Birmingham and the Midlands
We travel to Birmingham.
A London studio, twenty-five years and 9,700 weddings, that covers Midlands weddings regularly and does not pretend to be local.
Straight about where we are from
We are based in London. We are not going to tell you we have a Birmingham office, because we do not.
What we do have is a crew that has spent twenty-five years inside Asian weddings, and a habit of arriving the night before rather than driving up on the morning. For a Birmingham wedding that is the whole difference: nobody is stuck on the M6 while the Baraat is arriving.
Plenty of Midlands families book London studios, usually because the wedding itself is not a local affair. One side travels in, the venue was chosen for the space rather than the postcode, and the crew that knows the ceremony matters more than the crew that knows the ring road.
If proximity is what you want, there are good photographers in Birmingham and you should talk to them. If what you want is a team that has filmed nine thousand of these and will know what happens next in your ceremony without being told, the drive is not the deciding factor.
What travelling actually involves
The practical answers, since this is what couples ask on the first call.
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We arrive the night before
For anything outside the South East, the crew travels the previous evening. Wedding mornings start early and traffic is not a risk worth taking with a day that happens once.
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The venue gets a call, not a surprise
We speak to the venue, and to the Gurdwara, mosque or mandir, weeks ahead to agree positioning. That conversation is the same whether the building is in Hounslow or Handsworth.
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Travel is in the quote
It is part of what we quote at the start rather than something added afterwards. You will not get a mileage line on a final invoice.
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Multi-day weddings
Where the Mehndi is in one city and the wedding in another, which is common for Midlands families, we cover both rather than joining halfway through.
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The same crew, not a subcontractor
The people you meet are the people who turn up. We do not pass Midlands weddings to a local operator and put our name on the delivery.
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Gurdwaras across the Midlands
We have worked enough of them to know that each one sets its own rules, and we clear ours with the Granthi before the day rather than at the threshold on the morning.
Coverage
The same shapes of coverage as anywhere else we work.
One day
- Around ten hours
- Photography, film, or both
- Crew travels the night before
- Digital delivery
Full day
- Around fourteen hours
- Both sides covered simultaneously
- Album and feature film
- Documentary edit as well as highlights
Multi-event
- Mehndi, Haldi, Sangeet, the day, the reception
- Across more than one city if that is how it falls
- One team throughout
We don't publish prices, because no two of these weddings are the same. Tell us the date, the venue and how many events you are running, and we will send an itemised quote with nothing to decode.
Twenty-five years in the room
Why a Midlands family books a London studio
Three reasons couples give us.
The ceremony knowledge travels
Knowing when the laavan are about to begin, or that the Ijab-Qabul is the moment nobody can repeat, is not local knowledge. It is the part that took twenty-five years.
Half the guests came from London anyway
A large share of Midlands Asian weddings have one side travelling down from or up to London. The wedding is not local either.
You can see the work first
Twenty-six weddings on this site, start to finish, so you are booking on evidence rather than on a portfolio of somebody else's best day.
Questions
Before you ask.
Have you photographed weddings in Birmingham?
We work across the Midlands, and Gurdwaras there in particular. The weddings on this site are mostly London and the South East, which is where the studio has been based for twenty-five years, so we are not going to show you a Birmingham gallery we do not have. Judge us on the work that is here.
Do you charge extra for travel?
It is built into what we quote rather than added later. Tell us the venue and the number of events and the quote covers getting there.
How far outside Birmingham do you go?
The Midlands generally, and further. We have covered weddings across the UK and abroad. Distance changes the logistics, not whether we take the job.
Would we be better off with someone local?
Possibly, and we would rather say so than win a booking badly. If budget is tight and the wedding is a single day in one building, a local photographer whose work you like is a sensible choice. If your ceremony is complex, or spread over several days and two cities, experience of that specific thing matters more than the postcode.
Enquire
Is your datestill free?
Tell us the date and the venue and we will come back within one working day with availability, a crew size and a straight price.