How I work
We photograph weddings across Cyprus — Paphos, Limassol, Larnaca, Ayia Napa, Protaras and Nicosia. Most of a wedding day cannot be posed, and the parts that can should not look like it. I work mainly as a documentary photographer, staying close to what is actually happening and anticipating the moment rather than interrupting it. When I do direct, it is light: a place to stand, a direction to walk, and then I let the two of you get on with it. The photographs people keep are almost never the ones where everybody was told to smile.
Photographing in Cyprus light
Cyprus gives you strong, high sun through the middle of the day and a long, warm golden hour at the end of it. Those are two completely different photographic problems. Midday light near the coast is bright and contrasty, and it rewards shade, backlight and honest black and white far more than it rewards squinting into the sun. The half hour before sunset is the opposite — soft, directional and forgiving, and worth protecting in your timeline even if it means stepping away from your guests for fifteen minutes.
Knowing how a particular venue behaves at a particular time of year is most of the job. It decides where the ceremony photographs are taken from, when we do your portraits, and whether the reception needs lighting brought in.
Where I photograph
Each region of Cyprus behaves differently — the light, the venues and the timings all change. I have written a page for each of the four I work in most:
- Paphos wedding photographer — the west coast, where the sun sets into the sea
- Limassol wedding photographer — the widest choice of venues, coast and wine villages
- Larnaca wedding photographer — the Salt Lake, and the easiest region for guests
- Ayia Napa & Protaras wedding photographer — the only coast that faces the sunrise
There are venues away from the four coastal regions too — the Hilton Nicosia in the capital, and up in the Troodos mountains Casale Panayiotis in Kalopanayiotis, where a restored village becomes the venue. Mountain weddings run to a different clock: the sun drops behind the ridges long before it sets, so portraits happen earlier than couples expect.
Beyond the hotels I photograph regularly at town hall and municipality ceremonies and in traditional village churches across the island. Those are often the most photographically interesting days of all — small, warm, and completely unposed.
What you receive
Every photograph is individually edited. There is no single preset applied across a whole wedding and left at that, which is why a full gallery holds together rather than drifting as the light changes through the day.
You receive a private online gallery at full resolution and with no watermarks, so you can download from it and share it with family without having to ask for anything. Everything is delivered on USB as well, and printed wedding albums are produced from the same edit.
Full galleries take three to four months. That is the real timeframe rather than an optimistic one, and it holds through the summer, when several weddings are being edited while others are still being shot. If you need a small selection sooner — for thank-you cards, or to post something — that is worth saying when you book rather than afterwards.
Planning your wedding photography
If you are still deciding where to marry, my guide to wedding venues across Cyprus covers the main options region by region. If your venue is already booked and you are thinking about the photographs themselves, these eighteen poses are the ones I come back to at almost every wedding.
We also shoot wedding films, either on their own or alongside photography.
Tell us about your day. Send us your date and venue and we will let you know if we are free — get in touch here.