Robert Hamm Photography caters to a boutique wedding client. In this way, our team directly curates your wedding and photography experience. These packages include full-day coverage and offer unique gifts as standard plan features.

Foremost among these are complete planning services, packages that include engagement sessions, upgraded gifts and albums, additional photographers, and boutique retail packaging.

Clients choose Robert Hamm Photography because of the care and attention taken to photograph your wedding and present it beautifully. Robert Hamm Photography makes sharing and downloading images easy by providing download access of images to all your guests, relatives, and friends watermark-free.

Wedding Teaser Video and Engagement Session $1000

We will create the perfect wedding announcement video to accompany your included engagement session, and match the theme to your wedding invitations using our Card Builder Service. You can print your cards through Cardbuilder or use your images through your own printer.

The Wedding Ceremony Video $1900

This beautiful video includes your complete ceremony captured in high resolution and superb audio. We use multiple cameras, aerial drones, and wireless microphones to ensure your perfect day is recorded better than you remember it. Finally, we edit your wedding, correcting color, exposure, and removing unwanted objects or people as needed.

The Love Story $1600

This is a video focusing on the Bride and Groom. It is romantic in nature, one song in length, and comes with standard stock music of your choice. The Final video is generally 4-5 minutes in length. No wedding audio is captured.

The Boutique Highlight Video $1900

This video is like a three-act play. It includes highlights from your wedding preparation, the ceremony, and the after-party. Each section of the video has its own stock music, theme, and feel. The final video length is up to ten minutes long. 

Aerial Photography and Videography from $900+

Robert Hamm Photography offers aerial photography,  videography, and mapping. We are FAA Licensed Remote Pilots with Airmen Certification in Small Unmanned Aerial systems up to 55 pounds. Our company even has a special NAS Oceana Airspace authorization which allows us to fly in the restricted airspace governed by NAS Oceana. This means we can fly legally at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. 

Live Event Broadcasting from $500+

Live stream services are rendered, edited, produced, and streamed live on location at the time of your event. An event is expected to be 60 minutes or less. Pricing for longer streams is a nominal fee based on the total length needed.

Stream pricing is based on the number of cameras needed at $500 per camera/mic set. Weddings generally need two cameras.  Your stream will also need a beginning and end. Add a title card or overlay card for $100, a "Waiting Room" Video for $200, and a credit scroll for $100.

Your event is streamed live as it happens with no post-production. You will receive a link to share for viewing the day of, and a download link of your event. We offer 4K backup recordings free, and upgraded cinematic edits at an additional fee.     

A Note on Music Choice:

You may choose your own music to accompany your video by providing it to me or purchasing a license from the music agency (support provided y RHP for this purpose). Please note that licensing commercial music by a well-known artist is generally outside the capabilities of most clients as the commercial license can cost 10's of thousands of dollars. Instead, many couples choose to use stock music or purchase a license for a cover of the song they like. Cover licenses are songs sung by another artist but generally in the style of the original artist. Their benefit is that they sound beautiful, are able to be posted online because of the license purchased, and generally cost less than $100. 

Boutique Wedding Package

$3500

Eight (8) Hours of wedding Photography 

The following photography services included are:

a) Pre wedding-pep for bride and groom,

b) Detail and location photography,

c) Ceremony,

d) Family Portraiture,

e) Love Story Bride and Groom Portraits,

f) Reception photography,

g) Newlywed Sendoff Photography

Multiple locations as needed within the geographic area of the wedding

One (1) 8x10 Premium Wedding Album

Two (2) 8x8 Standard Wedding Albums

All images on three (3) Flash Drives

Some Customization of deliverable products allowed

Personal Online Wedding Gallery

Boutique Image Editing

Online image delivery and download

Copyright Release

Signature Wedding Package

$5500

Full-Day of Wedding Photography Coverage- Ten + (10+) Hours  

The following photography services included are:

a) Bridal party Hair and Make-up,

b) Groomsman's brunch,

c) Pre-wedding-pep for bride and groom,

d) Detail and location photography,

e) Ceremony,

f) Family Portraiture,

g) Love Story Bride and Groom Portraits,

h) Reception photography,

i) Newlywed Sendoff Photography

Multiple locations as needed within the geographic area of the wedding

One (1)  Wedding Announcement Video and Engagement Session

One (1) 5-minute Love Story (Video Product) with stock music (can be upgraded)

Photographer Staffed Photo Booth and props with up to 800 filmstrips

One (1) 11x14 Lay Flat Photo album

Two (2) 8x10 Premium wedding albums

All images/videos on three (3) Flash Drives

Some Customization of  deliverable Products or substituted services allowed

Personal Online Wedding Gallery

Boutique Image Editing

Online image delivery and download

Copyright Release

Hosting and archival services are provided complimentary for a limited time with all photography and videography packages, however, the complimentary hosting time varies greatly depending on the package purchased.

In general, A wedding package purchased from Robert Hamm Photography directly comes with six months of complimentary hosting.

