Please get in touch using the form below, and enquire about your date. My live wedding illustration prices and package options are just under the form.
I am London based, and my fee includes weddings in London. Travel fees outside central London are usually 50p per mile driving from South East London.
For bookings more than 90 mins from South East London, I charge for 1-2 nights accommodation at £100/night.
For venues in Scotland, Ireland & Europe, travel fees will include costs of flights (with hold baggage) plus cabs and/or car hire (depending on location of venue), as well as 2 nights accommodation at £100/night. I regularly travel to destination weddings further abroad, provided all expenses are covered.
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A framed painting of your wedding ceremony
This will be a detailed A3 watercolour (larger sizes available on request), completed and framed during the wedding breakfast, and presented to you on the day.
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Live guest portraits
I’ll paint your guests while they are mingling – good times for this are in the post-ceremony lull while you are taking formal photos, and in the second longer lull after the wedding breakfast and speeches.
(I paint an average of 8 single people, 5 couples or 2-3 families per hour at the level of detail and quality shown.)
This package includes 10 hours painting time, starting from an hour before the ceremony.
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9 hours guest portraits
I paint guests live during both lulls – the first lull after the ceremony while they mingle and you take formal photos, and also in the second lull after the speeches, before the first dance.
During the wedding breakfast and speeches time I paint your VIP guests from photos I take before the meal. This way, I am able to maximise my time on site, and paint as many of your guests as possible.
(I paint an average of 8 single people, 5 couples or 2-3 families per hour at the level of detail and quality shown.)
This package includes 9 hours continuous painting time, which would usually start at the beginning of your post-ceremony drinks reception.
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A set of live illustrations of the day
This live wedding illustration package could include the bridal preparation, the ceremony, flowers, cake cutting, speeches, the newly married couple in front of the venue, the first dance – whatever you ask for! You take all the artwork home on the day.
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A framed ceremony (or couple portrait) painting
This A3 size watercolour painting will be completed while guests watch, and framed in a pop up gallery with the other live illustrations, ready for you to take home.
Posed guest portraits are not included in this package – only the couple will be painted.
I am happy to discuss planning the size and style of paintings to fit your own choice of frames, and framing them on the day.
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Large canvas or watercolour wedding painting
A stunning detailed watercolour, acrylic or oil on canvas wedding painting – twice the size of the A3 paintings included in the other packages. I spend the entire day on the painting with this service, which can be your ceremony or any romantic scene you like. The larger size gives me space to include more atmosphere and background, and I have more time to refine your scene to a high level of finish.
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A framed painting of your wedding ceremony
This painting will be an A3 size watercolour, completed and framed during the wedding breakfast. (A2 upgrade also available on request).
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An illustration of your wedding speeches
I’ll illustrate your wedding speeches as they happen in A3 size, in a loose and lively way which captures the highlights of every speech and all your loved ones on the top table.
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3 hours: £900 | 4 hours: £1200 | 5 hours: £1475
I’ll paint A5 sized full length guest portraits during any guest mingling time.
I either use a first come, first served list system, or you can give your closest friends and family priority tokens. This package includes mounts and fitted clear bags.(I paint an average of 8 single people, 5 couples or 2-3 families per hour at the level of detail and quality shown.)
Bookings under 5 hours are not available on weekends unless in London and at short notice. I have a minimum fee of £1500 for destination weddings, or £2000 on weekends.
There’s two main ‘mingling’ lulls during most weddings, where having a live portrait artist is ideal entertainment for guests.
- The post-ceremony lull, where formal photos are taken of the bridal parties and families, and guests are left to their own devices
- The longer lull after the wedding breakfast and speeches, before the first dance
The timing of these lulls is obviously up to you, but my minimum booking is 3 hours. If you have under 50 guests, one lull might be enough to draw half of them. But it usually makes more sense to book me for both lulls, ie a ‘full day’ booking of 7-8 hours.
If the meal is a buffet, I continue to draw guests who aren’t eating. I use any seated wedding breakfast and speeches time to draw more guests from photos. This way, I am able to draw and display paintings of as many guests as possible, and leave far fewer people disappointed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]
If you don’t want guest portraits, apart from possibly those in your bridal party or family, I’ll be able to focus on creating the most beautiful bespoke live illustrations of your wedding that I can. For a full day booking of 9 hours, which I do a special discounted rate for (it’s my favourite kind of booking), I can arrive well before the ceremony and capture special scenes in beautiful live illustrations for you to keep and frame.
I’ll be discreetly drawing on a portable board setup, sketching everything from the bridal hair and makeup, to the church, to the actual moment where you say ‘I do’. After this, I’ll move on to your reception venue and sketch some details there, before guests arrive to be drawn into the next few pictures. I will work through the wedding breakfast sketching the scene and speech-givers, and paint the cake ready to add the bride and groom cutting it!
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Why should guests get all the goodies? A lot of couples want both guest portraits but also live illustration of the ceremony, and a few paintings of details from the wedding, to keep for themselves. The only way to get a decent amount of both is to book me for a full day – the longer, the better, depending on how much artwork you want to keep.
I do the guest portraits during the lulls, while guests are mingling. During the wedding breakfast, I’ll add more colour and detail to your wedding ceremony illustration, and I can also paint the cake, flowers and anything else you want me to, plus capture all the speech-givers on the same page! Once the speeches are over, I’ll go back to doing guest portraits, usually until the first dance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1577702341769{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}” el_id=”aaron-longpic-desktop”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][gem_fullwidth background_style=”cover” background_position_horizontal=”right” background_parallax=”1″ container=”1″ background_image=”1314″ padding_top=”300″ padding_bottom=”200″][/gem_fullwidth][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]