Indian bride in a red lehenga and groom exchanging jaimala garlands at their palace ceremony in Lisbon

The Journal of Franklyn K, luxury wedding photographer in Paris

Autumn 2026Franklyn K

The Cover Story

How Do You Photograph a Multi-Day Indian Wedding in Europe?

Also inside: an elopement at the Ritz Paris, and the forty-five minutes that can break a wedding day

A Word Before You Start

Come in

This journal is where I keep what does not fit in a gallery: the morning before a ceremony, the rain plan nobody sees, the question you were slightly embarrassed to ask.

Take your time with it. Nothing here asks you to decide anything.

Franklyn

  1. 1The StoriesWeddings, told
  2. 2The PlacesWhere I have worked
  3. 3The NotebookPlain answers

Department One

The Stories

Weddings told the way they felt, by the person who was standing in the room.

Ritz Paris Couple Portraits Place Vendome Entrance Lace Gown Evening Light

Paris

An Elopement at the Ritz Paris: Lace, Marble, and Place Vendôme at Dusk

As a Ritz Paris wedding photographer, I have found there is a particular silence inside this palace at four in the afternoon. The kind of quiet that settles into marble floors and velvet drapes and waits for something to happen.

7 min read
Gassie Chateau Portraits Couple Kiss Bouquet Focus Black White Intimate

France

Morning Light and Chinese Tea at Château Gassies: A Luxury Wedding Where East Meets French Elegance

4 min Engagement session at the Louvre Museum colonnade in Paris, black and white editorial photography by Franklyn K

Paris

A Morning at the Louvre: An Engagement Session from Colonnade to Seine

5 min

Department Two

The Places

What each estate and palace asks of you, once the brochure is closed.

On a grey day in Brittany I am not making the best of a bad situation. I am working in the light I would have chosen.
From the story

Department Three

The Notebook

The answers I give couples when they ask me directly.

On the day

The Forty-Five Minutes That Can Break a Wedding Day

Family formals are the single most avoidable disaster of a wedding day. I learned that at my first Paris wedding at the Ritz, where they took an hour and ten minutes.

6 min

Before you book

Questions to Ask Your Wedding Photographer, And the Answers That Should Worry You

Every wedding blog has a version of this article. "20 questions to ask your wedding photographer before you book!" "The ultimate photographer checklist!" I have read most of them.

10 min

On the price

Why Wedding Photography Costs What It Does, An Honest Look Behind the Price

Short answer: wedding photography costs what it does because the wedding day is only a small part of the work.

6 min

At the Back

Everything, plainly

Weddings and Places

Engagement

The Notebook

The Door Is Open

Tell me about your celebration

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