Made to be Remembered

We are based in Toronto, Ontario, and we work across the Greater Toronto Area as our primary market. Beyond that, we have photographed weddings in more than fifteen countries. Travel is not a stretch for us; it is part of the studio rhythm. If your day is somewhere we can get to, we are interested.

Editorial. Color-true. Quiet when the moment is quiet, loud when the moment is loud. We are not in the business of staged smiles, and we are not in the business of pretending the wedding looked like a magazine when it did not. The work should feel like the day actually felt, lit and composed the way the best print editors would have asked for it.

Yes. JOPFilms is the cinematography arm of the studio, run by the same team under the same creative direction. Most of our couples book photo and film together because it removes friction on the day and keeps the storytelling consistent. You can also book either independently.

Jide leads every wedding. For larger or multi-day events we add a second photographer and a small film crew, all of whom we have worked with for years. You will meet the lead crew on your consultation call and again at any planning meeting before the day.

Because we have spent more than a decade building a body of work that gets featured in The New York Times, BellaNaija, The Guardian UK, and The Knot, and because our calm on a wedding day is earned, not advertised. We do not chase volume; we choose a small number of couples per year and pour the studio's entire attention into them.

Within 24 hours on weekdays. If Jide is shooting a wedding, you may hear from a team member first to set up the call. Either way, every inquiry is read by a real human.

Yes. Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Edo, and Bini ceremonies are a core part of our portfolio, alongside Indian, Persian, and most other cultural traditions. Cross-cultural and traditional weddings are some of the work we love most.

Four steps, and we move at your pace.

• Send us your details through the inquire form. We respond within two business days.
• Book a thirty-minute consultation call (video or in our Toronto studio). No deck, no sales pitch.
• We send a tailored proposal within a few days, with collection options and a written quote.
• When you are ready, we counter-sign the contract; the date is held the moment the retainer clears.

Nine to eighteen months is typical for peak season (May through October). Destination weddings are often booked twelve to twenty-four months out. Short-notice and pop-up weddings are sometimes possible depending on the calendar; ask us and we will be honest about availability.

The retainer is non-refundable. It is what reserves your date and pulls the calendar off the market. If your wedding is postponed for a reason outside your control, we apply your retainer to a rescheduled date within twelve months. Full terms live in the studio agreement.

Things happen. We allow one date change at no additional fee within the same calendar season, subject to our availability on the new date. A second change is possible but may carry a re-season adjustment. Force-majeure terms (illness, government order, venue closure) are spelled out in the contract and are written to be fair to both sides.

Yes. We carry commercial general liability and equipment coverage. Certificates of insurance can be issued directly to your venue on request, free of charge.

Most flagship dates book 12-18 months out. We take a small number of weddings each year, so Saturdays in May through October close fast. If your date is less than six months away, write to us directly. Sometimes a slot opens.

Thirty minutes. We talk about your wedding day, the location, the family dynamic, and the kind of imagery that matters to you. We will be honest about whether we are the right fit. No presentation deck, no pressure.

Within 48 hours you receive a tailored proposal: the collection that fits your day, a sample contract, and a deposit link. The deposit secures the date. We hold no date without it.

As much as feels natural. Brides who fill out the inquiry form in detail are 4x more likely to book because the call can be honest from minute one. Even a few sentences about the venue and the mood you are after helps a lot.

Jide reads every inquiry. Within 24 hours on weekdays you will hear back with either a consultation invite, a few clarifying questions, or an honest note that we are not the right fit. We do not send templated auto-replies.

Wedding day coverage is structured around your hours, your deliverables, whether you want film, whether you want an album, and where the wedding takes place. We will walk you through real pricing on the call, where it can be tailored to your day. We do not publish a starting price in isolation because it tends to mislead more often than it informs.

Because every wedding we book is shaped differently. A nine-hour celebration in Toronto and a four-day cultural wedding in Lagos are not the same product, and pretending they are by reducing both to a starting number does both couples a disservice. We would rather walk you through what is actually included in your specific quote.

Engagement and pre-wedding sessions are included in our flagship collections, and available as an add-on at a fixed rate to every other collection. We strongly recommend doing one; it makes the wedding day itself much calmer for both of you in front of the camera.

A retainer is paid at signing to reserve your date. The remaining balance is broken into installments leading up to the wedding, with the final installment due before the day itself. We accept e-transfer, wire, and major credit cards through Stripe. The full schedule is in your contract.

Ontario HST applies to all studio invoices. If your wedding requires travel, a second photographer, additional hours of coverage, or a specific product add-on, each item is quoted on its own line so you can see exactly what you are paying for. We do not surprise couples with end-of-day charges.

Most single-day weddings are well covered in ten to twelve hours, beginning with the getting-ready window and ending after the first dance set. Cultural and multi-event weddings often run longer or across more than one day. We will map your timeline on the call and recommend honestly.

