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A couple raising their joined hands walking back up the aisle while guests cheer
A family walking down the aisle to applause with mountains behind the pergola
A barefoot couple running back up the aisle through applauding guests in golden woods
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A ribbon-wand exit with the bride laughing and guests cheering on both sides

Wedding Photography · DC, Maryland, Virginia & West Virginia Some weddings need a tent.
Some need a trail.

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Find the day that looks like yours.

I photograph about twenty weddings a year and no two of them run the same way. Some fill a tent with a hundred and fifty people and a band. Some are four people on a rock in October. Here's the honest range, so you can see where your day sits before we ever talk.

Bailey and Youssef dancing their first dance under a warmly lit reception tent as spark fountains fire beside them, guests watching from tables and a tiered cake at the edge of the floor
The estate day

The big one

A hundred and fifty people, a tent with a floor in it, a band that will not stop, and a cake that cost more than my first car. These days have real machinery behind them. A planner. A timeline other vendors are also reading. Two getting-ready suites at opposite ends of a property.

What that asks of me is mostly logistics and stamina. I show up knowing where family photos go if it rains, and how long it actually takes a hundred and fifty people to walk from a lawn to a tent, which is always longer than the timeline says. Then I get out of the way and let it be loud.

These are the photographs your parents frame.

A wedding party cheering with bouquets raised under a flower-draped pergola, mountains behind them
The wedding in town

The one you can walk to

Harpers Ferry, Shepherdstown, Frederick. Old brick, a river doing something dramatic behind you, and guests who can get from the ceremony to dinner without anyone chartering a shuttle.

These days have a looseness the big ones can't afford. Nobody is moving a hundred and fifty people anywhere, so there's room to steal the two of you away for fifteen minutes while everybody else is at the bar. That's usually where the best frame of the whole day comes from.

Bring shoes you can stand in. The streets around here are older than the country and they are not level.

Amie standing at an iron garden arbor during her open-air ceremony, wildflower meadow and trees behind her
The open-air wedding

The one under open sky

A private lawn, ceremony chairs in clean rows, a long table set outdoors, and dancing that runs until the light is gone and then a good while after. These are the weddings that live outside from the first look to the last song.

They're some of my favorite days to photograph and I won't pretend otherwise. Golden hour out here is not a figure of speech. The sun drops behind the ridge and for about twenty minutes everything looks lit on purpose. I'll borrow the two of you for ten of those minutes, then hand you back to the party.

Weather is the trade you make for a setting like this. Rain is a real possibility, and every so often it turns out to be the best thing that happens all day.

A couple reading vows on a rocky summit with autumn ridges falling away behind them
The elopement

Just the two of you

Two people, an officiant, a trail, and nobody to perform for. Sometimes a handful of guests who were willing to hike. Sometimes a courthouse at ten and dinner with eight people that night.

There's more planning in these than couples expect. Permits, parking, how long the walk in actually takes in that dress, and where we go if the mountain is inside a cloud, which it frequently is. I've photographed enough of them to have real opinions. If you don't have the spot yet, tell me the shape of what you want and I'll bring you three.

Small doesn't mean lesser. It means the whole day belongs to you.

No matter which

Some things don't change.

Whatever your day turns out to be, this part is the same. It isn't an upgrade and it isn't a tier. It's just how I work.

  • Every image, finished Roughly a hundred finished photographs per hour of coverage. I don't cap what I deliver. Every frame is reviewed, refined, and sequenced by me, so what lands is a finished body of work rather than a download with the good ones hiding somewhere inside it.
  • Print rights, always High resolution and low resolution, yours to print, share, and pass down. There is no upsell standing between you and your own wedding photos.
  • A timeline consultation Before the day we go through the whole thing together: light, family photos, travel between spots, and the place where the plan is quietly about to break. This is the part that saves the day, and it's in every wedding I shoot.
  • Family photos handled Even if you want all candids, your mom wants the group shots. We get them done quickly and painlessly, and you get back to the party.
  • About two weeks Most galleries land in about two weeks. In the fullest stretches of the season it runs longer, because every wedding gets the same care no matter where it falls on my calendar.
  • Travel included Weddings around DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia include travel. Every winter I'm on the Texas Gulf coast anyway, so those dates include it too. Anywhere else is one itemized line. No markup, no mystery.
The money part

Weddings start at $4,750.

That's the honest floor, and the starting package is the one most couples book. Elopements are their own thing and get quoted to your plan, because a courthouse morning and a full day out at Dolly Sods are not the same job.

Send me your date and I'll write back with my full pricing, all of it in writing, plus a link to my calendar. That way you've read every number before we ever get on a call, and the call gets to be about your wedding instead of about money.

No pressure and nothing that expires. If your date is open it stays open for a week while you think it over. If you want the longer version of where that number goes, I wrote it up: what wedding photography actually costs, and why.

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From the reviews
“He has such a calm demeanor that makes you feel totally comfortable even if you hate being in front of a camera.”Sarah
“We said we wanted to be out in nature, and Aaron delivered. He even suggested the location.”Lillian
“He was very professional, but also very calming and helpful when I was a nervous wreck.”Kathy
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Asked and answered

The practical stuff, in plain English.

How do payments work?

Half of your total is due when you sign the contract, and that is what locks your date. The rest is due one month before the wedding, around the same time we finalize your timeline. West Virginia sales tax applies to all bookings, and card payments carry a transaction fee.

What actually holds the date?

The signed contract and the retainer together. Until both are in, the date stays open, and you'll have a week to decide without me chasing you about it.

How many photos do we get?

Roughly a hundred finished photographs per hour of coverage, which usually works out to 700 or 800 for a full wedding day. I don't cap the number I deliver. Some hours simply earn more than others, and the ceremony outperforms the salad course.

When do we see them?

Most full galleries come back in about two weeks. Twelve is my outside limit, and the busiest stretches of the season run longer than the quiet ones. Elopements and smaller sessions are faster. I don't send sneak peeks, because I'd rather hand you the finished story than a preview of it.

Do you travel?

Yes, and it's built into how I work. Weddings around DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia include travel. Each winter I'm already on the Texas Gulf coast visiting family, so those dates include travel too. Anywhere else shows up as one itemized line in your quote.

Do you offer albums and prints?

Yes. Your wedding photos deserve better than a screen, and albums and prints are available so they can be held and passed down. Print rights come with every wedding either way, so this is an option and never a requirement.

What happens if it rains?

We use it. Some of the best photographs I've taken happened in weather nobody wanted. I come prepared, I'll have already thought about where we go, and you won't need a plan B for the pictures.

We're not really photo people.

Most of my couples aren't. I give direction where it's useful, where the light is and what to do with your hands, and the rest of the day asks nothing of you but attendance. The reviews are mostly written by self-declared not-photo people.

Next step

Send the date and the place.
Even if the place is a guess.

You'll get a personal reply with my full pricing and my calendar, usually within the hour.

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