You said “Heck Yes!” and now you’re engaged! And we are just so excited for you!
As your wedding photographers, we are here to spoil you with special treats, pamper you with exceptional service, and make sure your experience with us is not even the least bit stressful. It's our desire that your wedding photography is the easiest, most joy-filled, and most relaxed part of your wedding day.
Well, are we a match? Do you love untamed wedding bouquets, luscious greenery, and bright creamy palettes of pastels and neutrals with little pops of bright color? Do you care about little thoughtful details infused with your personality? We might be a match if your family and your marriage are the most important part of your wedding day, and you can’t help but smile the whole day. Do you like the sound of quick email
responses, a complimentary engagement session, seeing your photos in a matter of days, and little celebrations from us along the way? I think we are definitely a match, my friend. When you know, you know.. You know?
Want to be one of our amazing S&D couples? Our couples are as unique and full of life as the city of Richmond Virginia that we call home. The atmosphere, the food and art, the laughter, the joy- theres nothing we enjoy more than capturing these moments for our couples.
THE PROCESS
This day matters. We know that as your wedding photographers we are not only the ones you trust to tell the story of the most important day of your lives, but we will be with you throughout your entire wedding day. It’s for those reasons the most important thing in choosing your wedding photographer is knowing you’ll make a great team together. And if you're still reading this, then I think we might be a perfect fit. We want you to feel comfortable with us. We’d love to get to know you online and listen to your vision and hopes for your wedding day- so we can put together the perfect S&D wedding photography experience thats right for you!
The Perfect Match
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You love us! And we love you! Lets make it official! We are here to help make your wedding photography experience with us the most stress-free and easiest part of your wedding planning. We’ll want to make sure your date is safe and secure, by reserving your date. To do that, we’ll move on to the simplest booking process ever, giving you access to your personal S&D portal- accessible anytime for your peace of mind. Our streamlined system, just for our couples, will guide you through creating your perfect custom wedding photography package with us, putting down your deposit, and signing your contract all in one place online.
Reserving Your Date
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Serving as the perfect time to get to know you better and ensure that you both feel comfortable in front of the camera, your engagement session really makes all the difference for your wedding photos. Which is why your engagement session is our gift to you. We’ll gently coach and guide you through posing naturally, while still allowing space for your relationship and personalities to shine through. Connecting with our couples is a priority for us. When we can connect with you on a personal level, it enables us to tell your story better. And when you feel comfortable with us, emotional walls come down, allowing us to photograph you in a more authentic, natural way.
Engagement Session
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Getting to know each of our couples is so important to what we do. One of the many ways we do this is through our quick questionnaires. The first one just helps us get to know you even better, and gives us a peek into your wedding planning thus far, so we can get excited right along with you. Our second questionnaire helps us visualize your wedding day so we can customize an amazing wedding photography experience for you from the beginning to the end of your wedding day. This helps us capture your wedding day just as you’ve always envisioned it. Our sweet couples keep telling us year after year how helpful our S&D questionnaires are!
The S&D Questionnaire
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Once you’ve finalized your ceremony and reception times, we’ll work with you to create a custom wedding photography timeline that will maximize our time together, and ensure that you don’t miss out on any of the wedding photos you’ve dreamed of! We’ve photographed hundreds of weddings. We’ve seen what works and what doesn’t. Our goal as your wedding photographers is to make sure you are thrilled with your experience with us from beginning to end, and we love putting together wedding photography timelines for our couples that will enable us to create your dream wedding photos and tell the full story of your wedding day.
Customized Timeline
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The week before your wedding, we’ll chat over the phone or get together in person to confirm all your wedding day details and go over your wedding day timeline one last time to make sure we have all the correct information. We want to be completely prepared and ready for your wedding day! We’ll give you a chance to ask any questions, let us know about any changes, and just to give you a little boost of encouragement as you get ready for your big day! Its our hope that you feel so confident in your choice to work with us, that you can let go of any added stress and completely trust us to capture your wedding story beautifully and artistically.
The Phone Call
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We’ll arrive early, greeting you with a big hug. Starting our time off photographing all of your bridal details that make your wedding day unique is our favorite way to begin. It sets the tone for the day, and allows us to focus in on telling the full story of your day with wedding photos that flow together perfectly. We love that our couples really value their wedding photos and plan plenty of portrait time so we can create their very own stunning, bright, authentic, joy-filled portraits. Dave will work his magic making family portrait time quick and painless. From there, we’ll capture the sweet moments and important events of your day skillfully and unobtrusively.
Your Wedding Day
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We don’t like to keep our couples waiting, so usually within days you’ll be getting a sneak peek from us. And then in just a couple weeks we’ll have all of our favorite images uploaded to your personal online gallery that will be backed up for ten years. You’ll be given all of your images, and the rights to print, share, and download your high resolution digital files however you’d like. And you can share your online gallery with your family and friends too! Your entire wedding gallery will be filled with hundreds and hundreds of the most beautiful, bright, authentic, joy-filled images and memories that tell the full story of your wedding day from beginning to end.
Your Gorgeous Photos
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Our own wedding day felt like a whirlwind, and there is nothing more precious than physically holding our wedding album in our hands, filled with photographs of those memories. Having the first day of that new chapter of our lives documented to look back on and share with our families and future kiddos, that was the best investment we made. Our hearts skip a beat designing our couples first family heirloom they’ll pass down to future generations. We’ve made the album design process completely
customizable and a breeze. We can’t wait for you to hold your own professionally handcrafted wedding album in your hands.
Your Wedding Album
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Your wedding day is one of the most impactful moments of your life that deserves to be celebrated and beautifully documented with care. We just love capturing the joy of that first day of a new marriage, and creating beautiful images for our couples. We know that you not only deserve your own beautiful wedding photos, but an amazing wedding photography experience. We will be fully invested in you and your wedding photography experience all the way from the first time we interact, till long after your wedding day has passed. Ultimately we want to serve you well. Our couples know that when they choose us as their wedding photographers its not just another transaction, but an investment. This is the one decision in all of your wedding planning that endures far past your wedding day- once your dress is put away, your bouquets are dried out, the cupcakes have all been eaten. Your marriage and your wedding photos are what remain. Invest in your wedding photography experience and your memories. It is so so worth it.
RECENT PRESS AWARDS
We’re so honored and excited to have our photography and our awesome couples recently featured in these publications:
We’re thrilled and incredibly grateful to have received these awards as well:
NAMED AS THE TOP FIVE PERCENT OF LOCAL WEDDING PROFESSIONALS BY WEDDINGWIRE
COUPLES CHOICE AWARDS MULTIPLE YEARS IN A ROW
VOTED TOP 20 BEST WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS IN RICHMOND BY EXPERTISE.COM
WINNER OF THE KNOT BEST OF WEDDINGS AWARD
INVESTMENT
Snag both Sarah & Dave as your wedding photographers so we can celebrate with you and create the prettiest bright, authentic, joy-filled images of you. You’ll receive all of your high resolution digital image files in an online gallery backed up for 10 years, with the rights to print , share, and download them however you'd like. We’ll also include an engagement session as a gift to you, and special treats along the way.
Our couples usually invest around $4500 into their wedding photography experience with us.
To ensure that each couple we work with receives the care and attention they deserve from beginning to end, we are only able to photograph a limited number of weddings each year, and our popular months tend to book up 12-18 months in advance.
Lets work together, friend!
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