A WeddingStory commission is an eighteen-month relationship. The wedding itself is one day inside it.
Six to eighteen months out
We begin with a private call. No portfolios reviewed, no packages discussed — only the wedding you imagine. If our sensibility fits, we send a proposal within the week.
Upon contract
A signed agreement and a thirty-percent retainer reserve your date. We accept a single wedding per weekend. The date is yours.
Sixty days before
A second conversation, longer, focused on the day itself. We meet your planner, walk the venue, and design the coverage around the moments that matter to you.
The wedding
Two principal cinematographers, a second camera, an assistant. Sixteen-millimetre film for three movements: morning, ceremony, first dance. Digital for the rest.
Twelve to sixteen weeks after
The same hands that held the camera cut the film. A first cut is shared privately. One round of revisions is included; in nine years, fewer than a dozen couples have used it.
Final delivery
Your films arrive in a hand-bound walnut keepsake with archival USB, signed prints from the day, and lifetime digital storage. The negatives are archived in Toronto.