DIGITAL + FILM
wedding PHOTO AND VIDEO

honest and ARTFUL for your family archive

IN THE PNW AND BEYOND

FIG I. THE PHILOSOPHY

By The Coopers exists to preserve what it felt like to be there. Not just the milestones, but the ordinary moments that quietly become the ones you miss most. The way your mom reaches for you, the sound of your people laughing in the next room, the movement and mess of everyone you love in one place.

I believe wedding documentation should feel less like a production and more like a memory. Imperfect, honest, alive. Photographs and films that become more precious with time.

Photography is captured digitally and on 35mm and 16mm film, creating a still archive of your day. Wedding films are made on Super 8 and camcorder, preserving the movement, voices, and wonderfully ordinary moments happening around you.

Different mediums. The same intention: to document your wedding as it actually felt.

Because memory was never meant to stand still.

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FIG II. THE STORIES WE TELL

Every family archive begins with a single chapter. Your wedding is where that story begins.

We preserve it in photographs and films — the people who were there, the way they moved, the things you didn't realize were happening, and all the little pieces that made the day yours.

Maybe they'll be looked through on anniversaries, watched with the people you love, retold for decades to come, and eventually passed down long after the day itself has faded into memory.

We create keepsakes that feel less like wedding content and more like something you've always had — familiar, imperfect, and full of life.

This is the beginning of your family archive.

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FIG III. THE ARTIST

Most days you'll find me barefoot in the backyard with my children, camera never far from reach.

I wasn't until I became a mother that I understood what it really felt like to desperately wish I could hold onto a moment. The ordinary ones especially—the ones you don't realize are becoming memories while you're living them.

That realization changed the way I see weddings, too.

I stopped chasing perfect moments and started paying attention to the quiet ones—the glance across the room, a parent's hands, the way your people sound when they're all together.

Those are the things I want to preserve for you—in photographs, on film, and in all their imperfect in-between-ness.

Because those are the moments that stay.