On the longest day of the year the sun comes up over Tórshavn at 03:36 and goes down at 23:22, and between those two times it never gets properly dark. Civil twilight runs from one end of the night into the other. That single line of astronomy decides more about a Faroese elopement budget than any quote you will be sent, because it sets how many hours of usable light one day holds, and therefore how many days you actually need to buy.
The local costs here are small and oddly specific. They are also easy to miss. Two hundred krónur a head at a trailhead gate on Kalsoy, paid to a card machine sitting on the hillside. A hundred and seventy-five krónur read off your number plate as you drive under the sea to Eysturoy. Five hundred krónur each to walk on Mykines in summer, guide included, on top of the ferry ticket. Nobody sends you a venue invoice, because there is no venue. There is a road, a gate, a ferry timetable and the weather.
There are eight of us, photographers and filmmakers working as one team, and we plan Faroese days before we shoot them. This page sets out what our coverage costs, what the islands charge on top of it, and where the money genuinely does not go.
Two numbers, and the krónur on top
We photograph, film and plan Faroe Islands elopements as one team. A full day with a dedicated photographer or a dedicated filmmaker starts at $4,900. A full day with both, working the same weather window together, starts at $7,900. Our flights and rooms are included. What the islands add is counted in krónur, not thousands.
The hours we use when the sun rises at 3:36
In June the sun comes up in the north-northeast, which sounds like trivia until you are standing on the wrong coast at four in the morning. It is the reason our first hour is usually on the black sand at Tjørnuvík, where the sea stacks stand off to the northeast, or down in the cleft at Gjógv. It is almost never on the west side of Vágar.
Here is the shape of a mid-June day as we actually run it.
- 02:45. Coffee in the car, still on Streymoy. The sky is already pale, so none of this feels like a night shift.
- 03:36. Sunrise. Twenty minutes of low copper light across wet grass, the two of you on the black sand, the stacks catching it before you do.
- 05:00. Saksun while the tide is still out and the lagoon is holding the sky. If the wind is behaving, this is the hour we ask for vows.
- 07:30. Dry socks and a second breakfast. The light goes hard and flat for a stretch and we would rather drive through that than pretend it is good.
- 08:30. Eysturoyartunnilin, 175 krónur each way read off the plate, and a change of island while nothing outside is worth photographing.
- 11:00. If your civil ceremony is on this date, it sits here, in Tórshavn, on the municipality’s calendar rather than ours.
- 16:00. Vágar. The walk in from the Trælanípa gate is long enough to warm up in and wet enough that nobody does it in good shoes twice.
- 20:30. Múlafossur faces west, so this is the hour Gásadalur earns its reputation. At midday it belongs to whoever parked first, and it is a smaller viewpoint than the pictures suggest.
- 23:22. Sunset in the north-northwest. We keep working past it, because the ridges go to silhouette slowly here and the glow behind them lasts.
A nineteen-hour day is not the only option, and for a lot of couples it is not the right one. The same islands give you a completely different working shape in September, and the table below is why we ask for your month before we ask for anything else.
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | What that shape gives you |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May | 04:34 | 22:14 | Two long ends to the day, cliffs loud with birds, grass still short |
| 21 June | 03:36 | 23:22 | No true darkness at all, light to spare, a genuinely early alarm |
| 20 August | 05:43 | 21:16 | A humane start and a real dusk at the far end |
| 15 September | 06:52 | 19:52 | One breakfast, one dinner, the year’s best low sun angle |
| 10 October | 07:57 | 18:30 | Short and moody, easy to build around one ceremony hour |
Those are Tórshavn times and the northern islands run a few minutes off them. What changes with the season is not only length but direction, and direction is what decides whether we are on the north coast at first light or the west coast at last.
Fog on Mykines, sun over Saksun
The thing couples ask us about the Faroes, every time, is what happens when the weather closes in. It will, somewhere on your date. The useful part is that this is 18 islands packed into a space you can cross in an afternoon, and tunnels and causeways tie Streymoy, Vágar, Eysturoy, Borðoy and Sandoy together, so a morning that fails at Saksun can be a morning that works at Gjógv ninety minutes later. We ask two things of you in return: arrive a day or two ahead of your date, and let the civil ceremony sit on its own slot so the outdoor hours stay free to move.
