Wedding Photography

Fully experience your wedding day.

Relive it through photographs every day after.

The art of truly personalized wedding photographs means choosing a photographer that listens to you. Your wedding is not a glorified photoshoot. Because while you want gorgeous photographs of you and your spouse, the wedding photos you will actually cherish most are the brief and candid interactions with friends and family that came from all over to celebrate you. I promise not to hold you captive for endless portraits, so you get to actually enjoy your time with these people.

Enjoy your wedding day, and get the privilege of forgetting about the details.

I take the stress out of timelines, shot lists, family formals, and wedding day minutia to create an experience you enjoy and photographs that are memorable. My hope is that you get to stay in the moment, enjoying this once-in-a-lifetime day with your absolute favorite people. And afterwards, you have a wedding album that helps you relive that incredible day and tell those family stories for decades.

As a bonus, maybe we become friends, and we create some unique and personal artwork to hang in your home.

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What Would Your Wedding Photographs Look Like If You Could Be Fully Present, Truly Enjoying Every Moment?

When you hire a wedding photographer, you are giving someone the exclusive opportunity to tell the story of your wedding day. You’re going to relive these moments through your memories and their unique perspective–theirs only. This is an important decision!

Believe it or not, you’re also bringing your wedding photographer into your inner circle of people for the day. They will impact how you experience and remember your wedding day. They’ll be there through your pre-wedding jitters, laying witness to the start of your marriage, and capturing your first moments as husband and wife. How they support you, interact with your family, and make space for you to stay in the moment on your wedding day is extremely impactful to your wedding experience.

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The Wedding Photography Experience

First, I listen. Each wedding is unique, as is each couple I meet. This is your opportunity to tell me your values, wedding priorities, quirks, family wedding traditions, and any detail you want to chat about. I want to make sure my photography style is the right choice for your wedding day.

Next, we go over your customized proposal. Pricing is always adjusted to what you need and value. Your proposal will directly reflect what we talk about in our initial call. I’ll help you choose the best coverage and products for your wedding memories.

Now let’s book! All we need next is a mutually signed contract and your retainer (30%) fee, and we’re booked in! We can get to planning your engagement session. We’ll talk all about location options, making the session unique and meaningful, what to wear, hair and makeup, and feeling comfortable in front of the camera.

Between your engagement session and wedding day, we’ll have a call or meeting to go over how you felt about your engagement gallery. This is my opportunity to learn from you what you loved most about your gallery, and maybe what didn’t work for you. We’ll also go over everything I need to know to be prepared to photograph your wedding in a meaningful way.

On your wedding day, you are in good hands. Relax, enjoy every moment, and show off your dance moves! We’ll capture it all. Just know I’m excited to celebrate and capture your wedding day. It’s going to be awesome.

Get the tissues ready! About 4-6 weeks after your wedding, when your images are ready, we’ll have a reveal party! You’re invited to our studio to view the images together with a few close friends or family members and select your artwork and album imagery. Or, we can unveil your images over zoom.

Personal, authentic wedding photography

Your wedding is about you two, and I’m here to be an active supporter of that, even if it breaks every tradition in the book.

I give loads of time and attention to detail to each client. Your experience with your photographer impacts the way you will view and remember the images in the future. I want you to have only the best memories of this day. This is why I work with limited couples who truly value intentional photography.

I celebrate this love and contentment you’ve found in each other. I want to know your unique story. I welcome you, no matter your size, shape, gender, religion, color, ethnicity, or past.

Let’s talk about what YOU need from your wedding photographer.

Pricing

Wedding Photography Packages

Pricing for wedding photography collections varies depending on your needs. I customize options for all my couples, based on their priorities for their wedding day. I photograph everything from tiny mountaintop elopements to 300-person multicultural, multi-day ballroom celebrations. Eight years’ experience has taught me to always start pricing with a conversation about what you need and what matters most to you. Weddings are personal. But an important reference point for you to know is that weddings begin at $4,400 and build from there, while elopements begin at $2,900. Most couples invest $5,400 for a wedding photography collection.

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Wedding Photography Testimonials

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If you are considering having Jo as your photographer for your engagement shoot, wedding, family shot and more.. DO IT! Jo is incredible at what she does! My now husband and I never kissed until our wedding day and she helped us feel comfortable with each other and have fun at the same time. She is so easy to work with, on time, super professional but not stiff. She is so relational and kind. Her quality of work is out of this world! Do it. Do it. DO IT! YOU WONT REGRET IT!
Emily and Ron

Immortalizing our wedding memories

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Jo did an absolutely perfect job immortalizing not only our wedding memories, but our engagement photos as well. She is willing to go the extra mile in everything she does, and has the talent, personality and professionalism to have you coming back to her for every life event you share! Without hesitation, I will forever recommend Photography by Jo to friends, family and strangers alike, as I know she is the premier business in her field. You will love and trust her the moment you meet with her! It is not possible to give more than 5 stars, but I can safely say she deserves more! Stop the worry and call Photography by Jo!
Espy and Bre

Truly captured the Love

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Working with Jo was one of my favorite experiences of getting married (aside from actually marrying my husband of course!). Photography is VERY important to me and after becoming engaged, it was the FIRST vendor I wanted to book. When it came to planning for our wedding day, she created a timeline that utilized her wedding expertise allowing us to maximize our wedding day coverage. Jo effortlessly managed to be everywhere we needed her to be during our ceremony and reception, capturing all of the important components we wanted (and some we didn’t even consider) to remember throughout the day. She has an eye for detail and her photos truly captured the love and excitement we had that day. We highly recommend Jo for your wedding photography needs!
Julie and Kyle

Provided Encouragement and Advice

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Photography By Jo was an amazing experience. From the first inquiry until the wedding day they provided encouragement and advice and were incredibly responsive. They ensured the wedding day ran smoothly, did not hesitate to offer a helping hand, and captured beautiful moments as memories. Thanks, Photography By Jo, we could not have made a better decision!
Kristi & Nazahne

Helped us keep that day in our memories

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Jo is an amazing photographer. The pictures she took of our wedding ceremony and dinner are incredibly beautiful. She was great at directing us during pictures and made sure to capture every detail of our special day. She sure helped us keep that day in our memories. The wedding album and prints were amazing! Highly recommend Photography by Jo.
Nichole & Austin

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What drew me towards wedding Photography.

I could have specialized in anything, but I chose wedding photography. Watching two families come together is unlike anything else. After dozens of weddings, I have come to love the emotion in the transitional moments and unexpected experiences of each wedding day. I used to look forward to sunset portraits with my clients the most.

But now, I love returning wedding photos filled with sweet looks between mother and son, bridesmaids wiping a tear away, the awe on a groom’s face as he first sees his bride, and the giggling flower girl taking her dress for that first twirl. I will give you great portraits to hang on your walls too, but these unplanned and unposed memories are the moments that make your wedding unique and memorable. I focus my whole experience around making more time for that.

Whether you realize it yet or not, choosing a wedding photographer is a very personal choice. Staunton is full of talented wedding photographers, and our style, approach, perspective, and demeanor are all a little different. I created this page to tell you all about how I work and make sure that we’re a great match. If not, many of these of photographers are great friends of mine, who I’d love to introduce to you!

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