The Photographer

There is something about driving down a country road on a wedding morning. The windows down. The light just starting to turn gold. Something in the air that tells you today is different.

That is the feeling I chase. That is why I do this.

I started Small Hour because I fell in love with intimate weddings — the kind where you know every single person in the room. Where the couple is not performing for 200 guests, they are just present. Where the groom tears up during the vows because it is quiet enough to hear his own heart. Where the bride's best friend is ugly-crying two feet away and everyone laughs.

The big weddings? They are beautiful, but they are a production. There is a coordinator with a headset, a timeline down to the minute, and 200 people who need to be somewhere. I have shot those. They are not for me.

What I love is the backyard wedding where someone's uncle built the arbor. The courthouse ceremony where it is just the two of you and your witnesses. The elopement on a ranch where the only sound is wind and vows. The micro wedding where 18 people feel like the most important people on earth — because to you, they are.

When the crowd is smaller, I get to know you. Not as a client — as a person. I learn the inside jokes. I see the look your mom gives your dad when your name is mentioned. I catch the moment your partner does that thing with their hands when they are nervous. Those are the photos that make you cry in ten years. Those are the ones I live for.

Based in Dallas. Photos only. 10-day delivery. No video, no albums, no upsells. Just your day, exactly as it felt, in images you will keep forever.