For those of you unwilling or unable to scale back the day, or even unable to have loved ones attend due to coming from a country that has restrictions or in a lockdown, your first port of call is your wedding insurance – chat to them about how your coverage is affected if you move or postpone the day. Many of you may already know where you stand with your insurance and with supplier terms as this may not be your first postponement, so the main thing is checking availability with your venue and suppliers.
I know some of you may be wanting to put a plan B and maybe even a plan C in place now. As always, I have everything laid out below for you, so you know where you stand in terms of your wedding photography with me, if you choose to postpone.
To view my available dates just scroll down (or click on the link below). I will continue to keep these updated so you can see when I am free - but also feel free to email me if you’d like me to hold a date for a few weeks while you get all your ducks in a row.



I am happy to hold an additional date or two for you, unless someone wants to book me for it, at which point I will give you first refusal, and will require a definite answer.
Any postponements with a new date later within 2021 will happen without any extra charge, as will any first postponements. There will be, however, some exceptions regarding prime dates – ie. Fridays and Saturdays July to September.  Postponements of weddings that were originally in 2020 and have already moved to 2021 or 2022 and now wish to move to another date in 2022 or beyond on a Friday or Saturday in prime season, will be chargeable, at my current prices at the time you get in touch with me. This will not apply if you are moving to a Sunday-Thursday date in 2022. I am so sorry I have to do that at all, but I am sure you appreciate my income has been decimated over the last year (and continues to be so), and I too am having to make hard choices to keep my business viable, I cannot just keep moving weddings to prime dates and turning away more and more new bookings. I know a few of you had smaller ceremonies last year, with a view to having a bigger party this year - be reassured any surplus hours will still be carried over and nothing will change there.
Couples whose original wedding dates fall in 2021 will be able to move to 2022 without incurring any fees - same applies to original 2022 couples wishing to move to 2023, just like my 2020 clients who moved to 2021. All wedding postponements will need a contract addendum to be signed.
Postponements to prime Fridays or Saturdays (in high season) in 2023 will be required to pay the increase to my new prices, unless your original first date already falls in 2022. Please note anything beyond 2023 will be classed as your cancellation. Normal cancellation terms shall apply.
I do not want to be inundated with weddings to the point that this would prevent me from delivering the high standard of editing and service my clients deserve, so if you’re considering postponing please do get in touch. Restrictions in 2020 and 2021 caused numerous Spring and early Summer weddings to be moved into July, August and September this year, therefore the weddings that have taken place from July through to November this year will have extended turnaround times, I will do my best to deliver photos as soon as a can, however, I have basically crammed two years of weddings into one shortened Summer now and have been working flat out to say the least with an enormous workload. I can outsource, although if you require my signature style with my bespoke personal editing you will need to be patient – I assure you they will be worth the wait, and you will have already received a generous amount of photos as a sneak peek to keep you going.

If you do need to scale back on your guest list to a limit 30 or less (including yourselves but not suppliers) - PLEASE NOTE some venues may not be allowed to hold a reception, this is particularly complicated if they operate as a pub or hotel so please do check with your venue! Again, as before music or dancing may not be permitted.

If you choose to scale down then you could contact x amount and say that you're making the day more intimate as a result of the crisis, and would love to celebrate with them another time. However, this would likely mean that the amount of loved ones attending your wedding will be dramatically reduced and the chances are, many of your guests may still be wary of coming anyway, because of their own or another family members age or ill health so do check with them all first. Some may still be unable to fly over or have isolation measures. 

Having photographed micro weddings ranging from 9 people up to a 30 guest limit, I can confirm they have been lovely, intimate and incredibly romantic and also refreshing to see couples spending time on their wedding day with the people they are closest to.

Oh Okay, why not? If you choose to go ahead with your ceremony, either alone or with a restricted number of guests and of course in line with government guidelines, and then celebrate with a full wedding day or party at a later date and would like both photographed. How this would work is; I would work the hours required to cover this, and any hours remaining from your package would be carried over to your chosen date for your future wedding celebration/ blessing / symbolic ceremony / PARTY! You may of course find you need to add hours to your second day, but these can be added at a later date. A lovely way to make this more personal is to not exchange rings at your ceremony (this is not a legal requirement) and you can do this for the first time in front of everyone on your new chosen date. If at a later date you decide not to go ahead with the after celebration, you can change to a family or anniversary shoot, I just ask that you give me plenty of notice so that I am not turning work away for your second date.

