PHOTOGRAPHY
Hi! We're Aaron & Jillian,
your new favorite husband-and-wife wedding photography team!
We've spent the last 11+ years shooting weddings side by side and have delivered nearly 500,000 wedding images to happy clients all over the world!
HERE'S A LITTLE GLIMPSE INTO
OUR OWN LOVE STORY!
It's a pretty good one, if you ask us!
Jill was born and raised in Southern California and Aaron is a North Carolina native, but we met while teaching English in South Korea back in 2009!
Yep, we met IN ASIA!!
We landed in Korea on the EXACT SAME DAY, for THE EXACT SAME JOB and met a couple weeks later!! We were teaching English and met one night at a "golf simulating" studio! So romantic, right?! We had so much in common and most of our first dates consisted of us photographing the Korean markets, coastal landscapes, and mountaintop temples together, with our matching Nikon cameras in hand. We're telling you - we were SO MEANT to find each other! Our fairytale relationship continued when...
AARON PROPOSED
ON A TINY TROPICAL ISLAND
IN THE PHILIPPINES!!
We planned our American wedding while we were still living and working in South Korea and said our vows on July 28th, 2012, in Aaron's hometown of North Carolina on our 2 week long summer vacation!! After the wedding, we flew back to Korea and had a dinner conversation in our tiny Korean apartment where Aaron mentioned wanting to become a professional photographer in Charleston. I quickly yelped, "Ooooh! I would love to shoot weddings in Charleston!" ... and voila!
IT WAS IN THAT MOMENT,
ALMOST 13 YEARS AGO,
THAT THIS DREAM BUSINESS OF OURS
WAS LAUNCHED!
And less than a year later, we were living in Charleston, booking some of our first weddings! It's wild to think how sometimes one little conversation can set your future in motion like that, right?!
SINCE THEN, WE'VE PHOTOGRAPHED OVER
400 WEDDINGS TOGETHER!
In addition to being wedding photographers, we're also fur-baby parents to the sweetest yellow labradors (Parker & Boone)! Fair warning - if you have a fur-baby, you better believe we'll be begging you to bring him or her to the wedding for snuggles and photos!! We're also both home design enthusiasts and lovers of southern hospitality. So if you're looking for wedding photographers who also become friends and invite you over for drinks on their porch when you're in town, you've found your match!! Or if you're big world travelers and looking for some travel buddies for your next big trip abroad, you've come to the right place!! We take the summers off and are always ready to make some travel plans with friends and clients!
NOW WE CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR YOUR LOVE STORY!
10 reasons why we're different than other photographers!
WE SHOOT EVERY single WEDDING TOGETHER!
We've been shooting weddings, side by side, for over 11 years and recently photographed our 400th wedding together!! Talk about experience, right?! And we're BOTH professional photographers, which means we're BOTH equipped to photograph weddings on our own, but we choose to shoot every single wedding together! So you're getting TWO professional wedding photographers when you book us!
WE can show you how to pose together!
We love candids, but we also love a beautifully posed portrait and we can actually show you and your fiance how to pose by modeling the pose for you! Being able to show couples how to pose together is something we're consistently told is super helpful at engagement sessions and on wedding days! None of our clients have been professional models, so being able to have them mirror what we're doing is a sweet perk!
WE both edit EVERY SINGLE PHOTO!
We BOTH work as full time photographers and BOTH have a part in editing every single image we deliver to you! Aaron color corrects every image and then Jill removes blemishes and distractions from backgrounds in order to deliver the absolute best images possible! So you have two photographers AND two editors!
WE respond to emails quickly!
We'll ALWAYS respond to emails in a timely matter!! Jill's email is her to-do list, so if she sees an email from you, it'll likely be responded to in minutes (if it's during business hours, of course.)!
WE're professional but also a lot of fun!
On wedding days, we not only smile and laugh with your guests, we dress as if we're wedding guests ourselves!! You won't ever spot us in casual wear on wedding days! If your wedding is black tie, we'll be dressed in just that! Being approachable and looking & being professional is super important to us and it's part of what helps us get the gorgeous photos we do!
WE'll feel like your best friends by the end of the wedding day!
Walking away from your wedding day feeling like you want to take us on your honeymoon is our biggest goal when it comes to serving and loving our couples! Giving you guys a GREAT wedding day photo experience is something we promise to do, and when you run over to give us the last hugs of the night, you'll know exactly what we're talking about!
nothing rattleS or phases us anymore!
In 400+ weddings, you can just imagine what we've seen and experienced! We've honestly experienced just about any and every obstacle a wedding day can present, which is GREAT NEWS for you because it means that we'll be walking into your wedding day confident and ready for whatever's thrown our way! Over the past 11 years we've experienced tropical storms, tents blowing over, venues losing power, shuttles not showing up, officiants not arriving, GIGANTIC bridal parties, venue spaces being flipped because of rain and even a dreaded hurricane! Good news for you though is not many things phase us anymore! We stay cool as cucumbers and promise to give you the gorgeous photos you've always dreamed of!
we love post-production work!
On wedding days, we always do our best to choose the cleanest and prettiest backdrops for your photos, but if we notice in post production that there was something in the background that's distracting from the image, we try our best to remove it in Photoshop! We've been told by wedding planners that we're one of the only photographers in town who do this.
Every image matters to us and we'll take the time to make sure every one of your wedding photos is as beautiful as possible! Our favorite comment in reviews is "Every single photo they delivered was magazine worthy!"
WE'll help guide you through your wedding day!
We both know how to keep things moving and on time on wedding days! We were teachers in a non-English speaking country, after all! You can basically leave the logistics of family photos and large wedding party pics to us! We'd like to think we're experts at gently but efficiently moving your day along while also getting all of those gorgeous shots! We've got you!
WE send wedding galleries in 3-4 weeks!
We won't make you wait months and months to see your wedding photos! Contractually, our turnaround time for weddings is 4-6 weeks, but we typically deliver galleries in the 3-4 week period! We're quick like that!
With 11 years of experience as husband-and-wife wedding photographers, we’ve captured the love stories of over 400 couples! Our clients rave about their photos and the unforgettable experience we provide! Let us tell your story with the same passion and dedication!
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