Newquay · Cornwall · 2026 & 2027
Cornwall Wedding Photographer
I was born here, shot my first weddings here, left for fifteen years, and came back. 987 weddings, no travel charge, and £2,000 for Cornish weddings while I build my portfolio back up down here.
Real weddings in Cornwall
From my work as a Cornwall wedding photographer, shot as the day happened. No posing, no staging, no repeating things for the camera.
I shot my first weddings in Cornwall. Then I left for fifteen years.
Iwas born here. The first weddings I ever photographed were Cornish ones, about fifteen years ago, back when I had considerably more enthusiasm than judgement.
Then I moved to Essex and built the business properly. Nearly a thousand weddings — barns, cathedrals, marquees, a fair bit of Europe. Every useful thing I know about photographing a wedding, I learned up there, mostly by getting it slightly wrong first.
And now I have brought all of it back to the county I started in. So I am not a Cornwall wedding photographer who discovered the place on Instagram. I am a Cornish one who went away, got good at this, and came home.
Which matters for a reason that has nothing to do with sentiment: I am not driving down the A30 the night before your wedding and hoping. I am twenty minutes away, I have walked your venue, and I know what the light does there in the month you are getting married.
Matt
Why a Cornish wedding is £2,000
I am building a new Cornish portfolio, and £2,000 is a reduced rate while I do it. That is the whole reason, and I would rather say it than pretend it is a limited-time offer.
I have nearly a thousand weddings behind me and hardly any of them are Cornish. The ones that are, I shot fifteen years ago. So I want recent work from this county — these venues, this coast, this light — and a reduced rate is how I get it.
Nothing is taken out to pay for it. Unlimited hours, 800+ edited images, previews the next morning, travel included — the whole day, exactly as I would shoot it anywhere. It is simply a lower number, for a reason I would rather just tell you.
What a local Cornwall wedding photographer changes
Plenty of good photographers shoot Cornwall weddings, and almost every Cornwall wedding photographer you will speak to arrives the day before. That is not a criticism — it is just a different job, and it costs you in four specific ways.
No travel charge from a Cornwall wedding photographer who lives here
Most photographers coming from up country add mileage, a night’s accommodation, or both. Mine is £2,000 wherever in the county your wedding is, and there is genuinely nothing to add to it.
The A30 is my problem, not yours
Every summer Saturday, the A30 does something unhelpful. If I am coming from Bristol that is a risk you are carrying. If I am coming from Newquay, it is a twenty-minute drive and a non-event.
Your Cornwall wedding photographer can go and look beforehand
If you have booked somewhere I have not shot recently, I will go and walk it — at roughly the time of day you are getting married, in roughly the season. That is a Tuesday afternoon for me. It is a two-hundred-mile round trip for somebody else, which is why they do not do it.
I know what Cornish weather actually does
Cornish forecasts are close to fiction. What matters is knowing that the coast and the moor do completely different things on the same afternoon, and that a grey morning here very often burns off by four. I will not let you move your ceremony indoors at eleven o’clock over a forecast I do not believe.
Cornish venues, and how far each is from my door
Newquay is about as central as Cornwall gets. These are the drive times and the things worth knowing before you build your timeline.
A private beach in a cove, reached by 133 steps. Tidal, so low water and sunset are worth lining up. West-facing, which means the sun goes down over the Atlantic in front of you.
My Lusty Glaze pageA former dairy farm in its own valley on the edge of the moor. The oak arbour has trees behind it, so it beats the barn for light whenever the forecast allows.
My The Green pageOrganic farm, barns and open fields. Very little between the site and the western horizon, so the last half hour of light runs long and low across the grass.
Georgian house with formal gardens and a long wooded drive. Lots of mature planting, which means shade to work with at midday rather than open lawn glare.
Parkland and very old trees. Dappled rather than flat almost all day, which is about the kindest light a venue can give you.
Barns on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor. Moor weather moves fast and differs completely from the coast, so this is a venue where a plan B genuinely earns its keep.
A Napoleonic fort built into the cliff, looking south over the sea. Hard overhead light at midday and genuinely spectacular from about seven o’clock onwards.
