Other than getting some fantastic images that reflect your relationship, the goal of an engagement session combined with a wedding package is to get a chance to work together, learn what poses look best for you, and get you both comfortable in front of the camera.

An engagement is part of the wedding package, but I also offer engagement sessions free even without an signing a wedding contract. If we didn’t already shoot an engagement session just know that it is also part of the wedding contract so we will schedule those as soon as possible.

My ideal engagement session is shot in the last 3 hours or so before sunset and ending the session when the sun goes down. I prefer a longer session so we can visit multiple locations and enjoy a more relaxed shoot without rushing around finding interesting spots.

See the Epoch Engagement Package section below for more details on an engagement session.

I’m not a fan of time limits, or limits of any kind, on my sessions or weddings… So I don’t have any.

No time limit: We can spend as much or as little time as you’d like to get the shots you’ve dreamed of. I don’t like to rush through a shoot as I want everyone to just be relaxed and have fun, not having a time limit makes that easy. The only time limit we have is from the sun but I will literally stay out shooting all day and into the night if you let me.

An average shoot is about 3 hours depending on the locations we chose. Some locations require more drive or walk time that add to the length of the day.

No location limits: We can visit any location or locations that you’d like to include in your shoot near or far from Colorado Springs. I’ve shot engagements on top of Pikes Peak, Bishop Castle, the Paint Mines, Eleven Mile Canyon, wandering around the mountains, and all over Colorado Springs. Let me know where you’d like to go or the setting you’d like and I’ll plan the day.

No wardrobe Limit: Because I have no time limit you can bring as many different outfits that you’d like and change as many times as you want. I’m super patient and only schedule one shoot per day, so we have as much time as we need to get your engagement shots. I recommend 2 solid outfits, one casual and one dressed up, plus any accessories to add variety to the shoot.

Have pets that you want to include in your engagement?
They are a huge part of your life so they should also be included. If possible I prefer to have pets on a separate day or earlier in the same day as the engagement session. It’s easier on you guys and makes the session go smoother when there is no worry about keeping track of the pets at our locations.

So if you want to include pets in your engagement we can plan and schedule for two separate days and make things easier or if preferred we can schedule this shoot just before your engagement session and allow for ample time to shoot both sessions in a single day.

Truly unlimited wedding day coverage means exactly that… I will start with the bride in the early morning getting and stay until the bride and groom exit the reception no matter how late it gets.

Having no time limit makes everything stress free for you if the day happens to get delayed or behind or if the party goes later than planned… You’ll have coverage of your day without worry of additional hourly charges no matter what happens on your wedding day.

My second shooters and video people generally stay for 8 hours which I schedule during the bulk of the wedding day, but I will be there from start to finish.

Though I cover 99% of the wedding day I always bring a second shooter to offer a variety of angles as well as cover those moments where I simply cannot be in two places at once. If the groom is getting ready at a different location than the bride, we will have both places covered.

I hire professional photographers who second shoot or bring a student of mine who I’ve vetted and mentored to be ready to shoot at a wedding.

This started as an experiment in 2017 and 2018. I hire a third person (student or associate) to film the entire wedding day capturing everything they can. Then I edit together a highlight film of the wedding day.

I tested it for a year and have a fairly refined process for capturing the audio and video for the entire day, getting ready, ceremony, and reception. I would not consider this a pro-level video as it is more of a vlog style video of the day – I do have an associate who is a pro videographer if you are looking for one though.

You get a cool highlight video of your wedding day at no cost to you and I get highly shareable video content for marketing for myself and all of the other vendors at your wedding.
Here are some samples of some of the wedding videos.

There’s no charge for this and this can be denied if you do not want it. The only cost to you would be a third meal at the reception.

This started as an experiment in 2017 and 2018. I hire a third person (student or associate) to film the entire wedding day capturing everything they can on film including any audio from the ceremony and toasts. I also film some of the details when I’m able and edit together a highlight film of the wedding day. This is part of my normal team but I can eliminate the video aspect if you do not want video of the wedding day.

There is no cost to you except a third meal placement during the reception. I don’t charge for the video because I cannot yet guarantee that we can capture everything 100% in a uniform style and quality. This is a bonus item that I edit and produce as a gift to you for sharing your wedding day with anyone who could not make it to your wedding.

The videos are more of a vlog style video of the wedding day than a pro-level wedding video. If you’d like a high-end wedding video I have a partnership with White Summit Films to produce a higher quality wedding video with all of the fancy drones and filming equipment to make awesome videos.

Here’s an example of one of the highlight films included in the Epoch Wedding Package.

