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Contact Smiling Tiger Studios
Weymouth, Dorset
DT4 9DY
Frequently Asked Questions
A few things you might be wondering
Smiling Tiger Studios is based in Weymouth, Dorset, and we photograph weddings across Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset and throughout the UK.
Travel within the UK is included in our full-day wedding collections. For weddings further afield, we’ll simply let you know if accommodation or additional travel is needed.
Send us your wedding date and a few details through the enquiry form.
We’ll check availability across the Smiling Tiger team and come back to you personally, usually within 24 hours.
If we’re available, we can then arrange a short Zoom call to hear what you’re planning, answer your questions and see whether we’re the right fit.
Smiling Tiger Studios is led by Linus, with a carefully selected team of photographers working to the same creative approach and standards.
Depending on your collection, date and coverage, your wedding may be photographed by Linus, Will or another STS photographer.
Different photographers. Different personalities.
One recognisable Smiling Tiger eye.
You’ll always know who is covering your wedding well before the day itself.
Very little.
We’ll give you direction when it helps – particularly for couple portraits and family photographs – but we’re not interested in turning your wedding into a photoshoot.
For most of the day, we want you concentrating on each other and the people around you.
Your photographs fit around your wedding. Not the other way around.
Absolutely.
Those photographs matter, so we’ll organise them efficiently and keep the list focused on the people who are genuinely important to you.
Around 6-8 essential groups usually works well without taking you away from your guests for too long.
Then we get everyone back to the wedding.
Yes. You can book photography, film, or both.
When we cover both, our photographers and filmmakers work with the same documentary philosophy, so you don’t have two separate teams competing for your attention.
Photography lets you stop and return to individual moments.
Film brings back voices, movement, laughter and atmosphere.
Different ways of remembering the same wedding.
We usually send a small photography preview within 48-72 hours, with the full gallery normally following within around two weeks.
For film collections, we aim to send a short preview within around three weeks, with the full highlight film usually delivered within around six weeks.
We deliberately let the photographs arrive first and have their own moment before film brings the wedding back in a completely different way.
This is one of the advantages of booking a studio rather than relying entirely on one person.
If the photographer assigned to your wedding became genuinely unable to attend, our first priority would be arranging suitable replacement cover from within the STS team.
Whatever happens behind the scenes, the aim is simple:
your wedding photography remains properly looked after.
