Wedding Photographer in Thailand
Documentary coverage of ceremonies, elopements and multi-day celebrations, from Bangkok ballrooms to the Andaman coast. Photo and film from one crew, in English and Thai, wherever the day happens.
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Weddings we have photographed
Real ceremonies, not styled shoots with models, across resorts, villas, ballrooms and beaches.
A documentary wedding photographer in Thailand
Most of a wedding is not the ceremony. It is the ninety minutes when guests are eating and the couple has disappeared, and what a photographer does with that time decides how the second half of the gallery looks.
We spend it working. Someone walks the reception room before it fills, finds where the light will land during the speeches, and settles where to stand for the first dance so the band stays out of frame.
By the time the room turns, we have already made those decisions. Nobody asks you to move, and we improvise nothing in front of two hundred guests.
Two cameras run all day with different jobs. One holds wide for the room and the reactions around the edges, the other stays close on faces.
We have photographed weddings here for over a decade, alongside portrait and editorial commissions, and between the two names we trade under we cover somewhere in the region of a hundred ceremonies. Beach vows for eight people, Bangkok ballrooms for four hundred, and multi-day celebrations that never leave one resort. Thailand wedding photography covers a wider range than most countries ask for. Wedding days run with Siamelle, our sister studio under the same ownership, and Anuphong "Bird" Khienthong leads documentary coverage on the day.
Wedding photoshoot packages and pricing
Every wedding photoshoot package below is a starting point and covers the whole country. A wedding photoshoot in Thailand costs the same with us in Chiang Mai as it does on Koh Samui, because travel is already inside the rate and never appears on the final invoice. Which package fits depends on how long your day runs and how many things happen at the same time. Guest count shapes your venue choice; coverage is set by hours and overlap.
- Express photo editing, full gallery inside 24 hours ฿10,000
- Express video editing, film inside 7 days ฿15,000
- Aerial drone coverage, where the venue and airspace allow ฿13,000
- Raw footage, if you ask for it within 2 months of the wedding ฿9,000
- Extended audio across the speeches and reception On request
The list below applies to an elopement for two and to a four-day celebration alike. Only the crew size and the hours move.
- A private online gallery of the full edited set, at high resolution
- Photographs inside 10 days and films inside 5 weeks, with a rush option
- Colour corrected frame by frame, never pushed through a batch preset
- Print-ready files, no watermarks and no charge per image
- Travel to any province in Thailand, built into the rate
- English and Thai on site, so venue staff and monks get briefed directly
Extended hours run ฿10,000 per hour for photo and film together, or ฿6,000 per hour for one of the two. We quote multi-day weddings one at a time, since no two of them divide up the same way.
A 30% deposit holds the date and is non-refundable, because holding it means declining everything else that weekend. The balance falls due on the wedding day. Payment by bank transfer, Wise or Thai QR, and we issue invoices for planners who need them.
A line-by-line breakdown of what lands in each package sits on the Siamelle packages page.
Indian and Pakistani weddings
South Asian families book a large share of what we shoot here, usually three to five days on a single property. Thailand suits a destination wedding at that scale because the whole run of events fits on one site, and decorators, dhol players and caterers all work locally, so nothing has to fly in.
The questions families actually ask us are rarely about the rituals. They are about wardrobe, how coverage divides across days, and choosing a province that fits the guest list.
Coverage does not divide evenly across the days
A five-function celebration does not need five identical crews. Mehndi and haldi sit close and domestic, and a smaller team reads the room better than a large one.
Sangeet and the reception need two people at minimum, one working the stage and one working the tables. The ceremony carries the most weight and takes the full crew. We build the crew around your running order, function by function.
What your wardrobe does to a photograph
Heavy zari and mirror work throw light straight back at a flash, which flattens the embroidery and blows out the detail. We light off-axis so the thread keeps its texture.
Deep reds and maroons hold up in almost any conditions. Pastels and ivory need more care outdoors around midday, when the sun sits directly overhead here and drains them. Gold jewellery reads best in warm low light, which is one reason we push family portraits toward the end of the afternoon.
Guest count decides the province
Under sixty guests and almost anywhere in the country works. Between one hundred and three hundred you want a resort with a ballroom and outdoor ground on the same site, so nobody loses an hour to transfers between functions.
Past five hundred the options narrow to a handful of properties, most of them on the eastern seaboard. The destination pages further down cover which places sit where.
Five things to settle before you sign a venue contract
- Outside-vendor fees, in writing. These surface late and they are awkward to argue once the contract exists.
- Drone permission, which depends on resort policy and airspace rules separately. Both have to say yes.
- Open flame clearance if the mandap or havan sits outdoors or on sand.
- The muhurat time. A night ceremony changes the whole lighting plan and the crew we bring.
- Where both partners get ready. Same property or two properties is the single biggest factor in crew size.
The rest of what we shoot
Couples rarely book only the ceremony. Most add something before or after it, and booking those with the same studio keeps the colour and the look consistent across everything you end up printing.
Pre-wedding sessions
A styled couple shoot in the days before the ceremony, usually while both families are already in the country. Different locations, different clothes, and no timetable pressing on it.