Online gallery for viewing your photos, sharing the gallery with friends and family, and downloading full or partial sets of both web resolution and original resolution files.

You can also order prints and products from your gallery directly from my pro lab with a 0% markup on all prints and products. 

Anyone with a link can download and order prints as well (also with 0% markup) so it’s easy to share with friends and family who are out of town. If you prefer the gallery can be password and PIN protected so you can allow access to only the people of your choice.

I offer all prints and products ordered through the gallery at-cost for a couple of reasons:

• • One, the quality from my lab is far superior compared to any local labs like Walgreens or Costco. Paper quality, ink quality, color matching, and the entire process they use produces very high quality prints and products for a price very close to that of the local labs.
  • Two, I want you to have the very best prints and products for your walls without having to pay a massively inflated prices.

After all of the photos have been edited and uploaded to your online gallery (engagement and wedding) you will have 60 days minimum to view, download, share, and order prints from the gallery. After 60 days I will remove the gallery as I need space on my server for additional clients.

The gallery allows unlimited downloads in both full original resolution for printing as well as a web resolution optimized for sharing online.

I will also be send you a metal print selected from your wedding or engagement photos with a USB flash drive attached to the back. This way you can display your favorite photo on the wall or shelf and know exactly where your copy of all of your photos are.

I encourage you to make at least one backup copy of the photos in a different location. I generally maintain an archive of all of my clients photos but cannot guarantee in any way that I will always have an available copy. I have a ultra redundant storage system locally and in the cloud, so if something where to happen to your photos in months or years down the road, contact me and I should still maintain a copy of all of your photos. 

All prints and products ordered through your gallery are high quality from a pro lab with a 0% markup on all prints and products. If the lab charges me $2.00 for a print, you pay the same $2.00 for the same print.

Anyone with a link can download and order prints as well (also with 0% markup) so it’s easy to share with friends and family who are out of town. If you prefer the gallery can be password and PIN protected so you can allow access to only the people of your choice.

I offer all prints and products ordered through the gallery at-cost for a couple of reasons:

• • One, the quality from my lab is far superior compared to any local labs like Walgreens or Costco. Paper quality, ink quality, color matching, and the entire process they use produces very high quality prints and products for a price very close to that of the local labs.
  • Two, I want you to have the very best prints and products for your walls without having to pay a massively inflated prices.

Along with the photos and videos on the USB flash drive will be a digital copy of your perpetual print and usage release for all of your photos.

Though I do retain the copyrights to the images I take, you have a release that allows unlimited prints forever and no limitations with the exception of entering the photos into contests or selling the images to stock photography websites or publications beyond personal social media without the expressed permission by me beforehand. Chances are I would be fine with being published or even entered into contests if that’s what you decided to do but I would like to properly attribute the photos in those situations as well as be able to share it.

This package is designed for those very small intimate weddings/elopements that would not fully benefit from Epoch Wedding Package.

This package does include a time limit to avoid any conflict of needing this package vs the full wedding package. There’s a thin line between the work involved working a full day wedding vs trying to fit a full elopement/wedding into a small amount of time.

Ideally this is a very small group of people, if not just the bride and groom, and usually just a ceremony followed by a bride and groom shoot.

One of my favorite elopements was just a quiet spot in the mountains with a bride and groom. He wore a suit and she wore a wedding dress. We did a first look, had a small ceremony of reading vows, a champagne toast between them, cut and shared a small cake, followed by a first dance with music from a small speaker. Then they signed the marriage licence, which I am a witness on, then took a few more photos around the location. It was super intimate and nice.

Same as a wedding package. I don’t charge any travel fees in the Colorado Front Range and I’m willing to travel just about anywhere to capture special day.

Online gallery for viewing your photos, sharing the gallery with friends and family, and downloading full or partial sets of both web resolution and original resolution files.

You can also order prints from the gallery directly from my pro print lab with a 0% markup on all prints and products.

Anyone with a link can download and order prints as well so it’s easy to share with friends and family who are out of town. If you prefer the gallery can be password and PIN protected so you can allow access to only the people of your choice.

After publishing the online gallery and all photos have been edited as well as any videos, I put everything on a flash drive and mail it to the address on the contract.

The flash drive is a flat card drive of 8GB to 16GB (unless more or less is needed for all photos and videos).

All prints and products are ordered through my professional print lab and offered to you through the online gallery with a 0% markup. If the lab charges me $2.00 for a print, you pay the same $2.00 for the same print.

I offer this because I want to encourage you to purchase prints through my lab. They offer a far superior print quality to local labs such as Walmart and Costco at a slightly higher price vs the local labs.

