I've never understood why those are the two options. You get one day. You're allowed to want both things out of it, and the only reason you usually can't have them is that nobody planned for it.
The documentary ones hand you a warm, true gallery with nothing in it you'd put on a wall.
The editorial ones hand you a beautiful gallery & a wedding you spent posing at.
Most photographers quietly pick a side
The flowers get thrown out. The food gets eaten, the band packs up, and the dress goes in a box you'll open twice. That's fine. That's what those things are for.
The photographs are the only thing you're buying that you still have on Monday, and in ten years, and when your children want to see what mommy looked like in her wedding dress. It's also the only vendor decision that stays with you the rest of your life.
Everything else you're paying for ends on Monday
Couples who want a real day and real art out of it, who have opinions about their photos, and who would rather not be managed at their own wedding.
CLIENTELE
Timeline planning, a venue walkthrough, and every email answered inside two business days from inquiry through final gallery.
EXPERIENCE
Documentary most of the day, editorial in short deliberate bursts. Warm, film-leaning color that will not look like 2026 in fifteen years.
Documentary style
My Approach
Then we should talk.
A photographer who holds the timeline & the in-between
Family formals handled quickly & kindly with ease for everyone
frame-worthy images without a wedding that's one big shoot
Photographs that look like how the day actually felt
You're in the right place if you're looking for
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.”
Average Investment: $8000-10000
Ten to twelve hours of continuous coverage
A second photographer for the full day
An engagement session, scheduled whenever suits you
The Editorial Ten
600 to 800 edited images, delivered in six weeks
Timeline planning and an in-person venue walkthrough
A private online gallery with print release
Sneak peeks within 48 hours
What's always included
Wedding Collections
For the wedding that starts at nine in the morning or ends when the band does. $650 per hour.
03. Additional hours
Two hours the night before, when everyone is happy and nobody is nervous yet. Beginning at $900.
02. Welcome party coverage
Linen bound, thirty spreads, designed by me and revised until you stop finding things to change. Beginning at $1,200.
01. Heirloom album
Additional offerings
Cliff House, Cape Neddick
“We were nervous about the photos more than anything else, because we're both awkward & we knew it. somewhere in there she got a photo of my husband's face during my vows that I have looked at probably four hundred times.”
The Colony Hotel, Kennebunkport
“Our wedding day did not go to plan. Matisse never looked stressed once, and I found out afterward she'd rebuilt our entire afternoon timeline in the parking lot. The photos from that evening are the best thing we own.”
Kensington
“We hired her for the wedding and we were so impressed. At some point she stopped being a vendor we booked & became a person who has been in our lives for four years and has photographs of nearly every milestone.”
Most wedding galleries contain a few extraordinary frames and nobody, including the photographer, knew they were coming. I'd rather not leave that to chance. So before your wedding I walk your venue, usually twice, and I work out where the light lands at four, at six, and at the last usable minute. I plan ten images. Composition, location, and timing, worked out in advance and built into your timeline as three short windows rather than one long one. On the day, those ten cost you about twenty minutes total. You'll be gone from cocktail hour for eight of them. And when your gallery arrives, those ten are marked, sized for print, and ready to go on a wall without you having to decide which of eight hundred photographs deserves it.
The Editorial Ten
Ten to twelve hours. You will barely notice me until the twenty minutes I ask for, and then I'll give you back. Sneak peeks in 48 hours, the full gallery in six weeks, with the Editorial Ten marked and print-ready.
03 / Your wedding day followed by your gallery
A contract and a retainer hold it. From that point the date is yours and I stop taking inquiries for it. Six to eight weeks out we build the timeline together and I walk your venue. This is where the Editorial Ten gets planned.
02 / You book your date, then we begin planning
I'll tell you within two business days whether I'm free and what a collection would look like. Thirty minutes, no pitch. Mostly I want to know what you're worried about and what you're actually looking forward to.
01 / send your Date, venue, & a rough guest count.
The Experience
Included with every wedding collection. Standalone sessions begin at $650.
Every wedding collection includes an engagement session, and I'd encourage you to actually use it. Not for the save the dates, though you'll get those. Because ninety minutes in front of my camera before your wedding is the single best predictor of how you'll feel in front of it on the day.
Ninety minutes, 1-2 locations, usually somewhere you already spend time. No, you don't have to know what to do with your hands.
Included with every wedding, & worth doing properly
engagements
Yes. Anniversaries, a proposal that just happened, or the year you finally got around to it. Same session, same ninety minutes, $650.
Q. Can we book an engagement session without a wedding?
6 to 9 months out if you want the images for save the dates, and in a season that doesn't match your wedding. Two galleries that look identical is a waste of a session.
Q. When should we do our engagement session?
6 to 8 hundred edited images, delivered in six weeks. Sneak peeks within 48 hours, because six weeks is a long time to wait for something.
Q. How many images do we get, and when?
We shoot anyway. Some of my favorite galleries are the wet ones. I scout an indoor version of the Editorial Ten at every venue walkthrough, so there's always a plan B that isn't a compromise.
Q. What happens if it rains?
No. I've shot it both ways hundreds of times and I don't have a preference. What I do have is a clear sense of which one each couple should do, and I'll tell you on our call.
Q. Do we have to do a first look?
Yes, and often. Travel within New England is included. Anywhere else, I'll quote flights and lodging at cost with no markup.
Q. Do you travel?
