Wedding photography collections and pricing
Everything listed. Nothing held back for a phone call.
Most couples land in the middle collection. If you're not sure which one fits, tell me your timeline and I'll tell you honestly what you need — including when that's less than you were planning to book.
Collection one
The Half Day
$3,400
- 6 hours of continuous coverage
- Single photographer
- 400+ fully edited images
- Private online gallery with print rights
- Sneak peek within 24 hours, full gallery in 2–3 weeks
Best for smaller weddings, ceremony-and-dinner days, and couples who don't need getting-ready coverage.
Collection two
Most booked
The Full Day
$4,800
Everything in The Half Day, plus:
- 8 hours of continuous coverage
- Second photographer for the full day
- Getting-ready through first dances
- Family formal planning and coordination
- 700+ fully edited images
- Engagement session (1 hour, local)
The whole day, beginning to end, with a second photographer so nothing happens in a room I'm not in.
Collection three
The Full Day +
$6,250
Everything in The Full Day, plus:
- 10 hours of coverage
- Late-night and send-off coverage
- 10x10 heirloom album, 20 spreads
- Rehearsal dinner coverage (2 hours)
For weekends that are really three events, and guest counts that need the extra hours.
Every collection
What's always included
Regardless of which collection you book, or what you pay.
- A real timeline Built for your specific day, not pulled from a template. Your planner or coordinator gets a copy too.
- Unlimited contact Email and phone, as much as you need, from booking through the wedding.
- Backup equipment on site Always. Two bodies minimum, spare lenses, spare cards, spare batteries.
- Images backed up three ways From the night of the wedding, before I go to sleep.
- Full print rights Order prints anywhere you like. I don't hold your photos hostage.
- Insurance certificates Liability and equipment. Most venues require one, and I'll send yours directly to them.
Have a question that isn't answered here? Just ask — I'd rather over-explain than have you guessing.
Optional
Add-ons
Add any of these to any collection. Not sure what you need? Tell me your timeline and I'll tell you honestly.
| Additional coverage hour | $450 |
| Second photographer | $650 |
| 35mm film coverage | $650 |
| Engagement session | $550 |
| Rehearsal dinner coverage (2 hours) | $700 |
| Heirloom album | $850starting at |
| Wedding film / video coverage | $2,400starting at |
| Travel beyond 60 miles | Quoted |
A 25% retainer and a signed contract reserve your date. The balance is due 30 days before the wedding, and payment plans are available at no extra cost.
Frequently asked questions
The things couples actually ask, answered plainly. If yours isn't here, ask it in the form.
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Collections run $3,400 to $6,250, and every price is on the pricing page — no gated guide, no call required first. Across Tahoe and the Sierra you'll generally see $4,000 to $7,000 for full-day coverage from someone experienced.
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Nine to fourteen months is typical for a Lake Tahoe wedding, and peak Saturdays from June through September go earliest — often a full year out. If your date is sooner than that, ask anyway. Short-notice dates open up more often than people expect.
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A second photographer means getting-ready coverage in two places at once, a second angle during the ceremony, and someone on the room while I'm on your first dance. It's included on full-day collections and $650 as an add-on to the Half Day. I work with a small group of photographers I've shot alongside for years, and I'm always one of the two.
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Roughly 80 to 100 edited images per hour of coverage — about 400 for a six-hour wedding, 700 or more for eight. You'll get every image worth keeping. I don't hold photos back to sell separately later.
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A sneak peek lands within 24 hours of the wedding, and the full gallery follows in two to three weeks — four if you've added video. That's faster than most of the region, where four to eight weeks is standard. I'd rather you have them while everyone still wants to see them.
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No, and you'd get the same answer from most wedding photographers — editing is a substantial part of the finished work, and unprocessed files don't represent it. You get full print rights to every finished image, so you can order from any lab you like.
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We shoot. Tahoe weather changes fast at elevation, and weather nobody planned for tends to produce the frames people end up hanging on a wall. We'll set an indoor backup for portraits, and I carry gear that handles it.
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Film is $650 as an add-on to any collection. I shoot it alongside digital rather than instead of it — warmer, grainier, and slower, and it changes the character of a gallery without replacing it.
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Yes. Travel within [60 miles] is included, and beyond that I'll quote it plainly — mileage and a night's lodging, not a marked-up destination fee. I take weddings outside the Tahoe area regularly.
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Yes — wedding films start at $2,400 as an add-on.
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Yes, and it's included in every collection. Photography timing drives more of a wedding day than most couples expect, so I build the photo timeline and send it to your planner or coordinator.
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Yes — liability and equipment. Most Tahoe venues require a certificate, and I'll send yours to them directly.
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I've never missed a wedding. If something catastrophic happened I have photographers in the region who would cover the day, and your contract spells out exactly what happens and what you'd be refunded.
Booking
A 25% retainer and a signed contract hold your date. The balance is due 30 days before the wedding, and payment plans cost nothing extra — just ask for one.