Booking pages for solo wedding photographers

They message you at 11pm. By morning they’ve booked someone else.

Not because your photos aren’t good enough — because there was nowhere to just pay the deposit. So they asked you to “send the details”, and while that sat in your inbox, they messaged the next photographer.

I build the booking path that sits after your gallery: enquiry → availability → deposit paid, on one link, in under a minute on a phone.

Open the sample booking page Send an enquiry — no call needed

The sample opens on your phone in one tap. It is a real, working page — built for a fictional photographer and labelled as a sample.

Standard price: $2,500
First 3 photographers: $1,750
To start: 50% deposit
Delivered in: 10 business days

Your gallery isn’t the problem. The gap after it is.

11pm
A couple finds you
They like three photos on Instagram, tap the link in your bio, and land on your site.
11:04pm
They find a gallery
Beautiful images, no prices, no dates, no way to pay. The only option is “get in touch”.
Next morning
They’ve moved on
You reply at 9am to “can you send me the details?”. By then they’ve messaged two other photographers — and one of them had a deposit button.

One lost wedding costs more than this page does. You already know what your average booking is worth — I’d rather you put that number next to the price than have me invent a statistic about it.

Exactly what’s included

One scrolling page plus one enquiry-confirmation screen. One link you can put in your Instagram bio. Not five pages, not a blog, not a shop. Built for a phone held in one hand.

This list is the whole scope. It is the same list that goes in writing before you pay anything, and anything not on it is a separate written quote — never a surprise on the invoice.

Hero
Your name, where you shoot, one line about how you work, and one button that goes straight to the enquiry form. No scrolling to find out how to reach you.
Portfolio gallery
Up to 24 images you supply, in a grid built to load fast on a phone over hotel wifi. Captions optional. No image editing by me.
Packages
Up to three packages with prices or “from” prices, and the bullet points you want under each. You write the packages; I lay them out so they can be compared.
Availability
The next six months as a calendar — open, limited, booked — that you can change yourself in about a minute. No double bookings, no “let me check my diary”.
Enquiry form
Name, partner’s name, date, venue, package and a message. It submits without leaving the page and shows a confirmation screen with your reply time on it.
Deposit link
A payment link for the deposit on the package they chose, so a couple can pay without asking you for bank details at 11pm. The money goes to your account, not mine.
The plumbing around it
Mobile-first build, page title and description, a link preview that looks right when it is pasted into a DM, two rounds of revisions, launch, and a 20-minute handover so you can update dates and prices yourself.

Exactly what’s not included

Branding or logo design
Copywriting — you send the words, I set them
Photo editing, culling or retouching
SEO campaigns or keyword work
Ongoing maintenance or monthly updates
Email automation, newsletters or funnels
Ad management of any kind
Any monthly hosting, licence or software fee paid to me

Your existing site or tool stays yours. Pixieset, Showit, Squarespace, HoneyBook — whatever you use now keeps running, keeps its galleries, and keeps billing you directly if it bills you at all. Nothing is cancelled, migrated or deleted.

Why it’s cheap

A blank Showit template is $399

And you still build the thing yourself — every image, every section, every page. The template is the cheap part; the week you spend on it is not.

A specialist studio quotes 12–16 weeks

That is the going timeline for a custom photographer site from a design studio. It is a real process and it is worth the money — if you have four months.

Same one page-cluster, live in 10 business days, at a price written on this page before you pay anything.

There is no monthly fee to me. If you later want something that isn’t on the list, it gets priced in writing before any work starts — which is the whole point of writing the list down in the first place.

The price, plainly

Founding client — first 3 only

$1,750

In exchange for a testimonial and two referrals. 50% ($875) to start, $875 at launch.

Claim a founding place

Standard price

$2,500

50% ($1,250) to start, $1,250 at launch. Same scope, same 10 business days, once the founding places are gone.

50% deposit to book the slot, 50% at launch — nothing else.
10 business days from the day I have your photos and your text.
Fixed scope, written down before you pay. No retainer, no monthly fee.
Deposit refunded in full if I can’t hit the deadline.

This is a new offer. That’s what the founding price is for.

I don’t have a wall of wedding photographers to show you yet. So there are no client logos on this page, no testimonials I wrote myself, and no “trusted by” row of borrowed names. If you see one of those on a page like this, ask who the clients are.

What there is instead: a complete, working booking page — hero, gallery, packages, availability, enquiry form and a deposit button — built exactly the way yours would be, for a photographer who doesn’t exist. Open it on your phone and judge it. If it isn’t better than what you have now, don’t hire me.

The first 3 clients get $1,750 instead of $2,500 because they’re taking a chance on someone with no portfolio, and because they’ll be the case studies the next client asks for.

The three things you’re about to think

“I already have a website.”: You do, and it is a gallery — which is what a gallery is for. I am not replacing it. The booking path sits beside it: one link in your bio that takes a couple from “I like these photos” to “deposit paid”. Keep Pixieset, Showit or Squarespace exactly as it is.
“I’ve been burned by a marketing person from Instagram.”: Fair. So this is fixed price, fixed scope, written down on this page before you pay anything: 50% to start, 50% at launch. No retainer, no monthly fee, no twelve-week brand journey, no invoice for work nobody agreed to. If I miss the list above inside 10 business days, you do not pay the balance and the deposit is refunded in full.
“I can’t spend $2,000 in the off-season.”: Then spend $875 now and $875 at launch — the deposit is what starts it. And if your calendar is already full for next season, do not buy this: you do not need more enquiries, and I would rather say so than take your money. This is for the photographer with gaps in the calendar and one couple last month who booked someone else while the reply sat unsent.

The next step

No call. No calendar link. Just a few questions.

Fill this in and it builds a summary you can copy and send me however you like — a DM, an email, whatever you already use. Nothing is submitted anywhere from this page and nothing is stored.

If it’s a fit, you get a written scope, a date and a deposit link. If it isn’t, you get a straight no and the reason.

Or just open the sample booking page first — it’s the fastest way to decide.

Everything goes to bookedbyten@gmail.com, which is me.