Composed editorial coverage.
A wedding is twelve hours long. The keepers come in the twenty minutes nobody was paying attention to me. I disappear when you need me to. I’m there when you need me to be. And I grab the frames that tell the story.
A wedding has a different rhythm
than a portrait session.
The eye is the same.
In frames,
start to finish.
Six chapters. Each one runs at a different tempo. The pre-call locks down what coverage you actually want: small or full-day, ceremony-only or through the exit, and which pieces matter most. The list below is what a typical full-day looks like.
Getting ready.
Bridal prep, groom prep, the room before anyone else arrives. Candid family, the dress on the hanger, the little things you forget about by 9 PM.
First look.
If you’re doing one, and most clients now do, this is the moment when you finally see each other. The whole day shifts here. Quiet, no audience.
Ceremony.
The vows, the reactions of the people watching, the recessional. I shoot wide enough to give you the room and tight enough to give you the faces.
Family + couple portraits.
Organized, brief, and out of the way. You’ll have a list from the pre-call. Twenty minutes of family formals, then thirty minutes of the two of you while the light is right.
Reception.
Toasts, first dance, parent dances, the dance floor when it’s actually moving. The room when nobody’s looking. The candid photographs people remember years later.
The exit.
Sparkler send-off, bubble exit, getaway car, whatever you’ve planned. The last frames of the day are usually the loudest, in a good way.
The method,
wedding edition.
The same three beats, scaled up to a wedding day. The pre-call is longer. The first look is a moment within the larger first look. The same-day proof reaches your inbox before the dance floor closes.
A pre-call to learn the day.
Forty-five minutes on the phone. Who matters, who’s tense, what’s the family configuration, what light you want, what you’re worried about. The session changes depending on the answers.
A timeline I help you build. Then we work the day.
I’ll send a timeline draft a month out. We adjust it together, including with the planner if you have one. On the day, I move quietly between beats: direction by conversation, not by command.
A first look the same night. The full edit in two to four weeks.
Five to ten edited frames in your inbox before you go to sleep. Full delivery in two to four weeks. A wedding is 5,000+ raw frames; the work is in the edit, and that work takes the time it takes.
Two from
the cutting-room floor.
Two recent frames: the quiet moments between the louder ones. The directory will grow as more wedding work joins it.
Wedding collections.
Four starting points below: elopement coverage first, then full wedding-day collections with The Studio Book included.
Elopement Editorial.
- 3 hours of coverage
- Ceremony + couple portraits
- Immediate family / witness portraits
- 125–175 edited frames
- Private online gallery
- Same-day first look
The Wedding Day.
- 6 hours of coverage
- 400+ edited frames
- The Studio Book, 8×8 lay-flat, 20 pages
- Private online gallery
- Same-day first look
The Wedding Day Plus.
- 8 hours of coverage
- Engagement session included
- Second photographer for ceremony + portraits
- The Studio Book, 10×10 lay-flat, 20 pages
- Five-print folio set, in-studio printed
- Same-day first look
The Full Story.
- 10 hours of coverage
- Engagement + day-after sessions
- Second photographer, full day
- The Studio Book, 12×12 lay-flat, 30 pages
- Two parent albums, 6×6, matching
- 16×24 framed wall portrait
- 13×19 statement print, in-studio
- Same-day first look
Before the pre-call.
Do you bring a second photographer?
Second photographer is included in the Better and Best collections. For the Good tier, second-photographer coverage is available as an add-on. The second is for the moments when one camera can’t be in two places: getting ready in two suites, ceremony angles, candid reception coverage while the lead is on dance-floor.
How long until we see the photos?
Five to ten edited frames in your inbox before you go to sleep that night, usually within four hours of the last shot. Full gallery delivery follows in two to four weeks. A wedding is 5,000+ raw frames; the work is in the edit, and that work takes the time it takes. If you have a specific deadline (announcement card, thank-you cards), tell me on the pre-call and we’ll plan around it.
We're not naturally comfortable in front of cameras. How does that work?
That’s the standard starting condition for most couples. The pre-call is partly for this; by the time the wedding day arrives, we’ll have talked enough that the camera doesn’t feel like a stranger. On the day itself, direction is conversational, not commanding (“turn your head left” is not how I talk). And the keepers usually come in the twenty minutes when you’ve forgotten I’m in the room.
Tell me about the day.
Most consultations are fifteen minutes, by phone or video. I’ll come back with availability, a quote, and a sketch of how I’d approach the day, usually within a day or two.
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