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What does it cost? What a Library wedding costs, and what is in the price

A dance floor at night, hands in the air, caught on flash
A bride greeting guests in a church, a boy in glasses watching from the aisle
A ceremony in the open air, a baby held among the guests
An older man in black tie standing with the couple

You can’t take it with you.

The flowers wilt, the cake gets eaten, the suit goes back in the cupboard. The photographs are what your grandchildren will hold. This page is about what that costs, and it hides nothing.

How our pricing works

  1. Every photographer here sets their own price.

  2. There are two ways to hire an artist: the full day or the half day. We don’t do hourly rates, because a wedding is not billable hours. Elopements and civil ceremonies are half days. This kind of flexibility is a paradigm shift in the wedding industry, where you are not measuring value by the metric of time.

  3. The price is the whole price. Everything you need is in it. If you want more, a second photographer, an album, prints, each has one plain price, told to you upfront. No hidden costs. No markups. No surprises.

If the budget doesn’t align

If our range sits past your budget, don’t disappear. The collective has associates: the next generation of Library photographers, experienced artists building their body of work inside the collective, mentored by the members and priced below the members’ floor. An associate leads your wedding, and a member reviews every gallery before it reaches you. You get the collective honestly, at a number you can reach, and an artist with everything to prove.

A bride forehead to forehead with an older man in a dark suit, her orchid bouquet between them

Tell us your budget in the enquiry. If an associate is the right fit, our first reply will say so, with their price.

What you are hiring

The couple on a balcony above a ballroom full of guests, under the chandeliers
A garden reception: white parasols and picnic rugs under a great tree, the guests spread across the lawn

What you are hiring

The full day

A photographer who is dedicated to capturing your day in full. The start time is determined without time restrictions, and the end time is determined when the story is covered. This allows a photographer to be extremely present on the day and never watch the clock.

A bride in red, still wearing her ceremony garland, laughing on a beach
A bride walking an outdoor aisle on her father’s arm between the seated guests

What you are hiring

The half day

This is well suited to elopements, registry weddings and small events.

A first dance in stage haze under a spotlight, a violinist in silhouette in the foreground
The couple dancing under stage lights, the guests around them in the dark

The Commission

And above the full day sits one way to commission the collective. A Commission is not a bigger package; it is the collective assembled around one wedding. A lead artist whose eyes you chose, a second artist who is also a full member, coverage across days if your wedding sprawls across days, film if you want the day moving.

It is priced from the same published parts, the lead’s price, the set rates, the set costs, so even the largest wedding we shoot carries no number that isn’t on a sheet. Commissions are rare and built one at a time.

The Library Service

Whoever you hire, the service around the photographs is the same: a consult to find out whether we are a fit, as many conversations as you need, a direct line to your photographer, editing done by hand and never outsourced, a private gallery within two to three weeks, and a handpicked “How we saw it” photobook, as a gift.

  • A couple on a city street at dusk, the bride looking back
    A bride in a white suit and her groom on a balcony, laughing (black and white)
    A groom with his hand to his forehead beside the bride in a white blazer

    Initial Consult & Assessment

  • A ceremony in colour: women in saris, one raising her hand in blessing
    Older guests laughing together at a reception
    A couple in a white convertible outside a concrete building (black and white)

    Personal & Private Online Gallery

  • An older man in a bow tie laughing at his phone (black and white)
    The couple leaning on a bar, glasses on the counter (black and white)
    A guest laughing in warm light, in a bright patterned jacket

    Direct Line of Contact

  • A couple against a pale hangar wall in late sun
    A couple kissing in a rowboat on a lake
    A couple on a wet rooftop at dusk under a pale sky

    Handcrafted Editing with fast delivery

  • A groom watching the bride cross a lawn by a lake (black and white)
    A couple embracing on a city street (black and white)
    The couple kissing beside a vintage car in the city (black and white)

    Unlimited Consultations

  • A father clapping at the reception table
    A man holding a small child at a reception table (black and white)
    The bride laughing as the groom pulls a face at the table (black and white)

    Handpicked Photobook

  • A guest in a green fringed dress dancing
    Two guests embracing, a glass of wine held high
    Guests embracing across a crowded reception (black and white)

    Second photographer

    Some days call for the extra set of eyes, whether that’s a schedule conflict or the number of guests that you have.

  • Hands reaching for prosciutto and bread, red wine on the table
    A restaurant window at night, lit from inside
    The couple crossing a city street between tall buildings

    Film

    Film can create a magical look that is hard to recreate with digital.

  • The couple laughing close together (black and white)
    A bride sitting at the end of a bed (black and white)
    A bride in profile under her veil (black and white)

    Medium format film

    We include a bundle of 3 rolls of 35mm film or medium format film.

  • An open photobook on a checkered chair
    Printed books and magazines laid out beside a bride

    Photobook

    For any other prints or books, you select all of the images that are your favourites.

  • A guest holding an open album up in front of her face
    Linen album covers and boxes

    Album

    Bespoke album, with up to 200 photos per album.

  • A couple on a beach, a kangaroo in the foreground
    A couple in wedding clothes walking through the waves
    A monk in red leaping across a courtyard

    Travel

    If your wedding takes us somewhere, travel is added at cost, flights, two nights, a car if it’s needed, and never marked up.

Extras

Questions couples actually ask

  • When do we get the photos?

    Two to three weeks, the full gallery. You’ll get warning, so you can plan the night you sit down to see them.

  • How many?

    Extensive. Roughly a hundred for every hour we’re with you, more with a second photographer, every one edited to your day’s look.

  • Do you do formal photos?

    We’ll build the family list with you and get every one. Direction stays light and suggestive; we do the looked-at-the-camera ones when it feels right.

  • Do you do film?

    As part of a Commission, yes.

  • Do you travel?

    Anywhere. At cost, on the quote, never marked up.

The couple dancing under stage lights, the guests around them in the dark

The promise

The first reply you get from us has the number in it. Tell us your date, your chosen photographer and your budget, and we’ll come back with exactly what they cost.

We take a limited number of weddings a year, on purpose. You are buying a full day of one artist’s creative energy, and that only exists if we protect it.

When you’re ready, you customise your booking in the portal, sign the contract, and pay a $1,500 deposit online. That’s the whole process.

Are you free?

We promise we won’t spam you with endless emails that take years to escape from, and there are no tiny “unsubscribe” buttons hidden in corners. We will just send you the information you need.

A couple walking away hand in hand across a sunlit paddock, the bride looking back over her shoulder
A couple kissing under the trees, her long cape across the grass
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