FAQ

For weddings in peak season — May through June, September through November — as early as you can. Those dates typically go six to twelve months out.

Proposals are different. We've photographed them with three days' notice. If your date is close, ask anyway.

Yes, and we'd suggest it. It's the simplest way to be comfortable with us before the wedding, so the first time you're photographed together isn't the most important day of your life.

It depends on whether you're booking a session or a wedding.

Sessions. Pick your date on our calendar and book directly through the site. We'll get in touch within 24 hours to confirm the details. Your card isn't charged the deposit until after we've confirmed everything with you — never before.

Weddings. Start with the contact form. We'll come back to you within 24 to 48 hours with a quote and a few questions about your day. If it feels like a good fit on both sides, we'll set up a call or a Zoom and go through your timeline and what you want from the day properly. From there we put together a shot list and check it against your plans so nothing gets missed.

Then we turn up on the day — early. We always arrive ahead of time.

New York wedding photography runs from roughly $1,000 for short courthouse coverage to $15,000 and beyond at the top of the market. Most full-day coverage lands somewhere in between.

Five things move the number:

Experience. A wedding is the least forgiving shoot there is. Nothing repeats, nothing can be staged a second time, and there's no retaking a first look or a set of vows. Years of working under that pressure is most of what you're paying for.

Hours of coverage. Two hours and twelve hours are different jobs.

How many photographers — and what kind. One or two, and whether the second is a lead or an assistant. We always shoot as two lead photographers, included in every package.

Number of locations. Each move costs time, and in New York it usually costs travel as well.

Where the venue is. Working in our own city is different from travelling to yours.

Our starting rates are published on our pricing page — have a look. We're all for transparency, and you shouldn't have to fill out a form to find out what something costs.

Yes. Both of us, every time, including short sessions.

Two photographers means two lenses and two angles running at once. During a ceremony one of us works from the front while the other shoots from the back, without either of us appearing in the other's frame.

It's also practical. One of us blocks the wind off a veil on a corner while the other shoots. One watches for the train while the other frames the platform. We've worked together long enough that most of this happens without talking.

This isn't an upgrade or an add-on. It's how we work, on every booking.

Documentary, with an editorial eye. We're interested in what actually happened and in how it's framed — architecture, light, and the city as part of the story rather than a backdrop behind it.

We grade our images true to color. No heavy filters, nothing that will look dated in five years.

We do. All of it — culling, color, retouching, delivery. Nothing goes to an outside editing service.

That's why our turnaround is what it is, and it's why your gallery looks like our portfolio.

Nearly everyone says this, including people who look completely natural in their photos.

We don't arrange people into poses. We give simple direction — walk this way, stand here, talk to each other — and photograph what happens in between. The frames worth keeping almost always come from the moment right after someone stops performing.

There are two of us, which solves most of this. If one of us can't shoot, the other still does, and we bring in a colleague we trust to take the second camera.

What matters is that nothing restarts. We're a family business and we plan every shoot together — timeline, locations, the things that matter to you. Whichever of us is there already knows your day in full. You'd never be explaining your wedding to someone for a second time.

If something happened to both of us, we'd find you someone we'd trust with our own wedding, or you'd get your money back — your choice.

Neither has happened in our careers.

We're based in Brooklyn and shoot across all five boroughs. Most of our work happens in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.

We travel too — Connecticut, New Jersey, upstate, and further when a couple asks. Travel costs depend on distance, so ask and we'll give you a number.

For most of the city, no. Streets, sidewalks, subway platforms, and the majority of Central Park are open to you without paperwork.

There are exceptions. The Conservatory Garden in Central Park is the one that catches people out — it's managed by the Central Park Conservancy and requires a permit even for a proposal. Some venues and private gardens have their own rules.

Tell us where you want to shoot and we'll tell you what's required before you plan around it.

Often. It's one of our favorite ways to get married in this city — fast, unfussy, and the surrounding blocks are some of the best backdrops in New York.

We've written a full guide to how to elope in NYC, including the marriage license process and what City Hall does and doesn't allow –– please check out our Blog.

Usually, we shoot anyway.

New York rain rarely lasts a whole afternoon, and a wet city photographs beautifully — stone darkens, light reflects off the pavement, and the streets empty out. Some of our favorite frames came from days that looked like a write-off at noon.

If it's genuinely unshootable, we move it. We keep a few dates open each month for exactly that, and weather reschedules are free.

How much notice we need: 2 hours for sessions in the city, 6 hours for anything outside NYC. Once a session has started we can't move it, and the full fee applies.

Sessions in 7–10 days. Weddings in 14–20.

Your gallery arrives as a private online link, every image fully edited and ready to download.

Add-ons: sneak peeks and express delivery. Both need to be arranged when you book — our editing schedule is planned in advance, so they can't be added afterward.

More than you'd expect. A two-hour session typically delivers around 200 finished images.

We don't cap galleries at an arbitrary number. You get everything worth keeping.

What's the difference between editing and retouching?

Editing is included in every package. It's the overall treatment applied across your whole gallery — white balance, cropping, contrast, shadows, color, and our grade.

Retouching is targeted work on individual frames: smoothing skin, removing something distracting from a background, fixing hair the wind has rearranged, clearing a blemish.

Sessions: every image you receive is edited.

Weddings: every image is edited, and every posed shot is edited and retouched.

No. We deliver finished work.

A raw file is an unprocessed negative — it isn't what your photographs are meant to look like. Color, contrast, and grading are a large part of what you're hiring us for, and none of it exists in a raw file.

Every image in your gallery is fully edited and ready to use.

Yes — though there are two separate things here worth pulling apart.

Your gallery is always private. Only you have the link. That's true for every booking and it never costs extra.

Whether we can show your images is separate. Our standard contract includes a model release, which lets us use your photos in our portfolio and on social media. That's how couples find us — almost everything on our site is real client work.

If you'd rather your photos stayed off our portfolio and socials entirely, we can do that. There's an additional fee, since it means shooting the work without being able to show it. Tell us when you book and we'll include it in your quote. No explanation needed.

Every package includes full print rights. Your photos are yours — print them at your favorite shop the week you get them, or ten years from now. You don't need our permission, and you'll never have to come back and ask for it.

That policy comes from our own experience. We wouldn't want to be chasing down a photographer we'd worked with two years earlier just to print something we'd finally decided we loved. So we don't put our clients in that position.

If you'd rather not handle it yourself, you can also order albums and prints directly from your online gallery. Both options are open — do it yourself, or let us take care of it.

Yes, but on a limited basis. We currently take video only for intimate weddings and elopements, and we keep a small number of dates open for it.

Get in touch and we'll tell you whether your date is one of them.

It's a maximum, not a quota we're obliged to fill.

What you're buying is the number of finished images in your package, not minutes on a clock. If the light is right and we already have everything we need, we might finish five or ten minutes early. You still receive every photo the package includes.

Text us if you're running more than ten minutes behind.

Session time starts when it's scheduled to start, so arriving late shortens the session rather than pushing it later — there's usually another booking after yours. If you'd like to add time on the day and we're able to, it's $150 per 30 minutes.

We'd much rather you arrived relaxed than sprinted the last three blocks.

The short version: choose a clear silhouette over a busy pattern, go for real contrast rather than mid-tone neutrals — grey stone and a grey sky will swallow beige — and bring the good shoes in a bag. You'll walk further than you expect.

The same principles hold whether it's an engagement session, an elopement, or portraits. We've written the long version, with advice on color, fabric, and specific locations: What to Wear for Engagement Photos in NYC.

Still unsure? Send us what you're considering before you buy it. We'll tell you honestly whether it'll work at the locations we've planned.