Engagement sessions were originally a way of getting your photo together to announce your engagement in the local paper. While we still love a great photo to announce a milestone on social media, engagement sessions are much more than that. There is literally no better way for us to get to know each other and for you to feel confident and comfortable with your photographer than through an engagement session. We can’t count the number of couples who have told me they were so nervous about getting their wedding photos taken, but once they went through the experience of an engagement session and got their photos back, they were totally at ease for their wedding day. It gives you a chance to experience how we work and direct, it gives us a chance to talk and get to know each other, and it’s also a great opportunity to create whatever kind of images we want without the timing and location constraints of a wedding day. Further, we want these images to reflect this point in your lives and have an authenticity to them that will make them worth far more than a thousand words when your grandkids are looking at them in 30 years. We know it sounds cheesy, but we want to include these little pieces of your lives so that the photos have more meaning to them than a pretty background ( you can have that too! ). For some couples it means going to the place they always walk their dog, or where they love to run together in their running gear, or cooking dinner together at their home with their cat on the counter, or hanging out at a coffee shop or bookstore, or doing a puzzle or board game together at home. The only limitation is your imagination, and even there you can be sure that we are around to help out and give recommendations. We never force anyone to get an engagement session who doesn’t want to, but we 100% wholeheartedly believe it will make your wedding photos better, and that you will be thankful you did one with us.

Typically about 3-6 months before the wedding. Specially if you plan on sending save the date announcements or plan on having us create a guest signature album. But It can always be a lot earlier if needed.

While we have shot in every type of weather out there, our personal aesthetic definitely leans towards, sunny days with glowing backlight, crisp shadows and deep silhouettes. For this reason, we are always willing to reschedule portrait and engagement sessions due to unideal weather. Obviously this isn’t an option with wedding days but we will help you develop a game plan to make the most of your rainy wedding day should it happen. We got married on a wet day in January several years ago and know first hand how unpredictable South Florida weather can be, so it’s always good to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. This means ensuring you’ve got a tent(s) available if you’re having an outdoor reception, and can mean sending your cousin to the dollar store to pick up umbrellas on the wedding day. We’ll figure it out! We also have a great NB Rainy Day Guarantee, book a meeting now to learn more about that.

Some couples book as far as 2 years in advance to ensure they get the photographer and vendors they really want for their wedding as we sometimes receive as many as 5-8 inquiries for certain date. Generally speaking, most couples book 9-15 months in advance, and the further ahead you book the more likely we will be available for your date. If your date isn’t yet set, feel free to drop us a line and find out which days are still available before booking your venue!

Most of us aren’t models, so it’s no surprise that the vast majority of couples tell us when we first meet that they’re awkward on camera or they never look good in photos. These are the same people that you now see filling the galleries on our website in our portfolio images. The piece of feedback we probably received most over the years is that we were able to put everyone at ease and make them feel comfortable. Part of this is through our flexible, no stress and sometimes silly approach to direction, and part of this is through working with couples that we truly connect with. Yes we absolutely provide direction wherever needed, but that doesn’t mean your photos are going to feel stiff or posed; Sometimes giving great direction means letting you know where to go, getting you to do something silly and capturing a REAL moment of laughter between the two of you amidst the pre visualized composition we came up with. One of the most important and underrated aspects of wedding photography is choosing a photographer who you feel personally comfortable with; someone that you would actually want to invite to the biggest party you will ever plan, and hopefully someone who makes you laugh. This is why we try to meet in person or over video chat with all our couples who inquire, to give them a chance to see if we are the right photographers for them, and vice versa!

We use everything available to us to keep in touch; email, phone, text, Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, you name it. However, if it’s for something important that we might need to reference for your wedding, email is the preferred medium.

We prefer that all printing be done through us as this allows us to make sure you have the best quality art work presented on the very best products available. You are hiring us because we are artists and print making is one of the most important parts of that art be a use that is how it will be seen and enjoyed by all.

