Frequently asked · 17 years answeringPlain answers to the questions we get most.

We take wedding bookings for any date within the next 24 months. If your date is more than 18 months away, we'll provisionally hold it for you while you finalise the rest of your plans.

There's no penalty for booking early — quite the opposite. Earlier bookings get first pick of dates, particularly across the Northern Irish summer months.

Not if you book by direct debit. Direct-debit wedding bookings have no upfront deposit: the plan starts the monthly schedule instead.

If you choose another payment route, any booking deposit is confirmed in writing in your quote before you commit.

Yes. Every booking is invoiced the moment you confirm you'd like to go ahead. If you book by direct debit, the payment schedule records the instalments as they are collected. If you pay a deposit another way, you'll get a paid invoice when it reaches us.

Deposits are non-refundable. The reasoning is simple: once you confirm a date, we remove it from the calendar — meaning we can't re-book it. This clause complies with long-distance selling regulations.

The fair-play exception: if you need to move your wedding to a different date, you'll get one free re-book without losing the deposit. Most couples never need it. It's there if you do.

The package price includes the photographer's time on the day, print-ready edited images, your private digital gallery, a disc of images and a copyright release.

For videography: a 15–20 minute edited film plus the uncut footage of the ceremony and speeches, supplied free of charge.

Our packages are digital only. Finished images live in a private online gallery; video lives on Vimeo or YouTube, with the underlying files available to download and keep. These galleries can be shared and downloaded to laptops or desktops.

A note on phones and tablets: due to file size and mobile-OS restrictions, the files aren't designed to be downloaded onto a phone — they're for your computer.

USB sticks: bring as many as you like on the day (8GB+, no extra charge) and we'll copy your products onto them for family and friends. Discs (CD/DVD) are also supplied free of charge.

First and foremost — we don't know your family, your in-laws, or the dynamic between them, so we won't make assumptions. It's your wedding day; we'll do what you ask.

If you want specific people included or excluded from group photos, please supply a written list before the day. We also ask that you nominate one person in your party to round up family and friends when required — give them a copy of the list, and the formal photos run far more smoothly.

Any unusual or special requirements — let us know in advance, and we'll plan around them.

Documentary, not cinematic. We capture your day as it naturally unfolds — quiet preparations, the hand squeeze during vows, the carefree late-night dancing — rather than re-staging moments for the camera.

In practice that means gentle direction when it genuinely helps (group photos, a few couple portraits), and otherwise blending into the background. We find it's the most honest representation of the day, and the one couples come back to in five years' time.

Photo and video samples are across the site — they're a more reliable preview than any written description.

Uncut footage is exactly that — raw, unedited material straight off the cameras. It will naturally contain shots jumping between angles, shakes, quick pans and blurs. That's the nature of unedited footage; it isn't a fault.

This footage is supplied free of charge, as an extra on top of the edited film.

Your edited film will run roughly 5–20 minutes depending on package length and the amount of usable footage. The original audio is removed and replaced with music tracks of your choice. If you'd like some original audio retained in the edit, mention it at booking (subject to a small additional charge).

Rain is something we are extremely used to working with. We plan for it in advance using covered areas, indoor spaces and sheltered locations at your venue. Some of the most atmospheric photos in our portfolio happen on overcast days — softer light, dramatic skies.

If the weather changes, we adapt quickly and keep the mood relaxed. You don't need a separate plan for every scenario. That's part of the job.

Family photos: available within 2 days of the shoot.

Wedding photos: available within a week of the wedding.

Each image is individually edited for consistency and quality before it goes into your private online gallery — ready to view, download and share.

Short answer: no — and it's a deliberate line, not something we'll budge on at booking. What you do get is our finished work: print-ready, individually edited photographs and (where booked) an edited highlights film plus uncut exports of the ceremony and speeches.

What you don't get is the camera RAW image files (.CR2 / .NEF / .ARW depending on the body), the unselected outtakes, the half-blinks, or the camera-source video clips before encode. A RAW file is the photographer's negative — soft, flat, only usable inside editing software — and the colour, contrast and feel of our work happens in our edit, not at the sensor. Handing the RAWs over would land you with files that look nothing like our portfolio, and handing the outtakes over would mean shipping you the frames we deliberately rejected.

If a specific look or treatment matters to you, raise it at booking and we'll talk it through. We just don't release the raw camera files — same as virtually every professional wedding studio.

Once you've received your finished files, we don't keep copies on our end. Storage at the volumes we now produce is genuinely expensive, and the costs would inevitably pass on to every couple.

Instead, we supply online galleries plus an advert-free copy of your video, which you're free to download as many times as you'd like. Once you have your finished product, please make your own backups — multiple copies, in more than one place, is the right answer.

Because we only ever publish a couple's photographs or film once they've given us explicit permission. Plenty of couples would rather keep their day private, and we always respect that.

So our public portfolio and social feeds reflect who's happy to be shared, not how many weddings we've actually photographed. A quiet stretch usually means we've been busy with couples who'd prefer not to appear online — not that we've slowed down.

The studio-quality sitting is only available at our home studio near Portaferry — controlled light, backdrop options, the whole setup.

Location and engagement shoots are run wherever you like. Travel charges may apply depending on the distance; we'll always quote that up front.

Anything you like inside the booked hour: different poses, outfit changes, hair and make-up adjustments between sets. If it's legal, we'll happily do it.

Yes — if you want the shoot within the next 3 days, the full amount can be paid on the day rather than splitting it into deposit and balance.

For bookings further out, a normal deposit holds your slot.

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