Forty minutes of family formals while cocktail hour happened without you. A sunset spent posing instead of standing in it. Then eight hundred images three months later... and not one that captures the true feeling from your day.
Almost nobody plans for that version. It's just what happens when the photos are the thing you book last.
& it moves faster than anyone warns you
You get one day
Around here, we do both
A day you actually got to be in OR a gallery with real art in it.
most photographers make you choose between...
Edited images, delivered in six weeks. Your mother laughing at something off camera. The toast that went sideways. The part of the night you were too happy to remember clearly.
The full gallery
Every gallery includes at least ten deliberately art-directed images. Not ten lucky frames pulled from a thousand, ten I scout and plan for before you arrive.
Guaranteed editorial 10
No shot lists to march through, no getting pulled from your own reception. I plan around your timeline instead of asking you to build one around me. You'll barely notice I'm working.
Documentary coverage
The matisse experience
Wentworth by the Sea
“I didn't realize she'd been working the whole time. I have a photo of my dad crying that I never saw happen.”
Portsmouth
“Ten of these are on our walls now. My mother-in-law framed three. I've never wanted to hang photos before.”
New Castle
“We were back at cocktail hour by 5:40 and I still don't know how she did it. Nothing about the day felt rushed.”
I shot my first wedding in 2016 as a favor for a coworker, with one lens and no idea what I was doing. Seven years and a hundred and eighty weddings later, the thing I care about hasn't changed.
My own wedding photos are fine. They're just fine. Nobody's crying in them, nothing's framed, and I think about that more than I should. So I built the whole experience around the two things those photos are missing: a day I actually remember, and images actually worth putting on a wall.
I photograph weddings the way I wish someone had photographed mine.
I'm Matisse
One wedding in a single weekend, and only about fifteen weekends, which is what makes the week before yours, yours. September and October Saturdays are usually spoken for a year out, and I book about fourteen months ahead. Don't wait to reach out so you can be sure to snag your date.
I only take fifteen weddings per year
my calendar & availability
From the 'folio
A two-page template with the four buffers most couples forget, built from a hundred and thirty weddings of watching where the day goes sideways.
The wedding day timeline that leaves you time to eat
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