Weddings and elopements, photographed quietly, in the Blue Ridge.
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Recent Work
Six pictures out of about ninety thousand. If you want to sit with a whole wedding start to finish, ask and we will send you two full galleries.
The Collections
Every collection includes two pre-wedding planning calls, a custom timeline drafted around the light, a full-resolution online gallery with personal printing rights, and the two of us rooting for you the whole way through.
$3,200
For the small, unhurried wedding: a backyard in Weaverville, a ceremony at the courthouse and supper after.
Most often chosen
$4,800
Enough hours for getting-ready through the first dances, with two angles on every vow and toast.
$6,500
The whole arc of the day, finished as a book your children will argue over someday. The good kind of arguing.
A 30% retainer and signed agreement reserve your date. Finished galleries are delivered in 6–8 weeks. Travel is included within 3 hours of Asheville.
The practical part: most couples book 12 to 18 months out (October Saturdays go first), a signed agreement and 30% retainer hold your date, and there are no travel fees within a 3-hour drive of Asheville. A preview of 40 to 60 images arrives within a week; complete galleries follow in 6 to 8 weeks, elopement galleries in 4 to 6.
Elopements
Elopements are half of what we do. We have stood with couples at Craggy Gardens before sunrise, in the Joyce Kilmer old growth in the rain, and on a porch in Hot Springs with a borrowed dog as witness.
Elopement packages start at $1,900 and cover two to four hours with one photographer, growing from there. Add hours, a hike, a second sunrise location, or dinner at a long table afterward. Every package includes help with National Park and Forest Service permits, location scouting, and sunrise and sunset timing for your exact date.
You will also receive our Blue Ridge elopement planning guide: thirty pages of overlooks sorted by season, a leave-no-trace shortlist, officiants who will drive up a gravel road, and where to find biscuits afterward. We keep weekday dates open year-round for eloping couples, even in October.
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The Photographers
We met fifteen years ago in a Boone darkroom, where June was printing portraits of her granddad's tobacco barn and Theo was hogging the enlarger, and we have been photographing together ever since. June shoots the quiet things: hands, letters, the mother of the bride breathing in the hallway. Theo climbs on chairs at receptions and knows every overlook on the parkway by milepost.
We photographed our first wedding in 2014, opened the Beacon Hollow Lane studio in 2019, and have made pictures at just over two hundred weddings and elopements since, nearly all of them within these mountains. We work slowly, stay late, and believe the best photograph at any wedding is usually of someone who doesn't know they're being photographed.
Home is West Asheville with a freckled pointer named Biscuit, a garden that grows mostly dahlias and regret, and shelf after shelf of other people's family albums rescued from estate sales. We'd be honored to make yours.
The Studio
Our studio sits above the cobbles of Beacon Hollow Lane in downtown Asheville: one long table, a wall of albums to leaf through, and good coffee from next door. Come sit; bring your Pinterest board or don't.
Studio visits are by appointment.
Monday – Friday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: usually at a wedding
Based in Asheville and serving the Blue Ridge region and all of western North Carolina. Travel is included within 3 hours of Asheville; farther afield, we'll send a custom travel quote billed at cost.
Inquire
Write us a few lines: your date if you have one, the place if you've found it, and anything you already know you want remembered. We answer every inquiry personally within two business days.