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Springfield, IL Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker

Barn romance, lakefront summers, and city ballrooms — Springfield couples get all four seasons of backdrop.

Photographing weddings in Springfield

Springfield 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 Springfield 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 Springfield

Ceremony time decides how your photographs look, and the answer is different in Springfield than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 8:28 PM and golden hour opens around 7:47 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:19 PM — a swing of 2 hours 9 minutes across one wedding season. Start a Springfield 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
May5:21 PM7:27 PM8:06 PM14.4 h
June5:43 PM7:47 PM8:28 PM15.0 h
July5:40 PM7:46 PM8:25 PM14.7 h
August5:10 PM7:18 PM7:55 PM13.7 h
September4:22 PM6:31 PM7:07 PM12.5 h
October3:34 PM5:42 PM6:19 PM11.2 h

Times computed for Springfield (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 Springfield

These are the Springfield 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.

Arlington's Catering & Historic Venue4.5 ★ · 479 reviews
Erin's Pavilion4.3 ★ · 292 reviews
Pasfield House4.6 ★ · 155 reviews
Artisans Building4.7 ★ · 80 reviews
The Homestead Reception Center4.3 ★ · 82 reviews
Venue 19294.7 ★ · 68 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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