What is your style?
We approach each wedding from a Portrait Journalistic point of view. Basically what this means is that we shoot weddings with the eyes of an observer capturing those important little details, your special quiet moments together, and all the happenings of the day. We are also fully capable of providing guidance when needed for those more traditional style portraits.
Can we meet our photographer before the wedding?
Definitely! Not only is meeting important for you to see if your comfortable with us and our style, but it's also important for us. It provides us with a great opportunity to get to know you, find out how you met, hear about your wedding plans, and discuss your budget to evaluate how we can best fit your needs.
What should we expect after the wedding?
We know how exciting getting your pictures after the wedding can be and we do our best to not keep you anxiously waiting. Depending on the size of your wedding and the number of pictures taken, your photos will be appear online within 2-4 weeks after your wedding. Can we add rehearsal dinner photography?
Of course. If you've looked at our prices already, you will have seen that we charge by the hour. If you have booked your wedding with us any additional event you would like photographed will be done at a discounted rate. In addition to providing you with images of your rehearsal, it gives us a more clear vision of how your wedding events are scheduled to occur and gives us a chance to familiarize ourselves with your guests. What types of albums do you offer?
We offer a wide variety of albums. We create each package to suit our clients wants and needs. You can choose from a simple $24 album to the elaborate storybook flush-mount albums that can run upwards of $1,000. All albums are individually selected to fit your style and wedding. Storybook albums are also created with the couple's personality and their wedding theme in mind. What are your album turnaround times?
This varies depending on the type of album you choose. The flush-mount storybook album styles are going to require a bit more time than the simpler albums because they will require some additional design time. We do our best to get our albums to our clients as quickly as possible. Can you make signing books for our wedding day?
Some couple like the idea of a signing book that not only has space for the guests to leave kind words of encouragement, but also displays the couple's favorite engagement pictures. We create a hardcover coffee table book with the engagement photos you select and plenty of space for your guest's well wishes. How can we book your services?
We recommend that you contact us by phone first to check for availability. In order to officially book your date, you will need to fill out the wedding information packet that can be found on the information page of our site, and mail the first page of the packet to us along with the $150 non-refundable retainer fee. The retainer fee is required to secure your date. All bookings are on a first-come, first-served basis. We will gladly accommodate event date changes if availability exists. Does a Trash the Dress session work for me?
Some brides may like the idea of having a Trash the Dress session. These sessions can be a lot of fun and make for some amazingly creative and often adventurous portraits that are just not possible on the wedding day. It is important to realize that the purpose of the Trash the Dress session is not t trash the dress, but rather to let the bride participate in sexy, un-traditional, and even over-the-top fabulous shoots. The Trash the Dress can range anywhere from relatively "dress-safe" activities like strolling through cornfields, to "dress-trashing" sessions, including exposure to lake water, swamps, junk yards, alleys, etc... What are your rates?
We want you to get your money's worth so we sell all prints, albums, etc at cost (we do not make a profit off of these items), and only charge an hourly fee for our photographic services on the day of your event. Our rate is $150 per hour with a minimum total cost of $500. This number includes photo retouching, uploading of prints, color and black & white photos, full coverage of your whole day, and a discounted engagement photo session.
You can also opt to add on additional event photography for a discounted price, and we also offer a photo video slideshow set to music from your big day. Should I ask for a second photographer?
We are more than happy to provide you with the option of hiring an additional photographer for just an additional $50 per hour. An additional photographer will not only contribute their unique style and perspective, but also help to better document simultaneous events, like pre-ceremony pictures of the bride and groom getting ready. What else do you photograph besides weddings?
We shoot engagements, rehearsal dinners, maternity photos, newborn pictures, kids, families, pets, birthday parties, corporate events, commercial photography, beauty and head shots. You name it, we'll shoot it. How many hours are included in your standard rates?
For wedding photography our whole day is set aside for your event - we NEVER double-book. When we discuss your budget at our initial meeting we will come to an agreed number of hours of photography in order to stay within your budget. But we will leave our schedule open so that if you decided to have us stick around for more photos we can and most certainly will. How many pictures can we expect to receive?
The amount of images varies depending on several factors, including your schedule and events of the day. On average we shoot between 200 and 700 pictures during a wedding. Afterwards we narrow this number down to around 300-500 pictures after doing edits and retouching. All of these pictures will then be loaded up to our website for the bride and groom, family, and friends to view. The bride and groom if they wish can then select which images they would like to include in their album. Do we get to keep our digital negatives?
If requested we will be more than happy to provided with a disk of the final images along with a release form that allows you to have the images printed. These images can only be printed for non-commercial use and we retain the right to use any of your images for advertising, marketing, etc. What is your destination travel and overnight policy?
For any event that is over 40 miles away from Sullivan, IL, we require to either be compensated for gas or provided with an airplane ticket. Overnight accommodations are required the night before an event when the wedding location is more than 40 miles away by car from Sullivan, IL. Likewise, overnight accommodations are required on the evening of the event if the festivities conclude after midnight and the event location is more than 40 miles away from Sullivan, IL. | 
