Intro  •  Coverage  •  Engagement Sessions  •  Albums  •  Archive DVDs  •  Reception Cards  •  Pricing

Intro  •  Coverage  •  Engagement Sessions  •  Albums  •  Archive DVDs  •  Reception Cards  •  Pricing

Wedding Photography

Ranked in the top 5% of all local wedding vendors!

I love photographing weddings. Despite the intense pressure, tight schedules, high emotions, and inevitable problems, this is an extremely exciting and happy day that I get to be part of. I also get to hang out in really fancy places like the Ritz Carlton and University Club*

Features and Options

See the individual links above for more details ...

All day coverage

We're there for your entire day, from the first moments of getting ready until the limo pulls out of the driveway.

Multiple photographers

At least two photographers allows multiple angles and even coverage of simultaneous events such as both bride and groom preparation.

Engagement sessions

A special on-location photo shoot to help you announce your big news.

Online proofing

View your proofs in an online photo gallery. Online ordering including the ability to choose coloring style and cropping.

Photo DVDs

Archive-quality DVD containing all your wedding photos in full-resolution and highest quality.

Reception cards

Small photo keepsakes for your guests that also tell them how to access your online proofbook.

Wedding albums

Georgeous coffeetable-style books showcasing your day.

 

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Wedding Coverage

Our approach to photographing a wedding is to create a documentary of your wedding day. Our day starts when you begin getting ready. Whether at your home, a hotel suite, or a bride's room at the church, when that first curler goes in we start shooting. Typically we work without flash and try to be as unobtrusive as possible. We don't stage shots, we don't herd your bridesmaids into cheesy poses, we just shoot what's going on.

This approach continues to the wedding and reception. We don't have a set list of shots, although we know what typically happens and capture those moments. But we're on the lookout for those special moments that are unique to your wedding, things that you probably don't even know are happening. Capturing those moments and preserving them for you is a major goal for us.

I work with my daughter Samantha. Not only does this give you multiple angles of the same moments in your wedding, but you also get different views. We shoot with different equipment and styles. I shoot with two cameras, one with a telephoto zoom and another with an extreme wide-angle lens, while Samantha shoots with a mid-wide zoom. Sam tends to concentrate on scene-setting atmospheric shots and small details, while I'm looking for emotion. The two styles combined help give a complete "picture" of one of the most special days of your life.

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Wedding Albums

The wedding albums we do are very different from "traditional" wedding albums. I'm sure you've seen them: Several inches thick, usually white vinyl or leather, and a frilly lace edge. The pages have pages with standard sized slots for various photos, with normal photo prints slid into them.

We don't do those.

Our wedding albums are more like fine-art collection books, like you'd see in a bookstore. Featuring heavy, rigid photo covers and a printed dust jacket. The pages are digitally composited and printed on heavy-gauge laminated paper by a professional bookbinder's press, then protectively coated. And the whole thing is wrapped up in a rigid protective slip-case.

Please note that these are NOT inkjet prints glued to cardboard pages, like many others are selling.

It's so hard to describe our albums, they really have to be seen and held to understand the quality. But the best we can do right now is pictures, so here are some shots of one of our albums. Click on any image to see a larger version.

Full photo cover	Matching dust jacket	Heavy-duty slip case
	Save 75-85% on additional copies!

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Reception Cards

Give your guests a little momento to take home. Which also has all the details on how to access your online proofbook so they can see it all again. Our reception cards feature a shot from your engagement session or other favorite photo, along with the website address and access credentials they'll need to view your wedding photos. (they also cut down on all those "how do I see your photos?" emails and phone calls)

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Your "investment"

It kills me when photographers refer to your "investment" in wedding photography. I'm sorry, but to me an investment is when I use money to make more money. When I use money to get a product, no matter how wonderful, it's a purchase, not an investment. I know, I know, they want you to concentrate on the value of what you're getting. And that's a good idea, this is (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime purchase. But I think engaging in semantic gymnastics is silly. These are my prices, not your investment.

Whew, ok, I've got that off my chest. Now, let's talk prices ...

Let's face it, times are tough for just about everyone these days. You need to stretch you wedding budget as far as possible without sacrificing the important things that make the day special. To help out, we're currently booking weddings at 33% off our standard rates. The price schedule below reflects that discount. I don't know how long we'll continue to offer these low rates!

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Photo DVDs

Your wedding photos can be placed on DVD for secure, long-term storage. We utilize super-high-quality archive DVD blanks with a pure gold reflection layer, specialized phthalocyanine dye and an anti-scratch coating. Typical blank DVDs have a usable life of as little as 10 years, our DVD blanks are guaranteed for 300 years.

All photos are full-resolution, highest-quality printable .jpg files that are fully compatible with normal image editing programs. You can print these images on your home printer, send them to a commercial photo lab, edit them in Photoshop, etc. The only limitation is that you may not use them for any public or commercial purpose.

