Whimsical Weddings & Faerie-Tale Films
weaving the laughter, tears, hope, joy, pride and love from your wedding day into a picture book of memories and a reel of film
Unbound love stories for the wild-at-heart
Photographs are Magick.
Photographs are perfect frozen moments in time. They are windows to our past, allowing us to roam freely through our memories whenever we choose. Whether we’re going through some challenging times or if loved ones have moved on ~ photographs are what we all turn to.
This is the reason we care so deeply about photography and we absolutely believe that everybody deserves great photographs of themselves. Our personal quest is to prove great photos can also be a good experience and feel great to have taken.
Lost in the dark, adventurer?
Let’s test our mind-reading…
🌙 You want ever-lasting images that capture and celebrate your unbound love story
🌙 You feel a wave of self-doubt crash over you when you see someone whip out a camera
🌙 You want to feel the most YOU that you can possibly be, especially when you’re celebrating your wedding
🌙 You want photos of you and your soulmate that capture the raw emotions you both feel when you’re together
You’re probably imagining…
🌙 Awkward poses and confusing instructions, move your hand here and your finger there, take this leg and put it behind your left ear and then…
🌙 Spending an hour (if not more) of your wedding day ~ a day that’s supposed to be about you and your loved ones ~ having photographs taken by someone that doesn’t “get” you or how you feel about having your photograph taken
🌙 Looking back at your photographs and only being able to see how uncomfortable and stressed out you look and felt
None of this feels like a wild, whimisical love story to us, either.
We’re here to help you cast off the shackles of self-consciousness to collect keepsakes of your wedding day in the shape of raw and soulful photos and films
We curate magickal moments and faerie-tale films that spark nostalgia and warm your hearts.
Weddings can be worrisome events to plan but we’re here to be your warden against the chaos.
Let your photo album be (at least) one thing you can relax about ~ you’re in safe hands!
You don’t need to feel anxious about feeling silly during your photos. Organic moments can be created and captured without forcing them or having to do any awkward “posing”.
Our focus on your wedding day is on doing whatever it takes to make the day go smoothly. We prioritise your experience because we know that photos are magick ~ they trap and hold memories beyond just what you see.
You will remember the moments around the photo and we want those to be just as incredible as the photo itself.
See Some Magick…
Click through to our portfolio page to see more of our work and check out some amazing weddings.
What you’ll get
You get the chance to chat with people who really understand what you really need and find out if we’re a good fit for your wedding plans.
🌙 Free discovery Zoom call
No complicated pick-and-choose menus or complicated and elusive price structures. Our packages are as simple as we can make it so you don’t need to guess about what you’re getting or how it all works.
🌙 Simple Packages and Pricing
You’ll get a Wild Wander photoshoot for free. It’s our way of giving you the chance to expel all the anxiety about having your photos taken and prove to yourself that you do look amazing.
🌙 FREE Wild Wander Photoshoot
All your photographs will be stored in a private, secure online gallery that lets you easily share with your loved ones. You can also download as many times as you like and buy prints or other keepsakes too.
🌙 Online gallery
Analogue, tech-free and guaranteed to never become obsolete. You get the best way to enjoy your photographs for free and share them with past and future generations alike. We love our wedding album, it’s our favourite way to reminisce about the magick of our day.
🌙 Album Included
Ready to invite us to join your adventure?
Did you know we do film as well as photo?
We’ve added Highlight Films as an optional extra!
If you were thinking about a film or just wonder whether it’s for you ~ you can find out more by clicking over to our Highlight Films page.
Just click the button and you’ll be taken right there!
Our Packages
Solstice
Two photographers
Free Wild Wander shoot before the wedding day
About 8 hours of coverage
Preparation to Party
All photos in a private online gallery
Unlimited downloads
All photos on a USB in a wooden keepsake box
Custom fine-art wedding album
£ 2500
Polaris
Two photographers
Digital images only
Ceremony, Group shots, Portrait session
All photos in a private online gallery
Unlimited downloads
Option to add on USB, Wild Wander shoot and album
£ 300
per hour
Highlight Film
Add on a highlight film to any of the wedding packages.
🌙 5-10 minute highlight film
🌙 no loss of photo coverage
🌙 no extra people on the day ~ we do the filming at the same time
£ 300
Do you hear the call of the hills and the forests ~ are you hoping for something a bit more adventurous?
Have a look at our Adventure Elopements and maybe you’ll find what you seek!
What happens next…
Our contact form is here!
Fill out our contact form and tell us a bit more about yourself and the wedding that you’re planning.
Submit the contact form
We’ll send you a few questions to answer to help us get to know you and your wedding plans a bit better. This is your chance to show us your vision and we promise to get just as excited as you ~ if not more!
Answer a few questions
You’ll get a link to book in a Zoom call and let’s have a chat!
We get to talk about all your amazing plans and you get to meet us and find out if we’re a good fit for you. You know more after meeting someone if they’re your kind of person and you get the right kind of vibes.
Zoom chat/In-person Meeting
You get the power to choose your coverage using our online quote system. We offer our standard, all-day Solstice package ~ with all the extras, or you can define your own coverage by choosing our Polaris hour-by-hour coverage.
Quote to pick coverage
You get our moodboards through a few months before your wedding and we get back onto Zoom to plan your Wild Wander photoshoot. You get to pick what the vibe and location of the shoot will be and we’ll work with you to create a perfect experience that will banish all thoughts of anxiety.
Pre-wedding Wild Wander
You kick back and let us take the reins on the wedding day and we make sure your plans go off without any drama!
We’re here to ward against all the chaos and self-consciousness demons and help you smash it.
Wedding Day!
