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Destination wedding · Atlanta
In short
Destination wedding in Atlanta starts at $4,800: 10 hours on location with a photographer who works in Atlanta, and 700 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 6 weeks.
Why choose Destination wedding in Atlanta?
A destination wedding in Atlanta is a wedding where most guests fly or drive in for a weekend, photographed over ten hours that can be split across the welcome dinner and the wedding day, priced from $4,800. Atlanta works as a destination because guests land at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, a major airline hub just south of downtown, and because the weekend can show them a Southern city rather than a hotel ballroom: a historic estate garden, a Westside warehouse dinner, the skyline from Jackson Street.
Worth knowing about Atlanta
For a destination wedding of under 60 traveling guests, the Atlanta History Center’s Smaller Wedding package fits the ten-hour coverage almost exactly: $7,500 for up to ten hours, ceremony and reception, on most Sundays through Fridays. Saturdays there go to full-size weddings, so a destination couple willing to marry on a Friday — with the welcome dinner on Thursday — gets the Swan House at the smaller price.
What does the session in Atlanta look like?
- Atlanta History Center, Swan House Gardens
- A 1928 estate and terraced gardens for a ceremony that tells visiting guests where they are.
- Piedmont Park, Greystone or Dockside
- Park venues the Piedmont Park Conservancy rents, suited to a welcome party with the lake behind it.
- Ponce City Market and the Eastside Trail
- A Saturday-morning guest walk or a day-after portrait, with permission asked of the market first.
What does destination wedding in Atlanta include?
- 700+ retouched photographs
- Ten hours of coverage, or split across two days
- Welcome-party or rehearsal-dinner coverage included
- Second photographer throughout
- Venue liaison, and guidance on any permit the location needs
- Private online gallery within 6 weeks
FAQ — Destination wedding in Atlanta
How is a two-day Atlanta destination wedding photographed?
The ten hours of Atlanta destination wedding coverage are split to suit the weekend, for example two hours at a Thursday or Friday welcome dinner and eight hours on the wedding day. A second photographer works throughout both days, and all 700+ retouched photographs are delivered in one gallery within six weeks of the wedding.
What should out-of-town guests know about photographing an Atlanta wedding weekend?
Out-of-town guests in Atlanta should plan the weekend around the venues’ own rules: the Atlanta History Center keeps photography out of the Swan House interior and off Smith Farm, and the Atlanta Beltline, Inc. requires a paid permit when two or more cameras shoot on the trail. A guest walk on the BeltLine with phones needs no permit at all.