Tennessee
Engagement session · Nashville
In short
Engagement session in Nashville starts at $450: 2 hours on location with a photographer who works in Nashville, and 60 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 5 business days.
Why choose Engagement session in Nashville?
Nashville gives an engagement session two things almost no other city pairs: a mural district that photographs like a set, and a limestone stairway into hardwood forest twenty minutes from it. Percy Warner and the Gulch are the two halves of nearly every session booked here, and they need opposite hours — the murals early, before the queue, and the steps at the end of the day when the light comes through the trees.
Worth knowing about Nashville
The murals are private walls, not public art, and several of the best known have restricted or prohibited commercial photography as the crowds have grown — while others have simply been repainted since the photograph you saw. Sessions here are scouted in the week before rather than planned from a saved image, which is also when permission for a specific wall is confirmed.
What does the session in Nashville look like?
- Percy Warner Park, the Allée and steps
- A limestone stairway rising into hardwood forest. The most-used engagement location in the city.
- The Gulch murals
- The wings and the surrounding walls. Sunrise, because a queue forms by nine.
- Centennial Park and the Parthenon
- A full-scale Doric replica and a lake, fifteen minutes from downtown.
What does engagement session in Nashville include?
- 60 retouched photographs
- Two locations, including travel between them
- Outfit change included
- Save-the-date crops sized for print and for email
- Private online gallery within 5 business days
- Print release for personal use
Permits at these locations: Percy Warner Park, the Allée and steps: Metro Parks photography permit required: $125 a day for Davidson County photographers, $150 from outside, applied for at least 48 hours ahead. Centennial Park and the Parthenon: Metro Parks photography permit required: $125 a day in Davidson County, $150 from outside. Prop set-ups and stages need a separate rental.
FAQ — Engagement session in Nashville
Can we photograph at the Nashville murals?
Usually, with two caveats. They are private walls and several of the best known now restrict commercial photography, so permission is confirmed per wall rather than assumed. And they change — murals here are repainted often enough that a location scouted a year ago may not exist. Sessions are scouted in the week before.
How early do we need to start for the Gulch?
Before eight, and before seven at a weekend. A queue forms at the wings mural by about nine most mornings and runs an hour long on a Saturday in spring or autumn. Sunrise gives you the wall to yourself and softer light on it; by mid-morning you are photographing a line of people waiting to photograph a wall.