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Bar Harbor, ME Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker

Coastal estates, historic ballrooms, and four true seasons — Bar Harbor sets a formal stage and we love it.

Photographing weddings in Bar Harbor

From harbor light to foliage season, Bar Harbor 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.

Elizabeth Scott is a national studio: senior photographers and filmmakers, travel already included, and a calendar kept deliberately small so every wedding gets a first-team crew. If we haven’t worked your exact venue yet, we scout it before your day — light, timing, logistics — so nothing about Bar Harbor surprises us on the morning of.

Recent work

Wedding photograph by Elizabeth Scott
Wedding photograph by Elizabeth Scott
Wedding photograph by Elizabeth Scott
Wedding photograph by Elizabeth Scott

Selected frames from the Elizabeth Scott portfolio. Ask and we will send full galleries from weddings closest in size and setting to yours.

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The light in Bar Harbor

Ceremony time decides how your photographs look, and the answer is different in Bar Harbor than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 8:19 PM and golden hour opens around 7:34 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 5:48 PM — a swing of 2 hours 31 minutes across one wedding season. Start a Bar Harbor ceremony at roughly the times below and you will finish vows, family formals, and portraits with the good light still in front of you rather than behind you.

2027 Start ceremony Golden hour Sunset Daylight
May5:08 PM7:11 PM7:53 PM14.8 h
June5:34 PM7:34 PM8:19 PM15.5 h
July5:29 PM7:31 PM8:14 PM15.2 h
August4:53 PM6:58 PM7:38 PM14.0 h
September3:58 PM6:05 PM6:43 PM12.5 h
October3:03 PM5:09 PM5:48 PM11.0 h

Times computed for Bar Harbor (New York) on the 15th of each month. An outdoor ceremony in open shade can run 20–30 minutes later than the figures above; a church or ballroom ceremony is unaffected.

Where couples marry in Bar Harbor

These are the Bar Harbor venues couples ask us about most. We have not shot every one of them — nobody has — so when a venue is new to us we scout it before your date: light through the ceremony hour, where formals hold up, how long the walk from getting-ready to first look actually takes.

Bar Harbor Inn & Spa4.7 ★ · 1042 reviews
Harborside Hotel, Spa & Marina4.6 ★ · 1129 reviews
Atlantic Oceanside Hotel & Event Center4.6 ★ · 1263 reviews
Ivy Manor Inn - Village Center4.8 ★ · 344 reviews
Terramor Outdoor Resort4.5 ★ · 355 reviews
Bar Harbor Club4.6 ★ · 161 reviews

Every Bar Harbor venue, with pricing and light notes →

Venue list is informational; Elizabeth Scott is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or booking on behalf of any venue named above.

Photography

Timeless, true-to-color imagery — several hundred edited photos per wedding.

Films

Story-first edits built from your real audio — vows, letters, laughter.

Combined

One team for both — the best value and the smoothest timeline.

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