Guests laughing together with champagne at the reception

Investment

Three collections, one price anywhere

A collection costs the same in Montréal, in Toronto, in Vancouver and in a field in Saskatchewan. The city does not move the number. Travel stays separate and is kept lean through early booking and grouped regional dates.

The collections

What you get

Every figure below is the whole price of that collection, in every city I work in. Sales tax and anything you choose from the add-ons go on top. Travel stays separate only when the wedding requires its own trip.

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Couple forehead to forehead, seen through out-of-focus pink blossom

Signature · most booked

C$3,000

8 continuous hours · 600+ edited images

  • 8 continuous hours, one lead photographer
  • 600+ edited images, high resolution with print permission
  • A 60-minute engagement session
  • A 1-minute feature film, colour graded
  • 2 rolls of film, processed and scanned
  • Vertical social reels, sent in the first week
  • Film prints handed to guests on the night
  • A 90-minute planning call and a family-photo plan
  • 40-image preview next day
  • Full gallery in 3 weeks

Best for Most full weddings, and the honest default once there is a getting-ready and a reception

Bride standing at a candlelit head table in a warm panelled room

Legacy · ten hours

C$4,200

10 continuous hours · 800+ edited images

  • 10 continuous hours, one lead photographer
  • A second photographer for 4 hours, placed where two angles actually matter
  • 800+ edited images, high resolution with print permission
  • A 60-minute engagement session
  • A 3-minute feature film, colour graded
  • 4 rolls of film, processed and scanned
  • Vertical social reels, sent in the first week
  • Film prints handed to guests on the night
  • A Signature album: 10×10 inches, 30 pages, 15 lay-flat spreads, on medium-weight lustre photographic paper on a rigid lay-flat core
  • Two planning calls and a location scout
  • 50-image preview within 24 hours
  • Full gallery in 3 weeks

Best for Long days that start with a getting-ready and end on a dance floor, and any wedding where two rooms need covering at once

A long banquet table set and lit entirely by candles

Photo + Film · photography and film

C$5,900

12 continuous hours, photography and film · 800+ edited images

  • 12 continuous hours of photography, one lead photographer
  • 12 hours with a dedicated filmmaker, not a camera pointed at the same thing
  • A 3 to 5 minute highlight film, colour graded, with licensed music
  • Your vows or speeches in the film wherever the audio comes back clean
  • One consolidated round of minor film revisions
  • 800+ edited images, high resolution with print permission
  • A 60-minute engagement session
  • 4 rolls of film, processed and scanned
  • Vertical social reels, sent in the first week
  • Film prints handed to guests on the night
  • A Signature album: 10×10 inches, 30 pages, 15 lay-flat spreads, on medium-weight lustre photographic paper on a rigid lay-flat core
  • Full gallery in 3 weeks, the film in 10

Best for A day you want to hear as well as see, with a ceremony and speeches worth recording properly

Travel

Travel kept lean

I book practical routes early, often using low-cost carriers, and keep the trip to the transportation, ground travel and nights the schedule actually requires. There is no inflated destination surcharge.

Collection prices remain the same across Canada. Travel is quoted separately. When Arman is already scheduled in your region, the travel fee is reduced or waived.

Reduced or waived

Already scheduled in your region

I group nearby dates so the same trip can serve more than one wedding

Lowest practical route

Major Canadian cities

Low-cost air or rail, booked early, plus only the ground transport and nights the schedule needs

Quoted to the route

Coast, mountains and remote routes

Built around the actual itinerary, with shared travel whenever dates can be grouped

No blanket cross-country rate. Send the venue and date and I will use the leanest practical route; if another wedding already covers the trip, your travel fee comes down or disappears.

Where I work →

Add-ons

Priced, not bundled

The same everywhere, like the collections. Each one is a real cost with a real number, which is why none of them are quietly folded into a collection. The vertical social reels used to be on this list and are now in every collection instead, because charging for them was never defensible.

