Booking Terms & Conditions

A booking fee of £200 confirms your booking and is deductible from package price with the balance due 1 month before date of wedding. Failure to pay balance by due date will be taken as an indication of cancellation of booking, with loss of booking fee. Dates are reserved only when the booking fee is paid. Upon signature of booking agreement John Carroll Photography reserves the time and date agreed upon, and will not make any other reservations for that time and date. For this reason all booking fees are non-refundable, even if the date is changed or wedding cancelled for any reason.

In the event of the client cancelling a booking for wedding photography John Carroll Photography reserves the right to charge a cancellation fee in accordance with the following scale:

(a) £200 (the booking fee), if cancelled more than six months prior to the wedding date.

(b) 35% of the agreed fee if cancelled between three months  and six months prior to the wedding date.

(c) 50% of the agreed fee if cancelled less than three months prior to the wedding date.

(d) 100% of the agreed fee if cancelled within thirty days of the wedding date.

Should the cancelled wedding turn out to be a postponement, then at the discretion of John Carroll Photography, and subject to availability, monies other than the booking fee may be applied to the new wedding. John Carroll Photography strongly advises all clients to purchase wedding insurance cover, to cover the resulting costs due to cancellation or date change.

Balance payment of package booked is due 1 month before the date of wedding. Payment for additional photographs and albums is made when these are ordered. Any bank charges incurred due to returned cheques will be debited to the client. Failure to pay balance by due date will be taken as a cancellation of booking with loss of booking fee paid and cancellation charges will apply as above.

Payments can be made by cheque, debit or credit card. Please note there is a 2% surcharge for all credit card transactions. Please make all cheques payable to 'John Carroll Photography'. All prices include VAT at 17.5%.

The copyright of all photographs created by John Carroll Photography shall remain the property of John Carroll Photography in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. It is understood that images may be used for advertising or display purposes. The client hereby acknowledges that infringement of John Carroll Photography copyright is unlawful and may be a criminal offence.

All images created & captured by John Carroll Photography shall remain the property of John Carroll Photography who undertakes to store all such images safely and make them available for future reproduction. Photographic prints will become and remain the property of the client(s). However the client(s) specifically acknowledge that ownership of prints does not imply ownership of the copyright in the images on them, nor any right to reproduce, or authorise the reproduction of, such images.

Weather permitting, the wedding photographs will be taken as agreed. In the event of rain or snow or any form of weather disturbances, John Carroll Photography will make the necessary changes in the photographic session and will not be responsible for any disappointment caused by the weather. However, John Carroll Photography  with the co-operation of the client will do his best to produce coverage of the wedding within the time allocated to him.

The dyes used for clothing, particularly man made fibres do not always photograph in the manner in which they appear to eye. When the photographs are printed to produce a pleasing flesh colour some materials may appear incorrect. John Carroll Photography will endeavour to achieve the closest possible colour match within the limitations of the materials and processes used. It is understood that colour photography is undertaken within the technical limitations of the process and that further colour prints of the same photograph, but in different dimensions or supplied at a different time, may show variations of colours.

In the unlikely event of total photographic failure, injury or sickness beyond the control of John Carroll Photography, liability shall be  limited to a full refund of all monies paid. John Carroll Photography has full Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance. Your statutory rights are not affected.

It is understood that no other photographer, amateur or professional, shall be allowed to photograph at the wedding while photographer John Carroll is working, and that any breach of this agreement will constitute a reason for non-completion of the job with no liability to the photographer and loss of all monies paid by signing party. This does not include family, friends and other guests, in fact they are positively encouraged to take photographs on your wedding day.

Finished albums can be collected by appointment or delivered locally free of charge. An additional charge of £20 will apply for postage/packing/insurance of albums within the UK. A charge of £45  will apply for postage of albums out with the UK. Please note all albums must be ordered within 6 months of the wedding date. A  surcharge (5% of fee) will apply for any albums ordered more than 6 months from date of wedding.