Editorial wedding & engagement photography for the wildly in love. Cinematic, candid, and unapologetically real.
A small selection of weddings, engagements, and elopements across Texas and beyond. Every couple, a different light.
Lightning Studios began in a tiny Waco apartment with a borrowed camera and a desperate need to make beautiful things. Nine years later, I travel anywhere with a horizon — Texas, California, Italy, anywhere — to make photographs that feel like the inside of a memory.
My style is editorial but never stiff, candid but never careless. I want you to look at your photos ten years from now and feel the exact way you felt in the moment. Laughing. Crying. Holding your breath.
If you're planning something big, something small, or something in between — I'd love to be there for it.
Let's talkEvery package includes a discovery call, location scouting, edited high-res gallery, and a same-week sneak peek.
2-4 hours · 1 location
For the couple who wants a small, intentional, mountaintop-or-meadow kind of day. I show up early. I stay quiet. I get the photos.
8-10 hours · full day
From getting ready to the last slow dance, I'm with you for the whole ride. Two shooters, a planning call, and a wedding-day timeline we'll build together.
1-2 hours · 1 location
Save the date, the ring, the dog, the rooftop. An hour and a half together and you'll have a gallery full of frames you actually want to print.
Tell me about you, your person, and your day. We'll hop on a 30-minute video call to make sure we're a fit.
I help build your timeline, scout locations, and craft a shot list so you can be present — not micromanaging.
You be yourselves. I'll be the third guest who happens to have a camera — calm, quiet, and always in the right place.
You'll get a same-week sneak peek and a full edited gallery in 4-6 weeks. Every photo hand-graded by me.
We cried in the parking lot opening our sneak peek. Maya made us feel like the only two people in the world — even with 200 guests watching. We've never felt so seen.
Our elopement gallery looks like a magazine spread. We keep getting DMs from strangers asking who shot it. We tell everyone: Lightning Studios. Always.
I'm awkward in photos. Genuinely terrible. But somehow the photos look like I should be on the cover of Vanity Fair. Maya is a witch in the best way.
I take on a limited number of weddings each year to make sure every couple gets my full attention. Currently booking 2026 and a few 2027 dates.