Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama wedding photography with depth and composure.
Mobile weddings carry history well: tall rooms, old streets, warm receptions, family formality, and a kind of Southern pace that rewards attention.
Mobile, Alabama
One team, photo and film
Shawn and Tina shoot every wedding together as one two-person team, the photographs and the film made side by side.
A limited calendar
We take only a small number of weddings each year, so a day with this many moving parts gets our full attention.
Films in six to eight weeks
Your wedding film is delivered in six to eight weeks. And because the bay is home, there is no travel fee here.
The setting
A city that was built for occasions like this.
Mobile does not borrow its grandeur. It is older than the state around it, and it shows in the bones of the place — the wrought iron, the tall shuttered windows, the streets downtown that run beneath a continuous ceiling of live oaks. We have spent years learning where that architecture is generous to a camera. The Bragg-Mitchell Mansion gives you a white-columned facade and a back lawn of moss-draped oaks that hold the late light like few places do. Bellingrath Gardens and Home turns a portrait walk into something almost unfair, all reflecting pools and azalea and brick paths that were planted to be looked at. We treat these as the rooms they are, not as backdrops, and we let the city set the tone instead of imposing one.
How the day moves
The light here keeps its own schedule.
A Mobile wedding tends to carry more ceremony than a beach weekend, and the day rewards anyone who plans around the sun rather than against it. Summers stay bright and humid well into the evening, so we steer couple portraits toward the last hour before dusk, when the brick downtown goes warm and the oak shade turns long and clean. Many of our couples marry inside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, where the nave is dim and the stained glass does the coloring for you — a setting that asks for stillness and available light, never a wall of flash. Then the night opens up at the Battle House Renaissance Hotel, all gilded ceiling and chandelier, a room that flatters a first dance the moment you stop fighting its glow. We read each of those hours differently because each one is a different photograph.
One small team
Two of us, seeing the day once.
Everything you see here was photographed and filmed by the same two people. In a city where the day jumps from a quiet church aisle to a family receiving line to a reception that runs late, that matters more than it sounds. There is no second crew angling for the same frame, no competing direction during portraits, no handoff where the film team missed the look the gallery caught. We move quietly, we direct calmly, and because there are only two of us, we can stay close to the people instead of managing a production. The photographs and the film come back feeling like two halves of one memory, because they were witnessed by one set of eyes.
What you are left holding
The night, in a form you can keep.
Long after the last sparkler burns down and the oaks go dark, what remains is the work. We make it to be lived with — a gallery that holds the warmth of the room and a wedding film, delivered in six to eight weeks, that lets you hear the toast and feel the late part of the night all over again. These are the frames your family will reach for in twenty years: the look on the porch, the hands held during a blessing, the friends folded into one glowing embrace on the floor. Mobile is home turf for us, well within our normal service area, so none of this carries a travel fee. It carries our attention instead.
Recent work
A few frames from recent Mobile weddings.
The full collection runs deeper — downtown ballrooms, garden ceremonies, and the long blue hour over the bay.
Kind words
What our couples say afterward
“Shawn helped coordinate everything, was great to work with, and produced incredible photos. Couldn’t be happier with his work…”
— Michael & Rachael
“Each image told a story, from quiet glances to the bigger celebrations. Shawn and Tina captured the emotion of the day without making it feel staged.”
— Tyler & Hannah
“Shawn and Tina were some of our most cherished vendors. The gallery brought the whole day back to us, and we are so grateful for the way they documented it.”
— Kirk & Danielle
A gift before you book anyone
The Gulf Coast wedding planning guide
The quiet, practical guide we wish every couple had before the first venue tour — how to shape a timeline around the light, what each kind of Gulf Coast setting does to a photograph, and the questions worth asking any photographer before you sign. Free to read, no email required.
Read the planning guide- 01A timeline built backward from golden hour, so the light lands when it matters.
- 02Venue light notes for the coast — harsh midday sand to soft live-oak shade.
- 03The questions to ask any photographer before you sign, in plain language.
Mobile wedding questions, answered
Do you cover both downtown Mobile and Eastern Shore or bay weddings?
Yes. We regularly photograph downtown ceremonies and receptions and follow celebrations across the bay to Fairhope, Point Clear, and private waterfront estates. We plan travel time between venues into the day so nothing feels rushed.
Our church is dark and doesn't allow flash during the ceremony — can you still photograph it well?
This is common in Mobile's historic churches, and it's what our approach is built for. We shoot fast, quiet, available-light coverage during the ceremony and save any added lighting for the reception, where it's welcome.
Do you do both the photos and the video, or is that a separate team?
The same two of us shoot both. You get one coordinated team for the full day, and your gallery and film are edited to feel like one story rather than two.
How far in advance should we book?
Because we take a limited number of weddings each year, popular spring and fall dates tend to go first. Reaching out as early as you have a date — or even a season — gives you the best chance of holding it.