Attard · Malta · all-inclusive from the UK

Villa Bologna Wedding Photographer

Walled gardens, the famous blue doors, and a villa in Attard that can take a three-hundred-guest celebration without ever feeling crowded.

Villa Bologna wedding photography
300 yearsOf Maltese baroque
2 nightsFlights and hotel included
1Wedding here
£3,250All-inclusive, Europe

What a Villa Bologna wedding photographer is working with

Villa Bologna’s walled gardens do most of the heavy lifting: shade when you need it, open lawn when you want scale, and architecture that looks good in every direction at every hour. The blue doors are the shot everyone remembers.

It handles big, loud, joyful weddings particularly well. Lakshna and Neil’s Hindu ceremony took place here under a white floral arch, after a baraat that closed the road outside with the Prime Minister’s permission.

Three hundred years of Maltese baroque, doing the backdrop’s work for you.

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The arrival. A vintage car, a closed road, and about a hundred people dancing in front of it.

Heat, crowds and a procession

A destination day is not harder to photograph, it is just more walking. The heat matters for your timings rather than mine: anything formal before about four in the afternoon will cost you more than it gives you.

I arrive the day before, always. It is a buffer against delays and a chance to walk the gardens in the light I will actually be shooting in.

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The ceremony, under the arch.

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Nothing here was staged.

What all-inclusive actually means

Flights, two nights and local transfers are inside the £3,250 for any European destination. There is no per-mile charge, no invoice arriving afterwards, and nothing that matters travels in the hold.

Outside Europe the wedding is the same and the price is the same; only the travel changes, and I price that at cost.

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The blue doors.

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Inside, once the sun has gone.

A Villa Bologna wedding photographer’s timeline, hour by hour

Timings move with your ceremony time, but this is the shape of most of the weddings I photograph. Nothing here is a rule — it is simply what tends to work.

10:00
I arriveBoth sides getting ready, wherever that is. Three hours before a one o’clock ceremony, and never in a rush.
13:00
CeremonyI work the sides and the back, quietly, on silent shutter. No flash, no interruptions.
13:30
ConfettiTwo lines, not a ring. It takes eight seconds and it is worth setting up properly.
13:45
Portraits, slot oneFifteen minutes, no shot list. Then you are back with your guests.
14:30
Drinks and groupsWhatever family groups you actually want, done in one go and not dragged out.
16:00
Wedding breakfastRoom shot before anyone is in it, then the details that matter and the faces during them.
17:30
SpeechesFrom the side, close, with a long lens. The reactions are usually the photographs.
19:30
Golden hourTen more minutes outside when the light drops. The best frames of the day are often here.
20:15
Cake and first danceThen the floor fills and I stop directing anything at all.
22:00
I leaveOnce the dancefloor is properly going. I do not sell hours, so nobody is counting them.
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What a £3,250 Villa Bologna wedding photographer covers

One price, the same for every couple, written out in full so there are no surprises.

Unlimited hoursUsually about 10am to 10pm. I do not sell hours and I do not count them.
Included
800+ finished imagesEvery one edited by me, full resolution, no watermarks, printing rights included.
Included
100+ previews the next dayIn your inbox before breakfast. Yours to post immediately.
Included
Drone, where permittedAerials at no extra charge when the venue and the rules allow it.
Included
TravelNo mileage charge, and no overnight fee if I stay locally the night before.
Included
Second photographerWorth it above roughly 200 guests, or if you are getting ready far apart.
£400
Fine art albumHand-made, designed by me, yours to approve before printing.
From £500
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£3,250

The full breakdown is here.

Straight answers

Have you photographed at Villa Bologna?

Yes. Lakshna and Neil’s Hindu ceremony took place there as part of a three-day Malta wedding, and both galleries are at the bottom of this page.

What is included in the £3,250?

Everything: unlimited hours, 800+ edited images, 100+ previews the next morning, flights, two nights and local transfers.

Do you photograph multi-day weddings?

Yes, and Malta was three days. Extra days are quoted simply and separately.

What happens if a flight is cancelled?

I travel the day before at the latest, and I carry everything that matters in cabin baggage. If a flight goes, there is time to find another.

Real weddings at Villa Bologna

Two full galleries from my work as a Villa Bologna wedding photographer, shot as each day happened. No posing, no staging, no repeating things for the camera.

The venue, and booking a Villa Bologna wedding photographer

Villa Bologna is in Attard, in the middle of the island and a short transfer from almost anywhere in Malta.

I photograph one wedding a day and never book two. If your date is free, £500 holds it and the balance is due thirty days before.

Tell me your date

One price, everything in it, flights included, and a whole day photographed without anyone being asked to pose.