Tailored to your day

What wedding photography on film costs

Every wedding gets its own quote because no two days ask for the same thing. The price depends on how much of the day you want photographed, how many guests you're expecting, where you are celebrating, and whether it runs across more than one day. Any of the additions below can go into the same quote.

The couple kissing among yellow flowers, Maike & Daniel wedding in Brandenburg, analogue film photograph by Martina Manz
To give you a sense

What couples usually spend

Full wedding days

From €3,500

Most couples spend between €3,500 and €4,500, depending on the length and size of the day and where it takes place.

Wedding weekends

Quoted individually

Multi-day celebrations and destination weddings, in Berlin, across Germany, or anywhere in the world. Travel and accommodation are included in the quote from the start.

Short celebrations

From €1,700

Civil ceremonies, elopements, and intimate weekday weddings. A shorter day, the same way of working.

Included

Everything you'll receive

Meeting

Getting to know each other

We meet before the wedding, in Berlin or by video call. So on the wedding morning you open the door to a photographer you already know, one who knows how your day is meant to run and who the people around you are.

Coverage

The whole day

A wedding day usually runs ten to twelve hours and I'm there for all of them: the quiet start, the ceremony, the meal, the speeches, and the first hours of dancing.

Gallery

The full gallery

Around 400 to 500 photographs from the whole day, everything worth keeping. I finish every scan myself, one at a time, and they arrive at full resolution in a private gallery, to download and to keep.

Edit

The story of the day

A second gallery holds a shorter set, put in order as the story of the day from beginning to end. That is the one to send to family and friends. Tell me who has to be in it and I will find the frame.

Prints

Ten for the wall

You pick ten photographs and they come back as prints on real photographic paper. For the hallway, above the desk, wherever you pass them every day.

Film originals

The originals stay with you

Stored well, they outlive any hard drive, and they can be scanned again whenever you want.

Bride dancing and clapping among cheering guests at a wedding reception, analogue film photograph by Martina Manz
If your day asks for more

Optional additions

If you'd like more than the gallery alone, I can include any of these in your quote.

More on paper

More prints

Larger sizes, a second set for the family, one favourite for the living room: I can order more from your scans whenever you want them, colour or black and white, on photo or fine-art paper.

Fully analogue if you like: darkroom prints made by hand from your originals, by a master printer who has spent a lifetime at it.

Albums

A book of the day

I have your pictures bound into a lay-flat album on fine paper. We choose them together, or I make a first selection and you tell me what to change.

You don't have to decide now. It's easier once the gallery is in front of you.

Second photographer

For the big days

If your guest list is long or your day runs in two places at once, a second photographer comes along, so you are both covered even when the day splits in two. He shoots film too, so the gallery reads as one body of work.

Super 8

A moving keepsake

For couples who want an analogue film alongside the photographs, I work with an experienced cinematographer who shoots your day on Super 8. The films arrive together with your gallery.

A small thank you

If your pictures find a place here

This site depends on couples letting me publish their wedding. If you're happy for me to show some of yours here, I take 10% off your quote.

I always ask which ones first. It changes nothing about the day itself, and nothing about the gallery you receive. If you'd rather keep everything private, that is just as welcome, and you can change your mind later.

Ready for a quote?

If the rest is still taking shape, that's fine, and the FAQ answers most practical questions.