Cornwall has hundreds of venues and I have not shot all of them. Send me yours and I will tell you honestly whether I know it — and if I do not, I will go and look.
Tell me your venueWhat a £2,000 Cornwall wedding photographer covers
Everything below is included. There are no packages and nothing is charged as an extra on the day.
The full breakdown of what is included is here, itemised against what the same things cost as add-ons elsewhere.
A Cornwall wedding photographer’s guide to the light, month by month
Cornwall is the last place in England to lose the sun, which is the best thing about being a Cornwall wedding photographer. In December it sets twenty-five minutes later here than in London; in midsummer, fourteen. Over an evening that is a meaningful amount of extra light, and it is the strongest practical argument for getting married down here.
These are the sunset times I work to as a Cornwall wedding photographer, taken for Newquay at the middle of each month. Wherever you are in Cornwall they will be within a few minutes. The portrait slot is roughly half an hour before sunset — that is the fifteen minutes worth protecting when you build your timeline, and the one I will ask you for.
| Month | Sunset | Portrait slot | vs London |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.45pm | 4.15pm | +24 min |
| February | 5.35pm | 5.05pm | +22 min |
| March | 6.25pm | 5.55pm | +20 min |
| April | 8.15pm | 7.45pm | +18 min |
| May | 9.00pm | 8.30pm | +15 min |
| June | 9.30pm | 9.00pm | +14 min |
| July | 9.25pm | 8.55pm | +15 min |
| August | 8.40pm | 8.10pm | +17 min |
| September | 7.35pm | 7.05pm | +19 min |
| October | 6.30pm | 6.00pm | +21 min |
| November | 4.35pm | 4.05pm | +24 min |
| December | 4.15pm | 3.45pm | +25 min |
Times are approximate and move by a few minutes either side of mid-month. British Summer Time runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, which is why April jumps nearly two hours on March.
What each month is actually like
Two more things a Cornwall wedding photographer should tell you
On a beach, the tide matters more than the weather
Any Cornwall wedding photographer working a tidal venue like Lusty Glaze will tell you the same thing: low water gives you a wide sweep of flat wet sand that mirrors the sky. High water takes most of it away and pushes everything up towards the cliff. Neither is worse, but they want different photographs, and it is worth knowing which one you are getting. I check the tide tables for your date as soon as you book, and if low water and sunset line up I will tell you, because that is the version of the day I would build a timeline around.
Grey Cornish mornings mean very little
Cornwall gets sea fog that burns off by lunchtime and coastal cloud that clears in an hour. I would not move a ceremony indoors at eleven o’clock on the strength of a Cornish forecast, and I will say so if you ask me. The moor and the coast also do entirely different things on the same afternoon — if you are at Trevenna and your guests are coming from Newquay, they may well tell you it is sunny while it is raining on you.
Straight answers
Newquay, yes. I was born in Cornwall, shot my first weddings here about fifteen years ago, moved to Essex to build the business, and have now moved back. I still shoot the south east regularly, so I keep a base in Essex too.
No. There is no travel charge anywhere in the UK, and for a Cornish wedding there is nothing to add at all — no mileage, no hotel the night before, and no risk of me being stuck on the A30 on your wedding morning.
£2,000 all in. It is a reduced rate while I build a new Cornish portfolio, and it covers unlimited hours, 800+ edited images, over 100 previews the next morning, drone where permitted, travel, and a private gallery. A second photographer is £400 and albums start at £500. There are no packages.
May and September, if you are asking a photographer. Both give you long light and a warm sea without July and August’s traffic and prices. June has the longest evenings of the year. Winter is genuinely underrated down here — short days, but the skies are the best of the year.
No. Group shots if you want them, and three fifteen-minute couple slots across the day. Everything else is photographed as it happens. There is a whole page on how I work if you want the detail.
Constantly. Essex, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and the rest of the south east, plus Europe. Cornwall is home but it is not the limit, and the price is the same wherever you are.
A £500 retainer by card or bank transfer and a short contract you can read in five minutes. The balance is due 30 days before.
Tell me your date
£2,000, everything in it, and a whole day photographed without anyone being asked to pose. If you are looking for a Cornwall wedding photographer for 2026 or 2027, send me the date and the venue and I will tell you straight away whether I am free.