Our approach to capturing weddings is deeply intentional and detail-oriented, ensuring that each celebration is documented in a way that reflects the heart of the day. We take the time to understand your love story, personalities, and vision for your day, allowing us to create images that feel personal and timeless. With this approach, no two weddings look the same, as we strive to reflect the individuality of each couple and their love.

A Personalized Approach

The Alison Mae Experience

Narrating love stories, one frame at a time

Our wedding collections begin at $7,000, with custom options available for smaller celebrations.

Our most popular collection features:

Ten hours of wedding day coverage
Two photographers
Engagement session
An online gallery with personal printing rights

Additionally, à la carte options are available, such as rehearsal dinner coverage, albums, and additional hours to fit your unique needs.

Investment

Jenny Reber - Wedding Planner

"She will beautifully & authentically capture your dream day"

"As a wedding planner, working with Alison is an absolute dream! She is organized, responsive, and always up for collaboration. Alison exemplifies "quality over quantity" and gives all of her clients her undivided attention and whole heart!"

The process

Step One: Initial Inquiry & Video Call
Once you inquire about our availability and budget, we'll schedule a video call. This call is an essential part of getting to know one another. We’ll discuss your dream wedding images, begin mapping out a tentative timeline, and most importantly, establish a personal connection, ensuring we’re a perfect fit for your big day.

Step Two: Custom Proposal & Booking
After our call, if you'd like to move forward, we'll create a custom proposal that includes a breakdown of services, contract, and payment details. Once finalized, your wedding date is officially secured on our calendar.

Step Three: Engagement Session Prep & Shoot
Before your engagement session, we'll guide you through choosing the perfect location and help with styling by sharing our custom AM Style Guide. On the day, we'll come prepared with poses and ideas, allowing you to relax and get comfortable in front of the camera while we celebrate your engagement.

Step Four: Pre-Wedding Finalization
Sixty days before your wedding, we’ll schedule a call to finalize all the key details. Working closely with your planner, we'll confirm the photography timeline, ensure your family formal list is complete, and discuss your top photo priorities. This collaboration ensures everything is aligned and that we can capture your day seamlessly, with every detail considered and preserved as if it were our own.

Step Five: The Wedding Day
On the big day, we’ll be there every step of the way—from our prompt arrival to capturing candid moments with a balance of direction when needed. You can count on our professionalism, calm energy, and enthusiasm throughout the day.

Step Six: Gallery Delivery
Sixty days after your wedding, your full gallery will arrive in your inbox, featuring high and low-resolution images, personal printing rights, and access to our professional-grade lab.

Diversity

We celebrate all couples. We believe strongly that everyone deserves their love story to be captured beautifully in a way that is authentic to who they are. We seek to understand, respect and embrace all cultures and traditions while photographing them in the most respectful way possible.

CONNECTION

Your memories mean so much more to me than just a booking in the calendar. I love that my passion can help others for a lifetime. Connecting on a personal level allows me to tell your story the way it was meant to be shared with your family and friends.

TRANSPARENCY

Communicating your expectations is the single most effective way to ensure that you LOVE your final images. These are some of your most precious memories of all time, being open and transparent will allow us to develop a shared vision we can work towards together.

COMMITMENT

You have so much to focus on, please allow my experience to help ease some of the stress. Photography is an art, but this is my PASSION. I am committed to delivering my very best at all times. So please, if there is anything you have questions about don't hesitate to ask. I am so happy to help any chance I get.

Core Values

Inclusivity

We are big believers in love knowing no bounds. We are committed to the promotion of diversity,
inclusivity, and celebrating our differences as they are what make us beautiful. We pledge as
a business to accept, respect, and include clients, employees, and fellow vendors of all races,
colors, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, national origins, ancestries, special
needs, or disabilities. We pledge to be an active participant in the collective journey to overcome the fear of difference and replace it with the power of inclusion.

Featured Blog

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How to Get Candid Images on your wedding day

Frequently Asked Questions

All of our wedding collections include two photographers. We are a husband and wife team and through the years we have found the perfect balance to ensuring that every detail and moment is captured to the best of our abilities.

How many photographers will be included in our wedding coverage?

Of course! Our goal is to make your photography experience effortless. Our posing recipe includes calming, lighthearted guidance, plenty of encouragement, a dash of personal prompts (that lead to stellar candids) and a splash of good humor because we love to have fun with our couples and feel strongly that the best smiles come from laughter!

Will you pose us?

Yes! Our heirloom albums can be purchased at any part of the process, either Ala cart at booking, mid way or after your wedding day. Our heirloom albums are made using only the finest materials that will withstand the test of time and are hand crafted to include lay flat, flush-mount thick board like pages that will allow you to relive your wedding day over and over again!

Do you offer wedding albums?

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Absolutely! We arrive at every wedding fully prepared with back up cameras, lenses and lights. Each of our cameras contain duel memory cards just in case and we of course have plenty of extra batteries. Planning ahead is something we value!

Will you bring back-up gear to my wedding?

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Your wedding timeline will likely change many times before your wedding day gets here and we understand that! So if you’d like to add additional hours on down the road that is absolutely ok! When we discuss your photography timeline we will take a transparent look at your coverage time and you can decide from there if you’d like more hours added on.

What if we need more coverage hours that we initially thought?

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Weddings are full of emotion, details and logistics and when there is not a committed planner or coordinator, the direction of the day commonly falls to the photographer. It’s very important to have someone dedicated to the specific details of your day, allowing me to focus on creating stunning portraits and catching time stopping candid images for you to look back on for years to come. While planners/ coordinators are not required, they are highly encouraged.

Do you require that we work with a wedding planner?

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Each wedding is unique so this is a difficult thing to measure exactly. However we average between 50-100 images per hour.

How many photos will we receive?

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Yes! Alison began her photography career by learning black and white 35mm film so black and white images are very special around here. However you will always receive a color version of any black and white image in your gallery.

Will we receive any black and white edits?

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Alison has been photographing weddings full time since 2016 and Zach joined her as a second shooter in 2022.

How long have you been photographing weddings?

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Our service area includes Chicago, Indianapolis and Cincinnati, however we travel frequently for weddings. Contact us for a custom quote if you are celebrating outside of these areas.

How far do you travel?