Weddings
Film leads, photography runs beside it. Built around vows you can actually hear and the hour of light most people schedule straight through.
Portland, Oregon Your One Stop Shop Vendor
The last hour
is the whole job
Wedding films, corporate video and event photography in Portland, Oregon. Film leads, the plan gets built around the light your venue will really have, and you'll hear every word of it.
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Your one stop
Your one stop
shop vendor
Film, photography and music for the same night, booked once, out of one studio. Four things, one taste. Whoever decides which frame to hold for four seconds is the same person deciding when the beat drops, and that's a different proposition from hiring three vendors who've never met.
Corporate
Brand films, recruitment, executive interviews, conference multicam and event photography. Usually for someone who needs something posted before the room empties.
Golf
Course beauty, flyovers hole by hole, tournament days and product work for golf brands. One take, moving light, nobody hitting it again for you.
DJ
Weddings, corporate nights, and a room that runs late. Whoever is choosing the frame is choosing the record, and that turns out to matter.
One night, one team
Booked once.
Handled once.
Nobody's fighting for the same six feet of floor during the first dance, because it's the same crew. The film crew knows what the DJ is about to do, and the DJ knows exactly when the couple is coming back inside.
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Golden hour is a
Golden hour is a
scheduling problem
Here's the thing about this city. The good light never shows up at a convenient time. Sunset in Portland runs from 9:04 PM on June 26 all the way to 4:28 PM on December 10. That's a four and a half hour swing across the calendar, and it's the most Portland specific thing about planning a day here.
A June wedding puts golden hour after dinner. You're pulling the couple off a floor that's already going at 8:30, which has to be agreed with your planner and your caterer months out or it simply doesn't happen. A December wedding puts that same window before the ceremony instead. Copy a timeline off a national blog and you'll schedule straight through the best twenty minutes of your day without ever knowing.
Under trees it gets worse. A forest, a canyon, anything sitting in the shadow of a ridge loses its usable light 60 to 120 minutes ahead of the published sunset. Two venues twenty minutes apart can need portrait windows an hour and a half apart.
| Latest sunset | 9:04 PM, June 26 |
|---|---|
| Earliest sunset | 4:28 PM, December 10 |
| Driest month | July, 0.50 inches of rain |
| Wettest month | December, 5.77 inches |
| Fully clear days | 68 per year |
NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals
The part nobody markets
You'll hear
every word
The bit you rewatch is never the drone shot. It's the vows. The toast that went off script. Whatever your father said right before he sat down. All of that is audio, and audio is the thing most wedding films quietly get wrong.
A mic sitting on a camera fifteen feet away records the room, not the person. Outside, it mostly records wind. In the Gorge, where the backdrops are the best in the state, fifteen to twenty miles an hour of steady wind is enough to make a ceremony unusable on one mic. So nothing here runs on one mic. Lavs on whoever is speaking, a second recorder that isn't in the camera, and a plan for the moment the good option fails.
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How it goes
A real conversation first
Your date, the venue, and what you actually want out of it. No questionnaire funnel and no automated drip. The person who would be holding the camera is the one who answers you.
A plan built backwards from the light
Sunset here moves four and a half hours between June and December. So the timeline gets built from the light your venue will really have that week, not from a template somebody wrote in California.
The day, shot quietly
Two people where two are needed. Backup audio on anything anyone says out loud. And a crew that stays out of your day instead of directing it.
An edit that still holds up later
A film you rewatch. A gallery you actually use. Files somewhere that will still exist in ten years.
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We plan the venue
We plan the venue
before we plan the shot
There are venue guides all over this site, for rooms across Portland, the Willamette Valley and the Gorge. They aren't a portfolio. They're the notes a crew wants before it walks in: where the light dies, where the sound goes wrong, and where a camera can stand without ending up in your photographer's frame.
A converted warehouse has a reverb problem that eats speeches. A vineyard ridge has a wind problem that eats vows. A garden under a canopy runs out of light ninety minutes early. Three completely different days. The plan shouldn't look the same for all of them.
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Journal
Timelines, song lists, audio, and what a quote is actually made of. Written to be used, not to rank.
Planning · 11 min
The Portland Wedding Timeline, Season by Season
Sunset moves four and a half hours between June and December here. A timeline copied off a national blog will cost you the best light of the day.
Music · 9 min
First Dance Songs for 2026, Ranked by What Actually Works in the Room
Fifty songs a DJ will actually play, sorted by tempo, length and how they behave when the floor is watching instead of dancing.
Music · 7 min
The Do Not Play List, and the Three Songs You Should Reconsider Banning
Every couple hands over a do-not-play list. Most of them ban at least one song that would have worked. Here is how to build a list that helps.
Check a date
Tell us about the day
Send the date, the venue, and roughly what you have in mind. You get a real answer back from the person who would be shooting it, usually inside a business day.