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.
Planning journey + production guide
From first ideas to the anniversary.
See every checkpoint your creative team is thinking through, prepare for the final questionnaire, and understand what happens to the work after the last song.
The client journey
Eight chapters. One connected experience.
The timing flexes with the event, but the purpose stays consistent: turn uncertainty into readiness without taking over your life.
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.
Create the framework
Confirm scope, venues, travel, privacy, accessibility, major restrictions, and whether an engagement session belongs in the story.
Make it specific
Complete the final questionnaire, family groups, vendor list, addresses, priorities, and draft timeline. Confirm the payment checkpoint shown in your agreement.
Protect the experience
Lock team roles, call times, meals, weather plans, travel buffers, permits, analog choices, audio needs, and the final call sheet.
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.
Preserve the work
Cards and rolls are reconciled, backed up, processed, edited, color-checked, and delivered on the schedule in your agreement.
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.
Behind the scenes
What production readiness actually means.
The invisible work protects the visible work. These checkpoints keep logistics, media, sound, people, and contingencies aligned.
90–60 days
Framework
- Confirm scope, venue, planner, travel, accessibility, privacy
- Review engagement-session and event coverage
- Surface restrictions, permits, and payment checkpoints
45–30 days
Final questionnaire
- Vendor team, family groups, addresses, priorities
- Draft timeline, analog choices, drone restrictions
- Confirm the payment checkpoint shown in the agreement
21–14 days
Production design
- Team roles, call times, lodging, meals, childcare
- Weather plan, travel buffers, permits, risks
- Film, audio, and handoff plans
Final 7 days
Call sheet
- Final schedule and exact locations
- Family list, must-haves, emergency contacts
- Audio plan, route, payment, and gear confirmation
72–24 hours
Readiness
- Charge devices and prepare verified media
- Label cards and rolls; check forecasts and routes
- Confirm access, arrival, and team communication
Event day
Coverage
- Arrive 30–45 minutes early and scout
- Synchronize cameras and confirm restrictions
- Document with direction when useful, without forcing
0–72 hours
Ingest + backup
- Reconcile cards and rolls
- Create independent backups and spot-check files
- Send previews or updates when included
2–12 weeks
Post + delivery
- Cull, edit, mix audio, color, and quality-check
- Process and scan analog media
- Deliver according to the signed agreement
After delivery
The work is finished. The legacy is not.
A gallery link is the beginning of living with the work, not the final destination.
Download
Save the full-resolution gallery and films in at least two places. Give one trusted person access too.
Favorite
Mark the photographs that tell the whole story, including atmosphere, family, and the in-between.
Design
Build the album as a narrative rather than a greatest-hits folder. Leave room for quiet pages and transitions.
Choose the frames you want to encounter every day and order family copies while everyone is still excited.
Share
Confirm publication preferences and vendor-sharing permissions before work moves beyond your private gallery.
Return
On the anniversary, open the album, watch the film, print a new favorite, or make a new portrait together.
The Combs Creative field notes
A plan that leaves room for you.
Tell us where you are starting, what feels complicated, and which memories matter most. We will help you connect the right coverage to a day you can actually enjoy.
Talk with Jess + Corey ↗A calm day begins with shared information.
Confirm who owns the latest timeline, how changes reach the team, and which contacts are available on the day. Your final call sheet is the shared source of truth.
Review your production questions ↗ · Explore the FAQ ↗A closer look
A useful brief leaves space for life.
Tell us the essential moments, names and pronunciations, access rules, and anything that needs particular care. Give us the priorities rather than a minute-by-minute list of poses. That leaves room to respond when something wonderful happens.
Prepare your people list ↗