Wedding Photography · DC, Maryland, Virginia & West Virginia
You won't have to pose.
You'll just have to show up.
Most of your wedding,
you won't be looking at me.
I photograph about twenty weddings a year, from a courthouse morning for two to a hundred and fifty people under a tent. However big yours is, the way I work is the same. I stay out of the way for the real moments, I give you something easy to do when it's time for just the two of you, and I catch the small things you'll have forgotten by the time the gallery lands.
The parts nobody staged.
The best frames of the day are the ones you didn't plan: your dad losing it during the toast, the whole floor going up at once, a laugh that gets away from you. I shoot most of the day this way, close enough to catch it and far enough back that it still happens. You won't remember I was there for half of these, which is the point.
You'll never hear me say “act natural.”
Here is the worry I hear most: we're awkward, we don't know what to do with our hands. You don't have to. When it's time for the two of you, I don't stand you in front of the camera and call out positions. I give you something to do and something to say to each other, and I photograph what happens in between. It ends up looking like you on a very good day, not like a catalog.
“He has such a calm demeanor that makes you feel totally comfortable even if you hate being in front of a camera.”Sarah
“He was very professional, but also very calming and helpful when I was a nervous wreck.”Kathy
“We said we wanted to be out in nature, and Aaron delivered. He even suggested the location.”Lillian
The details you'll be glad someone kept.
The rings before they go on. The handwriting in the vow book. The shoes, the light coming through the tent, the ten quiet seconds before the doors open. You are busy living your wedding, so remembering these is my job. Years from now they are often the frames that bring the whole day back at once.
Weddings of every size, one eye behind all of them.
Tell me about your day.
Send me the date and the place, even if the place is still a guess. I'll write back with everything, usually within the hour. If you want numbers first, the pricing page has them. If you want proof, the stories are full weddings, start to finish.