provide my clients with portraits that will not only be meaningful to them, but will also make nice, interesting pictures to look at in their own right. I like to include elements that tell something of the wedding day: a landscape, a glimpse of sky, a specific detail. I’m far from the ‘traditional’ way of shooting these pictures: the cheesy bride and groom portraits we all know and don’t like, with subjects in improbable poses looking lost like an 80s soap opera are not for me. Rather, I prefer that my couples take their own initiative and behave/pose in a way that is comfortable to them, with their own body language, so that when they look at their photos they’ll actually see themselves.

The only way to ensure that all your guests are photographed is to organize group shots to include everyone. I’m more than willing to photograph all groups that you request but please understand that depending on the number of guests, going through a very long list of groupings can take a long time. Since we all want to keep the day flowing and fresh, there will be a perfect balance of number of groups and coverage of guests, which should be aimed at. Outside this context, I can not guarantee to include all your guests in my coverage. The way I work is aimed at telling the story of your wedding and that’s what I’m focused on. I’m not focused on including everyone in the pictures, even those who stay sitting in their dark corner of the room for the entire reception.

I do not guarantee a fixed number of images, but a full wedding day is typically covered with about 400 photographs, sometimes a few more. All images that I deliver are fully edited and in their final version.

I will typically deliver your images anytime between four to eight weeks after your wedding, depending on when is your date. I’m faster when workload is low (i.e. low season), slower when workload is high and I have many other weddings to cull, edit and deliver (i.e between May and October).

All the pictures I shoot during a wedding day go through a rather severe selection very early in the post-production process. I obviously get rid of any technically and aesthetically unacceptable shots (subject out of focus, grandma with eyes closed or mouth open, etc.). I also reject all the photos, which don’t make sense to deliver. Let me explain: working in a ‘documentary’ style means that often I’ll take multiple shots of the same scene. The way it goes, I see a picture, trip the shutter, then stick to the scene and wait in case it evolves into a better picture, so I trip the shutter again, and maybe again. Just stick to it and try to take a better picture. Result: 3 pictures taken to achieve the image I originally visualized. So, when I’m successful, I might keep a picture out of 3 or 4 shots. Does it make sense to deliver all to my clients? No, it doesn’t. I would only confuse them and give them the responsibility to choose the image that best represents my original idea. It’s a responsibility that belongs to me and I intend to keep. So if during a wedding I might shoot a thousand images, my final selection would easily end up being 400 pictures that I will be happy to present to my clients.

Although I shoot everything in RAW, I don’t make the original RAW files available to my customers. RAW isn’t even an image format, only a data file. So, in order to get an actual image from a RAW file it needs to go through a post-production process. To me, the post-production process is as important for the final result of the picture as it is shooting the picture with the camera. Just as when we used to shoot film, the final picture was the result of three distinct phases; shooting, developing and printing. Likewise, in digital photography a picture starts with shooting and generating the RAW file. Then, equally important, the RAW file gets post-processed to give the picture its final look, before sending it to print. Every step is part of the creative process of the photographer and as such, it is my sole responsibility.

The fact that my clients won’t get the RAW files doesn’t mean they won’t be able to get their pictures in the best electronic format possible! Their wedding day pictures are available to purchase in high resolution, highest quality jpg format, which I’d normally use to get the best possible, professional quality prints.

The decision to deliver a photo in black and white or in colour is not taken by chance. On the contrary, it’s part of the artistic vision and it pertains to the photographer. There will be parts of the day that I will choose to deliver in black and white, and parts of the day that will be delivered in colour. All with the intention to make the best of each part of the wedding day in its own right and to render the whole day as a coherent picture story.

However, I’ll be more than happy to accommodate any requests to have a specific (limited) number of photographs delivered either in black and white or colour (for instance, to make wall prints that will suit the style of the room).

I’m very grateful to all my lovely clients, who reserve for me a place at the table with their guests. I’m a very sociable guy and make an excellent table companion, too! However, it is not necessary to include me on the guest list for a place at the reception.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to make sure that I get fed! Food and beverages will stop me fainting from starvation (which I’m sure you don’t want) and will keep my photography going strong throughout the day. It’s best to feed me when you are fed, not afterwards, as this is what works best for your wedding day coverage.

Whenever I don’t eat at the table with your guests, I’m often sat down at a separate table either in a corner of the room you are eating in or in a room or area near by together with your wedding planners, any video operators, DJ or members of the band. If you want to include me in a table together with your guests, please make sure that my seat is in a place where I still have the ability to move around the reception from time to time, without disturbing other guests. So it is better that my seat is a little ‘secluded’ and possibly not at the centre of the table in a crowded area.