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Kauai, HI Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker

Trade winds, golden coastlines, and ceremonies barefoot in paradise — Kauai weddings are the ones everyone else screenshots.

Photographing weddings in Kauai

In Kauai the islands write half the story — sunrise over the water, plumeria on the breeze, golden hour that feels engineered for vows. We time ceremonies for the soft light, keep gear humidity-ready, and always stay for the afterglow on the sand.

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 Kauai 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 Kauai

Ceremony time decides how your photographs look, and the answer is different in Kauai than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 7:22 PM and golden hour opens around 6:50 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:12 PM — a swing of 1 hour 10 minutes across one wedding season. Start a Kauai 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
May4:24 PM6:38 PM7:09 PM13.2 h
June4:37 PM6:50 PM7:22 PM13.5 h
July4:38 PM6:52 PM7:23 PM13.4 h
August4:23 PM6:38 PM7:08 PM12.9 h
September3:55 PM6:11 PM6:40 PM12.3 h
October3:27 PM5:42 PM6:12 PM11.6 h

Times computed for Kauai (Honolulu) 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 Kauai

These are the Kauai 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.

Smith Family Garden Luau4.7 ★ · 3341 reviews
1 Hotel Hanalei Bay4.6 ★ · 1614 reviews
McBryde & Allerton Garden, National Tropical Botanical Garden4.6 ★ · 1681 reviews
Waimea Plantation Cottages4.6 ★ · 1120 reviews
The Royal Sonesta Kaua'i Resort Lihue4.5 ★ · 3513 reviews
The Plantation House by Gaylords4.5 ★ · 1440 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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