Mykines is the one place we ask couples to treat as a bonus rather than a plan. Between 1 May and 31 August everyone arriving by ferry pays DKK 500 per person, or DKK 400 booked online before arrival, and a mandatory guide comes with the fee. That makes it a scheduled, shared, sea-state-dependent visit. Worth doing, and not somewhere to hold a private ceremony hour.
Two cameras in one weather window
Faroese light does not arrive and then wait for you. A hole opens in the cloud over Sørvágsvatn, the water goes from grey to silver, the far headland lights up for perhaps four minutes and then the lid comes back down. With one camera on the ground, those four minutes are a choice between the still frame and the moving one, and whichever you pick, the other version of that moment does not exist.
On the Expedition, a dedicated photographer and a dedicated filmmaker work the same window from two positions: one wide on the ridge with the two of you small in the landscape, one close enough to hear what you are saying. Neither of them is improvising around the other, because we built the timeline together three months earlier and we both know the light is arriving from the northwest at 20:40.
Wind is the other Faroese constant. Vows spoken on an exposed headland are inaudible two metres away, so the Expedition carries professional audio and we place it before you speak rather than wishing for it afterwards. When the wind wins anyway, we move the words into the lee of a turf wall or a boulder field and shoot the exposed wide frames either side of them.
Aerials run on rules rather than luck. European drone regulation applies here alongside the Faroese order on drones with its own distance requirements, land enclosed by a fence or a wall needs the owner’s permission before you fly over it, and homes carry a five-metre buffer. Villages like Gásadalur and Saksun are largely enclosed land with people living inside it. So we check the zones and ask for the permissions in planning, and we design the film to stand on its own if the honest answer that week is no.
The rest of the argument is unglamorous. When the cloud drops over the pass, one team makes one decision. A photographer and a separately hired filmmaker who met that morning make two, in two cars, with two ideas about what the day was for. Eight of us means there is always a second camera on the islands and a colleague in reserve. You can see how the Faroes read once the files come back in our published galleries and films, grey days included, because those are often the ones we like most.
If you already have a month in mind, tell us which one and we will write back with what the light does in it, which coasts face the right way, and what the gates are charging that week. Check Your Date.
What the fee covers, and what you pay in krónur
Our price does not move with your guest count. Guests change access, permits, transport and the timeline, not the figure. Everything below is inside the coverage before you add a single Faroese króna.
Already in the price
- Destination and location design for these islands specifically, not a shortlist copied off a map.
- Planning, and a custom timeline built around light and real travel time, including ferry and tunnel legs.
- Permit research and logistics guidance, from landowner gates to drone zones.
- Weather alternatives and backup planning for every hour of the day.
- Drone footage where it is legal, safe and appropriate.
- Professional audio for vows and meaningful moments on the Expedition, where conditions allow.
- Team travel worldwide. Our flights into Vágar, our rooms, our rental car and our own tunnel tolls are ours, with no long-haul or island surcharge.
- Highlights delivered in 5 days, and the full gallery or film in 3 weeks.
Paid locally, in krónur
Prices here are in Danish krone, and the Faroese króna is the same money in different paper. The figures are modest in dollar terms: the largest single gate fee in the islands, Mykines in high summer, lands under $100 a head. Our three coverage tiers, including the multi-day option that runs from two to seven days across one or several destinations as a custom proposal, are laid out on the coverage and pricing page.
| What you pay locally | Where it stands in 2027 planning terms |
|---|---|
| Kallur lighthouse trail, Kalsoy | DKK 200 per adult, collected at the site, cards accepted on the hill |
| Mykines, 1 May to 31 August | DKK 500 per person, or DKK 400 booked online before arrival, mandatory guide included, plus the ferry ticket |
| Trælanípa and Lake Sørvágsvatn, Vágar | Private land with a staffed gate and a per-person charge taken there, in the same range as Kalsoy |
| Eysturoyartunnilin | DKK 175 each way without a subscription, billed automatically off your number plate |
| Celebrant, venue and landowner permission fees | Set by whoever grants them. The research and the asking are ours, the fee is yours |
| Rooms, food, rental car, and any charter the film needs | Booked by you, in your name. We tell you where to be, when, and how long the drive really takes |
How a Faroe 2027 date moves from first email to hold
If you are still working out how an elopement day is put together at all, our planning fundamentals cover the shape before the specifics. Once you are past that, this is the whole process.
