For celebrations of about 50 guests or fewer, documented with warmth, attention, and gentle direction when you need it. My eight-hour intimate wedding coverage gives the day room for getting ready, your ceremony, portraits, dinner, and the people who make it meaningful.
You can see full days, start to finish, in Christine and Emily’s intimate celebration and Rakel and Jarod’s wedding.
Tell me about your intimate wedding
Who This Coverage Is For
You’ll hear “micro wedding,” “small wedding,” and “intimate wedding” while you plan, and they mostly describe the same thing: a full wedding day, usually about fifty guests or fewer, held closer. I use “intimate wedding” for all of it, because the number matters less than the feeling. If your day is built around the people who know you best, this is the work I do.
These celebrations happen in backyards, restaurants, lakeside inns, and farm properties across Central New York: places like Mirbeau Inn and Spa in Skaneateles, farmhouses in the hills outside Hamilton, quiet gardens in Chittenango. The setting doesn’t need to be grand. It needs to be yours.
If your day is closer to a vow exchange for two, with a witness or two somewhere that matters to you, my elopement coverage is built for exactly that.
What Eight Hours Can Hold
Eight hours is more room than most couples expect, and it means you don’t have to choose between the morning and the evening. A day might look like this:
- 2:00 pm: I arrive while you’re getting ready. Quiet photographs, no interruptions
- 4:30 pm: Ceremony
- 5:15 pm: Family photographs, then a short walk for portraits, shaped around what matters most to you
- 6:30 pm: Dinner, toasts, and the long golden hour
- 10:00 pm: I slip out once the dancing has found its rhythm
That’s a shape, not a script. Your day will have its own rhythm, and the coverage bends to it.
A Gentle Documentary Approach
I call what I do gentle documentary photography. I photograph your wedding as it unfolds, without staging moments or pulling you away from your guests for long stretches. I give light direction when it helps, especially for family photos, where a little structure goes a long way, and I keep portrait time easy and unhurried.
I don’t force the day into a rigid formula. We’ll plan the family photographs you want and I’ll protect time for them, but you won’t spend your wedding being managed. During the ceremony I move carefully and stay unobtrusive wherever the space allows, using longer lenses so I’m rarely between you and the people you love.
The photographs you’ll treasure most aren’t the ones where someone told you how to stand. They’re the ones where you were just living your wedding day, and someone who cared about getting it right happened to be there.
What’s Included
- Up to eight hours of wedding-day coverage, designed for celebrations of about fifty guests or fewer
- One photographer: me. A single calm presence keeps a small room feeling like yours
- A planning call early on and a timeline call as the day gets close
- Family photo guidance, so group photographs feel organized without feeling like a production
- A full edited gallery with print rights, delivered in about six weeks
- A complimentary 30-minute engagement session before the wedding, with the option to make it a full hour for $250
After you reach out, we’ll talk about your day and make sure we’re a good fit. A signed agreement and retainer hold your date, and from there I’m in your corner: venue questions, light, timing, all of it.
Questions Couples Ask
How many guests count as an intimate wedding?
About fifty or fewer. Whether you call it a micro wedding, a small wedding, or an intimate one, this coverage is built for it.
Do you work alone?
Yes. For celebrations this size, one calm presence keeps the room feeling like yours, and it’s how I work best.
Will you pose us?
Gently, and only where it helps. Family photographs get a little structure so they come together easily. Portraits stay relaxed and unhurried. The rest of the day, I document what’s actually happening.
How long do portraits take?
Many couples choose a short portrait window, and we shape it around your priorities. If golden hour matters to you, we’ll plan for it.
When do we see the photographs?
Your full edited gallery, with print rights, arrives in about six weeks.
Our guest list is creeping past fifty. Can we still talk?
Yes, please reach out anyway. I take on a small number of larger celebrations and quote those personally.
If you’re planning something small and meaningful in Central New York, I’d love to hear what you’re imagining. No pressure, just a conversation.
