Session Estimator
Answer five questions and this tells you the coverage we would put in a quote, and why. It will not tell you a price.
What the answer depends on
“How many hours do we need?” is the question we answer most often, and the honest answer depends on five things: what the occasion is, how many people are in the room, how many places we have to be, how much of it happens at once, and whether any of it can be repeated.
A price that has not seen your date and your venue is a price that changes, so this does not quote one. The ranges we do publish are written up properly in the journal.
Nothing is submitted until you choose to. Your answers stay on this device and, if you want, carry straight into the booking form at the end.
What we’d recommend
Wedding8 hours of coverage, two photographers, one venue change.
One venue change means real travel time inside the coverage window — usually 20 to 30 minutes each, door to door, and nobody has ever left a venue on time.
On a wedding a second photographer is not a luxury item — it is the only way to have your face and your partner’s face in the same moment, and the only way preparation in two locations gets covered at all.
Gallery in 4 to 6 weeks — every frame edited by hand, no watermarks, and no expiry date on the download.
What we’d plan for
Preparation through to the first stretch of open dancing, in one unbroken run.
A printed family formals list worked through immediately after the ceremony.
Portraits placed against the actual sunset for your date rather than a guess.
Complete ceremony coverage so the aisle and the faces are covered at once.
What moves the investment
Honestly, in orderHours on the clock. The single biggest lever, and the most predictable one. Coverage is continuous — we do not leave and come back — so an eight-hour wedding costs what eight hours costs.
How many photographers. A second shooter roughly doubles the number of moments captured at any instant. On a wedding with a large ceremony that is transformative; on a newborn session it is noise.
Travel and venue changes. Every venue change spends coverage time on a road instead of on people. Work outside the Omaha–Lincoln corridor adds travel on top of that.
When it is. Saturdays from May to June and September to October are the first dates to go in this market. A Friday, a Sunday, or a January date is easier to book and easier to price.
How much of it is unrepeatable. A wedding is priced against the fact that there is no second take. A product shoot can be reshot next Tuesday. That difference is real and it is reflected honestly.
What you want afterwards. Digital galleries come with everything we deliver. Albums, wall prints, and second-photographer edits are the things that move a quote after the shoot day is agreed.
The ranges we actually publish for the Omaha market are written up in our guide to choosing a wedding photographer in Omaha, tier by tier, with what sits behind each one.