Surprise proposals
Scouted ahead and shot from a distance, so the moment stays yours. Plenty of these turn into a wedding booking with us twelve months later.
Portraits and engagements
Couple and family portrait sessions, useful when relatives have flown in and this is the only week everyone stands in the same place.
Film beyond the wedding
Short-form films for anything outside the ceremony, shot by the same crew that covers your day so the grade matches.
Makeup and styling
Introductions to artists we have worked with repeatedly, including people used to a wide range of skin tones and hair types. No commission changes hands.
Editing and retouching
Colour work on your own files, or on a gallery somebody else shot. Every frame corrected on its own.
Every province, no approved supplier scheme
Most couples we photograph are planning a destination wedding in Thailand from somewhere else, often without standing on the site first. Travel is included wherever your ceremony lands, no resort pays us a commission to recommend it, and we go wherever you have booked. Detailed local guides for each destination sit on Siamelle, written from the ground.
Bangkok carries the largest share of what we shoot. If you want a wedding photographer in Bangkok specifically, the city guide covers venues, rooftop access and the hour the light drops behind the towers. A Bangkok wedding photoshoot runs on its own constraints, since in Bangkok the timeline follows the traffic, not the map.
- Bangkok Bangkok wedding photography across city ballrooms, riverside hotels and rooftop receptions. Guide →
- Phuket Clifftop ceremonies with the sun setting into open water, and the widest villa choice in the south. Guide →
- Koh Samui Resort and villa weddings on the Gulf, and the base Bird works from year round. Guide →
- Krabi Limestone cliffs and boat-access beaches, where the tide table shapes your ceremony time. Guide →
- Hua Hin Reachable by road from Bangkok, which large guest lists appreciate. Guide →
- Pattaya The largest ballroom capacity in the country, half an hour from U-Tapao airport. Guide →
Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao, Koh Lanta, Khao Lak and Phi Phi are all workable on request, and we take international bookings by arrangement. If the ceremony happens somewhere that never appears in a brochure, we will still be standing there.
Picking a month, by coast
Thailand does not run one wet season. The two coasts sit on different calendars, which is useful when your date is fixed and your destination is not.
Phuket, Krabi, Khao Lak
Driest from November through April. September and October are the two months we steer couples away from if the date can move at all.
Koh Samui, Phangan, Koh Tao
Runs on a later calendar and holds up through most of the year. The heavy rain arrives from October into December, which is exactly when the Andaman side has cleared.
Bangkok, Hua Hin, Pattaya
Driest from November to February, which is also the coolest stretch and the easiest on guests wearing heavy formal dress.
A wet month is rarely a reason to move a wedding. Rain here arrives fast and is usually gone before the speeches finish, and those frames often end up being the ones couples hang. It is a reason to keep a covered fallback within one step of the ceremony ground, and to build forty minutes of slack into the timeline.
What couples say
There is a frame of my grandmother watching the pheras from behind the mandap. Nobody else has it, because everybody else was standing in front. That is the photograph my mother keeps on her phone now. Four days, five functions, and not once did anyone have to move the priest so a camera could see better.
Harshita Mundhra, Dubai
The planning emails were longer than we wanted and I skimmed most of them. Then it rained through the drinks in October and every line in those emails turned out to be why nobody panicked. The covered terrace was already held. I take it back.
Fenna Oosterhuis, hydrographic surveyor, Groningen
Monks at nine in the morning, black tie at eight at night. Two sets of manners, and nobody had to explain either of them to him. Gallery arrived on day ten, exactly as quoted.
Wichuda Marsden, Bangkok
The ones couples ask first
A photo-only or video-only booking is usually one person. Photo and film together runs as a team of two, one holding the camera and one on the cine rig.
Larger and multi-day weddings scale to five, so two suites, a ceremony and a reception can run at once without anything going unphotographed. Everyone on your day is a professional wedding photographer or filmmaker we work with regularly, never a student with a spare body.
Anuphong "Bird" Khienthong leads the documentary side of the work and runs Siamelle, the second brand we operate. He is on every wedding we take.
His background and full wedding portfolio sit on the Siamelle about page.
Dry-season dates on the Andaman coast go earliest, often eight to twelve months out. Gulf and mainland dates move later. We cap how many weddings we accept each year, so an early message costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Regularly, across three to five days of functions. We walk the running order through with your pandit, granthi, imam or planner before the first event, so we have settled seating rules and camera positions well ahead.
We carry on working through it. Some of the strongest frames we have taken came out of a downpour, and a wet ceremony reads far better in photographs than most couples expect.
Yes. A highlight set only shows the frames that survived selection. A complete gallery from a real wedding shows what an entire day looks like once every image is in front of you. Ask and we will send one.
Book your Thailand wedding photographer
A wedding gets one take. We spend the planning on sunset times, running orders and covered fallbacks precisely so that nobody has to think about any of it once the day starts.
- Your date
- Your venue, if that part is settled
- How many days the celebration runs
- Availability for the date
- A quote built against your real timeline
- Where the light will be at your ceremony hour