Frequently Asked Questions

As a wedding photographer team, we began our career in Austin, TX before moving to New Hampshire.  We have been professional, full-time wedding photographers for over ten years.  During that time, we have had the honor of providing over 400 couples with amazing wedding photography collections.  Not only have we been photographers for ten years, we have photographed exclusively weddings for the last fifteen years.  Just like any other profession, we believe that you can only be really, really great when you specialize.  You wouldn't visit a heart doctor if you had foot problems.  Your neighbor might be a great family attorney, but you wouldn't trust her with your business taxes.  Photography is no different.  Why trust someone who dabbles in lots of different genres?  Our passion is weddings...so our focus is weddings.  The result is amazing photographs and unparalleled confidence and customer service.

Unlike most photographers, we do not work on time limits.  Our goal is to do the very best job we can of telling the story of your amazing wedding day.  In our opinion, that simply can't be done in 4 or 6 hours.  And charging for additional time means that you have to start making decisions about what parts of your day are important...and just how important they are.  That puts more stress on your planning and we want to help relieve stress, not add to it.  We communicate with you before the wedding to learn what is important to you and we work together to come up with a timeline that ensures that we are able to capture all of those moments for you.

Typically, we spend about 8 hours shooting at a wedding.  However, we understand that some weddings are a bit longer and we're completely okay with working with you to cover your day.  There are some limits on that, of course.  We work really hard while we're at your wedding and there's only so long we shoot without needing some significant break time.  If you need over 10 hours in a day, there is an extra charge.

We occupy a unique space in the New England wedding photographer landscape.  Our work combines a photojournalistic approach with a wealth of knowledge about posing, lighting, and composition.  We want to capture natural moments as they happen and we use our expertise to help more of those natural moments occur.  The result is a relaxed photography experience where you feel 100% comfortable in front of the camera and look more beautiful and handsome than you ever have.

To effectively capture your wedding day, we can't be married to just one style of photography.  Sometimes photojournalism is the way to go.  Sometimes couples need some help with posing.  In order to quickly and efficiently work through family picture, we often times need more organization and more of a portrait photographer mentality.  Our creative, artistic shots often require an understanding of advanced camera and lighting techniques.  All of this makes it hard to define a "style" per se that we adhere to.  We pride ourselves on not just being people who push a button on a camera, but actually being artists who create unique and beautiful images.  In short, here's what I can say: 

Regardless of the process used to create them, our images are always natural, elegant, vibrant, timeless, and clean.

If you need a New England wedding photographer for your ethnic wedding, look no farther!  We LOVE weddings that really embrace different cultures and religions.  We have experience shooting all kinds of cultural and ethnic weddings.  You might even call us nerds.  If we're going to shoot a wedding from a culture that we don't know much about, we actually spend lots of time reading about the wedding traditions involved so that we can be prepared.

We have photographed Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Persian, Jewish, African, Mexican, and Syrian weddings.

Cultural weddings are a blast and we would love to be part of yours.

Our editing process is central to everything we do and is one of the primary things that separates us from other New England wedding photographers.  This isn't Instagram.  We don't use filters or presets.  We spend considerably more time after your wedding working on your pictures than we do actually taking your pictures.

Our goal is to deliver a collection of perfectly manicured images that you can enjoy for the rest of your life.  Each image you receive was individually edited and inspected by us to ensure that it is as good as it can be.  What are we specifically looking for?  Here are just a few things:

     •  Your collection will have a consistent tone and feel from beginning to end.
     •  Colors should be cohesive from image to image.
     •  Blemishes are retouched.
     •  Distractions are removed from images.
     •  Lighting (exposure) is adjusted to ensure that images look natural and beautiful.

No other photographer in New England puts the amount of effort and time into wedding collections that we do. That's just one more reason why we are the highest rated wedding photographers in the United States on Wedding Wire and The Knot!

YES!!!!  Our couples typically receive approximately 60 images for each hour of time that we are at their wedding.  Each and every image will be edited.  Among wedding photographers in New England, we are perhaps the only team who individually edits each and every image you receive.

Because of the amount of work that we put into each wedding, our couples usually receive their completed collections about (8) weeks after their wedding.

All of our collections include a USB drive with full-resolution, non-watermarked copies of your images.  Many photographers only give reduced resolution images or images with watermarks.  If you want full-resolution images from them, there is often an additional charge.

These are your images and we want you to enjoy them to the fullest.  Post them.  Print them.  Share them with friends and family.  Spread the love!

It is not required that we meet in person to book your wedding.  We have lots of couples who do not live in the New England area.  Thankful, technology provides us with several excellent options.  Video chatting allows us all to stay in our pajamas and still "meet" each other and chat about your big day.

With that being said, if you are in the New Hampshire area, we would love to meet with you in person.  One of the things we love most about being photographers is the relationships that we develop with our couples.  That relationship begins when we meet each other, chat about your big day, and laugh together.

Two things are required to book us for your wedding.

First, we need a completed contract.  We take the 'business' part of our photography business seriously.  We want to ensure that there are no mistakes with the serious stuff so we can spend more time focusing on the fun stuff.

