Elopement Photography Proposal Template
In SendScope under Photography, as Elopement Photography
Elopements are booked later and planned faster than weddings, often in a matter of weeks. The date can still only be sold once, so the retainer does the same job it does on a full wedding: it holds the day, and the balance falls before it rather than after.
Both packages include location scouting, which is the part couples do not know to ask for and the part that decides whether the light is right where they actually stand. Two hours covers a ceremony and portraits; the half day picks them up getting ready and stays through dinner.
What is deliberately absent is a guest count. An elopement with two witnesses and one with fourteen guests are the same job for a photographer, and writing a number into the scope invites an argument on the morning.
What the client reads
The scope
This is the wording the template arrives with. Yours replaces it.
The packages
2 to choose from
The client picks one, and the one they pick is the one they approve and pay on.
Ceremony
Two hours of coverage
A$1,200
Gallery in four weeks
- Two hours of coverage
- Ceremony and portraits
- 80 edited images
- Online gallery
- Personal use licence
Half Day
Getting ready to dinner
A$2,400
Gallery in four weeks
- Five hours of coverage
- Getting ready, ceremony and portraits
- Location scouting beforehand
- 200 edited images
- Online gallery
- Ten print files at full resolution
The whole thing, live
The page your client opens
Not a screenshot. This is the real client page running on an invented deal. Pick a package and press approve to see what your client would see; nothing is sent or charged.
How it gets paid
Deposit, then balance
50% is due when the client approves, and the balance when you mark the work delivered. Both payments happen on the same link the proposal is on.
Card or bank transfer, and you choose which per deal. If you want a package to bill every month instead of once, you set that on the package itself when you build the deal, and the client can cancel it from their own link.
Prices are a starting point in Australian dollars. Change the figures, the inclusions and the number of packages to suit what you sell.
The starting terms
What approving the page records
These sit above the approve button. The client reads them, and approving records that they accepted them.
These terms cover the booking you approve on this page.
- The booking. The deposit shown on this page holds your date and is not refunded if you cancel, because the date is then held for you and turned away from others.
- Payment. The balance is paid before the edited images are delivered.
- What you receive. The hours of coverage and the number of edited images are those described above. Images are edited in my own style. Unedited or RAW files are not included.
- Use of the images. You may use the delivered images for the purpose described above. Commercial use beyond that, including advertising, is quoted separately. I keep copyright and the right to show the work in my portfolio, and will not do so if you ask me in writing not to.
- If plans change. Tell me as early as you can. A date can be moved once, subject to availability, and the deposit moves with it.
- If I cannot attend. If illness or an emergency prevents me attending, I will arrange a replacement photographer where I can, and if that is not possible everything you have paid is refunded.
- On the day. Safe access to the location and the time listed above are needed for the coverage quoted.
Approving this page records that you accepted this scope, this price and these terms.
Starting terms, not legal advice. Read them, change what does not match how you work, and have a lawyer look at them if the work is large enough to warrant it. Your own default terms in Settings replace these automatically.
Before you send it
What to change first
The parts of this template most likely to be wrong for you.
- Your travel radius and what happens past it, since elopements are rarely local
- Whether a permit for the ceremony site is yours to arrange or theirs
- Your turnaround, which couples compare more closely than they compare prices
- Whether a second location is included or charged as a further hour
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