This sweet-spot gives me work-life balance and allows me to serve couples better in three major ways:

To focus on photographing *your wedding only*: not thinking about a number of hours; not leaving for another wedding. You’re investing in me: I’m invested in you.

To retouch your photographs myself: I frankly need the control, and enjoy this part of photography too.

To be available: I walk through venues with couples in advance; photograph your rehearsal dinner the night before; Also, engagement session? Also, coffee-talk? Photo viewing? This is personal-chef service, not fast-food.

…And that work-life balance? You can imagine, if your partner works all week but you work all weekends, that is not sustainable.

It is unlikely this group of humans, your families and friends, will be together in the same space again, and I know you didn’t get married to accommodate the photographer’s portfolio ambitions. (We’ll do that in the engagement session.) Plan 30 minutes after the ceremony for family and wedding-party portraits. Perhaps another ten minutes for the three of us (at sunset?) to use me as an excuse to take a moment for yourselves. (You’ve just done a big damn thing!) Use the day to celebrate, feeling the feels, let everyone know you love them. I’ll be somewhere over there [gestures wildly] documenting, unobtrusively, candidly, everything.