Philip Bedford Wedding Photography

Let’s assume that you’d like to get photographs of Bridal prep, through to the first dance. If you work 2 hours before the ceremony up until the first dance this should give you a rough answer. Say you’re getting married at 2pm; I can start Bridal prep photos at 12pm and work through to the first dance at say 8pm, giving you a total of 8 hours. This is a fairly basic package, if you’re having a longer day it might go something like this: The ceremony is at 1pm; I’d suggest I start at 11am and work through to the first dance at say 9pm, which would be 10 hours.

I ask clients to tell me what they want covered and what times the ceremony, reception, breakfast and first dance are likely to be happening, then I can judge how long I think they’ll need.

I also provide an hour for free if you overrun on time. This really helps clients who are unsure or get delayed, so it’s reassuring for them that I’m not going to bolt as soon as their official time is up.

I always aim to get photos to you whilst you might still be on honeymoon and almost always deliver photos to clients within 2-3 weeks. The maximum is 4 weeks turnaround time from the date of the wedding/payment date.

I don’t charge anything extra for travel provided your locations are within a 50-mile radius of Brighton or are within a 20-mile radius of the M25. Outside this are I will discuss and quote prices for travel and accommodation where necessary. All travel or accommodation fees payable are listed in the quote price given so you’ll know exactly what you’ll be paying for and there are no hidden extras. If a taxi is required on the wedding day, or if parking charges should exceed £10.00 in total for the day, then the client will be invoiced for these after the wedding day. This only tends to happen in London and again I can discuss this with you at our initial meeting.

Yes, with Public Liability and Professional Indemnity cover supplied to me by Aaduki Multimedia Insurance.

I always aim to arrive for a wedding with at least 30 minutes to spare so that I can look around and get my bearings for the best shots for the wedding day. If you’d like to meet me at the venue before the wedding, we can have a consultation at the venue to discuss the photography.

There will be a mix of black & white and colour images to choose from.

Once the day is over, I will process and edit all the photographs taken and reduce them to between 300 – 1000 photographs depending on the amount of hours I am booked for. The amount of photos tends to work out at around 50-75 photographs per hour that I am booked for. So if you had me there for 10 hours you could expect to receive 500-750 photos. I also edit the photographs, tweaking the colours and contrast, cropping images for optimal composition, convert some photographs to black and white and reorder the images to best tell the story of your wedding chronologically and visually.

Can we print the photos ourselves if we want to? Can we copy them and send them to friends and family? Yes! I will remain the copyright owner and you are given a license to use the photographs. This license allows my clients to do ‘whatever they wish to’ with the images, they can print them, share them with friends, upload them to social media etc.… As long as they’re not being used for commercial use.

The best example is if they want them to be published in a magazine, or give images to a wedding vendor. This is usually fine with me (and great for my publicity!) but they need permission from me to do so as they are still my professional work.

In summary, the images are for personal and domestic use only, which is really only what my clients want to use them for anyway.