Our Signature Wedding Announcement Reel (and Why You’ll Love It)
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Lake Tahoe wedding Photographer & videographer
If you are planning a destination wedding at Lake Tahoe, you want the peace and calm that comes with it. You've chosen the venue, you know the feeling you're after and you understand that photography and video are woven into the experience. This is for couples who have thought carefully about their wedding day and know what they want from it - a joyful celebration with the people who matter most, in one of the most beautiful places in the world - Lake Tahoe.
What makes this day possible is largely invisible to the people living it, and getting there takes more than a beautiful venue.
Your photographer builds the schedule that determines how your day flows. The getting ready timeline, the portrait schedule, the family formals, the window of golden light before dinner. How well that schedule is built determines how much of your own wedding you get to enjoy. How your photographer reads people and adapts in the moment matters just as much as the plan itself. The instinct to know when a quiet moment is happening before it's gone. The ability to keep a wedding party moving, families organized and a full day on track without anyone feeling directed or hurried. All of these things don't happen because a wedding goes well. A wedding goes well because someone experienced has designed it this way.
Fine Portraiture & FIlm
We are Kris and Ruta Swanson are a hybrid media duo - we photograph and film weddings across Lake Tahoe, Reno and surrounding areas. Sometimes we can be talked into destination weddings as well.
We believe couples deserve the freedom that comes from knowing they are in capable hands, so they can focus on what matters most: the people they love and the moments they're living.
We are Ruta and Kris, a husband-and-wife photography and video team serving Lake Tahoe and the surrounding Sierra Nevada. We've spent over a decade photographing and filming destination weddings at Edgewood Tahoe, Gar Woods, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe , Round Hill Pines and venues across the region. A decade of weddings taught us what people are really after. The newlyweds want to have a blast. The parents want to feel proud of their children. The grandparents want to see everyone together in one place. Our photography and video captures all of it — the big moments and the ones happening quietly in the background — so that every person who was there can relive the day, and everyone who wasn't wishes they had been.
If that sounds like what you're looking for, we'd love to hear about your wedding.
Availability
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Why Couples choose us
- Seamless photography and videography coverage from one trusted team
- Timeline design assistance that accounts for light, flow and space to breathe - not just a checklist of events
- Calm, guided direction and honest editing that reflects the real atmosphere - elevated, natural and true to life
Choose your experience
What You Can Expect
We guide you through the day with calm clarity and a focus on what matters most: connection, timing, and exceptional light. Whether you book photography, videography, or both, you can expect:
- Beautiful, natural imagery with a balance of direction and spontaneity
- Thoughtfully composed wedding highlights that reflect the pace and feeling of the day
- True-to-life editing that’s clean, timeless and never too trendy
- Discreet presence so you stay immersed in the experience, not the cameras
- A streamlined experience from prep through delivery, with attention to detail at every step
Everything we do is designed to give you space to be present — while knowing it’s all being documented beautifully, artfully and intentionally.
