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Palm Springs, CA Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker
Golden-hour light that lasts, saguaro silhouettes, and resort courtyards — Palm Springs weddings photograph like nowhere else.
Golden-hour light that lasts, saguaro silhouettes, and resort courtyards — Palm Springs weddings photograph like nowhere else.
Desert weddings run on light: that long Palm Springs golden hour is the best natural studio in America, and we build your portrait timing around it. We watch summer heat for your guests, chase the post-monsoon skies, and know that a desert reception under string lights is worth staying late for.
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 Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 7:58 PM and golden hour opens around 7:21 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:12 PM — a swing of 1 hour 46 minutes across one wedding season. Start a Palm Springs 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 | 4:55 PM | 7:04 PM | 7:40 PM | 13.9 h |
| June | 5:13 PM | 7:21 PM | 7:58 PM | 14.4 h |
| July | 5:12 PM | 7:21 PM | 7:57 PM | 14.2 h |
| August | 4:47 PM | 6:58 PM | 7:32 PM | 13.4 h |
| September | 4:07 PM | 6:19 PM | 6:52 PM | 12.4 h |
| October | 3:27 PM | 5:38 PM | 6:12 PM | 11.4 h |
Times computed for Palm Springs (Los Angeles) 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 Palm Springs 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.
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