Intimate weddings · Vietnam
Twenty guests
One room, one meal, and a day that runs on its own time.
One room, one meal, and a day that runs on its own time.
A Vietnamese banquet is normally three hundred people, a stage and a toasting schedule. More couples now want the opposite. An intimate wedding in Vietnam is a different job to photograph, not a cheaper version of the same one, and the photographer you want for twenty guests is not always the one you would hire for three hundred. This page is what changes, and what it costs.
A small wedding photographed and filmed by our crew is from USD 3,000, the same as a large one, because the hours are the same. For a genuinely short day, USD 2,980 buys eight working hours with the founder photographing you himself, which is often the right shape for twenty guests. Planning in English. A deposit of USD 100 holds the date.
Three things, and they all push the day in the same direction.
We will tell you when you do not need a second camera, which is most of the time at this size. One photographer in a room of twenty is close enough to catch everything and small enough to be forgotten by the second hour, and that matters more than coverage from two angles.
At an intimate wedding the crew is often the thing that makes a small room feel like a production, so we keep it small on purpose. A second person earns their place in three cases: when the two of you get ready in different places, when there is a film as well as photographs, and when the day moves between a house, a ceremony and a restaurant across a city. Otherwise the crew is the thing making the room feel like a production.
If it is only the two of you with no guests at all, that is an elopement and it is priced differently.
The real constraint is rarely the space. It is finding a venue whose minimum spend was not written for a banquet, and that is worth asking in your first message to them.
This is the part nobody puts on a wedding page, and it is the part that decides most small weddings in Vietnam. Your parents may have a list of people they feel obliged to invite: colleagues, neighbours, relatives you have met twice. For them the guest list is not a preference, it is an obligation they will have to explain afterwards.
What works, from the couples we have photographed: hold the small wedding you want, and let your families hold a separate meal at home later for the list. It costs less than enlarging the wedding, and it keeps the day itself the size you wanted. If both sides are in different cities, covering two places is a normal shape for us.
| What | Included | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Wedding day, photo and film | Our crew on both cameras, from getting ready to the meal | from $3,000 |
| Signature, by the founder | Do Xuan Cuong photographs you himself, 8 working hours, 2 to 3 locations | $2,980 |
| A session instead of a wedding day | 6 hours, 2 locations, no ceremony to cover | from $780 |
In Vietnam, anything under about sixty guests reads as small, and twenty to forty is the size most of the couples on this page choose. The number matters less than the shape: one room, one meal, no stage and no table by table toasting schedule.
From USD 3,000 for photo and film by our crew across the day, the same as a large wedding, because the hours are the same. If the day is genuinely short, a few hours rather than a full day, USD 2,980 buys eight working hours with the founder photographing you himself, which is often the better fit for twenty guests.
Usually not, and we will say so. One photographer in a room of twenty is close enough to catch everything and small enough to be forgotten, which is the whole point. A second camera earns its place when there is a separate getting-ready location, or when photo and film are both running.
Yes, and in a small wedding it usually becomes the centre of the day rather than a rushed half hour before the banquet. With twenty people in the room instead of a queue waiting outside, the le gia tien is the part couples tell us they remember.
A family house, a restaurant taken over for the afternoon, a villa in Da Lat or Ninh Binh, or a resort that will do a set menu for twenty without pushing you into a ballroom. The constraint is rarely the space, it is finding a venue whose minimum spend is not written for three hundred guests.
It photographs like more of one. With twenty guests nobody is a stranger, the speeches are to people rather than at them, and the day runs on its own time instead of a banquet schedule. The honest trade is that your parents may have a list of people they feel obliged to invite, and that conversation is worth having early.