PalomaWeddings

Paloma Weddings

Loved like
the miracle it is.

Weddings, engagements & couples — the you inside the day, kept for the decades to come.

The philosophy

The miracle at the centre of the day is you.

I came to weddings the long way — through travel and fashion photography, and years spent shooting artists and musicians until I found my own way of seeing. So you get everything you'd want from a traditional photographer, and an eye for something rarer: not just the moment, but the you inside it — the particular, unrepeatable person you are in every frame.

A wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime miracle — not simply because it's a wedding, but because it's yours. A gown is beautiful and mesmerising on its own; what makes it come alive is the human inside it. That's what I'm after: the human in you and your partner, and the twinkle in the eye of every guest who came to love this day alongside you.

You are not just anybody — so why should your photographs look like everyone else's? I'm not here for a hollow, handsome wedding day. I'm here for who you two are, and for the particular love you, and everyone in that room, have gathered to share.

And I photograph for an audience most cameras forget: you, in twenty, forty, sixty years. Your children, and theirs, learning who you were on this day. You, someday, pausing in the hall to smile at a picture on the wall. These images carry the gravity of decades — they only grow. Every time the shutter closes, that's the audience I hold in my heart.

Before the day

Engagements

Before the day

We start with an engagement session — a low-key hour to fall for the camera, and for me to learn the particular way you two move. By the wedding, it feels like an old friend is already in the room.

Every in-between

The wedding day

Every in-between

From the first-look nerves to the last song, I chase the unrepeatable — the small, true moments between the posed ones, and the twinkle in the eye of everyone who came to love the day with you.

Just the two of you

Couples

Just the two of you

Anniversaries, elopements, or simply because — intimate sessions for the love that's still being written, made the way only the two of you are.

These images carry the gravity of decades. Every time my shutter closes, your future family is who I'm photographing for.

John Abboud

Investment

Collections

Collection

Elopement

from $1,900

  • Up to 4 hours
  • 1 photographer
  • Online gallery
  • Print release
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Most loved

Half Day

from $3,200

  • Up to 6 hours
  • Engagement session
  • 2 photographers
  • Online gallery
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Collection

Full Day

from $4,600

  • Up to 10 hours
  • Engagement session
  • 2 photographers
  • Heirloom album
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