Booking photo and film from one studio means one plan, one timeline and one look across both. Couples book film, photo, or both. For elopements, intimate days and smaller weddings, I can shoot photo and film myself. For a full-size wedding, Hybrid Day + 2nd Shooter or a Full Team covers both, with everyone working from one plan — one style, one point of contact. Two separate companies can work well, but they usually meet for the first time on your wedding day.
What two companies usually means
Two teams, two planning calls and two timelines that don't know about each other. On the day, the photographer and videographer compete for the same spot at the end of the aisle, and nobody owns the moments in between.
What one studio means
Couples book film, photo, or both. For elopements, intimate days and smaller weddings, I can shoot photo and film myself. For a full-size wedding, Hybrid Day + 2nd Shooter or a Full Team covers both, with everyone working from one plan — one style, one point of contact.
Both shooters work from the same timeline and the same shot plan. The photographer holds the portrait while the film catches the reaction across the room, and the edit style matches because one person is directing both.
The same moment, both ways
Kris + Pearl prayed back to back before their ceremony at Awaken Church. This is that moment as a photograph and as film:
Kris + Pearl
Awaken Church, San Diego
When two companies is fine
If you already love a photographer, keep them. I can work alongside other companies, and I'm happy to share my timeline so we're working from the same plan.
I also shoot as an associate for Complete Weddings and Events, Eric Raftery's company, so working inside someone else's plan on a wedding day is familiar ground.