Charlotte Davies Photography

I offer 3 packages – Ceremony (2 hours, £450), Half Day (6 hours, £1200), and Full Day (12 hours, £2150), with optional extras like additional hours, second shooters, and drone photography, as well as video highlights. Drone photography is included in Half and Full Day bookings, and my Full Day booking always includes a second shooter. Full details can be found in the comparison table on my website.

The sooner the better! If you have a Saturday date in June/July/August, you should be looking at booking at least a year in advance to have a chance of securing these dates as they are the most popular. In autumn and winter, I can usually accommodate bookings with around 6 months notice. But please get in touch for my availability via my contact form on my website :)

Oh, most proud of... it's got to be when I get returning clients - the ones I meet on their graduation day, who invite me back to photograph their engagement, and then their wedding day. It's a really unmatchable feeling, knowing people have enjoyed working with you - and the results - enough to repeatedly ask you back, not just for any shoot, but arguably the biggest life event you'll ever have photographed! The only person behind the curtain is me, I can make sure my clients are getting 100% on the customer service front, as they deserve to have. And because it's only me, and I'll do all of the pre-wedding meetings, I can get to know you on a deeper level (well, as deep as you like: I won't grill you for your life story unless you want to tell me). My ultimate aim is that you feel like you've just got an extra guest turning up with a camera - no pressure, no stress, just you and your partner, enjoying your day, knowing you'll have beautiful photographs to relive it all later.

TALK TO YOUR SUPPLIERS - I'm serious! Get face to face with them if you can, or Zoom to get as close to the real thing as possible. You really can't sus people out over an email or a text, and these people (especially the photographer/videographer) are going to be joining you, really intimately, on one of the biggest days of your life. I can't stress enough how much importance I put on meeting my couples. There are things that will pop out that you just never think to put on an email, (or is a bit tricky to word) - and they end up being quite important! So - open communication, always, and definitely a pre-wedding meeting (if not several!), regardless of how relaxed you are about the upcoming day!

Absolutely yes, I travel – depending on my calendar, I can travel across Scotland and the UK. I will also travel internationally upon requested – I’ve photographed professionally as far away as New Zealand! I travel up to 2 hours from home free of charge for all packages. Travel fees apply beyond this distance as, although I love my job, I can’t afford to do it and incur expenses for free!

My booking process is as follows: after we discuss your plans, I’ll send over a contract for you and your partner to read and sign, and then a 20% deposit will secure your date. Unfortunately I am unable to hold dates without that deposit being paid. The remaining 80% of the required payment can then be paid in installments provided the full balance has been paid in full at least one calendar month before your wedding, i.e. if your wedding date is June 5th 2026, we must be fully paid up by May 5th 2026 at the latest.

I'm going to dodge the question slightly - the number 1 photo I am always gunning to take is that intimate glance between the partners when no one else is watching (except me, because it's my job!!). Sure, we can set you up for some subtle, relaxed couples portraits, and we can be thrilled with the results - but the crux is always that you're never going to act like no one's watching until you think no one is! So I always want to be delivering that photo that best encapsulates your relationship when it's just you and your partner, together - it's definitely the 'realest', or to refer to my adjectives - the most authentic photo we can take.

If you have a large wedding party of 80+ guests, I do highly recommend adding a second shooter to your package (though note that I always include a second shooter in my Full Day package regardless). However, even if you don’t have a long guest list, if it’s important to you that all of your guests are photographed, keep in mind that second shooters have the flexibility to move around a lot more than the main photographer who will be focusing on the main events of the timeline, and the wedding party and family – and so it might be right for you.

I strongly believe people smile most truly when they don’t know they’re having their photographs taken – and when people say they don’t like their picture being taken, I love to prove them wrong! So in that regard, a lot of my work is candid – however I will be quite hands-on with arranging and posing you for your group shot list, and I ‘prompt’ (rather than ‘pose’) for your couples portraits in the day too. This approach has been built over dozens of weddings over the years, and in my opinion gives you the best balance in your gallery between gorgeous authentic moments you don’t even know I’m capturing, and shots that you can really lean into with purpose.

A wedding is not a photoshoot – and for the most part that is an approach I absolutely stick by – but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun and be creative too! I balance this by really being unobtrusive presence on the day – visible when needed, and invisible when not – so that the day unfolds naturally, with minimal interference from me unless more guidance is requested. We’ll discuss this on the pre-wedding call, but I definitely encourage couples to set aside at least 30 minutes in the day to step away from the party briefly for some couples portraits – but beyond that, I’m focused on making sure all your memories are beautifully documented.