FAQS

We currently work on a 2-3 week turnaround. It all depends on the season, but because we limit how many weddings we book a year, the turnaround is usually quite quick. We get in touch when they start in production and let you know when to expect them. You’ll always get plenty of warning so you can plan your night to view them.

Our coverage is quite extensive, it usually shocks our couple how many photos they receive. You will get roughly 100 photos per hour that we are shooting, usually a bit more if there are two photographers. Every photo is custom edited to a look we create to suit your day.

We will always create an extensive list of family photos with you that we need to get. We will also do some formal portraits by looking at the camera. However, the direction is light and suggestive rather than forceful. We will only do a handful of them when it feels right.

The best way to determine how many hours you need is to start 2 hours before the ceremony for getting ready photos and portraits, you can finish the coverage at the end of formalities and that will give you a rough idea if it is a full day coverage or a shorter coverage.

If your date is available, and the pricing and approach align, then we will allow you to customise your package in an online portal. Once you submit that, you will receive a contract and a deposit invoice where you can pay online. We require a deposit of $1,500.

We just do still photos, however, we are working on partnerships for video and content creation right now. If you prefer it to be in one package, we can customise a quote for you to work with people we trust.

We can travel anywhere, we just require the travel costs to be added to your quote, which usually includes flights, 2 nights accommodation and car hire if it is required.

There is no such thing as a wedding tax. The rate is what this work costs on any commercial or editorial job of the scale — you are commissioning an artist to pour their creative energy, knowledge and emotional labour into one day. It is taxing work. Vet your photographer: the ones editing with someone else’s presets and repeating the same shots weekend after weekend should not be expensive.

Yes. Outsourcing the edit — offshore for a small fee, or to AI — is prevalent in this industry and we do not do it. Curating your images to match the feel of the day is part of the service, and we enjoy it.

Because hours are where the hidden costs live, once an attractive base price has done its work. We see a wedding as a project, not a timesheet — you would not pay an artist by the hour for a painting. Pricing by traceable metrics turns the service into quantity over quality.

Awkward to ask, and fair — it is a huge investment and there are a lot of tricksters. The distinction that matters is whether a photographer sees the work as a craft or as a product. Replicating a product needs systems, and those systems stifle the creativity you are hiring us for.

We built a co-op agency model. Every photographer contributes to the business side and shares a percentage of each job, and each stays an individual artist with no house style to abide by. The usual paths are going it alone, where the loneliness burns people out, or shooting for a studio for a fraction of the budget. We flipped that.

Less than 30% of what you pay reaches the photographer, sometimes under 20%. A studio needs margins, so you often will not know who is shooting until after you book — pulled from the same freelancer list as every other studio you got a price from — and they are handed a rigid shot list to keep the brand’s product consistent.

It is easy to be a good photographer and extremely hard to become a great one, and you only know the difference once it is you in the frame. A good photograph of yourself does not make you uncomfortable — it evokes love. That takes someone trained to witness beauty, who knows which light and which focal length will carry it.

The opposite — it is the most varied photography there is, because every couple and every room is different. A winery in remote New Zealand one weekend, an inner-city restaurant the next. Even the same venue twice in a week feels nothing alike: one couple is openly affectionate, the next is private and subtle.

No. We are photographers first, and we chose weddings because they are an environment we want to be in and an anthropological hotbed of beautiful moments. You can make money shooting anything. Photographers become great by being genuinely interested in their subject.