What we wish couples knew before they hired anyone.
A small set of long-form guides, written slowly, updated every season. Each one is the answer we keep finding ourselves giving in person, written down.
The questions to ask before you book a wedding photographer.
A short guide for couples comparing photographers. Twelve questions, plus what to listen for in each answer.
How to build a wedding-day timeline that actually photographs.
A practical guide to building a wedding-day timeline that works for the family, the venue, and the light. Sample timelines included.
What wedding photography costs in Utah, and why.
An honest look at the Utah market: what the price tiers actually buy, what drives the number, and where to be careful at the cheap end.
How many hours of wedding photography do you actually need?
Four, six, or eight hours, mapped honestly to the most common Utah wedding-day shapes, including when fewer hours is genuinely enough.
The first look: what it changes, and how to decide.
First look or aisle reveal. What each choice does to your timeline, your light, and your portraits, with no dogma either way.
Utah wedding light, season by season.
How the light actually behaves here: canyon shade that ends early, brutal summer noon, long fall bench light, and winter receptions that run on flash.
Six months out: the wedding checklist that actually matters.
What to actually have done six months before your wedding, from the vendor who watches what happens when it wasn't. Three non-negotiables, the photo-critical decisions, and what to stop worrying about.
How photography works at an LDS temple wedding.
What is and isn't photographed on a temple wedding day, how the exit and the grounds become the heart of the coverage, and how to plan a day that includes everyone you love.
Wedding colors that photograph beautifully (and the ones that fight the camera).
A working photographer's chapter on color: the skin-tone rule, what Utah light does to a palette season by season, the combinations we reach for, and the ones that fight the camera.
What a Utah wedding actually costs in 2026.
The median, the mean, and the category-by-category ranges we actually see in our market, including the Utah-specific factors no national cost guide accounts for.
How to have a beautiful Utah wedding on any budget.
Three fully worked Utah budgets (roughly $14,000, $24,000, and $45,000), the allocation percentages behind them, and the five mistakes that quietly cost couples the most.
Do you need a wedding videographer? An honest answer from the photo side.
We don't sell video, so we have no stake in your answer. What film gives you that photographs can't, what it costs in Utah, and when we'd honestly tell you to skip it.
The Utah Wedding Day Guide.
The timeline that actually photographs, and the questions worth asking before you book anyone. One beautifully typeset PDF, straight to your inbox.