Destination wedding
Ten hours across a wedding that is also a trip, photographed by someone already there.
What’s included
- 700+ retouched photographs
- Ten hours of coverage, or split across two days
- Welcome-party or rehearsal-dinner coverage included
- Second photographer throughout
- Permit and venue liaison handled for you
- Private online gallery within 6 weeks
Portfolio
Destination wedding portfolio
A selection of destination wedding shots to inspire your shoot.
Book Destination wedding in your city
Available in 15 US cities and destinations. Choose yours.
About this session
Split the coverage across two days
- $4,800
- 10 hours
- 700
- 15
At a destination wedding the guests who flew in are present for two or three days, and the welcome party or rehearsal dinner is often the only time everyone is in one place and genuinely relaxed. Ten hours split across that evening and the wedding day produces a better record than ten consecutive hours on the day itself, and it is the single recommendation couples take up most often once it is put to them. The coverage is the same; where it is spent is the decision.
On flying a photographer in: it is rarely cheaper once flights, two or three nights of accommodation and a travel day either side are counted, and a photographer who has never seen the venue spends your ceremony hour finding out where the light goes. Booking someone already there puts that money into coverage instead, and into somebody who knows which room is usable at four o’clock and which beach needs a permit.
The logistics that go wrong at a destination wedding are almost never photographic. A ceremony scheduled for the hour the sun is directly overhead because the venue offered that slot. A beach permit that caps the guest list below the number already invited. A sunrise location that needs a reservation nobody knew existed. Those are settled in the planning rather than on the day, and the venue liaison is part of this booking for that reason.
Seven hundred or more retouched photographs within six weeks, a second photographer throughout, and coverage that can be split across two days at no extra cost. From $4,800. For two people and no guests the elopement service is the honest recommendation and it is less than half the price — this one exists for the wedding that brought forty people to an island.
Frequently asked questions about Destination wedding
Is it cheaper to fly our own photographer in?
Rarely, once flights, two or three nights of accommodation and a travel day either side are counted — and a photographer who has never seen the venue spends your ceremony hour finding out where the light goes. Booking locally puts that money into coverage instead, and into somebody who already knows which room is usable at four o’clock.
Can coverage be split across two days?
Yes, and for a destination wedding it usually should be. Guests who flew in are present for two or three days, and the welcome party is often the only time everyone is in one place and relaxed. Ten hours split across a welcome event and the wedding day produces a better record than ten consecutive hours on one of them.
How far in advance should we book?
Twelve to eighteen months, and the binding constraint is usually the permit or the venue rather than the photographer. Beach ceremonies, national park sites and popular estate properties all release dates well ahead and the good ones go first. Where a sunrise location needs a timed-entry reservation released sixty days out, that single booking decides the shape of the day and everything else is planned around it.
What happens with travel and accommodation costs?
There are none to add, because the photographer covering your destination already works there. That is the substance of the recommendation rather than a detail: flying a photographer in costs flights, two or three nights of accommodation and a travel day either side, and buys somebody who has never seen the venue. Booking locally puts the same money into coverage.