Ready to get started? Click through to our contact page and drop us a message!
Why us?
You want someone who understands how it feels to be uncomfortable in front of the camera and be able to calm your anxieties and self-doubts. We’ve been exactly where you are ~ we’re still there!
We’ve planned our own wedding and we have photoshoots done at least once a year so we know how it feels to be on the other side of the camera. We’ve developed our own system for helping you get out of your own head on a photoshoot and be present in the moment and enjoy it.
Forget paying extra for two photographers ~ with us you get two photographers with all of our shoots. You won’t miss anything on your wedding day. You’ll have the photos of both of you preparing on the morning, two angles on your ceremony, shots of all your guests enjoying themselves. Plus having two of us means your group photos go waaay faster than just one photographer.
We like to do things slightly differently and a big part of that is a result of the experience we had with our wedding photographer. The photos we got were great but the experience on the day was not great. Because of that, our focus is on you.
Your wedding should be just that ~ YOURS! We don’t believe in making your wedding a huge, Hollywood production with briefings and lighting rigs and all that stuff. We capture the raw, real emotions and soulful moments without needing to be the centre of attention on a day that should be about you.
Find out more about us by checking out our page all about Who We Are by clicking here.
Test us out before you commit by booking us for a Wild Wander and let’s plan a little adventure mini-date together!
Click through to our Wild Wander page to find out more.
Our Big Why
Our wedding was beautiful ~ best day of our lives! The photos are fine, they record our day and they’re really lovely to look back on. The experience? Not great, honestly.
We look back at our photos now and we remember the photographer being really abrupt and actually ~ kinda rude! We remember that the photographer who actually turned up wasn’t the one we’d been talking to during all the planning meetings. We remember that they hadn’t found out anything about what the plan we had made was before they turned up on the day and were really stroppy when we told them we were stopping on the way from the church to the reception.
We decided that there was a better way to do things. Focusing on the couple getting married and the story of the day rather than on just technically good photos that miss some of the wild magick of the moment. Or that take you away from the party for ages at a time so that all you can remember is having photos taken instead of celebrating with your folks.
We set off on our quest to be wedding helpers who happen to have cameras with us. You can be sure that we are just two crazy, camera-wielding soulmates on this adventure with you. You’ll talk to us, plan with us and be photographed by us. We don’t think it should be any other way.
Contact us and let’s get started!
Still have questions? Maybe we answered them below.
What about…?
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You will love it ~ we promise. It’s an intimidating thing to think about and we understand that but it’s a great way to get some experience before your wedding day.
Imagine how much less anxious you’ll feel on the morning of the wedding knowing that we’ve already had chance to go on a little adventure together and get to know each other rather than having a stranger turn up and stick a camera in front of you!
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Booking fee is £200 ~ that secures your booking and covers all the boring admin involved.
The balance is split over 6 payments in the months leading up to the date of the wedding. So, if you’re getting married next year you don’t need to worry about it right now. We split it up like that so that you don’t get all your invoices the month before the wedding, at least your photography is paid for in little chunks that are more managable.
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You’re excited to see the photos after the wedding ~ of course you are!
We aim to get your photos to you no later than 8 weeks after your wedding day. That gives us a chance to hand edit them with our whimsical style and also do your film too if you’ve had one.
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We don’t really put a number on it because it depends on a lot of things. Plenty though.
A typical, full day wedding gallery run to at least 600+ photos, sometimes more.
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That sounds so exciting ~ tell us more!
We do hour-by-hour coverage but if what you’re planning is something that really breaks the wedding mould then let’s have a chat about it and we can always come up with a custom price for you. Incidentally, did you check out our Adventure Elopement page? Maybe your plans would fit in with that more.
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We love travelling for weddings. It gives us an excuse to get out in our van for an adventure ~ as if we need an excuse!
The thing we normally say is we cover “within an hour of home” for free and anything further than that is 50p per mile. Realistically that means for free we cover from Newcastle to Leeds ~ ish.
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Bless you, we were pretty sure hands were a lie when we had our first photoshoot.
Try not to worry, we’ve got our Magick Method that we run through on your shoots and 9 times out of 10 you won’t even have to think about what you’re doing with them. We have a few extra tricks up our sleeves to pull out if you still need some help though. Our biggest advice is to try to approach it with curiousity rather than fear!
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We used to feel kind of cheeky asking but then we realised that we’re often away from home for 10+ hours and that’s a really long time to go without food.
We don’t necessarily need to be fed the same thing as your guests and we CERTAINLY don’t need to be on the table plan! Talk with your venue and let them know and they probably have a plan already in place for how to sort us out.
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Very much so.
We’ve got plenty of coverage and if your venue needs to see it we can send a copy of our certificates over
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Our Albums
We adore our own wedding album and it’s pretty much the only way we look at our wedding photos anymore. We believe so much that you need a wedding album that we just include one with your package!
You might be wondering what the albums are like. If you can find us at a wedding fair you’ll be able to flick through a sample album or two but if that’s not possible, here’s a quick look at our album.
We include 20 pages in our albums but you can add more in if you want to, you’ll just need to pay for the extra pages.
The pages are a beautiful “silk” finish that won’t fade for 75 years. The book will lay flat on a table for you to view the whole thing easily, too.
There’s a bunch of different cover options too, if you’ve seen ours at a wedding fair you’ll already know that our samples are finished in velvet ~ because of course they are!
Here’s some more photos of our sample album and if you have any questions about them then feel free to drop us a message.
Not ready to book yet but want to stay in touch?
Pop your email address in to get occasional email updates from us. We let you know what we’ve been up to as well as where you might see us next and we sometimes share some mini-adventure ideas.
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