Three Hundred Weddings, Photographed on Film and Digital
Raleigh & Triangle Wedding Photography Collections
You'll receive about a thousand images, film and digital woven together in a single gallery.
The digital frames hold the clarity and the range of the day. The film frames hold the softness, the grain, the color that doesn't come out of a preset. Most couples can't tell me which is which until I point it out. They only know the gallery feels the way the day felt.
"Jeannemarie kept us on time and captured all of our moments. We had time to dance, relax, and really enjoy the rest of our wedding day instead of just rushing from one thing to the next.”
- AMY T.
so many ways to
CELEBRATE
01
Your Wedding Day
By the time we arrive, I already know your day. I've read your planner's floor diagrams, studied your mood board, and walked your timeline start to finish. My second photographer knows where they need to be at 4:15 so that I can be somewhere else. You can count on us to uphold a flexible timeline that keeps you on track while not making you feel pressured or rushed in the slightest. And during the ceremony, we'll be busy getting every angle of your amazing celebration.
Let's begin with an engagement session. Not only will it give us the opportunity to get to know each other, but it will allow you to get comfortable in front of the camera.
Engagement Session
As the months fly by we'll stay in touch as much or as little as you'd like. I'll check in on you from time to time to say hi. And I'm always available to answer any questions. I'll provide sage advice on getting the most out of your florals, I'll help you prep for posing from afar, and I'll even provide you with a boost of confidence if you're feeling those pre-wedding jitters.
Enjoy the Journey
Fifty images land in your inbox within forty-eight hours, the ones you'll want to send your mother before the flowers have wilted. Your full gallery of roughly a thousand images arrives within six weeks. Film takes the time film takes, and I would rather wait on the lab than hand you something hurried. You'll be amazed at how incredible you both look and marvel at all the little moments that your new family can now enjoy forever!
A Special Delivery
A private session, entirely your own. Some give the images away as a gift; most keep them. Photographed by request.
Beautiful Boudoir
mariah & willy
Bridget & william
Sydney & joseph
editorial sessions across the
TRIANGLE
Editorial work at The Bradford, the Hill House in Durham, and private estates outside Raleigh, the rooms I know, and the light in them.
Read the full guide for
The Bradford
- Rebekah D.
“Jeanne was amazing! She was up for any challenge and captured so many fun and spontaneous photos. She was incredibly professional and kind while still knowing how to corral all of our family members when it was time for portraits.”
"As if her work weren't amazing enough, she's the absolute kindest!"
what couples say
KIND WORDS
- Maxx R.
“Shooting with Jeanne was fun and we laughed a lot. She was professional and clear about what she needed for our desired shots and made sure we got pictures with everyone we wanted at our wedding. Our parents were so happy with their photos and our siblings laughed and had a good time.”
"You simply must book her. She's an absolute GAMECHANGER."
from past clients
KIND WORDS
- Kaitlynn
“When I found Jeannemarie online, I knew I had to have her photograph my wedding! She took care of us the whole day and when our gallery arrived, we were estatic!.”
"Hands down the most talented out there."
from past clients
KIND WORDS
Most of what couples ask me before we ever meet comes down to the same question: how will my day actually be cared for? Here is the honest answer — how long I stay, who is beside me, what you hold at the end, and who is behind the camera.
the way i photograph a wedding day
Coverage Begins at Eight Hours
Eight hours is where a wedding day begins to breathe.
It's enough time to be there while you're still getting ready, when the light is soft and the room is quiet and your mother is watching you in the mirror. Enough time to photograph the details you spent a year choosing, before anyone touches them. Enough to move through your ceremony, your portraits, your first dance — without a clock pulling at any of it.
Shorter coverage means choosing what to leave out. I would rather you never have to. Every wedding I photograph begins at eight hours, and many couples add more when the celebration spans a weekend, a welcome dinner, or a send-off worth staying for.
You'll Never Have Just
One Photographer
I always work alongside at least one additional photographer, and more when your day calls for it.
While I'm with you as you step into your dress, someone is with your partner. During the ceremony, I'm at the aisle and they're at the back of the room, so you have both the vow and the face of the person hearing it. At the reception, the room is covered from two directions at once — the toast and the table listening to it.
A second photographer isn't an add-on to consider later. It's how I photograph a wedding, on every wedding, from the first hour.
Most of the weddings I photograph run between one hundred and two hundred guests — large enough to need a second photographer in a different room, small enough that I will know your grandmother's name by the toasts.
An Album You'll Hand Down
Your gallery is where your wedding day lives now. An album is where it lives in fifty years.
I custom design albums as heirloom pieces — carefully sequenced, produced by hand, printed on archival photographic paper and bound in fine materials meant to be handled. The kind of book that sits on a shelf and gets pulled down at anniversaries, then handed to a daughter, then to hers. Screens change. Files migrate. A beautiful book stays exactly where you left it, and it opens to the same page every time.
We design yours together after your wedding, once you've lived with the images long enough to know which ones you can't be without.
I Photograph Every Wedding Personally
When you book me, you get me.
I don't send an associate, and I don't hand your day to another shooter under my name. I am the one photographing your ceremony, guiding you through portraits, and watching for the moment your father turns away to compose himself. What I've learned across every wedding I've photographed is that the trust we build in the months before the day is what makes the photographs feel like you — and that trust doesn't transfer to someone you've never met.