We shoot and edit every wedding in RAW to ensure the maximum amount of exposure and color information is available for our editing, however we deliver edited and finished web resolution JPEG files and do not include RAW files with our collections. If you are extremely interested in having the RAW files these are available with an additional fee and agreement.

Yes, if you book us early enough in advance, typically about 10-14 months prior, you will get Nat & Bryan for your entire wedding day. If we are already booked for your event date you may opt for one of our talented associate teams of photographers to shoot your actual wedding day.

Yes, we have been professional wedding and portrait photographers since January of 2008. We would love to share more of our story with you.

While we consider ourselves mainly wedding photographers we also enjoy shooting family sessions, children's portraits, fifteens & sweet sixteens, social events, headshots, senior portraits, food items, products, and corporate events.  Contact us to find out more about how we can be of service.

Absolutely! We love to travel! We’ve photographed events in Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, India, Nicaragua, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia and Tennessee.

Yes, all hours of coverage are consecutive. If you’ve hired us for 8 hours and wanted us to start at 1PM we would be finished at 9PM.

Honestly, we are a little bit of everything. We shoot a mixture of light & airy as well as dark & moody to best tell the story of your day. For the majority of your day we are photojournalists. Capturing the day as it naturally unfolds without being obtrusive or directing you, your families, or your guest's natural interactions with each other. However, when it comes to the actual portrait time of the day, we make sure you look perfect by giving plenty of direction for amazing, beautiful pictures of you and your loved ones. 

As much as we would like to, that would actually be a disservice to you. Through our culling process, we eliminate duplicate images, test shots, missed focused shots, shots with bad or weird expressions and other images that may dilute the overall product delivery. For example, because we shoot with low apertures, sometimes as low as f1.2, we take a few extra shots to make sure we have nailed the perfect focus. We don’t expect you to have the expertise or frankly the time to zoom into each image to select the one with the sharpest focus, so we spend hours doing that on our end. Also, candid laughs and emotional tears are some of the best images from the day. Unfortunately, they can also yield some unflattering facial expressions. We might snap a few extras of any of these moments to make sure we have a great shot with the ideal expression for the moment. With our expertise of processing millions of images each year, we may eliminate ones that we feel are duplicates and only deliver the best ones.

Engagement sessions usually get you around 100-150 final images for a full one and half hour session. For weddings, we’ve never delivered less than 800-900 edited images for a typical 8-hour wedding. Most weddings get around 1K - 2K final edited pictures in total depending on the events of the day. For example, if you do a first look, bouquet, garter, cake cutting, speeches, etc,  you usually get more final images since we are shooting a ton of great candid moments and want to share as many of those moments with you.

Of course. Every image you receive is individually edited for color, contrast, exposure and style. Some images occasionally require a little more finessing for temporary things like blemishes and pimples, but things like heavy facial retouching, wrinkle removal or body reshaping are not included with our standard wedding collections and are available for an additional fee.

About one month or so before the wedding you’ll receive a questionnaire with everything we need to know about your wedding plans. Included in that is the only shot list we ask for – the groupings for family photos. There are recommendations about what groups we normally do and an area to fill in what’s unique to your family. While we work with every couple to ensure we know and understand their photo priorities for the day, including specific areas of extra attention and focus, and detailed family photo lists for those who require it, we do not work off pre-determined shot lists to look to mimic or copy other photographers’ work. What this means is that you can tell us that your relationship with your grandparents is extra important to you and you would love some photos that highlight that, or that you worked extra hard to hand craft all of your stationary yourself and would love some extra images of it, but don’t provide pre determined or contrived compositions for us to track and mimic throughout the day ( i.e. Full length shot of bride in front of mirror looking over shoulder with mother crying in background ). Many wedding magazines and websites like to provide these lists to help protect couples from inexperienced photographers who don’t know to get images of the flowers, and all the bridesmaids, and you and your mother, and your dance with your father etc. You’re hiring us not only for our technical expertise in creating images, but also for our creative judgement and expertise from over a decade of wedding experience in hundreds of weddings determining where to focus our cameras and energy. A detailed a contrived shot list or Pinterest board of photos does not allow us to take in and capture your wedding day as it unfolds, but rather creates a distraction from being present for the unique and unpredictable moments that fill each and every wedding.