A typical wedding delivers between six hundred and nine hundred finished frames. You will see a curated sneak peek within seventy-two hours of the wedding so you have something to share immediately. Your full gallery is delivered in six to eight weeks.

Every shooter carries a dual-card professional body with a backup body in the bag, redundant lenses, multiple flashes, and spare batteries. Every memory card is offloaded the same night, mirrored to two encrypted drives, and uploaded to off-site storage within twenty-four hours of the wedding.

For formal family portraits, yes, a short list. It keeps the family session organized and quick. For everything else, we discourage shot lists. The candid moments that make a wedding album come from us moving freely, reading the room, and being ready for what we cannot script.

No. Every couple receives high-resolution color and black-and-white versions of the finished edit, which is the work we are willing to put our name on. RAW files are technical intermediate files, not finished photographs.

Usually 600 to 1,200 finished images, depending on coverage hours and what unfolded on the day. We do not release every frame we shot. Only the ones that survive the edit. The number is a byproduct, not a target.

Yes, through JOPFilms, our cinematography arm. Most couples book photography and film together. Our typical $15,000-$25,000 collection includes both, plus a keepsake film cut by our senior editor. Photo-only is possible if film is not a priority.

Editorial. Faithful to the actual light of the day. We do not over-process, chase Instagram trends, or apply presets that look dated in five years. The goal is a frame that holds up when your daughter is looking at it in 2055.

Within the Greater Toronto Area there is no travel fee. Outside the GTA we quote travel transparently: flights, accommodation, ground transport, and a per-day production fee that covers our time away from home. There is no markup; what we pay is what you pay.

Destination coverage is the wedding day collection plus a destination production fee. The production fee covers pre-travel planning, location scouting where appropriate, on-the-ground logistics, and the additional days bracketing the wedding itself. Everything is itemized in your proposal.

Yes, and they make up a meaningful share of the studio's work. Nigerian, South Asian, Persian, Ethiopian, and Caribbean weddings spanning two to four days are well within the studio's rhythm. We will plan crew, hours, and outfit changes specifically for your tradition.

We handle our own visas and travel documents. For venues that require a photography or filming permit (certain heritage sites, parks, and government buildings), we secure the permit for you and itemize the cost in your proposal. Nothing about that process is on you.

For most destinations, no. Today's venue photography, planner walk-throughs, and a thirty-minute video call are usually enough. For very remote venues, or where lighting is unusually complex, a paid scout day may be sensible; we will tell you when we think it is.

Yes. We have shot weddings in over 15 countries. Destination weddings are quoted separately and travel-inclusive; we cover our own logistics so you do not have to think about it.

A fine-art album is included in our flagship collections. It is available as an add-on to every other collection. We strongly recommend one. Galleries get scrolled past; a beautifully bound book is what sits on the coffee table for the next forty years.

We work exclusively with fine-art Italian binderies and a select group of North American luxury album houses. Linen, silk, or full-grain leather covers, archival lay-flat pages, and a finish that ages well. Every spread is designed by hand in the studio, then sent to you for approval before press.

We do. The studio is responsible for the edit, the sequencing, and the layout. You see the proposed design before anything goes to press, and we revise it with you. The end product is a book we both signed off on.

Yes. Your private gallery has a print store wired into a professional lab, with archival paper, museum-grade framing options, and worldwide shipping. Studio favourites can also be commissioned as large-format framed pieces directly through us.

Eight to twelve weeks from the moment you approve the spreads. Italian production weeks (mid-July through mid-August and the December holidays) can extend that window slightly; we will tell you upfront if it applies to your timing.

A curated sneak peek lands in your inbox within seventy-two hours of the wedding so you have something to share. The full photo gallery follows in six to eight weeks. Wedding films are delivered in ten to fourteen weeks; we send you a teaser earlier if we promised one.

Through a private, password-protected online gallery hosted on a professional platform. You can download the full set in web and high-resolution sizes, share individual images with family, and order prints directly from the gallery.

At minimum, seven years from delivery. In practice we keep them indefinitely, mirrored across two independent off-site backups, so that couples can recover lost imagery years later. We still strongly recommend that you download and archive your own copies the moment your gallery arrives.

Anything personal: print them, frame them, share them with family, post them, gift them. The studio retains the copyright and the right to feature the work in our portfolio, social channels, journal, and published features, unless your contract states otherwise. Commercial reuse (advertising, paid licensing) is not included in the personal license.

Write "private wedding" on your contract. We honour it absolutely. No social posts, no journal feature, no submission to editors. Selected images may live in our private referral portfolio for prospective couples in similar circles; if even that is too much, tell us and it is off the table.

A select gallery of about 50 of the strongest frames within 7-10 days of the wedding so you have something to share. The full edited gallery within 6-8 weeks. Films take longer: usually 10-12 weeks for the keepsake edit.