01 – The four buffers
02 – A eral timeline, hour by hour
03 – What family formals actually take
04 – When to eat
05 – Where the light goes
06 – The 2 things to move first
Every wedding I photograph, the same 4 things run long, and the couples who planned for them get an afternoon that feels unhurried while everyone else spends the day 40 minutes behind. It's the one part of your wedding you can completely solve before the day arrives.
Inside The Guide
married at Abenaqui Country Club
“I downloaded this 8 months before our wedding & ended up rebuilding our entire afternoon around it. We ate dinner, we made our own cocktail hour, and nothing ran late all day.”
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