We like to provide a preview gallery within a few days of your session or wedding.

The final gallery timeline for engagement & portrait sessions is about 1-2 weeks and for weddings it can take 10-12 weeks on average and as much as 12-14 weeks at the tail end of the wedding season. We are hard at work editing and making sure every image we deliver is beautiful and there are quite a lot of them. It will be worth the wait we promise.

You will get a personalized online gallery, where you may download your social sized-resolution jpeg format images that we optimize for web and social media sharing purposes. You can also share your gallery with your family and friends so that they may view and download the social media images or purchase their own custom art prints from our labs. We want you to have access to more than just the digital files; we need you to have something real at the end of all of this to preserve your memories. We would love for every couple to invest in a custom designed, museum grade, Memory Book to have as an heirloom for future generations.

As the content creator, under U.S. copyright law we are the copyright owners of the images. However, you have the freedom to share, and use your images for personal use however you see fit. We do not watermark our images therefore we ask for photo credit when shared online or any public space. What you can’t do is provide them to any sort of commercial entity for commercial use, so if your wedding venue or makeup artist contacts you about using my artwork to promote their business, just send them our way and we would be happy to work out a usage agreement.

As photographers it’s important for us to be able to show our existing body of work to attract new clients and illustrate what we can do! Typically, you can expect to see highlights from my shoots with you to show up on my website, portfolio, blog and social media. You have the option with your complete galleries to create a password lock so that only people with the password can access your complete set of photos. Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances like for undercover police officers or people in witness protection programs that cannot have any images of them online, and of course we don’t want to get anyone hurt and will absolutely respect that.

Of course! We know that the main way people like to share their images these days is online. We only ask that you would credit or tag us, @natandbryan, or our website to provide credit for the artwork we have created. Also, if you’re uploading to a service like Instagram, please do not add or apply filters overtop the carefully crafted edits we have provided for you.

Yes, we are fully insured. Let us know if your venue needs a certificate of liability and who to send it to.

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Yes, all too often we hear horror stories about some great work on a photographers portfolio then getting a completely different end product. During our meeting we will be sharing full engagement and wedding galleries with you so that you will know how we shoot, what we shoot , and what to expect from us for your final images. 

Yes, we are more than happy to shoot your evening or indoor ceremony. Please keep in mind that if your wedding is outdoors at night you should make sure it is well lit for your guests to be able to experience your ceremony and reception in the most beautiful way possible. Need some great lighting suggestions? We know amazing event lighting companies.

No, we love photography and pour our hearts and soul into making sure we give our clients a world class experience. We leave videography to the experts. However, we do recommend the best videographers in Miami. Click here to check out some videographers that we trust, create amazing videos and are wonderful humans!

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The only break we take on the wedding day is a short dinner break, typically no more than 20 minutes. This gives us a chance to refuel and recharge for the rest of the reception.This hopefully happens when you’re eating. That is why it’s important to communicate with your planner or catering captain to please feed us while you eat so we don’t miss any important moments for you.

Yes and no, we ask that you please provide 2 meals like the ones your guests have for us to take our only break. Where possible, it’s best if we can eat at the same time as you and your partner, that way when you’re eating, we are doing the same and not taking photos of you chewing, and when you’re done and mingling and chatting with guests we will be able to get candid moments of you together with your guests. Keep in mind that if we are not provided a vendor meal our contract states we have up to an hour to secure a meal on our own. Sometimes this means having to drive somewhere.

Absolutely. In fact we prefer it if we can figure out the schedule together. We’ve seen weddings scheduled a hundred different ways and know how much time is typically needed for the various parts of the day and when the light will be best. Everything changes depending on the time of year and the number of guests and the style of wedding, so let’s sit down together and figure out a schedule that maximizes you wedding enjoyment and your photo time! Where possible, we always try to set aside some time for photos with our couples close to sunset on their wedding day for the best possible light.

