Colorado
Wedding photography · Denver
In short
Wedding photography in Denver starts at $3,500: 8 hours on location with a photographer who works in Denver, and 600 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 6 weeks.
Why choose Wedding photography in Denver?
A Denver wedding is frequently a mountain wedding, and mountain weddings carry two risks a city wedding does not: an afternoon thunderstorm in summer, and a guest list arriving from sea level to a venue at 9,000 feet. Both affect the photographs. The first can close an outdoor ceremony with twenty minutes’ notice; the second means the aisle walk is harder work than anybody expects.
Worth knowing about Denver
A summer mountain wedding timeline is built backwards from the afternoon storm rather than from the sunset. Convective storms build over the Front Range from about one o’clock most days between June and August, which means the ceremony wants to be earlier than it would be at sea level and the portraits want to be before it rather than after. Venues here know this; timelines written elsewhere frequently do not.
What does the session in Denver look like?
- The venue, walked beforehand
- Where the covered option is, and how quickly it can be turned around after a rain call.
- The property at golden hour
- Aspen, pine and rock. Ten minutes away from the reception and worth it.
- Union Station or LoDo
- For a city wedding, and the only Denver location that photographs well after dark.
What does wedding photography in Denver include?
- 600+ retouched photographs
- Eight hours of continuous coverage
- Pre-wedding venue walk-through and timeline planning
- Second photographer for ceremony and reception
- Private online gallery within 6 weeks
- Print release for personal use
FAQ — Wedding photography in Denver
What about afternoon storms at a mountain wedding?
They are likely rather than possible between June and August — convective storms build over the Front Range from around one o’clock most days. The timeline is written backwards from that: an earlier ceremony, portraits before it rather than after, and a covered option established at the walk-through. Storms here usually pass within the hour and leave extraordinary light.
Do guests need to worry about altitude?
Guests arriving from sea level to a venue at 8,000 or 9,000 feet will feel it, and it is worth saying so on the invitation rather than leaving it as a surprise. A day to acclimatise helps, water helps more, and alcohol hits considerably harder. It affects the photographs indirectly, because how people feel is visible in them.