I care about beautiful photographs. I care even more about you having a really good wedding day.

I’m Kate — a Ukrainian-born Charleston wedding photographer documenting celebrations throughout the Carolinas and wherever a good story takes me.



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I’ve been photographing people since 2018, and somewhere along the way I realized something: the weddings I love photographing most aren't the ones where everything goes perfectly.

They're the ones where people are completely in it.


The veil catches the wind. Someone cries before they were supposed to. Champagne gets opened a little too aggressively. Your dad forgets half the speech he practiced. Your friends take over the dance floor. Your hair looks slightly different at 10 p.m. than it did at 2.

That’s the good stuff.


Of course, I also love the beautiful things. Give me an incredible dress, old architecture, thoughtful design, gorgeous light, 35mm film, and twenty minutes with the two of you, and I’m very happy.

I want to make photographs that feel considered and beautiful without making your wedding feel like one long photoshoot.


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You never have to wonder what to do with your hands.


Being “documentary” doesn't mean I'm going to stand twenty feet away and leave you to figure everything out.

When you need direction, you'll get it.

I'll find the light, straighten the dress, move you where you need to be, tell you what to do with your hands, and get everyone through family photos without turning them into a 45-minute hostage situation.

And then I'll step back.

Because when your mom reaches for your hand, your husband looks at you across the room, or your best friend starts crying during a speech, I don't need to turn that into something prettier.

I just need to notice it.

That's probably the biggest part of my job: noticing.

Not only what's happening in front of me, but what's happening around it.


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Meet Wes

Working together gives us something I really value: two completely different perspectives on the same day.
While I'm photographing you walking down the aisle, he may be photographing your partner's reaction. While one of us is focused on the obvious moment, the other can look around the room for the one nobody else noticed.
We know how each other moves, communicate without making your wedding about us, and stay calm when the timeline inevitably decides it has plans of its own.

Testimonials

Testimonials

“Receiving our wedding album was like reliving our big day all over again. All of her photos and edits were everything I could have dreamed of!!!! EVERYONE looked so amazing and even the party shots were SO epic lol. I really am not the most photogenic person but it’s such a relief that I love how I looked in nearly EVERY SINGLE PHOTO.”

“Here is one thing the photo must contain, the humanity of the moment.”

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Young woman holding camera stands before iconic Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, California.
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