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St. Paul, MN Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker

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

Photographing weddings in St. Paul

St. Paul 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 St. Paul 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 St. Paul

Ceremony time decides how your photographs look, and the answer is different in St. Paul than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 9:00 PM and golden hour opens around 8:15 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:27 PM — a swing of 2 hours 33 minutes across one wedding season. Start a St. Paul 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
May5:49 PM7:52 PM8:34 PM14.8 h
June6:15 PM8:15 PM9:00 PM15.6 h
July6:11 PM8:12 PM8:56 PM15.3 h
August5:33 PM7:38 PM8:18 PM14.1 h
September4:38 PM6:44 PM7:23 PM12.5 h
October3:42 PM5:47 PM6:27 PM11.0 h

Times computed for St. Paul (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 St. Paul

These are the St. Paul 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.

Nicollet Island Pavilion4.6 ★ · 386 reviews
A’BULAE4.4 ★ · 313 reviews
St. Paul College Club4.7 ★ · 227 reviews
PAIKKA4.7 ★ · 147 reviews
The Essence Event Center4.8 ★ · 138 reviews
Le VENERÉ4.7 ★ · 124 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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