Collections

Every figure on this page is the figure you pay.

Three wedding collections, a family session and an album. No packages that change price once you mention the word wedding, and no travel supplement inside ninety kilometres of Galway.

Wedding collections compared
Included	The Half Day€1,450	The Full Day€2,400	The Full Day and the Morning€3,100
Hours on the day	6 hours	10 hours	12 hours, plus one the next morning
What it covers	From an hour before the ceremony to the start of the meal	Preparations through to the first dance	Preparations through to the band, and an hour on the shore the next day
Second shooter	No second shooter	Second shooter for 4 hours, ceremony and drinks	Second shooter all day
Edited images	350 edited images	600 edited images	800 edited images
Delivered in	6 weeks	8 weeks	10 weeks
Right for	Right for a ceremony and a lunch, or a second wedding where nobody wants a long day.	What nine out of ten couples book. The second shooter is with the groom while I am with the bride.	For couples marrying in December, when the light is gone by half four and the good portraits have to happen on Sunday.

The Half Day

€1,450

Hours on the day: 6 hours
What it covers: From an hour before the ceremony to the start of the meal
Second shooter: No second shooter
Edited images: 350 edited images
Delivered in: 6 weeks
Right for: Right for a ceremony and a lunch, or a second wedding where nobody wants a long day.

The Full Day

€2,400

Hours on the day: 10 hours
What it covers: Preparations through to the first dance
Second shooter: Second shooter for 4 hours, ceremony and drinks
Edited images: 600 edited images
Delivered in: 8 weeks
Right for: What nine out of ten couples book. The second shooter is with the groom while I am with the bride.

The Full Day and the Morning

€3,100

Hours on the day: 12 hours, plus one the next morning
What it covers: Preparations through to the band, and an hour on the shore the next day
Second shooter: Second shooter all day
Edited images: 800 edited images
Delivered in: 10 weeks
Right for: For couples marrying in December, when the light is gone by half four and the good portraits have to happen on Sunday.

Every figure on this page includes VAT at 23 per cent.

Family sessions

€340

90 minutes, one location, 40 edited images, delivered in 3 weeks.

On a beach, in a wood, or in your own back garden in Knocknacarra. Nobody is asked to smile and nobody is asked to match.

A session at Silver Strand

The album

€480

10 inch square, 30 spreads, linen cover, printed in Dublin. Extra spreads €22 each.

It is a separate thing you buy when you are ready, sometimes a year later, and it is never bundled into a collection to make the collection look bigger.

A bride in a lace sleeved gown holding a bouquet of calla lilies beside a window, in black and white — Thirty spreads, printed in Dublin, and one of these on the first.

In all three

What you get without asking.

01A planning call about eight weeks out, when the church and the hotel have both told you their rules.
02Public liability cover to €6.5 million, which is the certificate most Galway venues ask to see.
03A private online gallery, password set by you, open for a year.
04Full personal use licence for printing, framing and sharing. I keep the copyright.
05Backups on two drives and one off site until the album is signed off.

The deposit and the contract.

A date is held when the contract is signed and the €400 booking deposit has cleared, not when we agree on the phone. The deposit is not refundable, because the Saturday comes off the calendar the moment it is paid and I turn down everyone else who asks for it. The balance is due fourteen days before the wedding.

The contract is two pages. It says what I will photograph, what happens if I am ill, who owns the photographs, how long the gallery stays open and what happens if you cancel. Read it before you pay anything, and ask me about the parts you do not like, because two of the clauses in it are there because a couple asked.

Ask for the contract

Questions I get every week

Can you stand where you like in the church?: No, and neither can anybody else. Most Galway parishes keep the photographer behind the front pews and out of the sanctuary, and a few ask for no flash at all. I ring the sacristan the week before rather than finding out on the day.
Do you have insurance the hotel will accept?: Public liability to €6.5 million. Ask me and the certificate goes to your venue the same day. It is the single most common thing a wedding coordinator asks a supplier for.
What happens if it rains?: It rains. In Galway it rains on about half the weddings I photograph, and the porch, the hotel corridor and the back of the church are all better light than a bright lawn anyway. I bring two umbrellas and I never once cancelled a portrait for weather.
Who owns the photographs?: I keep the copyright. You get a full personal use licence, which means you can print them, frame them, send them to anybody and put them wherever you like. If a magazine or a venue wants to publish them, they ask me.
Do you photograph the ceremony if it is not in a church?: Yes. A HSE registered solemniser in a hotel room is the same job with better light and no rules about where I stand.