Whole wedding days in Lake Tahoe.
Photography, film, and 35mm — one person, from getting ready to the last dance.
From $3,400. Every price published.
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Winters Creek Lodge
Tahoe Blue Estate
“Breathtaking photos and video that will help us remember all moments of our day!
Armando is an absolutely amazing photographer which we already knew after our engagement photo shoot that was included in our wedding photo package. However, once we received our wedding photos, we were absolutely blown away!”
Ashley
Photographed under AJ Photography
I'm Armando.
I've photographed weddings around this lake since 2018, and I'm the one who shows up — not an associate you meet on the morning of.
Before any of this I was photographing landscapes and wild horses out in the Nevada desert. Before that I ballroom danced competitively, which has turned out to be the most useful thing I've ever done for this job.
WHO IS THIS FOR
Especially if you'd rather not be the center of attention
Most of the couples I work with are quiet. They want the day documented properly, and they'd rather not spend eight hours being looked at or told how to stand.
You won't be directed at. I've never told anyone to look natural.
Family formals take twenty minutes, because we build the list before the day rather than calling names into a crowd. Then you're back at your own party.
What you get
Four things that aren't standard around here
One person, photo and film, all day.
Most wedding photographers don't shoot video. The ones who offer it hire a second company — two crews, two timelines, two vendors competing for the same spot during your vows. I shoot both, and I'm always one of the two people there.
A sneak peek within 24 hours. Your gallery in two to three weeks.
Four to eight weeks is the norm. I'd rather you have them while everyone still wants to see them.
35mm film, unedited.
What comes back from the scanner is what I hand you — no correcting, nothing pushed around afterward. With digital I can shoot twenty frames in a few seconds. With film everything slows down, and you only get the one.
I know these venues before you book them.
Where the light lands at Edgewood in September. Which Truckee ceremony sites go dark early. That the west shore faces east, so the sun sets behind you.
WHAT IT COST
Three collections. Nothing gated.
The Full Day $4,800 Most booked
8 hours · second photographer · engagement session
6 hours · single photographer
The Half Day $3,400
10 hours · album · rehearsal dinner coverage
The Full Day + $6,250
What happens next
01
Send me your date
About a minute. You'll hear back within one business day.
02
We talk it through — or don't
Twenty minutes on a call, or entirely over email if you'd rather. I'll tell you which collection actually fits, including when that's a smaller one than you expected.
03
Hold the date
A signed contract and a 25% retainer. From there I build your timeline and you stop thinking about photography.
Questions
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Send it and you'll know within one business day. Peak Saturdays from June through September book earliest, often a year out.
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Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Carson Valley, and the Sierra. I travel beyond that regularly — tell me where.
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Yes, myself. Most couples who want a wedding film hire one person instead of two.
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Sneak peek within 24 hours. Full gallery in two to three weeks, four with video.
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We shoot. Tahoe weather does what it wants, and weather nobody planned for tends to produce the frames people end up hanging on a wall.
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No. I used to ballroom dance competitively, which turns out to be the most useful thing I've ever done for this job — I know how to get someone standing comfortably without making them feel handled.
“Our experience was amazing! We couldn't have asked for a better photographer. Armando was responsive, flexible and provided amazing work. We had a small intimate wedding and he captured every detail perfectly.”
Sierra
Send your date over
The date, the venue, and roughly how many people. That's plenty — I'll ask the rest.
Not a form person?
Email me at hello@northlightweddingco.com or text [775-671-2405] — whichever's easier.
Either way it comes to me. There's no assistant, and nothing automated about to start following you around the internet.