Not a problem! We understand that at this point it’s a bit hard to tell how long you may actually need us for.

So, in this case – we recommend just taking our base (smallest) package to secure your date. Later on, we can upgrade and customize your coverage.

Your date is not saved / booked until we have received 50% of the order value and the travel costs in full. 

In peak wedding season, it can take around 6 weeks to deliver everything (video included). But on average, it’s within 4 weeks. 

You can do what you like with your photos; we only ask that if you do decide to edit them to please not upload or share them online. The reason being that if you edit the photos, they are no longer a representative product of ours and could negatively impact our small business. 

We take great care in our editing and we hope you book us not only for the way we capture moments but our overall style too. 

This allows you to use your images however you like (Sharing them online, passing to friends etc…) so long as it is not commercial (Selling the images, using it for advertising your own businesses, etc…). If you require a commercial license for whatever reason, just ask us. We’ll be happy to chat with you about it. 

We understand that n elopement is a very intimate part of your life and we respect that you may not want us to share the photos on the internet. However, this is our only real means of advertising our small business. So, we do offer exclusive rights. 

Exclusive rights cost an additional 25% of the contract value and means that we will not ever share, upload or use your photos anywhere. Once they’re delivered to you, they’re stored on our hard drives and never touched again. 

We love to sharing our images with any vendors you may have on your elopement, but we won’t do so until you’ve received them first. That way you get the enjoy them before anyone else. 

If any of the vendors do reach out to you and ask for the photos/videos, the only thing we do require from them is a link back to our website (melliandshayne.com) or our Instagram handle (@melliandshayne). 

If the vendors reach out to us, we will create a very curated selection of images.

There’s a good chance we will share something of your elopement somewhere, as we’re always proud of what we do. However, we cannot guarantee that this happens nor do we want you to feel that your elopement didn’t make the cut to a featured blog post.

We either don’t have time to blog every elopement or we simply have to keep things as strict as possible in order to not overload our website & viewers. 

To be completely honest, the sooner the better. We are often booked out 1 -2  years in advance. If your elopement date is during summer, there’s a very high chance we have another person looking to book us for that same period. In the end, it comes down to whoever decides to pay the deposit first. 

In the very unlikely event that we cannot make it (even less likely with 2 photographers), we have a large international network of competent wedding photographers and filmmakers that we would send an “emergency” call out for. We will handle everything for you and make sure that someone of equal skill and style is there to capture your wedding day.