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Freddie Bates Photography

What you're investing in

The only photographs you will ever have of this day.

Four ways in, from £2,000. Every one of them gets the same attention, the same presence in your inbox in the weeks before, and the same person behind the camera. What changes is how much of the day I'm there for.

From £2,000 Four packages UK & Destination weddings
Monique & Taylor's wedding at Teeside Vineyard Church

What every package includes

Before the numbers

Nothing here is an add-on.

Every package, from the shortest to the longest, comes with the same foundation: full documentary coverage of the hours you've booked, a private online gallery delivered through Pic-Time in full resolution and downloadable and a selection of frames shot on film alongside the digital work for the texture only analogue gives you.
The packages below change the length of the day I'm with you and what happens around the edges of it. They don't change how carefully any single hour gets treated.

Liz & Josh's wedding at Dalston Hall, Cumbria

Four ways in

Prices from
Shorter days

The Prologue

From £2,000Up to 6 hours

Ceremony and the hours either side. Right for smaller, shorter celebrations - an intimate wedding breakfast, an elopement with family, a second celebration after the legal bit's done elsewhere.

  • 35mm Film scans delivered alongside digital album
  • Ceremony through to the speeches
  • Reception hour portraits
  • Full baseline package (see above)
  • Between 3-6 hours of photo cover
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Most booked

The Narrative

From £2,500Up to 10 hours

The whole day, morning to dancefloor. Getting ready through to the first dances - this is the one most couples land on, because it's the shape most weddings actually take.

  • 35mm Film scans delivered alongside digital album
  • Getting ready through to the evening party
  • 2-3 portrait windows across the day, each a maximum of 20 minutes
  • Full baseline package (see above)
  • Up to 10 hours of photo cover
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Fullest coverage

The Epilogue

From £3,000Up to 12 hours

Everything in The Narrative, with priority delivery, so your gallery lands while it still feels like last week.

  • 35mm Film scans delivered alongside digital album
  • UK-wide travel included
  • Priority preview & gallery turnaround
  • Full baseline package (see above)
  • 850+ edited photos
  • 2-4 portrait windows across your whole day
  • Up to 12 hours of photo cover
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Destination & international

Destinations

From £3,500Priced to where you're getting married

For the wedding that means a flight, not just a drive. This is the default for anything three-plus hours away or abroad - Scotland, Europe, further. £4,000 is where it starts; the final number depends on where and how long.

  • Everything in The Epilogue, as the baseline
  • Travel, accommodation and multi-day coverage where the celebration runs over more than one day
Tell me where, and I'll put a real number together. Tell me about your day

What you're actually paying for

Not a cheaper option

The same shape, every single time.

Every gallery I deliver follows the same approach, regardless of package: twenty per cent safe, sixty per cent real, twenty per cent bold. It's not a slogan — it's how I decide what to shoot in any given moment, and it's the difference between a gallery that documents your day and one that just photographs it.

20 — Safe

The anchors of your day

Family groups, the rings, the room before anyone's in it, first kiss etc.. Calm hands, quiet voice, nothing missed.

60 — Real

The documentary, storytelling heartbeat

Nobody looking at me, nobody being told what to do, just the whole thing as it actually happened.

20 — Bold

Direction, confidence and energy

Weather, movement, hard light: the intentional handful of warm editorial portraits and breath-catching frames you'll return to again and again.

About the number itself

Said plainly

This is a real investment, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. What you get in return isn't a day of photographs — it's every photograph you and your family will ever have of it, for the rest of your lives.

Currently booking 2027

Tell me about your day and I'll tell you which one fits.

Where it's happening, roughly when, and what you're most looking forward to. If you'd like to talk it through first rather than decide from a page, that's exactly what a call is for.

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