Photography
Expression, composition, family history, gesture, light, and the frame you did not know was happening.
The Combs Creative · Photo + film planning library
The whole celebration, thought through.
A photographer-and-filmmaker-built planning space for timelines, coverage, investment, family, sound, light, legacy, and the choices that help you stay inside your own day.
The Combs Creative field notes
Your memories are taking shape.
Already celebrated? Find your gallery and film updates in one place, with separate photography, filmmaking, and Super 8 progress.
Check gallery status ↗Plan for the way it feels
A beautiful timeline is not the goal. A lived-in day is.
We build backward from light, movement, geography, people, and the memories you want to keep. Then we leave enough room for those memories to happen.
This is not a checklist you need to perform perfectly. It is a place to make grounded decisions, understand the production behind the work, and arrive at the celebration knowing the important things have already been considered.
Your planning room
Everything connects.
Move through the tools in order, or enter wherever you need clarity today. Each one supports the same calm, experience-first approach.
Start with the real shape
What are you planning?
Coverage should match the event you are actually creating, not a package name you are trying to squeeze into.
Small by design
Elopement
2–6 hoursOpen the path
Your closest people
Intimate wedding
4–8 hoursOpen the path
The essential story
Wedding day
6–8 hoursOpen the path
Nothing rushed
All-day story
10–12 hoursOpen the path
More than one chapter
Wedding weekend
Two days or customOpen the path
Before the wedding
Engagement
1–4 hoursOpen the path
Photography · digital · 35mm · medium formatOne story, more than one language
Photo holds the frame. Film holds the room. Super 8 holds the feeling.
Film
Voices, vows, laughter, music, pacing, movement, and the way the people you love sounded in this season.
Analog layers
35mm, medium format, Super 8, and point-and-shoot imagery add texture and imperfection without replacing the reliable digital record.
From first thought to family heirloom
The complete client journey.
Planning continues after the last song. Delivery, albums, prints, and the way you return to the work are part of the story too.
Before inquiry
Begin with the feeling
Choose three words for how you want the celebration to feel. Note the people, places, traditions, and sensory memories you cannot imagine leaving out.
Proposal + booking
Build the right coverage
Match the number of hours and team to the real event shape. Your signed proposal confirms the booking schedule, scope, and payment terms.
90–60 days
Create the framework
Confirm scope, venues, travel, privacy, accessibility, major restrictions, and whether an engagement session belongs in the story.
45–30 days
Make it specific
Complete the final questionnaire, family groups, vendor list, addresses, priorities, and draft timeline. Confirm the payment checkpoint shown in your agreement.
21–7 days
Protect the experience
Lock team roles, call times, meals, weather plans, travel buffers, permits, analog choices, audio needs, and the final call sheet.
Wedding day
Live the day
We arrive early, scout, synchronize, and document without forcing. The plan holds the logistics so you can be present with your people.
24 hours–12 weeks
Preserve the work
Cards and rolls are reconciled, backed up, processed, edited, color-checked, and delivered on the schedule in your agreement.
After delivery + anniversaries
Make it tangible
Choose album images, order prints, share with family, revisit the film, and mark the anniversary with a print, session, or new chapter.
See where planning leads
From inspiration to a finished archive.
Explore the work, understand the services, then decide how you want the story to live beyond delivery.
Built from behind the cameras
Guidance when it helps. Space when it matters.
We are Jessica and Corey, a husband-and-wife photography and film team. After more than a decade documenting everything from intimate elopements to multi-day destination weddings, we know the strongest work begins long before we pick up a camera.
Our approach pairs editorial composition with documentary storytelling. We guide the logistics, coordinate photo and film, and stay sensitive to the people and moments that should never feel produced.
Meet The Combs Creative ↗Boston + New England
New York City
Ireland + worldwide
One decision at a time
Where are you
in the story?
Start with how you want it to feel.
You do not need a finished vision. Find the shape of your celebration, explore real stories, and collect the priorities you want to protect.
Find your celebration fit ↗Stay a little longer
The people.
The work. The little things.
Watch a wedding story
Hear the atmosphere. See the motion. Find what moves you.
Enter the screening roomExplore Jess’s favorites
Products, codes, and the tools behind the creative life.
Shop the resource editStill photographs. Moving memories.
See the feeling.
Hear the story.
Digital photography holds the details. Filmmaking brings back voices and movement. Analog stills and Super 8 offer another texture, with their own process and pace.
Explore the work, then tell us which parts of your celebration you most want to return to.
Explore more photographs + films ↗A closer look
Make this studio your starting point.
Start with the feeling you want, then give it a practical shape. The quiz helps name your priorities; collection examples show what coverage can hold; the timeline turns the ideas into a day with room to enjoy it.
Explore sample days ↗Experience, thoughtfully applied
More than the wedding day.
500+weddings filmed
Since 2006Jess’s photography journey
10+ yearsvisual merchandising experience
Experience shared by Jess; the wedding-film milestone was reported in 2025. Photography and filmmaking assignments can overlap and are not added into one total.
Meet the creative history behind the studio ↗Explore the next chapter
From inspiration to an actual plan.
Places + possibilities
Past travels, the next destination, and a venue shortlist.
Explore travel ↗A feeling worth following
Portfolio directions paired with practical advice.
Find inspiration ↗Stories in motion
Films, TikTok channels, and behind the scenes.
Watch + follow ↗Planning tools
Portrait timing and a destination budget worksheet.
Try the calculators ↗