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How booking wedding photography with Élan Films works
Booking wedding photography with Élan Films runs in a fixed order: you send the date, we answer it in writing, we plan the crew from your event timeline and attach a figure, and there is a call before anyone signs. Delivery dates for the teaser, the photographs and the film go into the contract.
The date, then the plan, then the number. In that order, because nobody needs a package PDF before they know whether the studio is free.
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You send the date
Your name and WhatsApp number is enough to start. The month, the place and roughly how many events help, but you do not need the venue booked or the guest list settled.
We answer the date, in writing, usually the same day
Free or not free. If we are not free we say so straight away instead of stalling, and we will tell you what to look for in whoever you book instead.
We read your timeline and plan the crew against it
Where two things happen at once there are two cameras; where nothing happens for ninety minutes there are not. The figure comes out of this and arrives with the reasoning attached.
A call before anyone signs
Twenty minutes on how you want the day to feel and how much camera you actually want in your face. Some couples want to forget we are there; some want to be directed. It changes the plan and it changes the quote.
Eight weeks out, the details that get forgotten
The family-frame list. The relative flying in. The ritual specific to your family that an outsider would not recognise. Written down while it is still an abstract task rather than in the week of the wedding.
After: a teaser, then the set, then the film
With the specific dates in the contract before you book, not estimated afterwards. A studio that will not put delivery dates in writing is telling you something about its backlog.
What we will not do
A short list, and we mean it.
We will not sell you a named lead and send somebody else. Whoever is shooting your wedding is named in the contract.
We will not fire flash into a ritual repeatedly because it is the fast solution. A single controlled light, placed before the room fills, is better work and less intrusive.
We will not publish your wedding without asking. Some families would be genuinely upset, and that decision is yours and written down before the day.
We will not show you work that is not ours as if it were. The photographs on this site are other photographers' credited reference images, and each caption says so.
Questions couples ask
What happens after we enquire?
The date is answered first, in writing, usually the same day: free or not free. Then a coverage plan built from your timeline with a figure attached, then a call before anyone signs anything. We do not send a package PDF and wait.
Do you travel for weddings?
Yes, within a set area. Bengaluru is home; Coorg, Chikmagalur, Mysuru, Hampi, Kabini, Sakleshpur, Goa and Kerala are quoted with crew travel and stay as a visible separate line. Destination shoots in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Bali are quoted the same way.
What if you are not free on our date?
We say so immediately rather than stalling to see whether a better enquiry arrives, and we will tell you what to look for in whoever you book instead.
EnquireName and WhatsApp number is enough
Is your date free? Ask us.
Leave your name and WhatsApp number. If you already know the month and the place, add them in the message; if not, we will ask.
The date is answered first, free or not free, in writing. Then a plan and a figure, then a call before anyone signs.