The Katerina Marie Wedding Experience
We love to take this journey to the wedding day with our couples. Getting to know them and their love story gives us an abundance of inspiration for the wedding day. No matter how far away our couples live, they are all a part of our family when the day is over. We view each wedding day in its own light. Each wedding is different, just as each bride and groom are unique. Every Katerina Marie bride and groom is welcome to ask for our private vendor recommendations & inspiration link once they are booked. Planning a wedding can be stressful and overwhelming, but we believe it should be fun! That is why we are happy to help answer any questions you may have, even if they are not photography-related. We also sit down with all of our couples to design the perfect timeline for their special day. We will help you through every step of the way to ensure your most important memories are documented in timeless fluidity.
If you are interested in learning more about us and our packages, we are happy to set up a time to chat with you!
We look forward to work with you on this amazing day!
Kat & Mike
Insanely Detail Oriented
"Katerina and Michael are truly a one of a kind team. The most important thing to me for our wedding was photography, so I obsessed over this search. From the very beginning I knew I wanted to work with Kat (I think our first phone call lasted twice as long because we laughed for most of it). I was planning an Indiana wedding while living in San Francisco, and Kat was so wonderful and accommodating to our schedule. Leading up to the wedding she was insanely detail oriented, something this type A bride very much appreciated! On the day of, her and Michael were an amazing team. Kat is an EXPERT at keeping people on schedule and managing lots of moving parts. And the best part is their uncanny ability to capture the magic of the day. We were totally blown away by our photos and loved reliving every moment. If you're looking for an organized, kind hearted, passionate, extremely talented photographer, look no further than Katerina and Michael!"
Megan
Next-Level Amazing
“I cannot say enough good things about Kat! She blew me away with her creativity, prompt responses, timeliness, and enthusiasm. She truly is incredible at what she does. Beyond the standard photographer role, she helped us with detail styling tricks (and specific recommendations), outfit suggestions and so much more. It was an absolute pleasure working with her and her husband. They are next-level amazing!”
Megan
Completely Transcend Photographs
"Your photographer is one of the most important members of your wedding day team. A good photographer captures a moment in time - a great photographer captures the emotion and magic felt in that moment. This is exactly what Kat achieved. When our preview photos arrived, my husband and I were floored. They were so brilliantly composed, captured, and edited we couldn’t believe it. They completely transcended photographs - they were works of art. Working with Kat and Mike made the day feel like a such a breeze! It was more like laughing and talking with your best friends, than being in a photo shoot. I had complete ease of mind knowing Kat was there capturing every moment for us. If you want truly classic, romantic photos that will be treasured forever, nothing beats the expertise of Katerina Marie."
Maria
ESSENTIALS
$3,400
This package is our most popular among our couples!
This package is perfect for the couples that are planning a wedding day for one location! Without the travel time between locations or lengthy ceremonies, six hours should be plenty of time to fit in all of the important moments a wedding day has to offer.
6 Hours of Wedding Day Coverage
2 Photographers
Preview Blog Post
Online Gallery
High Resolution Download PIN
Print Options & Print Release
KEEPSAKE
$4,400
Unless you are planning to have a lengthy ceremony or are wanting full coverage of hair and makeup, then this package should be perfect for your needs. It covers everything important while leaving a little breathing room.
8 Hours of Wedding Day Coverage
2 Photographers
Preview Blog Post
Online Gallery
High Resolution Download PIN
Print Options & Print Release
HEIRLOOM
$5,400
This package is for the couple planning to visit various locations on their wedding day (salon, hotel, church, reception, etc). This is also the go-to package for all of our brides who are planning to have a lengthy mass ceremony.
10 Hours of Wedding Day Coverage
2 Photographers
Preview Blog Post
Online Gallery
High Resolution Download PIN
Print Options & Print Release
You might be our bride if...
You are more excited for the marriage than the wedding day.
You love adventure and can't wait to see what experiences you and your love will share.
You love the little details but know that simplicity goes a long way.
You love light and airy photos that tell a story.
A Little More
Our Philosophy
We believe that images should be natural, romantic and timeless. Our main goal is to capture your love story and the events of your wedding day in as natural a way as possible so that your emotions are pure and real. We have a very simplistic approach to our posing since we have you focus more on each other than our cameras. Our editing style is designed to match classic film so that your images remain timeless as the years pass.
Once you book with us, you are a part of our family. Aside from the personal aspect, we know what these pictures mean to you. They are the images you will share with your loved ones for generations to come. They are the art that will adorn the walls of your forever home. That is why we hand-edit each of the best images individually so that no small detail is missed.
We truly LOVE what we do and hope that it shows in our images. Although we offer other sessions and milestone packages, weddings are our top priority. We book all other sessions and milestones around our weddings.
The Process
Once you are officially booked with us, we are available to you. We will send you an email with a link to our preferred vendors and favorite wedding inspiration—this private page is exclusive to our clients only! Our clients come first so we make sure we respond to any emails as soon as possible.
We will get to know how you interact and your comfort levels in front of the camera at your complimentary engagement session. If you have already had an engagement session, we highly recommend utilizing this additional session with us so that we can get to know you and you can get comfortable with us prior to the big day. We will help you design your engagement with us so that it stands out and is unique to you. If a bride decides to have a boudoir session prior to the wedding day as a gift for her groom, that will be a one on one session with Kat.
