Zach Michaliska
[A paragraph or two from Zach, written by Zach.]
Evenglow
Wedding photography in Chicago. We travel.
Two of us, the whole day. Your first twenty photographs within five days.
Work
Us
Chicago natives.
Eric Moy
[A paragraph or two from Eric. Not about photography.]
Pricing
Most couples book 8 hours. That's $3,500.
- 6 hours $3,000 Ceremony through the first dances
- 8 hours Most booked $3,500 Getting ready through the reception
- 10 hours $4,000 Full day, a first look, a late exit
Longer days and multi-event weddings start at $4,500.
Every collection
- Two photographers, the whole day
- Every photograph color-corrected and cleaned up
- An online gallery your guests can download from, and order prints from
- Print release in writing
Your top twenty within five days. Full gallery in 4 weeks.
A $1,000 retainer holds the date. The rest is due a month before.
The final number depends on your date and anything you add. You will get a real one on the call, not a range.
How it works
Eight steps from the first email to your finished photographs. Most of them are ours to do.
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Booking
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Check the date
Send the form. Within a day you will know whether we are free, and roughly what it costs.
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A call
Twenty minutes, phone or video. What the day looks like, what you care about, whether we are a fit. No pitch.
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Contract and retainer
A signed contract and a $1,000 retainer hold the date. The rest is due a month before. Everything we have promised is in the contract, including what happens if the date moves.
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Before the day
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Timeline and family list
A few weeks out we build the photo timeline with you, and write down exactly who is in which family group. Naming them beforehand is the difference between fifteen minutes of group photos and an hour of shouting across a lawn.
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The day
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The wedding
We shoot. Both of us, the whole time.
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After
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Your top twenty, in five days
The twenty best frames from the day, finished first, while it is all still fresh. The full gallery is nowhere near ready at this point and that is fine.
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Your gallery, in four weeks
Every frame worth keeping, edited and yours to download. Your guests get their own link to the same gallery, so nobody has to text you asking for photos.
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Choose your retouches
Everything in the gallery arrives color-corrected. You then pick twenty-five frames to be finished by hand. Prints and albums are ordered from the same page, printed by a proper lab rather than a drugstore.
Try it
0 of 5 picked in this demo
Everything in your gallery arrives color-corrected and downloadable. These are the ones you pick to be finished by hand: skin, stray objects, whatever needs it. The proof label marks which is which.
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Questions
Can we see a full wedding, not just your best photos?
Yes. Ask and we will send a complete gallery from a recent wedding, start to finish, not a highlight reel. Indoors, outdoors, bad light and all.
How many photographs do we get?
No cap on the gallery. Every frame worth keeping is color-corrected and delivered. A full day is usually 500 to 800 photographs. Twenty-five of those get finished by hand, and you choose which ones.
When do we get them?
The top twenty photos within five days. The full gallery within four weeks.
Do you travel?
Yes. No travel fee within 50 miles of Chicago. Further out we quote what it actually costs to get there.
What happens if it rains, or the light is bad?
We shoot it anyway. We both started in street photography, and most of that is bad light.
What if one of you is ill?
The other covers the day, and we bring in a photographer we have worked with before.
Check your date
Send your date and we'll tell you within a day whether it's open.