Coverage

  • Extra coverage hourC$400One more hour on the day, editing included. Booked in advance and continuous with the collection.
  • Second photographer, 4 hoursC$800Four hours is the minimum. Placed where two angles genuinely matter rather than spread thin across the day. Included in Legacy.
  • Extra second-photographer hourC$175Added on top of the four-hour minimum.
  • Rehearsal dinner or welcome eventC$1,000Up to 3 hours on another day. A tea ceremony, a mehndi or a rehearsal dinner.

Sessions

  • Destination welcome sessionC$55045 minutes, when I am already on location. Not a standalone fly-out.
  • Anniversary sessionC$40060 minutes, 40+ edited images, bookable any time in the twelve months after the wedding. The same two people, a year of marriage later.

Prints

  • Signature album, 10×10 inchesC$1,20030 pages, 15 lay-flat spreads, medium-weight lustre photographic paper on a rigid lay-flat core, linen or vegan leather, with a blind-debossed date. Included in Legacy and Photo + Film.
  • Heirloom album, 12×12 inchesC$1,80040 pages, 20 lay-flat spreads, heavy 2 mm lay-flat pages in fine-art matte or heavy photographic stock, full-grain leather, hand-bound. The upgrade from the Signature album.
  • Parent albumC$5508×8 inches, 30 pages, 15 spreads, the same photographic stock as the album it copies, linen. Priced per copy.
  • Fine-art print boxC$40020 to 30 archival prints at 5×7 or 6×8 inches in a covered clamshell box, sequenced but loose, so they can be handed around a table. For the people who want the photographs in hand without an album.
  • Large framed fine-art printC$300–900One frame printed large, matted and framed, priced by size and frame. Chosen from the finished gallery rather than guessed at before the wedding.

Film and motion

  • Dedicated filmmaker, 8 hoursC$2,900A dedicated filmmaker and a 3 to 5 minute highlight film, added to any collection. Photo + Film already includes one, for its full 12 hours.
  • Extra filmmaking hourC$250Booked in advance, alongside the filmmaker's eight.
  • Full ceremony and speeches filmsC$650The whole ceremony and the whole speeches, edited long. Needs a multi-camera and audio plan confirmed in advance.
  • One more roll of filmC$175A single extra roll, processing and scans included. No guaranteed frame count.
  • Two-roll film add-onC$300Two more rolls, processing and scans. No guaranteed frame count.
  • Film Story, four rollsC$500Four more rolls carried through the whole day rather than saved for the portraits, processed and scanned. The cheapest roll on this list, because shooting film properly means shooting more of it.
  • Drone add-onC$350Aerial stills and clips where it is legal and safe. Weather, venue rules and airspace can all cancel it on the day.

Delivery

  • Seven-day gallery rushC$750Capacity-limited. I will not sell this every week.

Quoted rather than published

  • Extensive retouchingBy quoteBeyond the standard colour work and the temporary-blemish cleanup that every collection already includes.
  • A content creator, or a run of social editsBy quoteA separate person on the day and a defined list of deliverables. Ten short-form edits is a production, not a bonus, and pretending otherwise is how it gets done badly.

Multi-day and cultural weddings are scoped by event, crew, travel and editing volume rather than sold as one flat package. Sales tax sits on top of every number here.

Where I work

Three featured markets, one country

These three have a page of their own because I shoot in them most. They do not cost more or less than anywhere else; nothing on this site does. Only the trip differs, and that is the figure I quote you.

Montréal

Montréal and Québec

  • Montréal
  • Vieux-Montréal
  • Laval
  • the South Shore
  • the Laurentians
  • the Eastern Townships
  • Québec City
  • Charlevoix

Travel is kept to the route the date actually requires and reduced or waived when regional dates can be grouped.

QST 9.975% plus GST 5%, about 14.975% combined on top.

How I work in Montréal →

Toronto

Toronto and Southern Ontario

  • Toronto
  • the GTA
  • Mississauga
  • Vaughan
  • Markham
  • Oakville
  • Hamilton
  • Niagara
  • Niagara-on-the-Lake
  • the 1000 Islands

Early-booked low-cost air or rail, ground transport and only the nights the schedule requires.

