The session that sells the wedding, edited to match the wedding. An engagement or couples session is often the first gallery a couple sees from you, and the one they share most. We grade it by hand in the same style profile as your weddings, so the session and the wedding day read as one continuous story.
We match your white balance, tone curves, skin and grain from your reference edits, then hold them steady across golden hour, open shade, city light and overcast days. Light skin cleanup is included on every frame; deeper retouching is available on the images you choose.
Send a Lightroom catalog of Smart Previews and the edits sync back to your originals in one click. If we already edit your weddings, we already hold your style profile, so there is nothing new to brief.
Colour, exposure and white balance matched to your style Consistent skin tones across changing light Light skin cleanup on every frame Cropping and horizon straightening Lightroom catalog in, catalog out Unlimited revisions against your style profile
Engagement photo editing is the colour and light work that turns a couple session’s RAW files into a finished gallery: white balance, exposure, skin tones and your signature look applied consistently across every location and change of light, with light skin cleanup so the couple looks like themselves on a good day. Most engagement sessions land in the same months as your weddings, so they compete for the same evenings. Outsourcing them keeps the session turnaround quick without pushing a wedding gallery back.
The engagement gallery is often the first full set of your work a couple receives. It ends up on save-the-dates, wedding websites and social feeds, and it sets their expectations for the wedding day itself. If the session is edited with a quick preset and the wedding is graded by hand, the two galleries will not match on the couple’s wall. Editing both from the same style profile keeps your look consistent from the first session to the last dance.
Send your catalog. Export the session as a Lightroom catalog of Smart Previews and share it through Dropbox, Google Drive or WeTransfer. Style profile. If we already edit your weddings, we use the same profile. If not, we build one from three to five of your finished edits. Hand edit. Every frame is matched for white balance, exposure, tone and skin, with light cleanup and straightened horizons. Back in Lightroom. The edits sync to your original RAWs in one click, usually within 3–5 business days.
Golden hour backlight, with haze and flare kept soft rather than washed out Open shade, where skin turns cool and blue City streets and night sessions under mixed artificial light Overcast days and beaches, where flat light needs depth without looking harsh In-home sessions with window light mixed with warm lamps
Delivery counts vary by photographer, but most engagement galleries fall into these typical ranges: Mini session, about an hour: 200–400: 40–80 Full session, 1.5 to 2 hours: 500–900: 80–200 Extended or multi-location: 1,000–1,500: 200–400
Editing it yourself: About 3–4 hours for 150–200 images: Your eye, frame by frame: Quiet months and very personal sessions A preset and a quick pass: Under an hour: Breaks when the light changes between locations: Simple sessions in one even light RawFixer engagement editing: None; back in 3–5 business days: Matched by hand to your style profile: Peak season and photographers who want evenings back
Our engagement editing starts at $35 for a mini session of up to 80 images. A full session of up to 200 images is $59, and an extended session of up to 400 images is $109. There is no subscription or minimum order.
Edited sessions come back within 3–5 business days. A 48-hour rush is available for $25 when you need the gallery sooner.
Yes. If we already edit your weddings, the session uses the same style profile. If not, send three to five finished edits and we build a profile that both your sessions and weddings can use.
Most photographers deliver about 40–80 images from a one-hour mini session and 80–200 from a full session of 1.5 to 2 hours. We edit whatever number you choose to deliver.
Light skin cleanup is included on every frame, such as small blemishes and stray marks. Deeper retouching for portraits, prints or albums is available at $2.50 per frame on the images you choose.
Yes. Culling is available at $0.02 per RAW frame. We keep the strongest frame of each moment and then edit the keepers.
Yes. Galleries are handled under NDA and are never used to train AI models. Our privacy policy explains how client files are stored and handled.