Our Offerings
Like a really good taco menu, but for photography
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Table of Contents
(and now you want tacos... so sorry!)
your love - not how it's "supposed" to look
But, how it actually feels
What’s the point of having your wedding day documented if it feels nothing like who you ARE or how it felt to get married when you look back on your album? We want to awaken those senses in a new way every time you experience new versions of life –
adding dog children and real children, loved ones passing, life evolving....
We’re immortalizing memories, here.
THIS ISN'T ONLY ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHS
...but we are going to create some heirloom quality art with you. Afterall, the images we make together will live on to be your very first family heirloom.
The way we see it, our job is to create space for you to have a sensory experience of your wedding day. To allow you the opportunity to notice.
Throughout your wedding experience - the before, during, after, and especially the big day itself, we become your gentle guides. You’ll hear us quietly directing family members for portraits, and then in the next breath, reminding you to breathe, eat something more substantial than cake, and hydrate (yes, with actual water, not just the celebratory bubbly).
When we see your shoulders creeping up toward your ears after too much "smile and nod" with distant relatives, we'll swoop in with a suggestion for a quick escape - a moment alone or a quick huddle with your nearest and dearest.
Above everything else, we’re going to spend our day pointing you back toward each other - a little nudge here, a whispered reminder there - because witnessing and documenting that connection is why we're all really here, isn't it?
Though they are about to be your first family heirloom.
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Wedding Photography
This is the bread AND the butter (extra butter for us, please).
When we talk about photography as an investment, we're not just throwing around fancy words. We're talking about something that actually grows in value over time. Investment implies a giving of ones self - time, resources, vulnerability, in order to gain a reward. The truth is, and you can excuse us while we step up onto our tiny soapboxes, what you put in, is what you get back, and that reward, when it comes to photography, gains interest (in the best way) with every passing year.
To get real personal, when I look back on photos of my kids, you better believe the tears runneth over as I study their tiny features that have transformed from chubby toddler elbow dimples, to slimmed out big kids with elbows that point and everything. And that’s just the physical changes. Their spirit has evolved, too.
As life evolves, so does the way you will see your love story, and the people that are a part of it.
So, those photographs of your grandmother dancing? The ones of your best friend ugly-crying during your vows (points at self during my best friends wedding)? The quick embrace you stole together when you thought no one was watching? They'll be worth more to you on your fifth anniversary than on your first. more still on your twentieth, when your kids ask what your wedding was like. By your fiftieth? I believe they call that "priceless."
This is the cornerstone of your future family history. That seems to be a pretty worthwhile investment if you ask us.
It takes but a single photograph sometimes to recall the made up words they used to use daily but have since been retired to our memories. When it comes down to it, that's what we're really doing, here.
As one father of the bride put it, “I did not think it was humanly possible to relive the preciousness of that evening. I was wrong. You’ve made it live forever.” So, screw storytellers, we’re basically immortalizers.
In all reality, you’re hiring real live human people (hopefully ones that you actually like - seriously, that’s important), to write your love song for you. It’s the song that never ends. And we’re not talking about closing to the 90’s kids television show lambchop, though that’s probably stuck in your head for eternity. We’re talking the kind of song that ebbs and flows, and just when you think it’s finished, it goes on.
"I have spent the last 24 hours crying (and crying) as I've watched (and watched) the startlingly beautiful way you captured my daughter's wedding. I did not think it was humanly possible to relive the preciousness of that evening. I was wrong. You've made it live forever.
Thank you for your exquisite artistry and your giant hearts."
- Father of the Bride
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Connection Sessions
Let's call it what it is: A Connection Session. Yes, technically it's an 'engagement session' (but that sounds about as exciting as 'dental hygiene appointment,' so we renamed it). This is your chance to hang out with us, get all comfy cozy in front of our cameras, and remember what it feels like to just be together without discussing seating charts or flower arrangements.
Think of it as a test run where you learn that we're actually not scary at all (despite the cameras), and we learn all your good angles (spoiler: you have many). By the wedding day, we'll be old friends and you'll be total naturals.
Sound good? Let's talk about personalizing this session for you.
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Elopements
Here's what we love about elopements: they strip away everything but what actually matters - you two, making promises to each other, exactly how you want to. No pretense, no performance, no spending half your day taking formal photos with people you see once a year. Just an intentional experience that feels true to who you actually are as a couple.
The best part? You get to write the rules. Want to say "I do" on a black sand beach in Iceland? Perfect. Prefer the misty mountains of Scotland? Amazing. The rooftop where you had your first date? Absolutely. Or maybe it's simply that perfect clearing in the woods behind your house - that works too. There's literally no wrong answer when it comes to choosing the backdrop for your love story.
Sound good? Let's make it happen.
"The amazing Ashley and Ben bottled up all of the joy, love, and [dance party] flossing of this beautiful day into a perfect little time machine and I don't think I've ever treasured something more than the gallery we received yesterday."
- Bride
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Wedding
Cinema
Let's skip the manufactured emotion, drawn out slow-motion shots and forced voice overs that plague most wedding videos. You deserve better.
Wedding films don’t have to fit in a box. That’s right. No plain old cardboard here. Just boxes full of glitter and rainbows. Think snappy and emotion inducing in the “holy rad video, Batman” kind of way. If you’re just not the traditional type and want the kind of video your friends will watch (and actually finish watching) - and then wish they had one for themselves, you’ve found it.
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Super 8
Shot on actual vintage film cameras, Super 8 footage has a dreamy, tactile quality that no digital filter can truly replicate. Subtle grain, soft colors, the way light blooms just a little bit around the edges - it's imperfectly perfect in all the right ways.
Super 8 is basically a time capsule for your wedding day - except you don't have to wait 30 years to dig it up. We load up our cameras with real film (yes the physical stuff that makes that satisfying click clack sound), record the most important bits of your day, then develop and scan it into a 3-5 minute film that will make even your friend who "hates wedding videos" ask you to play it one more time.
The Price of Entry
(worth every penny)
Think of this as your golden ticket to the memory factory. The backstage pass to your "behind the I do's". The admission fee to the "remember when" museum you'll visit for decades to come.
Our collections begin at $5950 for weddings local to Columbus, OH
From there, we can add all sorts of magic - extra hours for when the dance floor just won't quit, heirloom albums that your grandkids will fight over someday, plane tickets to that cliffside ceremony in Santorini you've been dreaming about (our passports are always ready, just saying).
Not to worry, we'll walk through all the possibilities together. No spreadsheets or pie charts (unless you're into that sort of thing, in which case, respect but we prefer actual pie). Just honest conversation about creating exactly what you need.
