Halflight

As it happened

The room the way it actually ran. Nobody called back for a second take.

As it felt

The same hour, slowed down. The part you will still be describing in ten years.

Wedding photography, two of us, all day

Your wedding happens twice. Once in the room, once in the remembering.

We photograph both and print them facing each other, so the day you lived and the day you carry sit on one page.

Based in [set your city] Travel: [set your radius] Holding [set your season] dates

The album

One day, two columns, one seam down the middle.

Placeholder plates

Both columns move together as you scroll. The line between them carries the caption they share. Nothing opens in a lightbox and nothing hides behind a click. The spread is the way you look at it, on a phone and on a wall.

The four plates below are drawn light, not photographs. This site ships with no pictures of anyone in it, because the only wedding photographs that belong here are yours. Drop your frames in at the same two sizes and the treatment carries over on its own.

A drawn placeholder plate: five candle flames burning low across a dark warm room, rendered in the Halflight palette.
As it happenedPlaceholder21:12

Her father spoke for ninety seconds and said lucky four times.

A drawn placeholder plate: early window light filling a room from the upper left, one soft shadow settling at the lower right.
As it feltPlaceholder07:40
A drawn placeholder plate: a single strand of bulbs slung across a near-dark room, the floor beneath it barely reading.
As it happenedPlaceholder22:40

Nobody watched the floor. Everybody watched them.

A drawn placeholder plate: a plaster wall giving way to open daylight, one lit rim running down the jamb.
As it feltPlaceholder17:05

The running order

  • 16:40 first look, back stairwell
  • 17:20 vows, eleven minutes
  • 19:05 dinner, doors open late
  • 22:40 last song, everyone on
As it happenedLeaf

Some pages hold words. The seam does not mind.

The part nobody photographed

Your mother straightened your collar twice in the hallway and pretended it was the collar.

As it feltLeaf

Two empty columns are waiting for your day.

Hold a date

or read one wedding end to end

How it goes

Two of us, quietly, all day.

One of us stays out of it

The hallway, the fumbled ring, the aunt who cries at the wrong line. We shoot the room the way it actually runs, at a distance that lets people forget us. Nothing is staged back into place afterwards.

One of us slows it down

Portraits, hands, the ten minutes we steal after the ceremony. Posed is not a bad word here. It is how you end up with one photograph you are willing to hang in a hallway for thirty years.

  1. You write

    Send the date, the place, and the one thing you are worried about. We reply within two working days, and we say no when we are not the right pair of eyes.

  2. We meet

    Half an hour, call or kitchen table. You look at a full spread, not a highlight reel, and decide whether you want us near you on the day.

  3. We hold the date

    [set your retainer] holds it and comes off the total. The balance is due [set your terms]. One page of plain terms, no clauses about mood boards.

  4. You get the spread

    A first set within [set your preview window]. The full album, both columns, within [set your delivery window], yours to download and print forever.

Collections

Three lengths of day.

Sample pricing

Six hours

Half day

from [set your half-day price]

  • Two photographers, both columns
  • Ceremony through first dance
  • Online spread, download included
  • [set your frame count] finished frames
Ask about half days

Ten hours, most booked

Whole day

from [set your whole-day price]

  • Two photographers, prep to last song
  • The written leaves between the frames
  • Printed album, [set your album spec]
  • [set your frame count] finished frames
Hold a whole day

Two days

Whole weekend

from [set your weekend price]

  • Welcome dinner, the day, the morning after
  • Travel included within [set your radius]
  • Two albums, one for each side
  • [set your frame count] finished frames
Ask about weekends

Every figure on this page is a bracket, not a rate. Replace the brackets with your own numbers before this site goes anywhere near a real couple.

One wedding, end to end

Rain from two until four. We shot the whole ceremony under the awning and nobody moved.

Fictional couple, drawn plates, labelled on the page

Before you write

The four things people ask first.

What does a wedding actually cost with you?
Whole days start at [set your whole-day price] and most couples land near [set your typical spend] once travel and an album are in. We publish a floor so nobody spends a call finding out we are out of reach.
Do we have to pose?
For about twenty minutes, yes, and we will tell you exactly when. The rest of the day you are left alone. The right column is not a photo shoot, it is the quiet edge of the same hours.
What if it rains?
We shoot it. Weather is the cheapest good light there is. We walk the venue for cover before the day so there is a plan you never have to hear about.
When do we see them?
A first set within [set your preview window], the full spread within [set your delivery window]. You will get a date in writing, not a season.

The datebook

Tell us the date.

Four lines is enough. We hold one wedding per weekend, so the date matters more than the detail.

Write directly: hello@halflight.example

Studio: [set your studio phone]

Replies within two working days. Your note is not stored on a server by this site; it goes straight to that address. While you are typing, this browser keeps a draft of the four lines on your own device so a refresh does not lose them, and wipes that draft the moment the note is on its way.

Scripts are off, so this form hands your note straight to your mail app when you send it. If that does not suit you, write to hello@halflight.example or call the studio on [set your studio phone].

Venue, rough numbers, and the one thing you are worried about.