Journal
Answers to the questions people actually ask before a wedding — not the ones with the nicest answers.
What does a wedding photographer cost?
What wedding photographers charge in Germany, what makes up the price, and how to recognise an offer that is too cheap.
Photographing a Turkish or Kurdish wedding: the timeline
Henna night, the entrance, takı: what happens when at a Turkish or Kurdish wedding — and what a photographer needs to know about it.
A photo timeline for the wedding day
How long each set of pictures takes and where it belongs in the day — the most common planning mistakes and how to avoid them.
What if it rains on your wedding day?
Rain on the wedding day: what changes in the timeline, what actually improves compared to sunshine, and what to arrange beforehand.
How many wedding photos do you get — and when?
How many edited images are realistic after a wedding, how long editing takes, and how to recognise an unrealistic promise.
A first look: yes or no?
What a first look is, what it changes about the wedding day and who it suits — including the reasons against it.
Photo and video together — or separately?
The case for having stills and film from the same person, the case against, and how you can tell on the day which choice was made.
When should you book a wedding photographer?
How far in advance photographers are booked out, which dates go first, and what to do when it is short notice.
Organising group photos at a wedding
How many group photos are realistic, when they should be taken and why a list written in advance makes the difference.
Getting ready: what the room has to do
Why the morning pictures depend almost entirely on the room, which window is needed and what should be cleared away first.
Who owns the wedding photos?
Copyright and usage rights for wedding photographs: what you may do with the images, what the photographer may do, and what belongs in the contract.
Guests with phones: what it does to your pictures
Why phones in the aisle cost the most important frames, what an unplugged ceremony actually achieves, and how to ask without lecturing.
A winter wedding: what it means for the photos
Short days, soft light, dates that are actually free: what makes a winter wedding better photographically and what the timeline has to account for.
Registry office, outdoor ceremony, church: the difference for photos
How the three kinds of ceremony differ photographically — space, light, rules — and what to settle in advance.
Do you need a second photographer?
When a second photographer genuinely matters, when they add nothing, and how to tell when one was simply sold along with the package.
Is an engagement shoot before the wedding worth it?
What a couple shoot before the wedding actually gives you, how a session runs, and when the money is better spent on more hours on the day itself.
Which wedding venue makes good photographs?
What matters photographically in a wedding venue: windows rather than ceiling spots, viewing it at the right hour, and what to ask beforehand.
Are drone shots allowed at a wedding?
When drone footage works at a wedding, which permissions it needs, and why it has no business being in the air during the ceremony.
What to wear for wedding photographs
Which fabrics, patterns and colours work in wedding photographs — for the couple and for the guests standing beside them in every group picture.
How do you choose a wedding photographer?
What to check before booking: see one complete wedding, look for pictures that hold together all day, talk before signing, and know what belongs in writing.