Dorset wedding photographer · one so far
One Dorset wedding so far. I am looking for the next one.
A county of hard chalk coastline and soft inland valleys, and a short enough run from Cornwall that I would happily make it a regular fixture rather than an occasional one.
The approach
Documentary photography. Nobody gets posed.
I photograph the day as it actually happens, quietly, from close enough to hear the joke and far enough not to be in it. No shot lists, no group-photo marathon, no standing people in a field at golden hour because a website said so.
Nearly a thousand weddings have gone into learning how to do that without anyone noticing me doing it.
Being straight with you
One wedding in the county is not local knowledge.
I have photographed in Dorset once, and I am not going to dress that up into a decade of it. What carries over is everything that is not geography: nearly a thousand weddings of reading a room, handling a running order that has slipped by forty minutes, and knowing when to put the camera down.
Where I do not know a venue I walk it beforehand at the hour your ceremony falls, and I speak to the coordinator well before the morning of.
I photograph the whole day, from the quiet bit in the morning to the dancefloor. Nobody is counting hours, because I do not sell them.
I am based in Newquay, so the run east is short and familiar. Travel is included in the price and I stay locally the night before where it makes sense.
Over a hundred edited images in your inbox the day after. The full gallery, 800 or more, within sixteen weeks.
Silent shutter all day. No flash at all until the dancefloor, which is why people stop noticing me by about eleven o’clock.
Two Sony A9 III bodies on me and two A9 II in the bag. Dual cards in everything, backed up on site through the day.
Included at no extra charge when the venue and the rules allow it. I check before the day, so nothing is promised that cannot be flown.
Where I work
Coast and inland, all of it.
Bridport · Lyme Regis · Dorchester · Sherborne · Wareham · Swanage · Poole · Shaftesbury · Blandford Forum · Weymouth
The Jurassic Coast and the Blackmore Vale alike. No corner of the county is out of reach.
The investment
Everything in, for any Dorset wedding: unlimited hours, 800+ edited images, 100+ previews the next morning, drone where permitted and travel included. A second photographer is £400 if you want one; albums from £500. The full breakdown.