Wedding Information
CT Wedding Photography
True and beautiful CT wedding photography. We focus on the intimate, emotional moments of your wedding day that tell your unique story as a couple. Enjoy your day…we’ll capture the life and energy of your wedding, family and friends.
We love loose, natural expressions and poses that aren’t trendy or stiff. Sometimes the in-between moments are the best, and we’ll be ready. We love to capture real personalities and pay attention to connections. We want your wedding photography to look like you.
We know how important friends and family are, so capturing you celebrating with them is a key part of your photographic story.
Ensuring your day is easy and non-stressful is a top priority. We’ll work with you or your planner to create a timeline and group shot list so that photography runs smooth and you can be in the moment on your wedding day.
Our services include engagement shoots, wedding day coverage, rehearsal dinners and full wedding weekends. All clients get an online gallery for easy viewing and print ordering, the printable high resolution files on a physical USB, and many opt to have us make a beautiful Queensberry album for them to make reliving the day with friends and family easy. Proof prints and full sets of black and white digital file versions are also available. We will work with you to customize a package that works with your needs.
WEDDING FAQs
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What are you ‘like’ at weddings?
The feedback we often hear is calm, friendly, and that people thought we were a friend or guest photographing the wedding. We dress like a guest to blend in as much as possible. We have back up equipment but strive to have a small footprint and be nimble to capture your day unobtrusively. Experience tells us when to be in the background and when to step forward to capture the feel and emotion of your wedding. We’ll help pose you and family during the portrait session, but otherwise, we maintain a photojournalistic approach to document your day…with a smile on our face!
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How are you different from the many photographers who shoot weddings?
First, we’re editorial photographers—focused on capturing the uniqueness of our clients and their wedding in a true and beautiful way to tell a story. We don't feel weddings are the time to have a full-flung fashion shoot. We're more interested in capturing the real you and your friends and family in beautiful light and in interesting ways. Second, we are also commercial photographers, with portrait clients like the New York Mets who we’ve photographed for twelve seasons, Fortune 500 clients like The Hartford and GE, and magazines like Coastal Living, O, The Oprah Magazine and Forbes. We bring the technical expertise and people skills required to serve clients like these to our wedding photography. And third, we both have MBAs and experience in the corporate world. We’ve been in business for over fifteen years and have built a track record of trust and reliability for our clients.
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Do we need to meet with you?
We meet with about half of our clients before their wedding. Our studio is 10 minutes off I-84 in West Hartford Center about two hours from both Boston and New York. If you are considering an album, getting together is a great opportunity to touch and feel a physical product. But we often get to know clients over the phone and meet in person for the first time on their wedding day.
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Do we need an engagement session?
We recommend them for people who are going to use the photos for a wedding website, “save the date” card or guest book or you just want to capture yourselves at this point in your life. For developing rapport with us it’s really not necessary to have an engagement session. We are told we have a calm, easy way with people and are skilled at at working with clients whom we’ve just met.
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How do you approach and manage the portrait sessions?
Group portraits generally require 20 to 60 minutes for couple, family and bridal party photos. We like our images to be loose with a focus on expression and emotion versus a trendy pose. We send you a questionnaire four months before your wedding to help create your wedding photography schedule. This includes a shot list that promotes an organized and speedy portrait session. We often get compliments that our portrait sessions are painless and a lot of fun!
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What happens after the wedding?
After your wedding, we select the best photos from the several thousand images taken. We exposure-correct, color-correct and crop each of these photos. We also turn some to black and white for aesthetic reasons. Within six weeks, we post these photos in a password-protected online gallery from which you and family and friends can view and order prints.
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Will I own the printable photo files?
In professional photography, photographers provide clients with a "license" to print the files for their own usage. Everyone receives a custom thumbdrive with the final images six weeks after your wedding date. These are high resolution printable files without a watermark. The outtakes are not included in the final images. We also provide a sneak peek within a week too!
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Should I buy a wedding album?
The goal of our photography is to tell your story. We strongly believe that while posting pics on social media is great in the short term, the end product of your wedding photography should be a physical album that you can hold in your hands as you share it with each other...and family and friends...for many, many years. We’re happy to help you in the creation of a beautiful fully-archival wedding album made by Queensberry, one of the top album companies in the world and our very favorite! We are happy to share more information about albums upon request.
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What if my parents want some photos with their friends?
We always check in with parents to make sure they are getting photos of their special guests. We love to know the names of your family members and special guests ahead of time too.
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Do you travel?
We primarily work in the Tri-state area with the majority of our wedding photography in West Hartford, Fairfield County and Greenwich, CT. We also work in Litchfield County, Watch Hill, RI, the CT Shoreline, NYC, The Hamptons, Westchester County, Hudson Valley, VT, MA and further afield upon request.