Each DVD set comes in a custom folio that mimics your photo album, although we can also custom-design the case in any way you like.

Please note that these DVDs are data discs for use in a computer, not a playable disc for your DVD player.

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Engagement sessions

Celebrate the moment with a personal photo shoot! The vast majority of couples opt for the beach, but we'll go anywhere (within reason, of course). Use the photos for save-the-date cards/magnets, newspaper announcements, and just plain beautiful memories.

Testimonials

Some of the very nice things our couples and their friends and family have to say about us!

 
Cliff, I just finished looking over the proof book. I'm so happy, they're beautiful.
 

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Cliff and his daughter shot our wedding and captured a number of beautiful moments. Having both of them shoot from a variety of angles allowed for great creativity and variety in the resulting product. I was extraordinarily impressed by their determination to deliver the promised service despite their both being rather ill prior to and the day of the event. Such determination was a display of commendable professionalism, and the end product was just a beautiful as ever. We felt very comfortable working with Cliff Addy. He is very down-to-earth and provides excellent advice with regarding the wedding and how to best capture the associated memories. He was very accomodating and took every measure to ensure he met our wants and needs for wedding photography. I would highly recommend Cliff Addy and hope to use him myself again in the future for family portraits and the like.
 

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Cliff, I don't even know where to begin. You and Sam did such an amazing job capturing the most magical day of our lives. The day went by so quickly and thanks to you we are able to look back and remember every perfect moment. Thanks for everything, we cannot wait to get our album!!
 

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We are so excited. [The wedding album] looks excellent!! We love so many things about it and especially love the artistic touches. You did a fabulous job and we couldn't be happier with our initial decision to use you as our photographer.
 

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The [pictures] we've seen look amazing! I can't wait to see the rest! Thanks for everything!!!! -- Erin C.
 

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I've been to a lot of weddings over the years. I've never seen a photographer work so long and so hard.
 

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We couldn't be happier! You are our life long photographer for everything! Thanks again, the album is especially great :)
-- Stephanie
 

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My husband and I first met Cliff at his home office, after getting engaged in March of 2008. We planned to spend the day "shopping" for photographers, as we'd heard horror stories about inflexible, unprofessional photographers and people being left with "so-so" pictures to document their wedding. Cliff spent over an hour with us, taking notes on the details of our wedding, showing us albums, describing what he could do for us, and just getting to know us. He even looked up our wedding date to find what time the sun would set on our big day! We were so thrilled to find someone who we both clicked with so easily. Cliff is very easy and down-to-earth and after meeting with him, we knew we didn't have to look around any more!

Leading up to and on the day of our wedding in September, Cliff and Samantha were 100% reliable and professional. And what's more, we have BEAUTIFUL pictures to remember our big day by. We wanted our wedding to have a very classic and romantic feel, and our pictures truly portray that emotion!

In addition, Cliff and Samantha offer a full day of photography, from 2 different angles. Most companies charge extra for 2 photographers. Cliff's prices are very reasonable, which was certainly important to me, when I was planning my wedding. However, the quality spells pure CLASS!

I would highly recommend Cliff Addy Photography to anyone and look forward to using their services again!
 

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I wanted to let you know that as much as I was a pain in the butt I think you were absolutely amazing. I will definitely be recommending you to any of my friends that are in the market for a wedding photographer or any other pictures for that matter ... I would like to officially apologize for being silly and giving you two a hard time. You were professional and thorough.

Thank you!
Adrienne
 

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It's hard to believe, but I cried even harder looking at the sneak-peek than I did at the wedding. I can't believe how beautiful they are!
 

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[The DVDs] are great, Cliff. The case is great and the pictures on the face of the DVDs are super cute. All of the pictures came out great and Brian and I laughed at a bunch that didn't make it on to the website (for obvious reasons). Love it!
 

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Hey Mr Addy, I just wanted to tell you that I think you're awesome! I was at Cynthia's wedding last month and the pix are great. My fave is the one where all you see is her hand draped over Jason's back, it looks like a magazine cover! Oh, and I thought you were really great working with the kids when we were doing pix in the church, it was so funny the way you kept calling the ringbearer "dude" and asking him to help you out. He was kind of wild and you had him totally under control!
 

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Cliff, thank you so much for doing such an amazing job. Honestly, I was a little (ok, a lot) hesitant about having a strange man in the room while I was getting dressed. A stranger, that is, not that you're strange :) But you made me feel so comfortable and you fit in so well that it was no time at all that I felt completely fine with you around. And the pictures, especially of me getting my dress tied up, are just heart-breakingly beautiful. I'm so glad we picked you to be our photographer! And we'll give you a call when our first baby arrives!
 

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Thank you so much for such a great job on our wedding. You made me feel so comfortable. And the pictures are AWESOME!!!
 

