About Joy photography
What inspired us to start
As a married couple, we’ve experienced first hand how it’s like to get terrible wedding photos, and we are still suffering from it till this day.
Yes! That’s our actual wedding picture on the left.
Since then, we embarked on giving other couples the great experience that we never had: which is great quality wedding photos & video, at a reasonable price.
Plus we’re just hopeless romantics, so capturing weddings for people is just a lovely perk we enjoy.
What we do
If its not obvious already, well then its simple: We are wedding photographers.
In our few years in business, we’ve worked in some of the best and most beautiful wedding venues in Johannesburg, expanding our portfolio and building great relationships.
Yes, we might have the rare exception of shooting other events such as parties or corporate gigs, but we are love story tellers at heart.
We’d like to think of ourselves as a one-stop shop, whereby you get a wedding package that will suit your needs. Check them out here.
What makes us different
As a married couple, we already have the experience of knowing what to expect from a wedding day, and therefore, we always put ourselves in the shoes of the couple when shooting.
We care about you as a human being first, over and above being a client. Yes, this is business, but that don’t mean we can’t be human first.
The wedding industry is a business of emotions. And as such, we place your emotions as a priority. Weddings are stressful enough as it is, so why should we further complicate your day with unnecessary technicalities.
Even our onboarding process is simple and transparent. The price you see is the price you pay. No hidden costs, or exorbitant deposit requests. Just a minimal booking fee and we’re in business.
As long as the client is happy and everyone co-operates, then we’re good.
FAQ's
Some of the most common questions we get. If you can’t find the answers you need here, feel free to contact us and we will respond as soon as we can.
We are based in Northriding, Johannesburg. Not far from Northgate mall or the Dome. But we travel everywhere, in or outside of Gauteng. We’ve worked in some of the best and most beautiful wedding venues in Johannesburg
We don’t charge on a hourly basis. Our pricing model is on a “Day flat rate” basis. Meaning that we have a standard price, per day.
Weddings have different hours, so its tricky for us to give you an exact number. But a good estimate would be 8-9 hours of coverage.
Pretty much everything. From the preparations in the morning right up until the end of the program at the reception.
We don’t shoot the after party.
We don’t have a payment structure. We prefer offering a payment structure on a case-by-case basis, depending on the ability of client on how they are able to fulfil the payment.
Our only two conditions are:
1- You pay the R500 booking fee upfront
2- You settle the outstanding balance by no later than date of final delivery
To secure your date with us and ensure that no else can book us on that day, we charge a deposit fee of R500, non-refundable. Once that amount is paid, we will then proceed with the onboarding process and schedule a face-to-face consultation.
For weddings within Gauteng province that occur in a single venue/location we do not charge traveling fees.
But for weddings outside of Gauteng we do charge travelling fees. The amount will be dependant on the distance (in Km’s) from our place to the wedding venue destination/town/city, as well as the petrol price at the time.
Additionally, accommodation at a suitable B&B of our choice will be charged to the client’s expense, should the need arise that we need to sleep over.
Yes we do. We will quote you on the petrol and accommodation expenses prior, depending on the distance from our place to your wedding destination.
We have two. That is 1 videographer/drone pilot and 1 photographer/videographer.
We will split our team in two. One photographer will go to the Bride’s location and the other photographer will go to the Groom’s location. Please note that you will be charged travel costs for multiple location traveling
Yes. We offer drone videography at no extra cost.
But please note that the availability of the drone is dependant on the following:
1- Good clear, no wind weather
2- Permission from the venue
3- The wedding venue is not in a restricted ‘no-fly’ zone.
If any of these 3 conditions are not met, then we won’t fly the drone at your wedding, and it won’t constitute a discount or deduction on the package price.
No unfortunately we do not offer photo albums or any photo prints. We advise that you do that at your own discretion and expense, at your preferred printing facility.
Yes we do. Quotes are available upon request. And if you book us to shoot your wedding, then you get the video invite at a discount
Yes we do. Quotes are available upon request. And if you book us to shoot your wedding, then you get the engagement shoot at a discount
No unfortunately we do not offer 360 photo booth or any other type of photo booth.
Our final delivery will be in the form of a USB flash drive containing:
- 1 set of final edited photos (amount will vary)
- 1 highlight video (the length of song)
- 1 full length video (1hr 30 min)
Yes we can forward your deposit to a new date on two conditions:
1- Your new date does not clash with another confirmed booking.
2- Your new date is within that same calendar year.
Unfortunately we cannot refund your deposit, as that will be loss of business for us and that money will compensate for other potential bookings we would’ve missed for that date.
Unfortunately we cannot refund you if your day 2 didn’t happen for whatever reason that is not our fault.
Our turn around time is a minimum of 4 weeks to maximum of 8 weeks, depending on the backlog of work.
But we will provide you with teaser pictures before final delivery.
Unfortunately we don’t provide raw photos under any circumstances. Non-negotiable.
All the photos we hand over to you are the best selection of photos.
You are allowed to make reasonable change requests within 7 days after final delivery.
However we also have the right to reject your requests if we feel that they are creatively and technically unreasonable and unrealistic.
The deadline for you to pay any outstanding balance is on the day/week of final delivery of your USB.
If you are unable to settle this by this time, you will need to communicate this at least 7 days in advance prior to our arrival.