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Springfield, MO Wedding Photographer & Videographer
Endless horizons, prairie sunsets, and venues where the sky does the decorating — Springfield weddings feel wide open in the best way.
Endless horizons, prairie sunsets, and venues where the sky does the decorating — Springfield weddings feel wide open in the best way.
On the plains, Springfield 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 Springfield 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 Springfield than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 8:35 PM and golden hour opens around 7:56 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:36 PM — a swing of 1 hour 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 5:29 PM | 7:37 PM | 8:14 PM | 14.2 h |
| June | 5:50 PM | 7:56 PM | 8:35 PM | 14.7 h |
| July | 5:48 PM | 7:55 PM | 8:33 PM | 14.5 h |
| August | 5:20 PM | 7:29 PM | 8:05 PM | 13.6 h |
| September | 4:36 PM | 6:46 PM | 7:21 PM | 12.4 h |
| October | 3:51 PM | 6:01 PM | 6:36 PM | 11.3 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.
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.
Venue list is informational; Elizabeth Scott is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or booking on behalf of any venue named above.
Our pricing is published and it is the same in Springfield as everywhere else we work — travel is included, there are no location surcharges, and the prices below are pay-in-full (the payment plan adds $500, with half down at booking). Photography starts at $1,500 and films at $1,200 for shorter days; the eight-hour collections most Springfield couples choose are below, and four-, six- and ten-hour versions are on the collections page.
$2,000 · The Gallery, 8 hours
Several hundred edited photographs, true to color.
$1,500 · The Feature, 8 hours
A story-first edit built from your real audio.
$3,500 · The Keepsake, 8 hours
One senior team for both — the smoothest timeline.
No. Elizabeth Scott is a national studio and travel is built into every collection, so a Springfield wedding costs the same as one across the street from us.
Yes. Every collection is available as photography, film, or both from one senior team. Combined coverage starts at $3,000 and gives you a single timeline instead of two vendors negotiating for the same light.
Not every venue in Springfield, and we say so. When a venue is new to us we scout it before your date: ceremony light, where formals hold up, how long the walk between spaces really takes.
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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