Why I Only Take On a Few Weddings a Year

Let me say it upfront, so we can get it out of the way: yes, every year I turn down weddings. Not out of vanity, and not as a marketing trick. I do it because I've learned — sometimes the hard way — that the quality of a wedding film is decided long before the camera is switched on: it's decided in the calendar.

The numbers trap

In this industry there's a silent race to shoot more weddings: fifty, sixty, even eighty in a season. The maths works; something else doesn't. At that pace, every wedding becomes the third of the week: the eyes get tired, ideas repeat themselves, editing slips by months, and the September couple receives their film when the first anniversary is around the corner. The result is an assembly line where your day — unique for you — is just another Monday for the person telling it.

What a limited calendar means for you

Taking on a limited number of weddings means that when I arrive at yours, I arrive whole. I've had the time to get to know you over video calls — most of my couples plan everything from abroad — to study your venue, to think about your film before shooting a single frame. It means fresh energy and curious eyes on the day itself, when twelve hours of true attention are required. And it means editing begins while the memories are still warm: that's how I can guarantee fast delivery without sacrificing an ounce of care.

Time and health are part of the quality

There's also a truth rarely spoken in the wedding world: the person telling the happiest day of your life needs to be well. Our life matters, and so do our time and our health — physical and mental. A burnt-out artist doesn't create: he executes. I choose to sleep, to train, to have a life beyond the cameras, because the sensitivity you place in my hands on your wedding day feeds on exactly that. Nobody wants their wedding filmed by an exhausted man on his eightieth job of the year.

How it works in practice

Each season I open a defined number of dates, with special attention to May through October. When a date closes, it closes: I don't double-book, and I don't send «a colleague» in my place at the last minute. If I'm at your wedding, I am only at your wedding. That's why I always suggest writing to me 12–18 months ahead — it's not a sales technique, it's arithmetic.

Some of these dates I set aside specifically for couples marrying outside my home region or abroad: if you're thinking about a destination wedding, that's where I explain how I work in those cases.

If this way of working sounds like yours, the next step is simple: tell me about your date. And if you're curious about what the day itself looks like, here's how I behave at your wedding.