Along with the photos and videos on the flash drive will be a digital copy of your perpetual print and usage release for all of your photos.

Though I retain the copyrights to the images I take, you have a release that allows unlimited prints forever and no limitations with the exception of entering the photos into contests or selling the images to stock photography websites or publications beyond personal social media without expressed permission by me beforehand. Chances are I would be fine with being published or entered into contests if that’s what you decided to do but I would like to properly attribute the photos in those situations.

Generally I can easily cover the entire day without a second shooter, but depending on the planned day and locations I may encourage you to have me hire a second shooter or one of my students.

I hire professional photographers who second shoot or bring a student of mine who I’ve vetted and mentored to be ready to shoot at a wedding.

This started as an experiment in 2017 and 2018. I hire a third person (student or associate) to film the entire wedding day capturing everything they can. Then I edit together a highlight film of the wedding day.

I tested it for a year and have a fairly refined process for capturing the audio and video for the entire day, getting ready, ceremony, and reception. I would not consider this a pro-level video as it is more of a vlog style video of the day – I do have an associate who is a pro videographer if you are looking for one though.

You get a cool highlight video of your wedding day at no cost to you and I get highly shareable video content for marketing for myself and all of the other vendors at your wedding.
Here are some samples of some of the wedding videos.

There’s no charge for this and this can be denied if you do not want it. The only cost to you would be a third meal at the reception.

This started as an experiment in 2017 and 2018. I hire a third person (student or associate) to film the entire wedding day capturing everything they can. Then I edit together a highlight film of the wedding day. This is part of my normal team but I can eliminate the video aspect if you do not want video of the wedding day.

There is no cost to you except a third meal during the reception.

Here’s an example of one of the highlight films from a wedding.

I’m not a fan of time limits, or limits of any kind, on my sessions… So I don’t have any.

No time limit: We can spend as much or as little time as you’d like to get the shots you’ve dreamed of. I don’t like to rush through a shoot as I want everyone to just be relaxed and have fun, so not having a time limit makes that easy. The only time limit we have is from the sun. I will literally stay out shooting all day and into the night if you let me.

Some location limits: With wedding clients we can visit any location or locations that you’d like to include in your shoot near or far from Colorado Springs. I’ve shot engagements on top of Pikes Peak, Bishop Castle, the Paint Mines, Eleven Mile Canyon, or just wandering around the mountains, and all over Colorado Springs. Let me know where you’d like to go or the setting you’d like and I’ll plan the day. However, with the $1.00 engagements, we do limit our distance for these shoots to be more local to Colorado Springs… With the price of gas and snacks these days we have to have some limits… But there are some amazing spots right here in good ol’ Colorado Springs.

No wardrobe Limit: Because I have no time limit you can bring as many different outfits that you’d like and change as many times as you want. I’m super patient and only schedule one shoot per day, so we have as much time as we need to get your engagement shots.

Have pets or Kids that you want to include in your engagement?
They are part of your story so they should be included. If possible I prefer to have kids and pets on a separate day or earlier in the same day as the engagement session. It’s easier on you guys and makes the session go smoother when there is no worry about kids or pets at our locations. So if you want to include pets or kids in your engagement we can plan for two separate days and make things easier.

Online gallery for viewing your photos, sharing the gallery with friends and family, and downloading full or partial sets of both web resolution and original resolution files.

You can also order prints from the gallery directly from my pro print lab with a 0% markup on all prints and products.

Anyone with a link can download and order prints as well so it’s easy to share with friends and family who are out of town. If you prefer the gallery can be password and PIN protected so you can allow access to only the people of your choice.

All prints and products are ordered through my professional print lab and offered to you through the online gallery with a 0% markup. If the lab charges me $2.00 for a print, you pay the same $2.00 for the same print.

I offer this because I want to encourage you to purchase prints through my lab. They offer a far superior print quality to local labs such as Walmart and Costco at a slightly higher price vs the local labs.

Along with the photos and videos on the flash drive will be a digital copy of your perpetual print and usage release for all of your photos.

Though I retain the copyrights to the images I take, you have a release that allows unlimited prints forever and no limitations with the exception of entering the photos into contests or selling the images to stock photography websites or publications beyond personal social media without expressed permission by me beforehand. Chances are I would be fine with being published or entered into contests if that’s what you decided to do but I would like to properly attribute the photos in those situations.

After publishing the online gallery and all photos have been edited as well as any videos, I put everything on a flash drive and mail it to the address on the contract.

The flash drive is a flat card drive of 8GB to 16GB (unless more or less is needed for all photos and videos).