meet emily
I believe in photographs that get kept. In images that stop someone in the hallway years later, long enough to remember exactly how a day felt.
I believe in the slow, attentive craft of noticing, in paying attention to the small things in a season when almost everyone is rushing past them.
In photographs that become the keepsake of a whole day, tucked into an album and pulled out years later when someone wants to remember.
Emily Anderson
MEet the Photographer
I was born and raised in [hometown], and after marrying my husband [name], we settled in [current town], where I run my studio from a small room with very good light and far too many hard drives of weddings I can't stop looking back through.
Since then, I've photographed weddings for couples up and down the East Coast, from oceanfront estates in the Hamptons to family compounds in Nantucket to private weddings on the marshes of the Lowcountry.
My love for this work has taken me to chapels in [city], hillside vineyards in [city], and more than one backyard where the best moment of the night happened nowhere near the dance floor.
But no matter how far the work travels, the first quiet hour of a morning, before anyone is dressed and the light is still soft, will always be where the real work happens.
Behind the Lens
I believe in photographs you want to hold onto. In images that don't look like everyone else's, in the unguarded moment a guest doesn't know was caught, in a frame so honest you can almost hear the room.
I began photographing weddings [X] years ago, after [origin moment, a camera handed down from a grandparent, a friend's wedding no one else was there to capture, a season assisting a photographer in [city]]. What started as one favor for one couple became a portfolio, became a studio, became the work I now do nearly every day.
Whenever I pick up the camera for a new couple, I'm trying to do one thing well. To pay close enough attention that the photographs could only have been yours. The same wedding photographed for two different couples should look like two different weddings, and that only happens when the photographer takes the time to ask the right questions.
Even with all the planning and travel and long days that go into a season of weddings, every single one still feels like a privilege to photograph. Your love story, your day, your people. I can't wait to make something for you.
It’s nice to meet you,
— emily anderson
emily anderson
Kind Words from past clients • Kind Words from past clients
Three different people have asked who photographed our wedding since the images went up. Emily took the small things we told her mattered and turned them into something more beautiful than we could have described ourselves.
“everything felt
LIKE A LOVE LETTER”
Caroline Whitfield
From our first call, she understood exactly what we wanted, something timeless, a little romantic, and unmistakably us. Looking at the gallery felt like reliving the whole day, and we have our favorite frame hanging in the entryway a year later.
“the easiest decision we made in our ENTIRE WEDDING ”
Kind Words from past clients
a few of my favorite things
He's in the studio for every single workday, usually asleep under the desk or wandering into the frame of every test shot.
My Golden - Buscuit
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The softest light I've ever worked in, all white sand and sea oats and Gulf water that can't decide on a color. I'd photograph there every weekend if couples would let me.
The Beaches of 30A
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Rain or shine. Less about the produce, more about the slow morning, the good coffee, and the way dried flower vendors arrange things.
Sunday Markets
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I picked it up a few years ago and now I have a small wheel in the corner of my studio. I say it makes me a better designer because it forces me to slow down and work with my hands in a completely different way.
Throwing Ceramics
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The hands behind the Lens
STUDIO
Willa runs the inside of the studio, managing client onboarding, wedding-day timelines, and the daily logistics.
Willa Bennett
studio manager
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Emily founded the studio in 2015 after photographing one wedding for a friend that turned into something bigger.
Emily Anderson
owner & lead photographer
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Eleanor second-shoots every wedding and leads engagement and portrait sessions for the studio.
Eleanor Whitfield
associate photographer
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I was born and raised in [hometown], and after marrying my husband [name], we settled in [current town], where I run my studio from a small room with very good light and far too many cameras for one person to reasonably need.
Since then, I've photographed weddings for couples up and down the East Coast, from oceanfront estates in the Hamptons to family compounds in Nantucket to private weddings on the marshes of the Lowcountry.
My love for this work has taken me to clifftop ceremonies in [city], candlelit receptions in [city], and more than one rehearsal dinner where I quietly kept shooting long after I was technically off the clock. But no matter how far the work travels, a couple stealing a moment alone in the middle of a day that belongs to everyone else will always be where the real work happens.
Emily Anderson
I was born and raised in [hometown], and after marrying my husband [name], we settled in [current town], where I run my studio from a small room with very good light and far too many cameras for one person to reasonably need.
Since then, I've photographed weddings for couples up and down the East Coast, from oceanfront estates in the Hamptons to family compounds in Nantucket to private weddings on the marshes of the Lowcountry.
My love for this work has taken me to clifftop ceremonies in [city], candlelit receptions in [city], and more than one rehearsal dinner where I quietly kept shooting long after I was technically off the clock. But no matter how far the work travels, a couple stealing a moment alone in the middle of a day that belongs to everyone else will always be where the real work happens.
Eleanor Whitfield
I was born and raised in [hometown], and after marrying my husband [name], we settled in [current town], where I run my studio from a small room with very good light and far too many cameras for one person to reasonably need.
Since then, I've photographed weddings for couples up and down the East Coast, from oceanfront estates in the Hamptons to family compounds in Nantucket to private weddings on the marshes of the Lowcountry.
My love for this work has taken me to clifftop ceremonies in [city], candlelit receptions in [city], and more than one rehearsal dinner where I quietly kept shooting long after I was technically off the clock. But no matter how far the work travels, a couple stealing a moment alone in the middle of a day that belongs to everyone else will always be where the real work happens.
Willa Bennett
Heirloom albums and fine art prints, the finishing touches that move your favorite images off a screen and into the hands of the people you love.
Albums & prints
An unhurried session before the big day, time to get comfortable in front of the camera and come home with images that already feel like the two of you.
Engagements
Full-day coverage with you from the first quiet moments of getting ready to the last song on the dance floor, so the whole story stays together in one place.
Weddings
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