We only wear black or dark grays like Batman. Seriously though, we prefer to blend in and fade out. The day is about you!

After our initial meeting, you will receive a custom proposal based on what you have stated that you would like to have us include in your perfect collection of services. Once you select the collection, you can read and sign the contract then make the deposit (and future payments) through a custom payment portal online via debit or credit card. We also accept personal checks if you prefer. 

Check out our Collections page here to see our pricing!

2 years is our maximum lead time for full wedding bookings.

Yes, book a meeting with us to find out how we can make it easy for you to pay for our services on a month to month basis.

We collect payments via PayPal. (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover) and Zelle. Both are very secure and if you choose to do monthly payments we require a credit/debit card authorization form to be filled out for the payments to be processed. You may also pay by check if you prefer. We do not accept more money than what is on our contract nor do we pay other vendors for you ever. No exceptions.

Once we finish editing your entire wedding we will have a reveal meeting where we present your pre-designed wedding album along with options for wall art and print collections. Afterward we will send the full gallery with the social media size images for you to enjoy, download, and share.

Cancellations are a tough situation that nobody wants to encounter, but we need to have a plan just in case. Because of the nature of our weddings happening primarily on weekends during the drier parts of the year, those dates are valuable and limited, and most wedding bookings happen well in advance and dates cannot typically be filled with a late cancellation. Sometimes we will receive as many as 10-15 inquiries for a single date, and there’s no way to know from year to year which dates may be twice as popular as the weekend before or after. Once you’ve booked your wedding with us, we turn away all other inquiries for your date and as such we need to be protected in the event of a cancellation for the lost work and revenue. To accommodate all of this as best as possible, while aiming to be fair to both our couples and ourselves, the cancellation policy is as follows: In the event of a cancellation, if we unable to fill the date with another booking, no moneys already paid will be refunded. Every situation is different and we evaluate every case individually. Due the Covid-19 pandemic a lot of dates are being postponed. We do our best to accommodate most rescheduling requests and always ask that clients ask us before locking in a new date to avoid a double booking situation.

The best advice we can give you after having been a part of hundreds of weddings is to be authentic and to only do and include things that actually matter to you. What is a wedding? That means something different to each person, to us a wedding is a joyful party with those who matter most to you who will support you in your marriage. Figure out what a wedding means to you and use that as a starting point in your planning. When starting to plan a wedding, many couples think about the weddings they have attended and often make the assumption that there is a structure or format that must be followed for a wedding, but that’s totally not the case! Some examples include equal numbers of bridesmaids and groomsmen (Doesn’t matter! Not every couple has the exact same number of close friends or siblings to include in their wedding party. Some party members can simply double up if numbers aren’t even. There’s no point stressing out over excluding people or having to add someone who you aren’t that close to just to hit equal numbers) Every wedding party member having identical outfits ( Doesn’t matter! Not every bridesmaid feels comfortable wearing a strapless, not every groomsman can always get to the same suit store to buy an identical suit. Not every wedding party member can afford to drop $250 on an outfit.We have seen many couples pick a color palette for their wedding party and just tell them to pick something that fits within a complimentary color range or theme, and some couples just say, “Do whatever you want!”. You’re the boss, it’s up to you!) Doing a cake cutting, or having a wedding cake at all (Not everybody loves cake! Some people prefer cupcakes, or cake pops, or pie, or cheesecake. One couple I worked with hand made pies for everyone, and instead of doing a receiving line they personally served every guest a piece of homemade pie. Pretty cool right? And probably much more memorable for those guests than a traditional cake cutting) Having a sit down dinner (We’ve seen couple do all night appetizers for a less formal and more intimate vibe, or some couples do a lunch, or some do a small and intimate dinner with their closest friends and family, and have a much larger open invite dessert bar and dance party afterwards, it’s up to you!) The bottom line is, don’t design what will likely be the biggest party you will ever plan around obligations, do what you love with the people you love, and you will be thankful for it.

Book a meeting with us so we can answer them in real time and see if we are the right photographers for you.