The day goes by in three hours. The film is forever.
This is the craft everything else grew from.
To Happy Endings began behind the camera. We photograph and film weddings across Mahé, Praslin and La Digue, week in and week out, and we know exactly where the light will be when your ceremony ends.
Ask any married couple what they remember
They will tell you the truth. Fragments. The flowers fade, the cake is eaten, the day moves faster than anyone warns you. The photographs and the film are the only part of your wedding you keep, which is why we treat them as the most serious line on the whole quote.
Seychelles light is unlike anywhere else. Pink granite, white sand and a sun that drops fast. We have learned this light the way you learn a language, so when the golden hour comes we are already standing where it will fall.
Photography and film, priced per island
One team, one quote, no coordination headaches on the day. RAW files are available on request, and the film is a fully edited highlight film of your day.
| Service | Mahé | Praslin | La Digue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional wedding photographer RAW files, in your language on request | €850 | €1,090 | €1,190 |
| Cinematic wedding film fully edited highlight film | from €1,290 | from €1,550 | from €1,640 |
On Mahé a local photographer is available from €550. Every shoot is two hours as standard, each additional hour €150.
Photographers who speak your language
Our professional photographers shoot in German, Russian and Italian on Mahé and Praslin, with French and South African options on La Digue. Ask for portfolios when you enquire and choose the eye you love.
Whoever plans your dayMarrying with a resort or another planner? We will still film it.
Photography and film are our first craft. If your wedding is arranged by a resort or any other planner on Mahé, Praslin or La Digue, we will gladly cover it. Couple sessions, honeymoon shoots and proposals are on request too. One message and we will quote it in writing.
The view only a drone can give
Some of the most breathtaking frames of a Seychelles wedding are the ones taken from above. The reef line glowing turquoise against deep blue, the two of you alone on a curve of white sand, the granite of La Digue from a height no path can reach, the giant tortoises drifting across the grounds of a private island. Aerial footage is woven into our cinematic films, and it is the single thing couples are most surprised by when the film lands.
Our aerial work is flown by licensed, insured pilots who know where a drone can and cannot go on these islands, and who read the wind and the light the way we read a beach. It is included in the film work where the location and conditions allow, and we will always tell you honestly in advance whether your beach and your month will let the drone fly.
Two films, chosen from twenty-three
A few from the last seasons
What you actually receive
This is the question every couple asks second and almost no photography page in this market answers, so here it is before the prices. You receive one hundred edited photographs. Not a contact sheet of everything the shutter caught, and not a teaser of twelve with the rest behind a paywall. One hundred finished frames, chosen and graded, from a shoot that runs two hours as standard.
The film is a separate craft and a separate line on the quote, and it is a fully edited highlight film that runs between three and eight minutes depending on what your day needs. A ceremony with speeches and a first dance earns its eight minutes. Two people and a registrar on an empty beach do not, and padding that into eight would only make it slower to watch.
If you want the untouched files as well, ask. RAW is available on request rather than sold back to you as an upgrade.
- One hundred edited photographs from a two hour shoot
- Additional hours at the rate printed in the table above
- RAW files on request, at no extra charge
- A fully edited highlight film of three to eight minutes, priced separately
- A photographer who works in your language where one is available
The hour to book, and why it is not the hour you would pick at home
Seychelles sits a little under five degrees south of the equator, and that single fact changes how a wedding day is timed. The sun rises and sets at almost the same hour every day of the year, always within about forty minutes of six in the evening, and the day is never much shorter than twelve hours nor much longer.
What matters more is how the sun goes down. This close to the equator it drops almost vertically, so the long soft dusk that couples from northern Europe are used to does not happen here. Golden light arrives, does its work, and is gone. The practical version of that is simple. Have the ceremony finish about an hour before sunset and the portraits fall into the best light of the day without anybody hurrying. Finish at sunset and you are photographing in the dark within twenty minutes.
The second half of the timing is the beach itself. Which way it faces decides whether your month brings glassy water or a running sea, because the southeast trades blow from May to September and the northwest monsoon from November to March. We would rather tell you to move the hour, or the beach, than photograph you squinting into wind.
Where these facts come from
- Geography of Seychelles Monsoon seasons, wind direction and seaweed drift.