Momento Amoris
Film Style · Fujifilm · Same-Day Delivery
The timeline
Here's exactly what happens, in order, from the moment you check my availability to the moment you're holding your finished photographs. The line at the bottom marks something important: it's where my service ends, and where your ownership of these images begins.
Check Availability
Start on Contact and check the calendar for your date.
Build Your Quote
Explore coverage options, travel estimates, and add-ons at your own pace on Contact. Full pricing breakdowns, including buyouts, are on The Numbers.
Consider Your Add-Ons
Thinking about an engagement session? Engagements. Want a second shooter? Second Shooter.
Preview Your Contract
No surprises. Read the full contract before you ever commit to anything.
Pick a Call Time
Add a couple of times that work for you, and I'll confirm one.
The Planning Page
I'll send over your client portal link along with your call confirmation. From there you'll have your own planning page — day-of timeline, inspiration photos, and film-simulation preferences — kept up to date right up until the wedding.
The Phone Call
By this point you already understand pricing and process, so this isn't a sales call. It's a chance for me to answer questions, meet both of you at once, and get a feel for the day you're picturing.
Contract & Retainer
After the call, I'll make any agreed-upon changes, release the final contract for signature, and send an invoice for the 50% retainer. Once paid, your date is officially secured.
Choose Your Look
Head to The Style Guide to decide how your photos will feel — film simulations, color grading, in-camera effects, exposure choices.
The Two-Week Check-In
About two weeks out, we'll hop on a final call. The remaining balance is due, and we lock in every last timeline detail.
Wedding Day
I show up early. You'll have your details ready. From there, I step into the day and we make something beautiful together.
During Dinner
While you eat, I'll print a handful of Instax keepsakes shot on my professional cameras — not the little plastic ones passed around the reception, the real thing.
End of Night — The Handoff
Before I leave, every unculled image from the day is transferred onto a high-speed drive and handed directly to you. My job is finished.
Your Files, Your Responsibility
I don't host galleries or store backups long-term, so from here the archive is yours to protect. Keep the drive somewhere safe, and make at least one backup — ideally both cloud and physical.
Edit Immediately, However You Like
The JPEGs are yours to filter, edit, and post from your phone the same night if you want to.
The RAW Files Are Yours Too
Hire a professional editor to develop them, learn to do it yourself, or leave them exactly as shot. All three are legitimate choices.
Your planning page
Once you're booked, you get your own planning page inside the client portal — not a shared spreadsheet or a stray email thread. Build your day-of timeline, drop in inspiration photos, and note your film-simulation or editing-style preference, all in one place you can return to and update anytime before the wedding. If you've booked a second shooter, they get a read-only link to it beforehand so they arrive already familiar with your day and your style.
The deliverables, in detail
A RAW file is a digital negative — unprocessed, uncompressed sensor data. It contains far more information than a JPEG and is the starting point for any professional edit. On its own it looks flat and grey; it requires specialized software (Lightroom, Capture One) to view and process properly. The advantage is permanence: you're never locked into one editing trend.
All RAW files.
Every frame captured, unculled, no exceptions — the complete digital negatives from the day.
All SOOC JPEG companions.
Styled in-camera per your chosen film simulation, ready to post the same night.
Same-day handoff.
A high-speed USB-C drive of everything, handed to you before I leave the venue.
Professional Instax prints.
Shot on-site during the reception, on my professional cameras — not the little plastic ones passed around the room.
Full personal-use license.
Edit, filter, print, post, or hire your own editor — no restrictions, no expiration.
No AI culling.
Human eyes only, every frame reviewed and delivered.
Diffusion filters, refraction prisms, and adapted vintage glass are physical modifiers — they change how light reaches the sensor, which means they affect the RAW file too, not just the JPEG. Full detail, examples, and compatibility notes live on The Style Guide.
Shape the light, not just the color
Beyond film simulation, three physical, in-camera effects are available on every booking.
Want a polished, edited album? Here's how that works.
The SOOC JPEGs are ready to post the same night. If you want a fully retouched, curated gallery, that's a separate step — hiring a professional editor with your RAW files, on your own timeline.
This registry is provided as a starting point for your own research. I don't hire, vet, or vouch for these studios and can't speak to their individual consistency or reliability.
Want the exact same experience shot fully by me, start to finish? I regularly shoot as a contract photographer for The Candid Crow and Once Like a Spark — if you want the traditional, fully-edited album experience with my eye behind it, that's where to find it. This site is specifically built for the capture-only, same-day model.