Weddings and portraits · Prince Edward Island
Twenty Island weddings a year, and yours.
Sandwort Studio photographs weddings, elopements and family portraits across Prince Edward Island from a small studio in Charlottetown. Next summer's dates are open.
From last season
Churches, barns, red sand and a lot of dancing
How I work
I stay out of the way until the light is worth asking for.
For most of the day I am at the edge of the room, photographing what actually happens: your dad fussing with his tie, your grandmother losing it during the speeches, the flower girls making a break for the field.
Then, about forty minutes before sunset, I borrow the two of you for twenty minutes. On the Island that usually means red sand, dune grass or a dirt lane between potato fields, and it is where most of the photographs you end up framing come from.
Collections
What each collection covers
Every collection includes travel anywhere on the Island and a private online gallery to download and share.
Portrait session
Families, couples and engagements, at a beach, a field or your own kitchen table.
- One hour, one location
- Edited gallery within two weeks
$325
Book a sessionElopement
For the two of you and a few witnesses.
- Up to three hours
- Ceremony, portraits and a toast
- Gallery within four weeks
$1,450
Check your dateThe full day
Getting ready through the first hour of dancing.
- Up to nine hours
- A second photographer all day
- A sunset session built into your timeline
- Sneak peek within two days, full gallery within six weeks
$3,800
Check your dateThe weekend
The full day, plus the evening before and the morning after.
- Two hours at the rehearsal or welcome party
- A day-after session on the north shore
- A linen-bound album of forty spreads
$5,200
Check your dateA $500 retainer holds your date and comes off the total. The rest is due a fortnight before the wedding.
We forgot she was there, which is the whole point. Then the gallery arrived and we saw a wedding we had missed: my grandfather crying in the back pew, our friends carrying the cake across the field in the rain.
Maëlle and Josh
Married in Charlottetown, reception in New Glasgow
How it works
From first email to the last dance
Send the date
The date, the venue and roughly how many guests is plenty. You get a straight answer and a suggested collection.
A timeline built on sunset
A month out we plan the day on a video call, working back from the sunset time for your date so the portraits land in the good light.
Candid, with one short list
Group photos take a quarter of an hour from a list you write. Everything else is the day as it happens.
Prints and albums
Order prints from your gallery at lab prices, or design an album with me, proofed twice before it goes to the bindery.
Questions
What couples ask first
Every wedding gets a covered backup, a barn door or a church porch, scouted before the day. Some of my favourite portraits were made in Island rain, and there are umbrellas in the car.
Usually between 600 and 900 for a full day. Every one is edited, and the blinks and near-duplicates are left out.
No. The edit is half of the photograph, so every file you receive is finished and full resolution, yours to print anywhere.
Yes, anywhere in the Maritimes. Off-Island travel is billed at cost, with no day rate on top.
Next summer's Saturdays go first.
Most couples book nine months to a year ahead. Send your date and you will hear back within a day.
Enquire
Tell me about your day
Tell me the venue if you have one. I have probably stood in it at four in the afternoon and know where the light falls.