13% HST on top.

How I work in Toronto →

Vancouver

Vancouver and the Sea-to-Sky

  • Vancouver
  • North Vancouver
  • West Vancouver
  • Burnaby
  • Richmond
  • Squamish
  • Whistler
  • the Sea-to-Sky corridor

Early-booked low-cost air, ground transport and only the nights the schedule requires.

5% GST, plus 7% PST where applicable on top.

How I work in Vancouver →

Anywhere else in Canada costs the same as anywhere on this page. Muskoka, Prince Edward County, Charlevoix, the Rockies and the coast all buy the same collection at the same figure. The only thing that moves is the travel, and that is quoted against your venue and your date rather than guessed at. Send both and you will have a real number.

Booking

From email to held date

Most couples go from first message to signed contract inside a week.

  1. 01

    You send the date

    Date, city, venue if you have one, and roughly how many hours you think you need. Two minutes.

  2. 02

    I reply within two business hours

    With the collection I would actually recommend, which is not always the middle one, and what travel comes to.

  3. 03

    A twenty minute call

    Not a sales call. I need to hear the shape of the day before I can quote it properly.

  4. 04

    One recommended collection

    With the one either side of it, the travel figure if your day needs one, and the tax, so you see the whole invoice before you decide.

  5. 05

    A 48-hour hold on the date

    Free, and I will tell you if someone else asks about it in the meantime.

  6. 06

    Contract and deposit

    A non-refundable 30% deposit to book, then 35% due 60 days before the wedding and the final 35% 30 days before.

Straight answers

Does the price change depending on the city?

No. Signature is C$3,000 in Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. The photography is the same work wherever it happens, so it carries the same number. Travel stays separate and is reduced or waived when I am already scheduled in your region.

So what does travel actually cost?

Often less than people expect. I book practical routes early, including low-cost carriers when they make sense, and charge only for the transportation, ground travel and nights the schedule actually needs. If I am already scheduled in your region, the travel fee is reduced or waived.

Why quote travel instead of publishing a grid?

Because even low-cost fares move with the date and route, and grouped regional dates can make travel much cheaper. A blanket grid would overcharge some couples and undercharge others. I use the leanest practical route for the actual venue and date.

What are the social reels, and are they the feature film?

They are not. The reels are short vertical videos cut from the day and sent in the first week, long before the gallery is finished, so there is something to post while people are still asking. They are in every collection. The feature film is a separate, colour-graded piece with sound: one minute on Signature, three minutes on Legacy, and three to five minutes on Photo + Film, where a dedicated filmmaker shoots it rather than me.

What exactly is the album that comes with Legacy?

A 10×10-inch album, 30 pages across 15 lay-flat spreads, printed on medium-weight lustre photographic paper on a rigid core so a picture can run across the gutter without breaking. Linen or vegan leather cover. I design the sequence and you get two rounds of changes. Legacy and Photo + Film both carry it. On Signature it is an add-on at C$1,200. The bigger one is an upgrade from either. A 12×12-inch album, 40 pages across 20 lay-flat spreads, on heavy 2 mm pages in either fine-art matte or heavy photographic stock. Full-grain leather cover, hand-bound, in a matching slipcase. It is the object the photographs are actually for, and it is built to be handled for fifty years rather than to survive a shelf.

Do you offer photo and video?

Yes, and there are two versions of it. A short colour-graded film cut from the day is included on Signature and Legacy, shot alongside the photographs rather than by a second operator, which is why it is included rather than sold. A proper film is a different product: Photo + Film puts a dedicated filmmaker on the day for twelve hours and returns a three to five minute piece with licensed music and your vows, at C$5,900, and a filmmaker for eight hours can be added to any other collection for C$2,900. A filmmaker is not a camera add-on, and I will not bundle one in at a number that guarantees somebody does bad work.

How far in advance do couples book?

Usually nine to eighteen months out for a peak-season Saturday. Off-season and weekday dates open up much later. If your date is close, ask anyway.

Availability

Tell me the date

Signature is C$3,000 wherever you are getting married. Everything else is on this page.