Candid + Fun Wedding Photography
After a full decade of weddings, I’ve got your back from start to finish. Here’s a peek into what it feels like to work together on your wedding day.
So you’re getting married
This crazy wonderful moment happened to you, you decided to marry your best friend. Now what? All of a sudden you have tons of saved inspiration screenshots and that person you talked to once at a bar is asking where their special invitation is. In all of this, you need to find a photographer, but doesn’t that mean spending most of your day reenacting the same photos you see all over the internet? Isn’t it tons of cheesiness or those awkward senior photos we all did that looked nothing like us?
01
chat & Book
Once we have gone over any questions you have and picked out the perfect collection, a contract and invoice will be sent your way to book.
02
The planning process
I am always here for any questions you have along the way, but at the 12 week mark we will set up a call to go over your timeline so far. At 8 weeks, there will be a form that goes over all of your wedding day details.
03
It’s Wedding Day!
Now is the fun part! You get to relax and have a hell of a lot of fun while I handle the photo side of things. Your job is to enjoy every moment of your day and leave the rest to me.
Your wedding day is this singular day (or sometimes a few) that is jam-packed with emotions and all of these life-altering changes. It’s likely the one time in your life that you will have all of the people you love the most in one place. It’s this day that you spend months and years planning, but it flies by in a second. I want you to be able to enjoy that.
Dance with your best friend, take that deep breath right before you walk down the aisle, and celebrate with your favorite humans when you are finally freaking married. Even better, I want you to live in every moment of that while having it documented so you can relive it over and over again.
So what does this actually mean for your wedding day? This means getting to the root of what you actually want. We will go through how you would love your wedding day to actually be, not what it “should be” according to the internet/your-friend-that-was-married-once/that-aunt-that-won’t-stop-calling. From there, we will work to have your wedding photos be an honest representation of who you are together.
OKAY COOL, SO OUR PHOTOS WILL FEEL LIKE US.
The entire day is about you both having an amazing time and my part is you having wonderful images to remember it by. It’s not about walking through and fitting you into countless archetypes of what wedding photos should look like. It’s not those painfully awkward prom photos that still line our parents’ walls, or those wedding photos you see all over social media that you cannot imagine yourself in.
Beyond the photo part, you’ll be treated as if you were my own family (the ones I love too, not even the weird holiday family). I work dozens of weddings a year, and you really only plan one, so always feel free to use me as a resource. That can be helping you construct the perfect timeline over coffee, or sewing your bridesmaid into their dress (those damn hooks always break). It can mean enabling you to feel safe in doing whatever offbeat wedding decision you like (I promise to be super excited about it, even if others you told aren’t), or being your advocate/buffer on your wedding day when those same people are driving you bonkers.
You won’t have to think about what the photos will look like if it rains (or snows, this is Western New York after all). Whether it’s picking out the locations for your portraits, herding together your crazy family into a single photo, parsing out complicated familial dynamics, or deciding if you want a first look, I’m here. Weddings can be completely stressful and overwhelming. It’s a whole bunch of very coordinated chaos that turns into a monumental day in your lives. Let me be your the Obi-wan Kenobi to your Luke Skywalker and guide you through photo part of the day, so you don’t even have to think about it and can get back to your party.
From Past Clients
For weddings, the farthest we will book is 2 years out. We regularly book 12-16 months ahead of time, so be sure to inquire as soon as you can.
You will receive a sneak peek gallery with 72 hours of your wedding, the full gallery will be your way within 8 weeks.
I am willing to travel wherever! There are flat travel rates for cities I frequent like New York and Boston but everything else is all custom. If you’re from outside the Western New York area, reach out for a travel quote.
Once you decide you would like us to work together, I will send a quote your way. On this quote, you’ll be able to select the collection that most fits your day. After, the page will automatically take you to a contract. Your signature on the contract will lead you to the invoice page. A 35% retainer is required to book your date, with the remainder due two weeks before your wedding day.
Enjoy your wedding day and those around you. It’s as simple as that. Beautiful wedding photographs have nothing to do with photographing at a particular time, portraits at a picturesque location, or spending hours taking pictures. They are made spectacular by what you bring to it.
It’s so easy to get caught up in all of the little things (“did we pick the exact right blue for the centerpieces?”), but by doing so, you’re going to miss the moments that really matter.
If you want to, yes. If you don’t, no. Your wedding day is a celebration of you both. Contrary to what your over-opinionated aunt/second cousin/person you haven’t spoken to since high school says, all that is needed for a wedding is people in love. That’s it. The rest is up to you.
Your wedding day is exactly that – your day. After understanding exactly what you are looking for out of your images via our wedding day timeline, I will work within your day in a way that does not diminish the celebration. Outside of family formals, I blend into the day so you can just enjoy it. The most directing you will see will be to set you up in the best lighting situations possible, after that it is just about enjoying each other and letting those moments unfold. “I hardly even knew you were there photographing that!” is the best compliment I can receive.
There is a consensus of “this is what a wedding has to be to count as a wedding” and “this is what you have to do to get good wedding photos.” From the very get-go, know you can leave all of that at the door. Any insecurities about your weddings not being “wedding enough” go out the window, and we get down to telling your story.
It’s bar hopping because three hours of portraits don’t make sense for every wedding, and that dance move your best friend has when they have had too much to drink. It’s the full story of your wedding day and the people that existed in it, not just the expected, pretty highlights.
Your wedding photos have the ability to take you back to a magical day. Let’s make sure they show you how it felt, not just how it looked. I can do that for you while still ensuring you get to enjoy every moment of it. You won’t spend the entire day feeling like you cant have fun because you have photos to take. After all, a celebration is why you’re there in the first place.
We are so here to celebrate with you
We are all about you being exactly who you are and documenting the hell out of it. Does all of this make you want to dance it out? Reach out, we would love to be a part of your big adventure.
©2024 Jacqueline Connor