In the months leading up to the big day, we will keep in touch (mainly via social media and email). We are always open to help with any questions you may have regarding the aspects of your day. There are no dumb questions so please don’t hesitate to reach out to us!
About one to two months prior to the wedding day, we like to sit down with the couple to finalize the wedding day timeline as well as discuss any important details that are being planned. After the meeting, we will send notes from the meeting through email along with a link to our wedding day questionnaire that covers everything from your family shot list to vendor information and your love story.
On the day of the wedding, we get right to work upon arrival. Our specialty is natural light so you may or may not see us take out our flashes on the wedding day. Our cameras are fantastic in low light situations so we typically don't grab our flashes unless we feel it is absolutely necessary. After getting our gear set up, we will begin photographing the bridal & venue details. After that, the day starts moving and we will follow along with what is on the timeline. At the end of the night, we'll part with big hugs!
Soon after the day is over, you will see a preview posted on our blog of some of our favorite images from your day! Once the rest of the images are edited (approx. 6-8 weeks but can push 12-15 weeks during extra busy times), we will email the full gallery link to you! If you are interested in print orders, you can place those directly through your galleries while album orders can be placed one on one with Kat.
Engagements
We are more than willing to travel for engagement sessions depending on the location! We actually love it when our couples ask us to photograph them in a location that means something special to them! But, if you didn’t already have a specific location in mind, we are happy to send some recommendations for you to pick from! We book engagement sessions 2-6 months in advance. We offer international and state-side destination engagement sessions.
US & International Destination Weddings & Elopements / Weddings Outside of IN & FL
We capture weddings all over the states of Indiana and Florida as well as at wedding venues and private locations world wide! Destination/out of state weddings are some of our favorites because we love a good adventure! If you are local to us, you are welcome to schedule an engagement session with us. If you are not local, we will block out some time while we are traveling with you so we can adventure and get some fun shots of you two taking in this beautiful location!
Locations we have photographed weddings and engagements:
Indiana | Illinois | Florida | North Carolina | Dominican Republic | Austria | Bahamas | Germany
Digital Files
We average 50-100 edited images per hour that we shoot. We select the best digital images from the wedding day and edit them in both color as well as black and white. Any film scans we receive back will be uploaded to the gallery in the format and coloration they were captured in (ex: black and white images only if shot on black and white film or color images only if shot on color film). We love delivering our client’s files quickly and easily via an online gallery. You will have the ability to print, share and download your images as much as you want. We believe in freely sharing our work because that is what we would want if we were in your shoes! We only ask that you and your friends/family credit us when sharing images on social media.
Prints & Albums
We offer a wide variety of printing options so that you can enjoy hard copies of your images. Prints, canvases and other hanging presentations can be ordered directly through your gallery. When you are ready to build a custom album for yourself and/or your loved ones, we will set up a meeting to customize it to your specifications. If you love prints and would like a keepsake box filled with your favorite memories, we offer handmade wooden boxes in various stains and sizes to fill with prints.
Coverage Time
If you are not sure how many hours you need us on your wedding day, we are happy to sketch out a rough timeline with you to get an idea of which package would be the best for what you are planning. About one to two months prior to the wedding day, we will sit down for a final planning meeting where we will go over your final timeline. If for some reason you end up needing more time with us because your original plans have changed, we can add additional hours to your time with us by adding the fees per hour to your final invoice (due one month prior to the wedding). We are very up front with our couples about if we think they need more time or not. We want to make sure everything important is captured before we leave. If for some reason you need more time with us on the wedding day, in the case you had a holdup that pushed the timeline back or for any other reason, we are happy to stay longer. In that circumstance, we will take a payment for the additional coverage time prior to leaving via Square. Wedding days are blocked off from all other sessions so we are available for additional time just in case plans change!
Our Shooting Style
We love being both interactive and discreet throughout the wedding day. There will be parts of the wedding day when we will need to be in control in order to accomplish everything that needs to be done while staying on schedule. There will also be moments when you won't even notice that we are there. We teach our couples how to pose, model and interact during their engagement session so they are naturals on the wedding day and don’t need quite as much instruction from us! We always love utilizing the venue you have chosen so we will make sure your personal couple portraits are unique! We can describe our style in three simple words: Dreamy, Romantic, Timeless. Dreamy because we capture our work in a very light and airy fashion. While we still love a moody shot every now and then, our main work consistency conveys a dream-like charm. Romantic because we love having our clients interact with one another in a more candid fashion while they are posed in an intimate stance. The knowing smiles and scrunched noses from giddy giggles are our favorite element to capture. Timeless because our work is classic and elegant, two things that will stay in style for eternity. We love shooting film photography as well as digital photography so we do our best to match our digital work to our film work. Film is timeless, with it's soft coloration and beautiful textures, emulating the essence of forever.
Booking
Once we have answered any questions you may have and you have decided that our Wedding Experience is exactly what you’re looking for on your wedding day, the next steps are quick and easy. We will send you an email with a link to our virtual contract as well as a separate email from Square with the link to pay your 50% retainer fee. The final payment will be due no later than one month prior to the wedding date. As for how soon you should book with us, we recommend booking ASAP so that your date does not get booked by someone else. Even if you are years away from your wedding day, we cannot stress enough the importance of solidifying us as your photographers sooner rather than later.