The photographer you talk to is the photographer who shows up.
If that's the kind of care you're looking for, I'd love to hear about your day.
The welcome party is where I meet your people. Your father, who is going to insist he isn't going to cry. The aunt who will organize everyone whether or not anyone asked her to. The grandmother who traveled furthest, and the cousins who haven't been in one room since the last wedding.
By Saturday I am not a stranger with a camera. I know who belongs to whom, whose hand your mother reaches for, which uncle will be first onto the dance floor and which one has to be asked twice. Nobody straightens up when I come near, because we spent Friday evening together.
That is the part couples don't anticipate when they are deciding whether to add a day. They think they are buying more photographs. What they are buying is photographs of people who have stopped noticing me.
If your celebration runs across two or three days, whether that is a welcome party, a rehearsal dinner, or a morning-after brunch, those days are built into your collection from the beginning with the coverage each one needs.
If Your Wedding Is a Weekend,
I'll Photograph the Weekend
By the time I arrive, I have already spent hours with your day.
I've read your mood board, so I know whether you want the quiet frames or the ones with everyone in them. I've asked your planner for the floor diagrams, so I know which way your ceremony faces and where the light will be at four o'clock. We've built your photography timeline together, and your family photograph list, names and all, so that nobody is standing in a field wondering who is next.
None of this is meant to make your wedding feel produced. It is meant to make it feel easy. The planning is mine to carry. The day is yours.
Most of the Work Happens Before Your Wedding Day
What wedding photography costs in Raleigh
Collections begin at $5,000 and include eight hours of coverage, a second photographer, and your full gallery. Most couples invest between $7,000 and $8,000 once an heirloom album is added.
I build every collection around the day in front of me rather than from a menu, so additional hours, a third photographer, and additional days are folded in from the start instead of bolted on later.
the INVESTMENT
FREQUENTLY
asked
QUESTIONS
How many hours of wedding coverage do you offer?
All of my wedding collections begin at eight hours, which covers getting ready through the reception without cutting anything short. Additional hours and multi-day coverage are available for weekends with welcome dinners, brunches, or send-offs.
Do you work with a second photographer?
Yes — always. Every wedding I photograph includes at least one additional photographer, and I bring on more when the size or timeline of your day calls for it.
You haven't photographed my venue before. Is that a problem?
No, and here's why. A venue is a room with light in it, and reading light is the craft. Before your wedding I walk your venue with your timeline in hand, where the sun sits at your ceremony hour, which wall holds the last warm light for portraits, where we go if it rains, where your family can gather without a bottleneck. I do this whether or not I've photographed there before, because a venue I photographed two years ago has different light in a different season at a different hour. What travels with me from every wedding I've shot is knowing what to look for the moment I walk in.
Do you photograph weddings yourself, or send an associate?
I photograph every wedding personally. You will never be handed to an associate photographer.
How do you prepare for our wedding, and how much planning help do you provide?
More than most couples expect, and it's some of my favorite work.
We build your photography timeline together, how much time getting ready actually needs, where your portraits fall for the best light, how to place a first look or skip one, how long your family photographs will really take. Most timeline stress comes from guessing at those numbers, and I don't guess at them.
We also help build your family photograph list by name and grouping before the day, so no one is missed and your family can get back to celebrating quickly. I coordinate with your planner and venue on the flow of the day, scout your locations, I also ask for your mood board and planner diagrams and, we talk through the details ahead of time so that when your wedding arrives, you're not managing anything.
What does wedding photography cost with you?
Collections begin at $5,000, which includes eight hours of coverage, a second photographer, and your full gallery. Most couples invest between $7,000 and $8,000 once an heirloom album is added. Every collection is built around your specific day rather than chosen from a package list, so additional hours, additional photographers, and additional days are priced into your collection from the start.
When will we see our photographs?
A sneak peek of fifty images arrives within forty-eight hours of your wedding. Your full gallery — roughly a thousand film and digital images — is delivered within six weeks. Because I photograph on film alongside digital, lab turnaround affects that timeline, and six weeks is built to absorb it. If you need a particular image sooner, for a thank-you card or a newspaper announcement, just ask and I'll pull it.
How many weddings have you photographed?
Three hundred, in North Carolina, Charleston, Connecticut, Hawaii, Italy, and France. The number matters less as a credential than as a reason not to worry: there is very little that can happen at a wedding that I have not already photographed my way through. Rain an hour before an outdoor ceremony. A ceremony that starts forty minutes late. A reception room darker than anyone expected. None of it is new.
Can you photograph our welcome party and day-after brunch?
Yes, and I'd encourage it. Weddings in the Triangle increasingly run across a whole weekend, and the welcome party and the morning-after brunch are where the loosest, least self-conscious photographs of your families tend to happen. Additional days are built into your collection from the beginning rather than added afterwards, so we can plan coverage and second photographers around what each day actually needs.
Do you offer wedding albums?
Yes. I design heirloom albums with archival printing and fine bindings, sequenced with you after your wedding, made to be passed down through generations. Parent albums are available as well, smaller companion books drawn from your design, so both families have a copy of the day on their own shelf rather than a link in an inbox.
