Hey there!

If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance you’re recently engaged, so first of all…congratulations!!

We’re Zak & Sam, the husband-and-wife team behind the cameras. We live in Buffalo with our French bulldog Bowie and our cool cat Piper, and when we’re not photographing weddings, there’s a good chance you’ll find us listening to music, wandering around somewhere outside, watching the Bills, or thinking of whatever adventure comes next.

I started this business full time in 2017, and shortly after Sam joined me along the way. Getting to do something we genuinely love together and getting invited into some of the happiest, funniest, weirdest and most emotional days of people’s lives is something we never take for granted.

Our approach to weddings is pretty simple: pay attention.

Of course we’ll make the beautiful portraits. We’ll have fun with it too. We’ll help when you need direction, find the good light, keep things moving when the timeline inevitably gets a little weird, and make sure the people you love are actually in your photos.

But a wedding is so much more than the things you can plan.

It’s your faces when you see each other for the first time. Your grandmother watching from across the room. Your best friend laughing so hard they can barely stand up. The way you look at each other when nobody is asking you to. The people, places and little interactions happening around you that you might not even notice until you see the photographs later.

Those are the things we’re always watching for.

We want your photos to feel like your wedding; not ours, or anyone’s version of what a wedding is supposed to look like. We want the personalities, relationships, chaos, quiet moments and quirks intact. We want you just as you are, and whatever it is that makes you well, you. Years from now, we want you to look through your gallery and remember not only what everything looked like, but what being there in those moments actually felt like.

One of the nicest compliments we hear is that people feel comfortable around us almost immediately. Maybe it’s the lame jokes. Maybe it’s because neither of us takes ourselves particularly seriously. Whatever it is, it means a lot to us, because you shouldn’t have to perform for your wedding photographer.

You should get to be yourself.

And if we do this right, someone who wasn’t there should be able to look through your photographs and come away feeling like they know you a little bit.

That’s always been the goal, and always will be.

-Zak & Sam