Small Wedding Investment Guide
the nitty gritty
Here’s what an investment in wedding photography for a “small wedding” includes, from the first meeting to the final print.
Here’s what an investment in wedding photography for a “small wedding” includes, from the first meeting to the final print.
We fully understand the importance of documenting this exciting time in your lives, and we’re thrilled that our work has clicked with you enough to reach out and learn more.
A bit about us: as a couple ourselves, we’re sentimental about documenting love for others. How we work: first and foremost, we focus on building genuine relationships with our couples. This helps us create images that truly represent you, your people, and your story - plus, it’s our favorite part of the job!
After 10 years and 200+ weddings in business together, we believe that an experienced photographer is best to anticipate and capture the many moments that make up a wedding day. Our documentary / photojournalistic approach is organic, energetic, and honest. We want to show the heart of your day - the overflowing emotion, connection, and spirit of it - to bring you back to how it felt every time you view your photos.
How about you two? You simply can’t imagine life without each other, and you can’t wait for this next chapter together. As for your wedding day, you want to be present, to feel your day to the max, and to focus as much as possible on what (and who) matters most over trends and traditions that just aren’t you.
You want your photos to show the real stuff… the unscripted moments, raw emotions, honest personalities, and candid outtakes that make the day truly yours. If this sounds like you, then we may be the perfect addition to your small wedding!
This guide shows what an investment in wedding photography by us includes, from the first meeting to the final print. Here we go!
Our Small Wedding packages are tailored for those envisioning a shorter + more intimate wedding day with 30 or fewer guests.
3 hour coverage with Joe
Online proofing gallery of curated + edited images
High resolution image download through gallery
10x10 Fine Art Album
Album is at a $300 discount if booked up-front (normally $1,500)
Add Jen for double coverage of the day
Up to 6 hours to be considered a Small Wedding day
2 hour engagement session with Joe
Online proofing gallery of curated + edited images
High resolution image download through gallery
Our relationships with our couples are so important to us, and your investment with us includes excellent service through the entire process. We’ll invest time pre-wedding to help you plan for your small event, provide tips for great photos, and learn as much as we can about you two and your communities. On the wedding day we want you to feel like we’re part of the gang - a couple of friends who happen to have cameras.
As a start take a peek at Wedding Photo Prep guide, full of tips and FAQs about how to get the best photos possible.
We love to travel! For Midwest events more than 1.5 hours from Minneapolis a standard $500 travel fee applies. For US or international weddings >6 hours from Minneapolis the cost of round trip flights and 3 nights lodging applies.
We believe that prints are the most important part of the photography process. Digital images are the first step: great for widespread viewing and sharing, but ultimately temporary. Prints and albums are the final product, turning your memories into artifacts for you to cherish for the long haul.
We’ve curated a lineup of luxury albums, prints, wall displays, and items right through a shop in your online gallery. We guarantee that our paper and ink quality are accurate, durable, and meant to last for the long haul. After your wedding we’ll consult with you to select items that are perfect for you.
Find lots more about our prints, wall, art, and
Fine Art Albums here!
In an era where everyone is a photographer, we hold it down as educated, experienced, professional, full time, wedding-specific photographers. This is vital for your wedding day - no redo's in this world!
With over 200 weddings under our belts together it’s tough to catch us off guard. Two of us = more moments captured, and we work together seamlessly so no moment goes uncovered.
It’s also just generally fun to hang as a couple with other couples :).
Investment in full wedding photography by us currently begins at $6,250. We take on a limited number of weddings each year so we can deliver the best service possible to our couples!
Two photographers and access to curated, edited high-resolution images are always included. Engagement Sessions + Fine Art Albums are also added by most.
Contact us and we’ll send over our full Wedding Photo Investment Guide!
As documentary photographers we keep things real: primarily capturing real moments, personalities, + relationships. Wedding days are FULL of these, so they feel like a really special treasure hunt to us.
This honesty-is-the-best policy also applies to our edit style. We don’t love fleeting trendy filters that will date your photos over time, so our edits are clean, tasteful, and true-to-color.
Much more info here.
Yes!!!
We still adore classic camera-aware portraits. These are so important at weddings as a document of who was there with you. We’ll even coordinate with you up-front to create photo lists so no goes un-photographed.
We’re very experienced in directing “formal” photos, and we’d never expect you to instantly be perfect posers. In line with our style, we also keep portraits easy, fun, and true-to-you and your people. We promise we’ll make you look great - plus we’ll leave the outtakes :).
We pride ourselves on comprehensive, beautiful wedding day coverage. We want your photos to tell the full story of your day - not just one or two Instagram-able snaps.
That said, we don’t want to overwhelm you with thousands of proofs to choose from. We deliver about 75 images per hour, so you can expect ~600-800 fully edited and curated images for a typical wedding day - a perfect sweet-spot in our opinion.
We’d love to share samples of our full galleries with you. Inquire to see more and we’re happy to send a few your way!
DEFINITELY. We love to travel, and we love destination weddings - we even had one ourselves.
We take on 2-3 traveling events per year, and we’re experienced with the ins-and-outs of weddings on the road. We build in a flat estimated travel fee and book travel ourselves to keep logistics easy on you, and we have established systems in place to make sure the two of us, our gear, and your photos make it safely from point A to point B and back.
We’ll really go anywhere - reach out for a custom quote for your destination wedding!
Heck yes, we do family photos - we have a whole specific sister business dedicated to them! Joe was a studio family photographer for 5 years before we started our business, and he has photographed over 1,200 families.
He’s SO GOOD with kiddos!
Family sessions begin at $600 - you can find our family photo information right here!
Nope! We both focus on comprehensive storytelling through still photos. However, we do have some incredible video teams we can recommend that complement our approach very well.
You betcha! We’ll get in there to capture your grandparents’ slow dance, your best man busting his ridiculous signature move in the dance circle, and your stolen just-married makeout moments. We’ll also probably bust some moves of our own.
We welcome any other questions!
Wedding planning can be a lot, and we’d
honestly love to help out in any way we can.
Don’t be shy, we’re here for you!
1. LET’S CHAT. We’d love to meet you two for a double date via Zoom to learn more about you and your wedding plans!
2. LOCK IT DOWN. A signed contract and deposit of 1/2 of the total fee is due to hold your date, with the rest due 30 before the wedding.
3. THE FUN BEGINS! From there we’ll be by your sides start documenting this super-special time in your lives together.
Thank you for considering us to document the story of you and your day! We’re SO honored, and we truly can’t wait to get started.