Why We Shoot as a Husband-and-Wife Team (and Why It Matters for You)
By Lindsey Wickert | The Wickerts’ Photography | Vancouver, WA
(Here’s us at our actual wedding on our wedding day in 2020, by the wonderful Missy Fant).
There’s a moment that happens at almost every wedding we photograph. Usually somewhere between the ceremony ending and the reception beginning — that in-between stretch when the adrenaline starts to settle and it actually hits you: we’re married.
Hunter catches it from one angle. I catch it from another. And neither of us had to say a word to make that happen.
That’s what six years of marriage looks like on a wedding day. And it’s one of the reasons shooting together isn’t just a logistical choice for us — it’s the whole thing.
Two Photographers. One Shared Brain. (Sometimes braincell.)
Here’s what most people don’t realize about having two photographers at a wedding: the value isn’t just in the coverage. It’s in the communication — or more accurately, the lack of it.
When Hunter and I are working, we don’t need to check in. We don’t need to quietly negotiate who’s moving where. We’ve shot together long enough that we’ve developed a kind of shorthand that doesn’t require words. He knows when I’m going wide, so he goes tight. I know when he’s locked onto something quiet and real, so I back off and let him have it.
Two photographers who met at a workshop last year can both be talented and still spend half their energy figuring out how to work around each other. Hunter and I have already done that work — years ago, before your wedding.
Getting Ready Without the Weirdness
Let’s talk about getting ready — because this is where the husband-and-wife thing actually matters more than people expect.
When you’re getting into your dress, when you’re having a vulnerable, emotional moment with your mom, when you’re surrounded by your closest people and the room feels sacred and private — you probably don’t want a stranger in it. You want someone who feels like a friend.
I’m in that room with you.
Meanwhile, Hunter is down the hall or across the venue with your partner — keeping the energy light, sewing a button back on, making sure the groomsmen don’t look stiff, and catching the real stuff that happens when the guys think no one’s paying attention.
You each get someone who’s genuinely present with you. Not a second shooter who was assigned at the last minute. Someone who cares about your day the same way the lead photographer does — because for us, there is no hierarchy. We’re equal partners in every wedding we shoot.
What It’s Like to Be Photographed by People Who Actually Love Each Other
We know what it looks like when two people are just comfortable together — because we are two people who are comfortable together.
When we’re prompting connection between you and your partner, we’re not reading from a script. We know what genuine ease looks like. We know the difference between a posed smile and the real one that comes after it. And we know how to create the conditions for the second one to happen, because we’ve lived it.
We also know how to stay out of your way. Some of the best moments from every wedding we’ve ever shot happened because we were quiet enough and calm enough that you forgot we were there.
One Point of Contact. Total Consistency.
Practically speaking: you work with us, and only us. There’s no associate team showing up in our place. No one you haven’t met before walking through your venue door on the morning of your wedding.
When you book The Wickerts, you get both of us. Every time.
That means consistent editing, consistent communication, and consistent care from the first email to the moment your gallery lands in your inbox.
The Honest Part
We didn’t plan to build a business together. It happened because we were good at it, and because the couples we were photographing kept telling us that something about the way we worked together made them feel settled.
That’s the word we hear most. Settled.
Not dazzled. Not impressed. Settled — like they could exhale.
That’s what we’re going for on your wedding day. Not a performance. Not a highlight reel of how great we are at our jobs. Just two people who genuinely love what they do, who genuinely love each other, showing up for you when it matters most.
Lindsey + Hunter Wickert are the husband-and-wife team behind The Wickerts’ Photography, based in Vancouver, WA and serving couples across the Pacific Northwest. If you’re planning a wedding in Washington, Oregon, or Northern California, we’d love to hear from you.
