Exactly how an editorial Cleveland wedding works. Eight steps. No surprises. You always know what comes next.
Most photographers keep the process vague until you've signed. I do the opposite: here is every step, start to finish, so you can decide before you ever pick up the phone.
You send your date and venue. I reply within four hours.
Not a copy-paste rate sheet. It tells you whether I'm available, what your day would look like, and which collection fits. Getting married at the Botanical Garden? I'll tell you the exact hour the light is best on the Geis Terrace.
A relaxed call, or an in-person meeting if you'd rather.
We talk through your day: the vision, the venue, the family dynamics, the moments that matter most. I recommend the collection that fits, never the most expensive by default. Most couples book after this call.
A $200 deposit locks your date.
Plain-English contract, no fine-print traps. The $200 comes right off your total. After your demo you have 48 hours to sign and put down 50%, and the balance is due at the final planning call, about a month out. Once you're booked, the date is yours.
Included on most collections.
An editorial shoot in Cleveland or wherever your story lives. It's a rehearsal: you learn how I work, I learn how you move, and by the wedding day there's no awkward first ten minutes.
A pre-wedding consultation, a few weeks out.
This is where editorial photography is won or lost. We build the timeline around the light, not just the schedule. Golden hour gets protected; the Severance staircase and the Stan Hywet Birch Allée get their exact hour. The day runs calmer because it was planned.
Editorial coverage from getting ready to the last dance.
I shoot your wedding the way a magazine shoots a feature: people, light, sequence, the small moments that hold the story together. Twenty years of commercial sets taught me to work a room fast. You barely notice me; the gallery shows everything.
An optional magazine-style session the morning after.
Wedding-day portraits get twenty minutes between speeches. This is two hours, the next morning, dressed again, shot like a magazine cover. Included on The Editorial Experience and The Heirloom, and the only session like it in Cleveland.
More on the Day After Editorial Session →Sneak peeks in seven days. Full gallery in six weeks.
Every keeper from the day, 80 to 120 edited frames per hour, in a private gallery you can download, share, and print from. No holding the gallery hostage to upsell. Prints and heirloom albums when you want them, never required.
Send your date and venue. You'll have a real reply, with availability and pricing, within four hours.
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