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If you choose to move to a date when I am not available, and you refuse the offer of one of my associate photographers, then your contract would be cancelled , all normal cancellation terms would apply, in-line with your contract, and I would cry into my cereal. So… help me out here please? Salty coco-pops are the worst.

To clarify, your booking fee of £500 (or £750 if you booked after October 2022) is non-refundable. If you have paid in full then you would have all your monies refunded that are due in line with the cancellation terms and time-frames on your contract so please do check this first. If your original wedding date cannot legally go ahead due to a force majeure/ national lockdown - in this instance you are entitled to a full refund.

If you are still hoping to wed at some point in the future, I would love to (and really appreciate you choosing this option) hold your contract and payment for when you are in a position to set a new date for your wedding once the corona mania is a distant memory. In this respect I am happy to guarantee your existing package until December 2022, to avoid both you and me losing out financially. 

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Please check my available dates below BEFORE booking anything, if we can keep our lines of communication open then we may be able to find a date that works for us both, even if it's one you cannot see listed, do get in touch with me first. 

We have all been in an absolutely dire situation for the last 18 months, of course we are not out of the woods yet as they say, but things are certainly looking better. You will be having a beautiful wedding day in the not too distant future and it will come around faster than you think even if you do postpone (I postponed twice and ours is finally happening next August and I'm now panicking about losing all my lockdown weight haha), seriously though this summer I have seen so many partying at weddings, hugging again, dancing and singing and it has been euphoric! Try and focus on why you are getting married - LOVE! I truly believe that one good thing that has come from all this is Love - families bonding, couples becoming closer than ever, a baby boom, communities supporting one another and many of us remembering what weddings are all about - LOVE! So STOP, take a moment, put everything into perspective, and think about the people you love - if things get bad again, keep them safe, and look forward to YOUR awesome wedding and telling your grandchildren one day all about it!

No matter what, I'm on your team!  If you have any questions, or you just want to vent, have a chat about anything – text/ whatsapp, email or call me on 07764595370. We can jump on zoom/ facetime too if you want to chat to a friendly face. I'm here to help as much as I can.

I know that many of you are actually key workers for the NHS and in schools, in particular quite a few of you are Doctors, teachers, nurses, anaesthetists, armed forces and police officers working on the front-line. I'd like to just take this opportunity to applaud you and say a huge thank you for your kindness, support, generosity and work ethic over the last year and a half. I honestly cannot comprehend how you powered through. Hands up to you, you are absolute legends.

Please ALWAYS take care of your physical and mental health and I can't wait to see you soon.

If I'm not available for your revised date, I will send an associate photographer to capture your day and I will still edit your photos myself in my style and to my high standards. You can of course see their work first and refuse said photographer.

For restrictions numbers at weddings, suppliers including myself will not be counted as part of your legal headcount.

If you still owe money on your package, I will ask you, if at all possible, to pay 50% of your balance at the original time that your full payment would have been due, please do let me know if you're unable. 

My prices will be seeing quite the increase for 2023 weddings since many of you booked with me. As mentioned above, if your original wedding date was in 2020 or 2021 and you have postponed to 2022 and you now wish to move to a Friday or Saturday in 2023, then you will incur a fee, Sunday to Thursday 2023 dates are not chargeable. 

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If you have recently booked your wedding with me, I am well aware of wedding insurance companies not taking on new clients, and having new contracts in place to prevent these companies losing out to the coronavirus pandemic. I can imagine this is a really anxious time to be making bookings at what should be a really exciting time in your life, all of my conditions above will still apply to you, like all of my clients. So please rest assured that if you do need to postpone your wedding to a later date in within the same year as your original date there will be no charge. Moving to the following year there will only be a fee if the new date is on a Friday or Saturday in prime season.