A couple finds you on social, likes three photographs, and then goes looking for the thing that decides it: full galleries, a price, availability for their date, and some sense of what you are like to have around for fourteen hours. If that lives nowhere, the enquiry goes to the photographer whose site had it.
The reasoning is familiar and not unreasonable. Every wedding is different. Put a number up and you compete on price alone. Get them talking first and you can explain the value, show the albums, build the rapport that turns an enquiry into a booking.
So the contact page says “get in touch for a bespoke quote”, and the theory is that the conversation does the work.
Couples budget before they browse. They have a figure, and a photographer with no visible price is filed under “probably too expensive” and skipped, silently, with no enquiry for you to convert.
Meanwhile the enquiries you do get are from people who had no idea and are shocked by the number, so you spend evenings writing careful replies to weddings that were never going to book.
“Full-day coverage from £1,850” does two jobs. It stops the couples on a nine hundred pound budget wasting your time, and it reassures the ones with two and a half thousand that you are in their range and worth the enquiry.
Built in
Couples want to see a whole wedding start to finish. It answers the question a grid of best shots never does: are you good all day, or just for ten minutes at golden hour.
Hours, second shooter, album, travel, how long the gallery takes. The things every couple asks in the first email.
They are choosing a person to spend their entire wedding day with. A proper photograph of you and a few honest paragraphs matter more than another portfolio image.
Naming the venues you have shot at is how couples searching for their own venue's name find you, and it is genuine reassurance that you know the light in that barn.
Unobtrusive or directed, how you handle family groups, what happens if it rains. This is the anxiety underneath every enquiry.
Insurance, backup cameras, what happens if you are ill. Rarely asked and hugely calming when it is simply there.
I put my starting price up after eight years of refusing to. Enquiries dropped by about a third and bookings went up, because the third that vanished were the ones I was never going to book anyway.
A wedding photographer in Yorkshire
How it works
Style, what you charge, the venues you love, how you are on a wedding day. One conversation, no forms to fill in for a fortnight.
The right pages built around your photographs, with the galleries sized so a phone on venue wifi still loads them quickly.
Change anything you like. It goes live on your own domain when you are happy with it, usually within a fortnight.
New season's work, a price change, a venue you have added. Message us and it is done. No extra charge, ever.
Common questions
No. We size images properly for the web — sharp on a retina screen, small enough that a page loads in a second or two. That balance is a real skill and getting it wrong in either direction is the most common fault we see on photographers' sites, whether they built it themselves or paid four figures for it.
Yes, and you should. Pic-Time, Pixieset and ShootProof do client delivery and print sales far better than a brochure website should try to. We link to them; we do not try to replace them.
You were told correctly, up to a point. Writing up a wedding at a named venue is genuinely one of the better ways to be found by the next couple booking that venue. Send us the write-up and photographs and we will put it up as part of your monthly cost.
Then the site should say so rather than pretending you only do weddings. Off-season work is what makes the year add up for most photographers, and hiding it costs bookings from people who already like your pictures.
£47 a month, everything in, and we swap the galleries whenever the season's work is ready.