Let’s be honest, having your photo taken can feel super awkward

I’d say about 98% of my couples come to me saying that they feel uncomfortable in front of a camera and don’t like having their photo taken. Here’s the thing - I don’t either. This is why I make it one of my top priorities to make sure that your photography experience is relaxed and centered around an approach that’s true to you.

While the documentary style approach is a perfect fit for those who are unsure of the camera, there does come the time in the day where a few nice portraits of you and your soon to be spouse are important to document as well.

This is why I take care to get to know you prior to the wedding day so that I can handle posing in a way that seems natural to you as a couple. I won’t leave you hanging so you don’t know what to do with your hands or face, instead I’ll give you prompts of how to interact with one another in a way that makes for great photos that feel like you.

The wedding industrial complex isn’t exactly your thing and it’s not really setting anyone up for success

I’m hopefully not the only wedding professional saying this to you but the wedding industry can kind of suck. Yes my grown up punk rock, cool aunt is showing here but it’s true. Luckily in my 14 years in the wedding industry, I have seen it change some but even in 2026 major wedding publications are going to show you a lot of traditional cookie cutter weddings with very traditional cookie cutter looking people in them.

If you feel like you don’t fit into that mold then you are my kind of people! My favorite weddings are the ones where couples embrace who they are and strive to make their weddings a unique celebration of their partnership.

At Fuller Photo Co. we embrace everyone and the more you, you are on your wedding day, the more your photos will feel like it.

Real moments edited in a natural way

One of my biggest strength and greatest weaknesses is that I’m a very empathic person but benefits me the most while documenting weddings. While I approach most of the day like a fly on the wall (snapping photos you didn’t even know I was there for). I’m also highly tuned into how the day feels which helps me photograph it in a way that feels 100% authentic to each unique day.

While I’m there to make sure that we stay on our timeline, keep nerves calm, wrangle family & friends and even direct the occasional lost bus driver, my main focus is to be the keeper of your memories through the photos I take.

After everything is said and done on wedding day, the one thing you have left to look back on it all with is the photographs. This is why I take such care to document as many moments as I can big and small and as many of your guests as I can. The people and their interactions really make the event for me.

* A quick note on editing - editing is a huge part of how the photos feel. I keep my editing as natural as possible while still keeping your photos looking bright and polished. I stick to a more timeless editing style so that you can look back on your wedding day decades from now and see the day for how it was instead of some trend that way happening that year. I don’t do heavy retouching because I want your photos to actually look and feel like you.

One last thing ,

People say politics don’t belong in business but we live in a world where everything is inherently political and the last thing I would want for you on your wedding day is to wonder if you and your family are safe around me. Or even worse merely tolerated.

This doesn’t mean that I’m going to get into it with your one weird uncle on your wedding day but it does mean that I want to see you for who you are and be there to support you if you need me.

Documenting queer love and joy is one of the greatest honors as a queer person myself. Photographing weddings of different cultures and religions is such an honor. One of my favorite things about being Chicago based is that I have photographed a wide range of celebrations. I’ve photographed 250+ weddings and very few have even been similar in the slightest. Your differences make you who you are and I want to celebrate that.