"They are truly the dream team when it comes to giving you the grand experience."
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With a curated and editorial eye, Ether & Smith documents each portrait, detail, and moment with refinement and elevated imagery. Your stories are art, and you deserve images that last lifetimes.
Expect direction and guidance when needed – we style your invitations to be composed artfully and effortlessly pose you during portraits for luminous light and flattering angles. Yet, expect discernment – the delicate balance of anticipating and stepping back for natural moments so you can truly be present.
Your experience is just as important as your heirlooms imagery.
Inspired by the fleetingness of life, and rooted by art and connection.
From working with you to plan and style your engagement session, to putting together a custom detailed wedding photo timeline, to communicating closely with your planner. We're ten steps ahead, always anticipating your needs, providing guidance to set up your day for success and exceptional service.
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Consistency in our editing and shooting style; clean and timeless, yet soft and luminous. With a mix of an editorial and documentary approach to weddings. After more than a decade of editing hundreds of thousands of images, we have nailed our signature style and approach.
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More than a decade of experience photographing over 300 weddings. We know how to read the room, when to have a delicate touch, and when to step in and direct, "pose", and guide for flattering angles and moments. We move and lead with a cadence of confidence and joy with everything we do.
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experience
the ether & smith
ESTABLISHED mastery
refined IMAGERY
tailored process
- HONG VAN & DERRICK
What I see and feel from the photos is everything AND MORE than what I had wanted and envisioned. The romance, the elegance, the dreamy feeling - it was all there.
KIND WORDS
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Connect
You've thoroughly combed through our website, full galleries, and Instagram, and you like what you see. The next step is setting up a time to chat to make sure we're the perfect fit for one another and moving forward with a custom collection.
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Make It Official
Once your date is officially reserved, we'll send over a very detailed welcome email (with a preliminary photography timeline) and ship out an 80-page photography guide to help you prepare for the big day.
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Engagement Session
Engagement sessions can take place anywhere from immediately following booking us to just a few days before the wedding. We'll recommend locations, outfits/styling ideas, and provide a detailed itinerary with logistical information and tips on how to prepare + what to expect.
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Wedding Prep
Expect a series of three emails two months before your wedding with tips + advice from our 10+years of experience. We'll begin to finalize timeline specifics, unique details, family formal list, special traditions and anything else we should know about your big day via a pre-wedding questionnaire. We also check-in with your planner at this time to gather important logistics and details.
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The Big Day
We arrive with hours of prep work, a memorized timeline, and we also arrive early to scout the venue and check in with your planner. Be in the moment as we document your day with a calm, creative, and confident presence.
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Gallery
Expect sneak peeks within one or two days after the wedding, and a full gallery within four to eight weeks. Relive the day and have these photos as heirlooms forever.
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Engagements, families, boudoir.
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Her and Allen are SUCH good vibes. Your photographer is the vendor you spend the most time with, so it's important to choose a team that you like having around. Emma and Allen are both chill and calming yet also somehow upbeat and funny, which is exactly what you want on a day that can be stressful and chaotic.
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They’re there to capture all the big and little moments and all the emotions throughout the big day! Definitely memories to last a lifetime. I would choose them over and over again. One of the best decisions we made for our wedding.
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Sylivia & Tim
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She is an amazing communicator and extremely friendly yet professional. Our photos were to die for and we received so many compliments by friends who said they were floored by her photos. If you want a one of a kind experience and one of a kind photos - look no further.
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I’m truly just blown away by them. Every photo she captured looks like it could be in a magazine. Not only are the beautiful, but she did such a great job at capturing the joy and happiness of everyone. I will cherish these photos forever and ever.
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