Your date is only confirmed once I have received both your signed contract and booking fee. Until then your date is available to anyone else who enquires. If we have had a chat via email or zoom, I will of course let you know if someone else gets in touch about your date in the meantime to give you the opportunity to lock it down.

To secure your date I require a £500 non-refundable booking fee (which will be deducted from the total amount) and a digitally signed contract. The remaining balance is then due on the 1st of the month before your wedding. You will receive an automated reminder when your invoice is coming up for payment - I know how much you have to remember in the run up to your wedding!

Yes definitely! I’m insured to the max and have both public liability insurance and professional indemnity insurance.

For Sussex, London and anywhere within 2 hours of Worthing - yes. Anywhere else will have a fixed travel charge applied as I will need to stay overnight; I don’t want to risk getting stuck in traffic and arriving late on your day, or putting myself in danger by driving long distances while exhausted late at night.

Yes absolutely - via zoom! I actually think having a chat is a really good idea as it is so important that you get along with your wedding photographer and feel confident they will fit in on the day. A good rule of thumb is to book a photographer you would enjoy going for a drink with. I do not offer in person consultations as my couples are based all over the world (and childcare would be a nightmare!), but Zoom is a brilliant way for us to get to know each other better - and you are more than welcome to have a cup of coffee or glass of wine on the go while we do! I always chat with my couples before their big day, if not at the booking stage, then certainly in the weeks running up to the wedding. It will help you to feel much more relaxed around me and more comfortable in front of the camera as we will feel like old friends on the wedding day!

Venue visits are not necessary. The light, weather, flora and fauna will not be the same on the day of a venue visit as it will be on your wedding day. Cars might be parked in different places, gates might be open or closed, people might be milling around or furniture might be set up in different areas, so what might look great on your visit will look totally different on the day. I frequently work in venues I’ve never shot at before, so when you look at my work you will see what I can produce with fresh eyes. When you book me you are booking me for my creativity and ability to quickly work out what will look good in a space.

Yes! Once you are officially booked in I will send you my ‘Planning Your Wedding Photography’ guide in the post (along with a few treats!) This is a little welcome gift containing all the hints and tips I’ve picked up in 10 years of shooting weddings (and the the stuff I wish someone had told me before I got married!) This is absolutely not intended to tell you the way you must do things - as every wedding is unique and I am here for anything and everything you want to dream up and create yourselves! - just as a little insight behind the curtain from someone who has been to a lot of weddings, which will help with the kind of issues that come up frequently and hopefully answer any wonderings you may find yourself pondering. I also give you a full timeline of our journey together and break down in detail the way I work during each part of the day, so you know exactly what to expect.

About 2 months before your big day I will send out your digital ‘day in detail’ questionnaire. This is where you tell me all the nitty gritty logistical information, , timings, timelines and anything else you need me to know. This is also where I ask you to write down your list of groups shots in advance, which I will print out and bring it with me so there is no faffing on the day trying to figure out who to include. I ask that you get this back to me no less that 3 weeks before your wedding date so I can plan my itinerary, then we will schedule in our final zoom chat to go over everything so you can relax on the day and rest assured that I know everything that you need me to know!

Yes please, a hot meal at the same time as you and your guests eat (so I don’t miss the speeches!) would be greatly appreciated. A wedding day is a long time to survive without food! As I have to carry my kit, it is impossible for me to bring anything substantial to eat with me - and you don’t want me fainting off, or disappearing on a quest for food, just in case I miss something spectacular!

Yes! I firmly believe that there is a place for these in wedding photography and that, like antiques, they will only increase in value as time goes on. However, as a predominantly documentary style wedding photographer, my couples book me specifically for the relaxed, candid and unposed photos I specialise in - so we always get the group shots done as quickly and painlessly as possible so we can all get back to the party! I have a tried and tested method that I will go through with you beforehand, which will ensure your day remains a wedding, not a photoshoot.

You are not alone my friend! I promise that every single couple I have ever worked with has asked me this - and how awesome do they look?! The most important thing to me is that you look like ‘you’ and not like you are doing an impression of two people getting married. I want you to remember how it felt, not just how it looked and I want you to look at your pictures and think - ‘hey that’s us! and we did that!’ It’s my job to help you feel relaxed and I promise that in time you will forget all about the camera. I don’t overly pose you, I give you as much or as little help as you need, but most importantly I give you space to make it ‘you’. Every single couple I work with says they actually had fun in front of the camera in the end. Most of all, I want you to think of our portrait sessions as ‘time spent together’ with your beloved, rather than time spent away from your guests.

On the day I shoot with two cameras, each of which writes to two cards, so I always have a second copy of your images. After busting some moves on the dance floor and giving you both a big hug, I head home and immediately back up your photographs to two hard drives before I go to bed - one of which is kept off site. On Sunday I recover from your epic day and on Monday I get stuck into sorting through all the magical moments I have captured! About a week after your awesome wedding (or after your honeymoon!) I will send you a highlights gallery, which I curate to be an overview of the whole day, featuring lots of key moments and important people that will tide you over while I finish editing your photos and make you feel excited about seeing the rest! I then spend the next few weeks selecting the very best photographs to tell your story, balancing the colour and temperature of your images and applying my signature edit meticulously by hand. You will also receive a link to my editing queue so you can keep track of your photos and see exactly where you are in my editing pile. I will send you your online gallery of beautifully edited jpeg images (in a mix of colour and black and white as appropriate) along with a stunning slideshow within 12 weeks of your wedding day, which you can then print, download and share with friends and family!