What started out as a videography company called Far More Than Rubies Films transformed into Mallory Frances Weddings a few years back. After breaking into the wedding industry and self-proclaiming ourselves as the “in-between” videographers, I realized it might be time to branch into photography. After filming wedding upon wedding whispering to Grant "I could get the coolest photos of them", or simply the endless hours I'd spent combing through our footage not for clips, but for screenshots to post, it hit me, all at once, but also as if it had somehow been there all along, just beneath the surface- My brain is wired to be a photographer. Every shot I'd ever taken for a film was a still I saw first- whether it was the way the light was reflecting in the window, the mom tearing up in the corner watching her daughter adjust her veil, or the intertwined hands of two lovers on their wedding day- it was always a photo first, in my mind.

I've been drawn to the way things looked ever since I was a little girl. Blame it on the multitude of VHS tapes from my dad’s perspective of my childhood, or the dozens of photo albums organized by year and date safely secured in my mom’s office, but documentation runs in my blood. I have always- from middle school Facebook days to adulthood where I now organize my own photo albums- loved taking photos because I so desperately and obsessively want to immortalize the memories. This part of my personality has followed me from my earliest years, up until college where I got my degree in journalism (which undoubtedly is another reason for my journalistic approach), up to the very moment that I write this to you. It was special, coming to this realization: I am simply fulfilling a God-given gift that has been there all along.

As with our videos, our photography style is both documentary and deeply personal/ unique to each couple. I like to say that a wedding gallery from us will be 80% candid, and 20% posed. Now you might be thinking: Cool cool cool, now what does that even mean? How can wedding photos be candid? Isn’t my mom supposed to act like she’s pulling up the zipper on my dress for an extended and awkwardly long amount of time? Not with us. Our 80% candid style means that for the vast majority of your wedding day, we won’t be posing you. We won’t be tweaking you, or telling you to stand a few feet to the left, or directing you to dip your chin an inch or two. We approach a wedding day with a documentarian-forward approach, simply put: we are documenting your day as it really happens. Not a weird fake version featuring posed smiles without smile lines that slightly resemble an AI version of yourself. And without making you stare into your dad’s eyes for some weirdo photo opp that nobody wants. Thank God. We’ll let whoever is getting you into your dress do it in real time. We’ll let your first look be wherever you want it to be, with us 5 feet away or 50. We’ll let your portraits be full of in-between moments: your grandma interrupting to tell you how beautiful you look for the 20th time that day, your veil nearly blowing away, or you two sharing a genuine belly laugh together. On the flip side, the 20% posed portion is a more hands on approach, with undeniable vintage and editorial flair. These can be as simple as you want, like you both looking into the camera and smiling for the Christmas card. However, we love to have fun with this small portion of your day, and encourage any and all sort of creative shots. One of my biggest personal motivations with my business is to capture creative images that you don’t see typically see in wedding galleries. (Because everyone deserves to feel like they belong on the cover of Vogue at least once in their lifetime, right?)

Overall, offering photography has been such a beautiful and natural expansion of our abilities, and we have fallen in love with offering images to admire for a lifetime and then some. Grant and I are both sentimental people that truly care deeply about each couple that we have the honor to work with, and preserving memories through printable photos to live on from generation to generation is the honor of our lives. Xoxo,