West Sussex wedding photographer · the Downs and the coast
West Sussex is already on my map. I would happily spend more time in it.
Flint barns, chalk downland and the South Downs National Park, in a county I already know my way around and would like to photograph a great deal more.
The approach
Documentary wedding photography in West Sussex. Nothing staged.
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 group-photo marathon and nothing staged: a short family list, a few relaxed portraits with gentle direction, and the rest exactly as it happens.
Being straight with you
Experience that travels well.
I have photographed in West Sussex once, at Farbridge near Chichester, and I am not going to dress that up into years of it. A photographer who claims local expertise he has not earned is not worth booking.
What carries over is everything that is not geography: nearly a thousand weddings of reading a room, absorbing a running order that has slipped by forty minutes, and knowing which five minutes of the day actually matter. Where I do not know a venue I go and walk it beforehand, at the hour your ceremony falls, and 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 come down the night before where it makes sense. The drive is never on your invoice.
Over a hundred edited images in your inbox the day after. The full gallery, 800 or more, within sixteen weeks.
The sun sets around 9.20pm in late June, 7.20pm in mid-September and 3.55pm in December.
Farbridge, near Chichester.
Silent shutter, backup cameras on me all day, and a drone where the venue allows it. The full list of what is included.
Where I work
Across the Downs and down to the coast.
Chichester · Arundel · Midhurst · Petworth · Horsham · Worthing · Pulborough · Steyning · West Dean · Goodwood
And over the borders into Hampshire, Surrey and East Sussex, which are all the same day out.
Real weddings in West Sussex
One full gallery from my work as a West Sussex wedding photographer, shot as the day happened. No posing, no staging, no repeating things for the camera.
The investment
Everything in, for any West Sussex 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.