Washington DC, Virginia, & Maryland Wedding Photography
Your wedding isn't a photoshoot. It's a wedding.
You should be able to actually live it. Laugh with your friends. Cry with your parents. Hug the people you haven't seen in years. Eat the food. Drink the champagne. Tear up the dance floor. And occasionally disappear with me to make some really freaking cool portraits.
I've spent the past 20 years photographing more than 500 weddings and elopements, and I've learned that the best wedding photography isn't about choosing between beautiful portraits and real moments.
You can have both.
You want the moments & seriously good portraits.
You want your wedding to feel natural, but you also want photographs that make you stop scrolling and say, holy shit, that's us.
This is where I step in a little more.
I'll help you find great light, give you direction when you need it, make family photos as painless as humanly possible, and create portraits that feel like you—not like something copied from a Pinterest board.
And in between? I'm still watching everything happening around you.
Great for couples who want: beautiful portraits, creative photography, some direction, family photos, real moments and plenty of time to actually enjoy the party.
You want to forget I'm even there.
Maybe the idea of spending an hour posing for wedding photos sounds like your personal version of hell. That's totally okay.
Documentary coverage is about stepping back and letting your wedding happen. I'm watching the people, relationships, reactions and tiny moments unfolding around you without constantly interrupting or recreating them.
Your dad trying not to cry. Your flower girl completely abandoning the plan. Your friends losing their minds on the dance floor. The look between the two of you when nobody else is paying attention.
Great for couples who want: minimal posing, less interruption, lots of candid photographs and a wedding gallery that feels like actually being there.
Want both? Perfect.
Most of my couples do.
You don't have to choose between incredible portraits and photographs that capture what your wedding actually felt like. We'll build your coverage around what matters to you.
Twenty years. 500+ weddings. Still watching for the unexpected.
I've photographed weddings and elopements across more than 20 states and four continents from intimate Washington DC celebrations to a 500-person Greek wedding on the island of Chios, a safari wedding in Kenya, and even a wedding surrounded by penguins in Antarctica.
My documentary photography and portraits have earned international awards, but the photographs I remember most aren't necessarily the ones that won anything.
They're the ones nobody could have planned.
The ridiculous laugh. The parent who completely loses it. The kid doing something they're definitely not supposed to be doing. The five seconds of quiet in the middle of absolute chaos.
Those are the photographs that become more valuable with time.
Don't just take my word for it. See the whole story.
A wedding isn't a collection of portfolio images. It's hundreds of moments, people, details and completely unpredictable things happening all at once. Take a look through some real weddings and see how I photograph the whole story..
Let's talk numbers.
Wedding photography averages $5,200.
Every wedding is different. We'll build your coverage around what you're planning, what matters most to you, and how you actually want to spend your wedding day.
Let's make some photographs you'll give a damn about in 20 years.
You've spent months planning this thing. When it's finally here, I want you to actually experience it.
Be with your people. Have the drink. Eat the food. Get on the dance floor.
I'll take care of the photographs.