Gathering Oaks Retreat sits about 7 miles from the center of Waco — 5.0 ★ from 212 Google reviews. Senior photographers and filmmakers, travel included, published pricing.
Hotels and resorts run on their own clock, and the best coverage respects it: getting-ready in real rooms, a ceremony that starts when the coordinator says so, and portraits slipped into the gap between cocktail hour and dinner. We coordinate with the venue team before the day so nobody is waiting on us.
From ranch ceremonies to rooftop city receptions, Waco weddings blend scale with warmth. We plan around big families, bigger sunsets, and dance floors that deserve coverage until the last song. If we haven’t worked Gathering Oaks Retreat yet we scout it before your day — light, timing, logistics — so nothing about the venue surprises us on the morning of.
At Gathering Oaks Retreat the sun sets at 8:35 PM in June and 6:57 PM in October, with golden hour opening around 8:00 PM on a June evening and 7:03 PM in late September. Start a summer ceremony near 5:50 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 Waco 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 Gathering Oaks Retreat 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 Gathering Oaks Retreat costs the same as one across the street from us.
Most Waco couples book eight to twelve months out; peak spring 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.
