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Baton Rouge, LA Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker

Hill-country vistas, ranch venues, and receptions that go late — Baton Rouge does weddings at full volume.

Photographing weddings in Baton Rouge

From ranch ceremonies to rooftop city receptions, Baton Rouge weddings blend scale with warmth. We plan around big families, bigger sunsets, and dance floors that deserve coverage until the last song.

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 Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge

Ceremony time decides how your photographs look, and the answer is different in Baton Rouge than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 8:07 PM and golden hour opens around 7:32 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:33 PM — a swing of 1 hour 34 minutes across one wedding season. Start a Baton Rouge 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
May5:06 PM7:17 PM7:51 PM13.7 h
June5:22 PM7:32 PM8:07 PM14.1 h
July5:22 PM7:33 PM8:07 PM13.9 h
August5:01 PM7:13 PM7:46 PM13.3 h
September4:24 PM6:38 PM7:09 PM12.4 h
October3:48 PM6:00 PM6:33 PM11.4 h

Times computed for Baton Rouge (Chicago) 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 Baton Rouge

These are the Baton Rouge 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.

Old Governor's Mansion4.7 ★ · 315 reviews
Parc 73 Reception & Conference Center4.8 ★ · 209 reviews
Lake House Reception Center4.5 ★ · 188 reviews
Oak Lodge Reception and Event Center4.7 ★ · 168 reviews
Ashley Manor Catering4.5 ★ · 138 reviews
Forrest Grove Plantation4.8 ★ · 105 reviews

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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