Raleigh Wedding Photographer Dave Shay brings technical mastery and creative control to tell your story, and not just take some pretty pictures.
These images will be all you have to remember your day.
Let’s make them count. Let’s make them real.
Why choose between technical ability and creativity?
Your wedding doesn’t need ‘golden hour’, to be awesome, (mainly because you’re awesome). You need a photographer with the skillset to photograph your wedding day no matter what the weather does.
We can’t control if it rains on your wedding day. But we can control what it looks like.
Top 20 Posed Portrait Worldwide
I’ve been awarded in a few places but taking home Fearless Photographers’ Top 20 Posed Portrait for 2017 among the fiercest competition for wedding photography in the world felt pretty nice.
Natural Light Trained
While I got my start as a natural light photographer, I sought out training to be able to photograph in any condition, and not just when the light is good. I’ll always take great, golden, natural light before a flash, but a wedding photographer needs to know how to use them all.
Backup Extraordinaire
By the time you leave for your honeymoon, every single image I took on your wedding day will be in four different places. There are photographers that will lose your wedding. I’m not one of them.
Legacy Motivated
Your wedding is a story you’ll tell for years to come. From prints to tell your story, to artistic images for your walls, to an album you’ll share with generations, I strive to create timeless images that truly capture you both.
Are Portraits Important?
Of course, but...
If you rearranged your entire wedding to make sure your grandfather would be able to attend, wouldn’t you want someone focused on documenting your story and not someone hellbent on taking posed portraits?
Some of My Work
Here are some of my favorite images photographed from the weddings of well over 200 couples in more than 20 states.
Marriage is an adventure. Let's make sure we remember where yours began
Turns Out People Like Me!
Take that, middle school.
If there was a ‘vendor of the wedding’ award… Dave Shay would take it home every time.
These images will last us a lifetime.
He was amazing…flexible, kind, down to earth, professional and really took the time to listen to our story and capture it all in his photographs.
Dave was my second favorite person at my wedding.
The best photographer we’ve ever seen.
Dave Shay is a must hire vendor for your wedding.
Everyone I show our wedding pictures to raves about the quality and wished they could have used Dave Shay when they got married.
He was able to get beautiful shots of us and also allowed us to fully enjoy every bit of our wedding which I thought would be impossible.
Get In Touch
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Address
Cary, NC 27513
Cell Phone
919-213-9229
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