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Cliff, we just saw the pictures that you posted... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! We feel so blessed that you and Samantha were the ones taking our photos. You truly captured everything we were wanting. I could never say enough good about the two of you.
 

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... best day of my life, thanks for capturing it all so perfectly!!!
 

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Just wanted to say thank you for the terrific work on my daughter's wedding. The pictures are wonderful and I feel my money was well spent. Say hello to Samantha, she's great.
 

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Sir, I'm pretty ticked off right now. I got married about three weeks before Laura and my photographer wasn't anywhere near as good as you and your daughter. Quite frankly, Laura's pictures are beautiful and mine suck! Where the *!@%^!# were you when I was researching photographers! :)
 

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... got [my dvd set] yesterday when I got home.... It is stunning! I haven't had a chance to browse through the pictures but, I love how it is put together! This morning I took it out of the box just to look at the labels... it makes me SMILE!!!
 

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They are beautiful! Some of them took my breath away ... I would just like to thank you and Samantha and kudos on a job well done. We had a wonderful wedding and now have wonderful pictures to remember it by.
 

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Here are some of the responses we got from our friends/family that viewed your pictures:

• I absolutely love it. It's wonderful! :)
• Erin, the pictures look beatiful! The photographer did a great job! Those are so beautiful! I really like the ones where you are sitting on his lap. And the sunset was amazing!!!!! I got a little tear in my eye
• Very nice. I like the close up of you with the initials in the sand.

 

Contact us

Proofs

If you're looking for your portrait proofs, wedding album designs, or event photos, this is the spot! You'll be able to purchase prints directly on this site for delivery straight to you. Custom fine-art wedding albums are ordered directly.

The following items are currently online. Remember, if the bride or portrait customer has asked me to password-protect the area, you'll need to get that password from them.

Braddy - Williams Wedding

Burns Family Portraits

Caimares - Oldham Wedding

Caldwell - Cline Wedding

Canon - Hart Wedding

Carr - Baer Wedding

Cobb - Gray Wedding

Coleman - Trickey Wedding

Coyle - Berthold Wedding

Downing - Cushnir Wedding

Hanagriff - Benninger Wedding

Hargis - Campbell Wedding

Harrell - Kilpatrick Wedding

Hidalgo - Horton Wedding

Hodge - Hand Wedding

Jackson - Boyles Wedding

Kegley - Nelson Wedding

Knauss - Moore Wedding

Kristin Horne Senior Portraits

Lunt - Holt Wedding

Miller-Gustafson Wedding

Nguyen - Handa Wedding

Pilinko - Kelso Wedding

Poor Family Portraits

Rau - Davis Wedding

Schwabe - Hettinger Wedding

Sikes Family

Singley Family Portraits

Stewart - Sosa Wedding

Thomas Clifton Senior Portraits

Tutt - Masters Wedding

Williams / Tomko Sisters

Zeaton - Frketic Wedding

Frequently Asked Questions

My church wants to use one of my wedding photos in their literature. Is that OK?

Since that's a "public" use, it's not coverered under your usage licencse. They have to contact me for written permission. As a general rule, there wouldn't be any fee, we just need to get it in writing.

How many formal portraits do you shoot?

That depends on you, what you want and how long you want to set aside for it. Some couples want very few or even no formal portraits at all. Others want dozens. The time required will depend on whether the formals are indoors or outdoors and the size of the groups. A rough rule of thumb would be one minute per person in each groups, e.g. for a group of five allow five minutes. In my experience, the formal group photos are the least desirable and valued photos of the day.

Do I get the original files for my photos?

No, because the actual "original" files wouldn't do you any good. Those are specialized camera data files that your computer probably can't read without specialized software. Also, those images straight out of the camera generally don't look at that good, they need some basic color balancing just to look right.

Instead, your DVD contains standard JPEG (that have been roughly color-balanced) files that any computer and software can read. Your photo lab will also be able to easily read them.

What quality level are the .jpg files?

Your image DVD files are saved at level 10, the highest useful quality.

The quality level (or compression level) of a file can be measured in different ways. One way is a scale of one through twelve, where "level one" is extremely compressed (and looks really bad) and "level twelve" is not compressed at all. Anything below four looks bad. Four and five are OK for casual images like Facebook postings, while six and seven are pretty good quality. Eight through ten are considered very high quality. Eleven and twelve greatly increase the size of the file with no quality improvement that the human eye can see, only a computer performing a bit-by-bit mathematical analysis can see any image issues.

I only need a few hours of coverage. Can I get a lower price?

Unfortunately, I can't offer a lower price for a short day. Whether your wedding lasts two hours or ten hours, you're effectively taking my entire day. There are only 52 Saturdays in a year and I need to make a certain amount of income each weekend to survive. There's virtually no chance I would be able to book a second short wedding that day.