West Sussex wedding photographer · one wedding in
One West Sussex wedding so far. I would happily make it a habit.
Flint barns, chalk downland and the South Downs National Park, in a county I have photographed once and would like to photograph a great deal more.
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 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.
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
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.