How to Enquire About Booking a Wedding, Portrait or Headshot with Reid Studios

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Reid Studios takes bookings through the Enquire section of reidstudios.com, and there are also service-specific enquiry links, including one dedicated to headshots. To get a useful reply quickly, state the service you want (wedding, portrait, or headshot/corporate), your preferred date, and whether you need the studio on Reid Street in Fitzroy North or on-location coverage. Wedding enquiries should say whether you want the four-hour intimate format or ceremony-only coverage; corporate enquiries should include team size and office location.

What to include in your enquiry

The studio's site is built around three services, and each has details worth confirming up front so the first reply can address your actual needs.

Service What to state in your message Why it matters
Wedding Preferred date; whether you want the full four hours used across your day or just the ceremony and portraits on location; city, coast or country location The four-hour format is designed for registry weddings, elopements and smaller days, and can be split however suits the day
Portrait Studio or on-location preference; who the session is for (family, milestone, artist, or a personal portrait) Portraits are offered both in the studio and on location
Headshot / corporate Whether it's an individual lunch-break session or a whole team; for teams, the number of staff and your office location Individual sessions run at Reid Street; team shoots happen on site at your office

Wedding coverage is listed from $1,590. The site does not publish prices for portraits or headshots, so ask for a quote in your enquiry rather than assuming a figure.

Step by step

  1. Go to reidstudios.com and open the Enquire section, or use the headshot-specific enquiry link if you're booking a headshot or corporate session.
  2. Write a short message covering the points in the table above for your service type.
  3. Send it and wait for a reply confirming availability and next steps. The site describes the process as "simple from the start," but does not detail response times, so don't plan around a same-day answer.
  4. If your date is fixed (a registry appointment, for example), say so in the first message so availability can be checked against it.

What happens after booking

  • Headshots: sessions are short and can be booked early morning or over a lunch break at the Reid Street studio. Finished images are sent by digital download the same day.
  • Corporate teams: Chris comes to your office and shoots the whole team for a consistent look across staff.
  • Weddings: up to four hours of coverage, used either as a short-form record of the whole day or focused on the ceremony plus portraits on location.
  • Portraits: shot in the studio or on location, depending on what you've agreed.

Common sticking points

  • Leaving out the date. Without a preferred date, the studio can't confirm availability, which is the first thing most couples and teams need to know.
  • Being vague about location for weddings. Coverage extends across Melbourne, the city, the coast and country, so name your venue area.
  • Assuming headshot pricing or turnaround from the wedding rate. The $1,590 figure applies to weddings only; same-day delivery is stated for headshots, not for weddings or portraits.
  • Forgetting team size. For on-site corporate shoots, the number of staff directly affects scheduling, so include it in the first message.

Chris has been photographing weddings, portraits and headshots in Melbourne since 2000, working from the studio on Reid Street in Fitzroy North.