How a commission runs

A wedding commission covers the celebration.

A full day is a full day, from preparation through to the part of the evening where the room has stopped behaving. Where there's more than one gathering, a welcome dinner on the Friday or a lunch on the Sunday is added to the same commission.

One agreement, one body of pictures, a weekend that holds together.

Included in every commission

Digital and analogue photography together. Film is part of how I work, not an upgrade.

A couple of conversations before the day about the shape of it, and where the light will be when.

A curated set, edited and sequenced.

A preview within two days.

The full set within 12 weeks.

A conversation afterwards about albums and prints, if you want one.

What happens next

  • 01. You get in touch

    Tell me the date, the place, and roughly how the day is shaped. If you have a planner, tell me who.

  • 02. I reply

    With whether the date is open, and what I'd want to know next.

  • 03. We talk

    Video or in person, around twenty minutes. Mostly me asking what the day is for and who's coming.

  • 04. You get a written proposal

    Structure, scope and price in writing. It's held for 14 days.

  • 05. Booking

    Is a signed agreement and a deposit of 50%. The balance is due 2 weeks before the day.

  • 06. Prep call

    By then there's a draft running order and the day has a shape. Early enough that I can plan properly around it, and early enough that anything awkward in the schedule can still be moved.

  • 07. I send a brief back

    A short written note setting out what I understood. The timings, the people who matter, the things you've asked me to be careful about. It's where anything misheard gets caught early rather than on the morning.

  • 08. The day(s)

    I'm in it with you. Quiet the moment the camera comes up, good company the rest of the time, and close enough to the celebration that being photographed stops feeling like an event of its own.

  • 09. Preview within two days

    A small set, and you see it before anyone else does.

  • 10. Full delivery within 12 weeks

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Who can use the pictures, and how

Personal use, forever, with no limit. Print them, frame them, send them to family, put them wherever you like. No watermarks. No expiry on the files you download.

You
Your gallery

stays online for twenty-four months. Download the files, and treat the download as the real copy.

Commercial use is separate

If a venue, brand or magazine wants to use pictures from your wedding in paid advertising, that's a conversation with me rather than an automatic permission.

Me

I keep copyright. I use pictures on this site, on Instagram, in printed work and in submissions to publications.

And if you'd rather I didn't

Say so, at any point, before or after. Some couples want the whole wedding kept private. Some want particular people or particular pictures left out. It costs nothing and it doesn't need explaining.

The Practical Facts

  • F-skatt, VAT-registered. Invoices, not transfers.

  • Professional insurance through Gefvert.

  • I send my film to Carmencita Film Lab and scanned there before the negatives travel back. The same hours are always covered digitally too, so no moment of the day depends on one roll surviving a journey.

  • A named colleague will cover me. It has never had to happened so far.

  • Within the Stockholm region travel is included. Everywhere else - the rest of Sweden, Åland, further afield - is costed openly and shown as its own line.

Working with planners

If you're planning the wedding

  • The run sheet, the floor plan, the vendor brief. You won't be answering questions on the morning that were covered in a document three weeks earlier.

  • The run sheet six to eight weeks out, and two things from it: a few minutes in the reception room before guests are in it, and some points in the day where the light is worth planning around. Nothing lands on you the week of the wedding.

  • If it slips, I absorb it. I won't come to you mid-service asking to move things, I won't extend portraits into your cocktail hour, and I won't renegotiate anything in front of the couple.

  • Not just the couple. The room before anyone's in it, the table, the installation, the work you spent four months on. Details are part of what makes they day and are not treated as filler.

  • I'll eat when there's a gap. A vendor meal is appreciated but you won't be asked about it.

  • You'll have my number before the day, and I'm easy to find during it.

Where i’ve photographed recently

Nordiska Muséet

Djurgården, Stockholm

Norhaga County Estate

Falun, Dalarna

Aboard M/S Molly

The Archipelago

How I photograph

Mostly I watch.

A good part of the day is spent reading the room - where people gather, which corner the light will be in an hour from now, who's about to say something to whom. The pictures I care most about are the ones nobody arranged, and they only arrive if someone was already looking in the right direction.

The rest is the three of us working together.

I'll steer you gently - somewhere with better light, a moment away from the crowd, an idea worth trying. Then I'll talk to you while it happens and get out of the way when it starts going well. What comes out of that isn't posed and it isn't accidental. It's something real that had a little help arriving.

That's the whole method. Watch closely, step in lightly, and never make the celebrations wait.

What i’m probably not right for

If the priority is reproducing a set of images collected from elsewhere, another photographer will serve you better. The day itself will always be more interesting than the reference.

Family groups I'll do, and do properly. But a list running to thirty combinations turns an hour of your wedding into an administrative exercise, and the pictures are rarely the ones you keep. Four to eight, done quickly, is where I'd push you.

I don't reshape people.

Colour, light and tidying up, yes. Slimming, smoothing and removing guests from the background, no.

And if what's wanted is content during the day - something posted while the party is still going - that's a different job and someone else does it better.

Tell me the three things you'd be upset to lose and I'll hold those absolutely.

Getting in touch

Send me the date, the place, and how the day is shaped.