Madeira
Elopement photographer on Madeira
An elopement is a wedding with nobody but the two of you. No guests and no seating plan. The registry office in Funchal, or a ceremony for two, and the rest of the day is yours.
I photograph it the way I photograph any wedding. I learn the plan beforehand, I know where the light will be.
What changes when it is only the two of you
Travel anywhere on the island is included on a wedding day.
One price for the day
Wedding Day
- ·Pre-wedding planning call
- ·Island & location scouting for your date
- ·Full-day coverage from preparations to evening
- ·Unlimited edited photos
- ·High-resolution download
- ·Priority delivery
An elopement is a wedding day: €1500, fixed.
No hourly counting and no limit on how many edited photographs come back. Delivery is a priority.
I take one wedding per date, so tell me yours early.
Photographs of the two of you on a day without a ceremony are a couples session, priced by package. Couples sessions →
Where to photograph
I plan the route around the ceremony and the light. These are the places I would start from.
- Miradouro do Guindaste →
A clifftop on the north coast near Faial, about forty minutes from Funchal, with a straight drop to the Atlantic. The platform is small, which suits two people.
- Câmara de Lobos →
A working fishing village ten minutes west of Funchal. Pushpa and Pedro married here in June 2026, above the fishing boats. Morning or evening both work.
- Ponta de São Lourenço →
The widest place I shoot: bare rock, and cliffs falling into the water on both sides. The wind is constant. A long dress either looks extraordinary here or becomes unmanageable.
- Fanal Forest →
An hour out on the north coast, laurel trees centuries old. I shoot it late in the day. It is also wet, cold and muddy.
- Funchal Old Town →
Cobbled streets and painted doors, all on foot. Best early in the morning or in the early evening, outside the hours when the streets are full.
If other people at the spot are what worries you, I wrote down what each place is like. Crowds and privacy, place by place →
Time of day
We always agree on the start time individually, depending on the goals of the shoot and your wishes. On the south coast the sun goes behind the mountains before the official sunset, so the golden part of the evening ends earlier than a weather app says it will.
Tell me the date and the time of the ceremony, and I plan the rest of the day around the light.
Weddings before Madeira
I have been photographing weddings for 18 years, on this island and before it. Most of the earlier ones were in Thailand. A few old photos from the past:
Send me your date
Tell me the date, the kind of ceremony, and the place you have in mind. I will tell you whether the date is free and what that place is like at that hour.
Check your date on WhatsApp