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A bride and groom forehead to forehead on the Pont Alexandre III at golden hour, a carved stone urn on one side and a lion on the other, the Eiffel Tower across the Seine between them

Paris Wedding Photographer

A full day of wedding photography in Paris — the preparations, the ceremony, the speeches nobody rehearsed, and the last hour of the dancing.

A wedding day photographed the way it actually happened

A wedding is not a series of set-ups. It is a long day with a shape of its own, and most of what you will want to remember is not on any shot list — your father going quiet during the speeches, someone’s shoes coming off at eleven, the ten minutes you finally got alone.

So I photograph the day as it runs. I will direct you where direction genuinely helps — a portrait, a first look, moving you into better light — and then I get out of the way again.

I work alone, which means one photographer, one consistent point of view, and one person to keep track of. For most weddings that is the right number.

A vintage open-top car waiting on the gravel drive of a château, an avenue of plane trees on either side
A guitarist playing in a dark doorway as confetti falls, the bride and groom watching from the front of the frame
The groom talking with a guest in a panelled drawing room in black and white, others seated around them with champagne, a woman at a mirror in the doorway
A wedding dress hanging in the window of a tall panelled room, the couple sitting together in the far corner
A bride and groom kissing on the quay beneath a bridge arch, Notre-Dame and the Seine beyond them

What does a full day of coverage include?

Coverage runs from the preparations through to the part of the evening you want photographed, agreed in advance rather than sold by the hour.

  • Preparations — the room, the dress, the people in it before anyone is nervous
  • The ceremony, whether that is a mairie, a church, a château or a garden
  • Portraits of the two of you, kept short and moved through properly
  • Family and group photographs, from a list you write beforehand
  • The reception — speeches, dinner, and the dancing

How many photographs will we receive?

You will receive 500 to 800 edited photographs from a full wedding day. I take 1,500+ frames across the day and the final gallery is selected from those.

Every delivered photograph is edited by hand, one at a time. Nothing is run through a batch preset and sent out. Photographs are captured in RAW and delivered as high-resolution JPEG files, ready to print.

How long until we see them?

Allow 3 to 4 weeks for a full wedding gallery.

A short preview of a handful of frames usually arrives sooner than that, so you have something to send your family in the meantime.

Do you photograph weddings outside Paris?

Yes. I am based in Paris and photograph weddings throughout France and internationally.

There is no travel fee anywhere inside Île-de-France. Beyond that, travel is charged and quoted with everything else, so there is nothing to discover later.

What it costs

  • from€3,200

    Wedding, full day

    Up to 10 hours

  • from€2,100

    Wedding, half day

    Up to 6 hours

Wedding, full day: Up to ten hours of continuous coverage · 500 to 800 edited photographs · High-resolution files with full permission to print.

Wedding, half day: Up to six hours of coverage · Around 300 to 400 edited photographs, every one selected and edited by hand · High-resolution files with full permission to print.

What is included

Locations

Where do Paris weddings actually get photographed?

Most Paris wedding days move between three or four places, and the photographs come from the distances between them as much as the venues themselves.

The mairie
In France, the legally recognized marriage ceremony is the civil ceremony held at the mairie. The rooms are often gilded and crowded, and rarely lit for photography — which is precisely why the frames from them are worth having.
The river and the bridges
Pont Alexandre III, the quays, the Pont de Bir-Hakeim. Best very early or in the last hour before sunset, when the light is low enough to work with and the bridges are not full.
Montmartre
Steps, cobbles, narrow streets and one enormous white church. Difficult in the middle of the day, extraordinary just after dawn.
Châteaux and gardens outside the city
An hour out of Paris the space opens up and so does the day. Worth the drive if the schedule allows it.

Answers

Questions people actually ask

How far in advance should we book?

As soon as you have a date and a venue. Saturdays between May and September go first.

What do you need from us to hold the date?

A signed agreement and a 25% deposit. The balance is due on the wedding day.

Do you photograph the ceremony if it is in a church?

Yes, within whatever the officiant allows. I ask before the day rather than find out during it, and I do not use flash during a ceremony.

What happens if it rains?

We photograph anyway. Wet Paris pavements reflect every light in the city, and umbrellas are not the problem people expect them to be. The plan simply shifts towards covered locations.

Can we have the RAW files?

No. The edit is part of the work, and an unedited RAW file is not a finished photograph. You receive high-resolution JPEG files with full permission to print them.

Also

A groom lifting his bride in a sunlit stone archway, the city visible beyond

Let’s make something worth keeping

Planning a wedding, an elopement or a session in Paris? Tell me the date and the place, and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right photographer for it.

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