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Manhattan, KS Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker

Endless horizons, prairie sunsets, and venues where the sky does the decorating — Manhattan weddings feel wide open in the best way.

Photographing weddings in Manhattan

On the plains, Manhattan gives you the biggest sky in wedding photography — sunsets that fill the whole frame and golden fields that turn portraits cinematic. We plan around the wind (there will be wind) and chase the light right up to the last sliver of horizon.

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 Manhattan 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 Manhattan

Ceremony time decides how your photographs look, and the answer is different in Manhattan than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 8:54 PM and golden hour opens around 8:14 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:47 PM — a swing of 2 hours 7 minutes across one wedding season. Start a Manhattan 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
May5:47 PM7:54 PM8:32 PM14.3 h
June6:09 PM8:14 PM8:54 PM14.9 h
July6:06 PM8:12 PM8:51 PM14.7 h
August5:36 PM7:45 PM8:21 PM13.7 h
September4:49 PM6:59 PM7:34 PM12.5 h
October4:02 PM6:11 PM6:47 PM11.2 h

Times computed for Manhattan (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 Manhattan

These are the Manhattan 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.

Liquid Art Winery & Restaurant4.7 ★ · 388 reviews
Colbert Hills Golf Course4.6 ★ · 384 reviews
Flint Hills Discovery Center4.6 ★ · 265 reviews
Life's Finer Moments4.9 ★ · 122 reviews
Lazy T Ranch Adventures4.3 ★ · 118 reviews
Blue Sage Barn at Prairiewood4.7 ★ · 70 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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