Full Pricing Info – Wait, what???

Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard it all before. “Never post your prices online, get the client to inquire and SELL them on why you’re worth the money!” ~Ahem, screw that. I don’t want to waste your time, we’re all big boy and girls here. I want you fully informed before you pick up the phone or send me an email.

Photography price ranges: 

Surprise Marriage Proposals: $650 ~ $1,500 (view packages)

Engagements / Practice Sessions: $500 ~ $2,750 (view packages)

Elopements / Micro Weddings: $1,200 ~ $3,250 (view packages)

GoodEye Weddings: Average package is $4,750, tell us about your wedding here

You deserve stunning wedding photography, and we'll do whatever we can to make that happen for you. We want to hear your unique story, what is (and isn't) important to you.

If you are seriously interested in a GoodEye wedding, please make the effort to communicate with us. We'll respond right away, just you see! 

Because we actually, genuinely enjoy photographing the most important day in your life, we have zero interest in shooting 100+ weddings every year. That's not good for us, and it's not good for you. We intentionally limit our availability to roughly 25 to 35 weddings per year, and book up around February or March. After that 25th wedding is booked, we get very picky about taking on any additional weddings, and the price is likely to go up as well.

Bottom line: just tell us as much as you can about your big day, and if Chris (the owner) or another GoodEye Associate is not the best fit for you, we'll do our best to hook you up with some appropriate referrals with no strings attached.

Hundreds of brides from years past certainly have no regrets, we'd love to be your next savvy wedding investment.

Elopement / Micro Wedding Packages

Since the Bay Area is often a destination for our couples – many opt to skip the fanfare and higher prices associated with more traditional weddings – and decide to elope on the beach, park or other cool place that's special to them. Often it's just me as photographer / witness, the couple and the officiant! Very cool. These are basically engagement sessions + a short, intimate ceremony; elopements are essentially very small weddings with only a few people attending (max 20). If you’re planning a weekday wedding, but still inviting over 100 guests, you’re looking at standard wedding package pricing (sorry!).

If you haven't already, feel free to review elopements we've shot recently at various locations, mostly in the Santa Cruz area.

The following pricing is all-inclusive, covering travel, photographic coverage and creative direction, professional editing/retouching, online galleries for sharing and electronic delivery of specific #s of hi-res files for safekeeping:

Premium Elopement:

$2,400 M-F / $3,600 Weekends

• Up to 4 hours coverage (SF to Carmel/Big Sur)

• All 300 to 500+ edited hi-res files included

• Physical albums are optional (review all digital/product pricing)

• Extra hours available @ $500/hr

Standard Elopement:

$2,000 M-F / $3,000 Weekends

• Up to 3 hours coverage (SF to Carmel / Big Sur)

• All 300 to 400+ edited hi-res files included

• Physical albums are optional (review all digital/product pricing)

Basic Elopement:

$1,600 M-F / $2,400 Weekends

• Up to 2 hours coverage (SF to Carmel / Big Sur)

• All 100 to 300+ edited hi-res files included

• Physical albums are optional (review all digital/product pricing)

Mini Elopement:

$1,200 M-F / $1,800 Weekends

• Up to 1 hour coverage (within Santa Cruz County)

• All 100 to 200+ edited hi-res files included

• Physical albums are optional (review all digital/product pricing)

Engagement Packages

She said yes – awesome! Now the real stuff begins. Ideally you have your engagement session with your wedding photographer, as this is the perfect chance to figure out how you work together and fully prepare you (and get you excited about) your wedding day; however, we often work with couples who are having destination engagement shoots, and getting married out of the area / country. We're happy to help either way.

We're used to working with couples who are a) not professional models, and b) may not feel completely comfortable in front of the camera. Our goal is to make it a fun, low-stress and easy process – discovering what poses do (and don't) work for you as a unique couple. We often bring lighting equipment during the shoot to ensure that magazine/editorial look that we're known for; but even if it's a windy day and we use natural light only, we're confident you'll really like what we can do for you :)

If you haven't already, feel free to review hundreds full engagement sessions we've shot recently at various locations from San Francisco to Big Sur. Don't worry, they're organized by location type so it's easy to get location inspiration for the type of spot you're into.

The following pricing is all-inclusive, covering travel, photographic coverage and creative direction by Chris Schmauch (owner of GoodEye), professional editing/retouching, online galleries for sharing and electronic delivery of specific #s of hi-res files for safekeeping:

Premium Engagement Session:

$1,500 M-F / $2,250 Weekends

• 2-3 hours @ 2-3 locations (SF to Carmel)

• You keep ALL (200+) edited photos from the shoot

Standard Engagement Session:

$950 M-F / $1,425 Weekends

• 1-2 hours @ 1-2 locations (SF to Carmel)

• I’ll present you with 100 to 200+ edited proofs to choose from

• You keep your favorite (50) edited photos of choice (additional files $75/ea or $700 additional for the full collection – review all digital/product pricing)

Basic Engagement Session:

$650 M-F / $975 Weekends

• Up to 60 minutes @ one location (Mountain View to Monterey)

• I’ll present you with 75 to 150+ edited proofs to choose from

• You keep your favorite (15) edited photos of choice (additional files $75/ea or $800 additional for the full collection – review all digital/product pricing)

Mini Engagement Session:

$500 M-F / not available Weekends

• Up to 60 minutes @ one location (within 15 miles of Santa Cruz)

• I’ll present you with 50 to 80+ edited proofs to choose from

• You keep your favorite (5) edited photos of choice (additional files $75/ea or $800 additional for the full collection – review all digital/product pricing)

Proposal Packages

If you decide to book us for this awesomely special moment in your lives, we'll fully prep you with everything we both need to pull this off flawlessly. It's best to figure out the date/time over the phone, but once that's settled we can get into the nitty gritty of the where & how.

If you haven't already, feel free to review full proposal sessions we've shot recently at various locations, mostly in the Santa Cruz area.

The following pricing is all-inclusive, covering travel, photographic coverage and creative direction by Chris Schmauch (owner of GoodEye), professional editing/retouching, online galleries for sharing and electronic delivery of specific #s of hi-res files for safekeeping:

Premium Proposal Session:

$1,350 M-F / $1,650 Weekends

• The Proposal + engagement session @ 1-3 locations

• Location options: within 60-80 miles of Santa Cruz (Big Sur to San Francisco – Basically anywhere in the greater Bay Area / Monterey Coast)

• You keep ALL edited photos from the session (often over 200)

Standard Proposal Session:

$950 M-F / $1,250 Weekends

• The Proposal + engagement session @ 1-2 locations

• Location options: within 60-80 miles of Santa Cruz (Big Sur to San Francisco – Basically anywhere in the greater Bay Area / Monterey Coast)

• I’ll present you with 75 to 100+ edited proofs to choose from

• You keep your favorite (50) edited photos of choice (additional files $75/ea or $700 additional for the full collection)