The Pavilion on Crystal Lake sits about 17 miles from the center of Hartford — 4.8 ★ from 299 Google reviews. Senior photographers and filmmakers, travel included, published pricing.
Water changes everything about a wedding's light: it reflects, it flares, and it turns a plain sunset into a two-color sky. We keep an eye on the tide table and the wind, shoot the ceremony from the side that keeps the water in frame, and stay for the afterglow.
From harbor light to foliage season, Hartford weddings carry a classic register — historic venues, formal timelines, family traditions. We know how to run an efficient formals session and still disappear into the candid moments. If we haven’t worked The Pavilion on Crystal Lake yet we scout it before your day — light, timing, logistics — so nothing about the venue surprises us on the morning of.
At The Pavilion on Crystal Lake the sun sets at 8:26 PM in June and 6:09 PM in October, with golden hour opening around 7:44 PM on a June evening and 6:23 PM in late September. Start a summer ceremony near 5:41 PM and you will still have the good light for portraits; in autumn move it an hour earlier. The full month-by-month table is on our Hartford page.
Selected frames from the Elizabeth Scott portfolio — not photographs taken at this venue. Ask and we will send full galleries closest in size and setting to your wedding.
Every collection is the same price wherever the wedding is — travel is included, there are no venue surcharges, and paying in full takes $500 off. Eight-hour collections are below; four-, six- and ten-hour versions are on the collections page.
$2,500 · The Gallery, 8 hours
Several hundred edited photographs, true to color.
$2,000 · The Feature, 8 hours
A story-first edit built from your real audio.
$4,000 · The Keepsake, 8 hours
One senior team for both — the smoothest timeline.
Not yet — and we say so. We scout The Pavilion on Crystal Lake before your wedding: ceremony light, where formals hold up, how long the walk between spaces really takes.
No. Elizabeth Scott is a national studio and travel is built into every collection, so a wedding at The Pavilion on Crystal Lake costs the same as one across the street from us.
Most Hartford couples book eight to twelve months out; peak summer and autumn dates go first. A signed agreement and the retainer hold your date, and the balance is due two weeks before the wedding.
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Elizabeth Scott is an independent wedding photography and film studio. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or booking on behalf of any venue named on this page; venue names are used to identify where we work. Ratings and review counts are Google's, as of our last check, and can change. Confirm availability and policies with the venue.