- You send the inquiry form with your dates, or the month you are circling, and where in the islands you have been looking.
- We reply within 24 hours with our initial brochure.
- We build a tailored proposal: locations, light, coverage, and the shape of the day.
- Contract signed, 30% retainer paid.
- Planning begins. Timeline, permit research, alternatives for every hour, and a document calendar that respects Tórshavn’s four-week notice deadline.
- The rest of the payment schedule is set out in the proposal, and we book our own flights.
Who the Faroes reward
Couples who do well here are the ones who like the sound of a 02:45 alarm in June, who are steady on wet grass and uneven basalt, and who can hear at breakfast that we are driving to the other side of Streymoy instead and think that sounds like an adventure rather than a failure. It also helps to enjoy a day with a ferry or two in it.
If a pre-dawn start is not your idea of a good morning, say so in your first message. September gives you sunrise at 06:52 and a real dusk at 19:52, which is a whole elopement inside civilised hours and, in our view, the best low light of the Faroese year. If what you picture is a warm still evening on a wide lawn, these islands will not hand you that in any month, and we would rather tell you which of our destination guides holds the place that will. Tell us the picture in your head and we will tell you honestly where and when it lives.
Common questions
How far ahead do we send our marriage paperwork to Tórshavn?
The notice of marriage has to reach the municipality no later than four weeks before your date, and it cannot be sent sooner than four months before it. For a ceremony in weeks 34, 35 or 36, make that six weeks. Your marital status certificate is only valid for four months from the day it is issued, so we work the document dates backwards from your ceremony rather than forwards from now. One quirk worth knowing: Tórshavn takes the inquiry from the two of you directly rather than from a photographer or a planner, so that email has to come from your address.
Do we need witnesses if it is only the two of us?
Two witnesses sign the register, and their names and addresses go to the municipality in advance. If you are arriving with nobody, tell Tórshavn early and they can arrange for two members of staff to be present and attest the ceremony. For vows out in the landscape, we treat the two names as part of the timeline rather than something to solve on the morning.
Will a Faroese marriage certificate work back home in the United States?
You are handed an international marriage certificate in Faroese and English at the end of the ceremony. Whether your own county or state wants further legalisation on top of that is a question for the office where you will file it, and one worth asking before you travel rather than after. We put it in the planning calendar early so it is not a week-three surprise.
What happens if our date is fogged in?
We move, and we planned the move in advance. Every Faroese day we build carries a primary location, an alternative facing a different direction, and a low-cloud version that still looks like these islands rather than a compromise. The tunnels let us change island inside an hour. We also ask you to arrive at least a day ahead of your date, and to keep the civil ceremony slot separate from the outdoor hours, so the part that can move is free to move.
Can you fly a drone over Gásadalur or Saksun?
Sometimes, and never on the assumption. European drone rules apply here alongside the Faroese order on drones and its distance requirements. Land enclosed by a fence or a wall needs the owner’s permission before you fly over it, and there is a five-metre buffer around homes. Both of those villages are largely enclosed land with people living in it, so we check the zones, ask for permissions during planning, and build the film so it holds up without an aerial if the answer that week is no.
Are your flights and hotels on our bill?
No. Team travel is included worldwide and the Faroes are no exception. You cover your own travel and rooms, the celebrant, any government, venue or landowner permit fees, and unusual transport if the film calls for it, such as a private boat under the sea stacks or a 4×4 up a track. The research and the asking stay with us.
How soon do we see the photographs and the film?
Highlights reach you five days after your day. The full gallery or the finished film follows within three weeks. That does not stretch because your day happened on Kalsoy and involved a ferry.
Is one day enough, or should we plan more?
One day works well if you are flexible about which hours it uses. Two or more buys you weather latitude and a second island without a forced drive between them. Our multi-day option covers two to seven days and one or several destinations, quoted around what you actually want to do. In mid-October, with sunset at 18:30, a second day is usually worth more than a longer single one.
Sending the first email
Everything we do runs in writing. You send the form, we reply inside 24 hours with the brochure, and the proposal that follows is a document you can read twice at your own kitchen table with nobody waiting on the other end. Our planning calendar for Faroe Islands currently covers 2027, 2028 and 2029, and if you name the month we will tell you what the sun is doing in it.
Send us the dates you are holding, the coasts you have been looking at, and what you want the first hour of the morning to feel like. Tell Us Your Story.