Second, we require a 20% deposit.  The remaining balance is due any time before your wedding.  You can make payments or just pay the deposit and give us the balance on the day of the wedding.  We really aren't concerned with how you pay everything as long as it is all taken care of by the wedding day.

We struggle to understand some trends in photography and one that we struggle with the most has to do with pricing.  For some reason, many photographers have decided that it is a good idea to hide prices from couples who are searching for a wedding photographer.  The thinking goes like this: if the photographer doesn't immediately show pricing, he/she has the opportunity to develop more value in the client's mind before ever discussing price.  Then, when the photographer finally shares their price, the client might get sticker shock, but the photographer can say, "Yes, but you've already agreed that you like everything I offer. So, price shouldn't matter. It's what you want."

We will be the first to admit that our collection prices are not for everyone.  If you are looking for a bargain in a wedding photographer, you will probably be happier with another wedding professional.  If you are looking for an experience and photography collection that you will love and cherish for the rest of your life, we just might be the people for you.

Since the day we began taking pictures, we decided that we wanted to be as honest and transparent about pricing as possible.  Because of that, we have always made it a point to openly publish all of our collections and pricing on our website.

Our collections begin at $5500. CLICK HERE to see our complete collection and price guide.

Buckle up.  Our answer to this questions might be a bit long...and a bit rough.  The short answer is "It's complicated."  Here's the long answer:

Several years ago, we were at a wedding and the groom introduced us to a friend of his who was a beginning wedding photographer.  We spoke for several minutes and somehow (I don't remember all the details of the conversation) the topic turned to pricing.  We have no problem discussing our pricing.  It's not a secret.  We openly publish our prices on our website.  We told the young man our prices and he told us his.  We were, to be honest, shocked!  We had about 200 weddings under our belts and were really starting to feel like we were able to confidently provide our couple with consistent results.  This young man had shot three weddings at the time...and his starting price was $1700 MORE than ours (our collection prices were considerably lower at the time)! 

We just couldn't resist the obvious question.  "Why are your prices so high if you've only shot three weddings"

"You've got to charge a lot if you want couples to take you seriously," came the immediate response.  

I immediately told him, "That's funny, we charge less and we've never had a problem with our couples taking us seriously."  However, my confident response hid my true feelings.  I'm not sure I've ever been more discouraged, confused, and ashamed all at the same time.  What a horrible justification for charging couples a lot of money.  In my opinion, this guy was preying on the ignorance of young couples by inflating his prices based on the couple's perception of his abilities, not based on his actual abilities.  

I know, I know.  Some might say that perception is reality or that couples knew what they were getting because they saw his pictures before booking.  And there might be some validity in those arguments.  But, one of the biggest things we have learned in all of our years of doing this is that the wedding photographer/couple relationship is not just a business deal.  It's also built on trust.  The couple is trusting the photographer to steer them straight and to help them make the most of the money they are investing into their wedding.  Photographers like this young man, in our opinion, were taking advantage of that trust for their own benefit.  

So, why do we share this story?  In order to fully answer this question, we feel like we need to cover as many aspects of wedding photography pricing as possible.  It is a fact that some wedding photographers with little to no experience charge the same as seasoned wedding photographer who provide years of experience and quality images.  Why do they do this?  Because they can?  Because others do it?  It's hard to articulate reasons for something that we disagree with.  From a strictly capitalist viewpoint, if the market will support a certain price, the seller would be a fool to charge anything less.  For us, capitalism is not the only factor in what we think is right and fair to our couples...or to any newly engaged couple looking for a photographer.  We want to treat people right and be honest about our services.

Ignoring those that charge more "just because I can", why then are experienced, professional wedding photographers so expensive?  There are several things that we would encourage you to consider.

First, camera equipment is REALLY expensive!  For example, at every wedding Tony carries around about $9000 worth of camera equipment in his hand all day and Elena works with around $6000 worth of equipment.  That's just what we have on us for immediate use.  That doesn't count all the extra stuff in our camera bag (backup cameras, more lenses, memory cards, batteries, etc.) or any of our lights (close to $10,000).  From a very practical standpoint, professional photographers use lots of top of the line gear and it's expensive to maintain that.

Second, professional wedding photographers (should) work really hard on your wedding day.  It might not seem like it, but being a photographer is physically demanding work.  We typically spend 8 to 10 hours with a couple on their big day and the majority of that is spent on our feet moving from place to place.  Oh...and that $9000 camera weights a TON!  Just imagine carrying around three bricks at eye level all day.

Third, the wedding day is only the beginning of the time commitment for your wedding.  Photographers spend time selecting pictures, editing pictures, and designing albums.  For example, we spend approximately 100 hours PER WEDDING in pre-wedding prep, shooting, and editing.  100 hours!!!  Granted, not all photographers spend that much time.  But, then not all photographers have our reputation either.  :-)

Finally, there are lots of intangibles that a professional photographer brings to your day.  These are skills or experience or creativity or personality that not everyone can offer.  In fact, not even every wedding photographer can offer these things!  Not all wedding photographers are created equal.  Professionals can adapt to any environment and provide their couples with amazing images...all within strict time constraints with limited equipment.  To be very honest, if you want an amazing wedding photography experience, you should accept the fact that those skills and abilities cost more.