11/02/2026
Why does it take so long to receive my wedding gallery? Can’t you just crop it and adjusting the lighting?
Oh it’s SOO much more than that. 🤍
After a wedding, I typically come home with 3,000+ photos. Before I even start editing, I have to go through every single one of those photos and handpick the best ones. The best moments, expressions, little details, and everything in between. Then comes the actual editing process. I start by creating a preset that goes with the season, colors, lighting, and overall vibe of your wedding. From there, I go through each photo individually. I use masking to soften skin texture, sharpen details, brighten whites, adjust colors to match the true tone, & more. After that, I crop and straighten each photo. And then comes all the little things you probably wouldn’t even notice. Removing distractions like cleaning up random leaves, stains on dresses, lint or stray hairs on black suits, and all those tiny imperfections that can take away from a beautiful photo. Some photos need very little work, but others need a LOT… On average, I spend around 5 minutes editing a single photo. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Now multiply that by hundreds and hundreds of photos, and you can probably see why it takes a little time. 😆
And something else I want to touch on because I feel pretty strongly about it. There are photographers who edit for their social media profiles and then there are photographers like me who edit for their clients. I’m not going to edit every wedding with the exact same preset just so all of my photos look aesthetically pleasing together on my Instagram or Facebook. Every wedding is different. Every season is different. Every color scheme is different. And not every bride is the same! You spent months, sometimes YEARS, planning every little detail of your wedding day. You picked those colors for a reason. You chose that venue, those flowers, those dresses, and all those little details because that’s what YOU loved. Why would I want to change all of that just to make your photos match the rest of my social media?
I want your wedding photos to look and feel like YOUR wedding day! Not the wedding I photographed the weekend before or the one I’ll photograph the weekend after. I want you to look back at your photos and remember everything the way it was, just a little more polished.
Another thing a lot of people may not realize is that I don’t outsource my editing. Every single photo you receive has been handpicked and edited by me. I don’t send your gallery off to someone else. I don’t just slap a preset on everything and call it a day. I take my time with each photo because I genuinely care about what I’m giving back to you. I think that’s the biggest thing I wish more people understood. These aren’t just photos to me. They’re photos you’re going to hang on your walls and show your kids one day. They’re pictures of people who might not be here forever. They’re little moments from a day that you will NEVER get to experience again. I know how much time, money, and planning goes into a wedding. I know how much those photos mean.
So when you book me as your wedding photographer, just know that I’m editing your wedding photos the same way I would want someone to edit mine. With patience, attention to detail, and a whole lot of love. Could I rush through a gallery, throw a preset on everything, and get it delivered quicker? Absolutely. But that’s just not how I work, and it’s not how I ever want to work. I’d rather take a little extra time to give you something I’m genuinely proud of and something I hope you’ll love looking back on for the rest of your life.
Because at the end of the day, I’m not editing for my Instagram feed. I’m editing for YOU. 🤍