Wedding packages purchased through partner venues come with one month of complimentary hosting.

Your digital images' additional hosting and archiving may be purchased in yearly terms at $100 per year.

Leaving a review of Robert Hamm Photography on the official Google page will grant an additional six months of complimentary hosting.    

Please contact RHP to purchase additional hosting or request the review link and have your gallery updated.

New For 2022

Cris West Entertainment

Robert Hamm Photography is proud to announce its newest division, Chris West Entertainment! CWE Provides Digital Marquee's live streaming of the reception, on-location amplified sound for ceremonies and events in off-grid areas. Pick your music by genera, playlist, or customize your own crate! From Club mix to radio edit, we have all the best tuners. If you are worried about what to play, let our DJs spin the bangers to get your party hopping! 

Service Details

Each Package includes two-column array speakers with over 4000 Watts of thumping power combined, two wireless microphones for toasts and speeches, one battery-operated speaker with wireless mic and music for use at the ceremony, a light, laser, and smoke package,  and an almost unlimited music selection. Additional Services include a Digital Marquee, live streaming, 360 photo booth, bubble and cloud machine, Emcee services, and games. Packages start at $825.

Robert Hamm Photography offers a full line of Premium invitations, save the date, and thank you cards. All of our hand-picked designs offer customizable layouts, a choice of premium materials and envelopes, provide spot gloss and foil options, and come with special finishes like pearl or luster. Return address printing on the envelope is available as well. Pricing is between $2.99 and $5.99 per card, depending on the options selected.

Robert Hamm Photography offers Boutique Photo Editing standard with all wedding packages and offers Reconstructive photo edits as an upgrade option when needed. 

No Edit - Not available from Robert Hamm Photography

Some photographers do not curate or edit their photos. They photograph in a low-resolution mode (such as JPEG) and then post all of those images to an online gallery or burn the images to a disk or flash drive for delivery without editing or culling the images. This is extremely careless photography know as "shoot and burn", and is not practiced by Robert Hamm Photography. 

Standard Edit- Not available from Robert Hamm Photography

Standard edit photography generally allows for shooting in a higher resolution mode, such as for the camera raw file, and then uses software to process the image for delivery. Standard edits are created by applying "preset" photo characteristics to the image and allowing the computer software to auto adjust the image. Color, exposure, and contrast correction are made by the computer- not the photographer, and no blemish removal is offered. This photography editing style is not practiced by Robert Hamm Photography. 

Boutique Edit - Included with all images delivered by Robert Hamm Photography

Robert Hamm Photography is proud to offer boutique image editing with all services and products. Boutique Image editing is just that- a high-resolution magazine quality edit consisting of exposure, color, and contrast correction with skin softening and blemish removal. Each image is meticulously looked at by Robert, evaluated for photographic merit and album inclusion, edited, and proudly delivered.  About ninety-five percent (95%) of all images edited by Robert Hamm fall into this category. The rest need some form of reconstruction as detailed next.

Reconstructive Edit - Available as needed by Robert Hamm Photography      

Reconstructive editing is a kind of edit that rebuilds an image to correct some unwanted elements within the photo. Reconstruction can include body-scaping (slimming parts of the body), landscaping (such as adding in clouds to an overcast day), or facial reconstruction (such as removing swear, repairing scars, removing Rosacea, et.cetera).

Reconstructive edits are labor-intensive and contain many steps. All boutique image editing steps must be done first, then the image is ready for reconstruction in Adobe Photoshop. General editing time per image can range between thirty-minutes and one hour.           

Robert Hamm offers posing and portraiture advice for all couples. This is one way to minimize the need and cost for reconstructive edits. With this in mind, only about five percent (5%) of images may need reconstruction, and that is up to the client.

For example:

1) If your best man forgot to wear red socks and you want those socks changed from red to blue, or

2) an overcast sky ruined your family portraits and you want to replace that sky with a better one, or

3) if you are very concerned about your image and think a particular image needs Robert to hit the "ten-pound-button";

Then Robert Hamm Photography can accommodate that request.

Pricing is dependent upon the total number of images requested, the minimum service is $50 for one image. Multiple images discount available upon request.

Rush delivery services are available dependent upon the current volume of work Robert Hamm Photography is experiencing. TherRush service guarantees delivery of images within one week.

When rush services are requested, the service will be limited to one gallery of images. Robert Hamm Photography generally delivers five galleries for full wedding photography. They are Detail Images, Pre Wedding Images, Ceremony Images, Reception Images, and Formal Images. 

The rush service charge is $500 per gallery. Most brides would like an assortment of images from all their galleries. If that is what the bride would like, Robert Hamm Photography will choose 100 images from across all galleries to provide a Photographer Favorites gallery.  Your remaining images will be delivered at the normal time.

If you wish to have your entire wedding delivered as a rush service, then the price would be $2,500. 

If your wedding was an elopement or short photography service, then the rush service will apply to all your images. This is generally an option when Robert Hamm Photography is providing photographic services through a wedding planning company to an outside wedding planner.