Portfolio + sample stories

See the planning choices inside the finished work.

Use these stories to notice more than a favorite pose: where coverage begins, how light changes, what film remembers, and why the ending matters.

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THE COMBS CREATIVE / FIELD GUIDEThe way it feelsBack to your open invitation
Inside this chapter

Make an inspiration board.

Explore 48 posing ideas, favorite the photographs you love, and send us your notes for your session or photo list.

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Selected ways to see the work

Four stories. Four different shapes.

Each path opens into a broader body of photography, film, or elopement work.

Destination weekend

A castle celebration in Ireland

A useful reference for welcome energy, travel, layered locations, all-day coverage, and the reason a weekend needs more than one visual chapter.View the work

Editorial wedding

Fashion, landscape, and a complete day

See how editorial portraits can live alongside movement, family, design details, and unscripted reception energy.View the work

For Lovers

A Vegas elopement with its own rules

A compact celebration can still have a beginning, a ceremony, portraits, a night out, and the tactile pull of analog film.View the work

Engagement

A session that feels like a date

Location, light, clothes, motion, and just enough direction create images that feel personal rather than practiced.View the work

Wedding films

Movement, voices, rhythm, and the room around the frame.

Photography lets you stay with a fraction of a second. Film brings back the pace of the aisle, the catch in a voice, the sound of a room laughing, and the way the night moved.

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A Little White Wedding Chapel story

From past couples

The experience behind the photographs.

“They create a story.”

A reminder that the strongest gallery is a sequence, not a folder of isolated highlights.

“Easy and organic.”

Our direction is meant to lower self-consciousness, not make you perform all day.

“Flawless and natural.”

Preparation lets the finished work feel effortless even when the production is detailed.

Locke Falls Farm, New Hampshire · Colorful summer wedding film

A New Hampshire wedding feature from The Combs Creative.

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The screening room

Press play.
Feel the difference.

Wedding film · Digital film-look coverage.

A photographic edit

Different places.
The same attention.

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Stay for another story.

Watch a full wedding film, then browse more celebrations and behind-the-scenes moments on our channels. Consider how sound, movement, and pacing change the way a memory feels.

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The work behind the work.

Studio behind the scenes · muted motion preview

Presence takes preparation.

The quiet checks, the light, the way a room moves. Our behind-the-scenes world is part creative direction and part paying attention.

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Full films on YouTube

A closer look

Look beyond one beautiful frame.

From The Combs Creative studio archive

Look for transitions, reactions, and the relationship between a place and its people. A full story should feel cohesive while holding different kinds of moments: portraits, movement, details, and the unplanned parts.

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Plan with confidence

Before the wedding day

Explore the engagement planning guide

From the studio

Choose a place. Follow a whole story.

Start with a setting you connect with, then watch how the people, pacing and atmosphere shape the film. These are individual projects with their own creative teams.

Vermont

The Wilburton, Vermont · Whimsical summer wedding weekend

A full wedding-weekend film with photography by Jess René Photos.

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Vermont

The Essex Resort, Vermont · Classic summer wedding film

A New England celebration with Jess René Photos and Bisou Events Co.

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Digital wedding filmmaking with Super 8 simulator footage. This is not real Super 8. Photography by Taylor Made Photography / Heather Taylor.

Belle Isle Estate, Ireland · Summer destination wedding film

Wedding-weekend filmmaking by The Combs, with photography by Taylor Made Photography / Heather Taylor.

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Las Vegas

Sure Thing Chapel, Las Vegas · Modern vintage elopement film

For Lovers Elopements on film; Lauren Rae Photography on photographs.

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La Quinta, California

Pete Dye Mountain Course, La Quinta · Real Super 8 wedding film

The published Super 8 highlight at Pete Dye Mountain Course. Compare its texture with the digital wedding film.

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Las Vegas + Valley of Fire

Neon Museum + Valley of Fire · Las Vegas desert elopement film

For Lovers Elopements film, with planning by Ember & Stone Events.

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A note on Super 8

Real film. Clearly named.

A Super 8 wedding film begins with physical motion-picture film. Digital film-look footage and a Super 8 simulator can have a nostalgic feel, but they are digital formats. We name the difference so you know what you are watching.

StoryFormat
Pete Dye Mountain Course, La Quinta wedding filmReal Super 8
Vow renewal on real Super 8 · 2025 vow renewalReal Super 8
Belle Isle Estate, Ireland wedding filmSuper 8 simulator · digital footage
Castle Leslie Estate, Ireland destination weddingDigital only
Digital film-look wedding filmDigital film-look

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