Georgia
Destination wedding · Savannah
In short
Destination wedding in Savannah starts at $4,800: 10 hours on location with a photographer who works in Savannah, and 700 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 6 weeks.
Why choose Destination wedding in Savannah?
Savannah works as a destination wedding for a reason that is unglamorous and decisive: everything is walkable. Guests stay in the historic district, the ceremony is in a square, the reception is four blocks away, and nobody hires a car for three days. That compresses a destination weekend into an area small enough that the photography can cover all of it rather than the wedding day alone.
Worth knowing about Savannah
Because the district is walkable, a Savannah destination wedding can genuinely be covered across two days without any of the transit cost that makes split coverage expensive elsewhere. The welcome party at a restaurant four blocks from the ceremony square is fifteen minutes of a photographer’s evening rather than an hour of driving, which is why ten hours split across two days buys more here than in any other destination on this site.
What does the session in Savannah look like?
- The welcome party
- Usually the only evening all the guests are together and relaxed. The strongest candid coverage of the weekend.
- A historic square
- The ceremony, in a square reserved by City of Savannah permit.
- Wormsloe or Forsyth Park
- The portrait block — Wormsloe on an overcast day, Forsyth on any.
What does destination wedding in Savannah 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 Savannah
Should coverage be split across two days?
In Savannah, more than anywhere else on this site. Because the historic district is walkable, splitting ten hours across the welcome party and the wedding day costs nothing in transit — the two are usually four blocks apart. The welcome evening is the only time every guest is together and relaxed, and it is where the best candid coverage comes from.
How far ahead should we book?
Twelve months for a spring date in Savannah, largely because of the venues rather than the photographer. A destination wedding of fifty or more guests needs a City of Savannah permit for its ceremony square plus an off-duty police officer, and March and April Saturdays are the most requested.