Now Booking · Travel Included
Des Moines, IA Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker
Barn romance, lakefront summers, and city ballrooms — Des Moines couples get all four seasons of backdrop.
Barn romance, lakefront summers, and city ballrooms — Des Moines couples get all four seasons of backdrop.
Des Moines weddings mean planning with the seasons: lake light in June, fire-colored Octobers, snow-globe winters. We shoot them all, and we pack for whichever one your date draws.
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 Des Moines surprises us on the morning of.
Selected frames from the Elizabeth Scott portfolio. Ask and we will send full galleries from weddings closest in size and setting to yours.
Ceremony time decides how your photographs look, and the answer is different in Des Moines than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 8:50 PM and golden hour opens around 8:08 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:33 PM — a swing of 2 hours 17 minutes across one wedding season. Start a Des Moines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 5:42 PM | 7:47 PM | 8:27 PM | 14.5 h |
| June | 6:05 PM | 8:08 PM | 8:50 PM | 15.2 h |
| July | 6:02 PM | 8:06 PM | 8:47 PM | 14.9 h |
| August | 5:29 PM | 7:36 PM | 8:14 PM | 13.9 h |
| September | 4:39 PM | 6:47 PM | 7:24 PM | 12.5 h |
| October | 3:48 PM | 5:55 PM | 6:33 PM | 11.1 h |
Times computed for Des Moines (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.
These are the Des Moines 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.
Venue list is informational; Elizabeth Scott is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or booking on behalf of any venue named above.
Timeless, true-to-color imagery — several hundred edited photos per wedding.
Story-first edits built from your real audio — vows, letters, laughter.
One team for both — the best value and the smoothest timeline.
Check Your Des Moines Date See Collections
Also serving: Cedar Rapids, IA 105 mi · Iowa City, IA 108 mi · Omaha, NE 123 mi · Lincoln, NE 167 mi · Kansas City, MO 180 mi · all locations →
