Jessica Max
Full wedding (ceremony and reception) pricing
Prices start at $4,000
Elopement pricing
Prices start at $1,800
Packages
Prices start at $1,800
About Jessica Max
Jessica Max
Big fan of dive bars, staring at the stars, forever searching for the best french fries, a blissfully cold Diet Coke, and a true midwestern why fly it's only 15 hours. You'll find me often traveling, spending time in nature, collecting rocks and shopping for vintage t-shirts. I love carefree messy in between moments, photographing my daily life on polaroids and film. I've lived a lot of places (Arizona, Arkansas, and Puerto Rico to name a few!) and have so many places that I treasure and feel at home.
As a documentary & editorial photographer, my approach is playful, relaxed, romantic and fun. I'm here for the couples who would like their wedding day honestly documented in artful images, full of heartfelt emotions, connection, and in-between moments. True to color, connection based, with a nod to those film photos that make you feel at home. I primarily reside in West Michigan during the summertime, but service the South West, Arkansas as well as Puerto Rico and anywhere that speaks to you.
Services
Services
- Bride-only session
- Engagement session
- Extra hours
- Image editing
- Online proofing
- Printing rights
- Same-day edits
- Second photographer
Photo formats
- Digital
- Film
- Hybrid
Deliverables
- Digital files
- Online gallery
- Printed enlargements
- Same/next-day sneak-peek images
- Wedding album
Jessica Max packages
Wedding Weekend
10 hours
Peak pricing $6,500-7,500
Off-peak pricing $6,000-7,000
The Wedding Weekend Encapsulate your entire wedding weekend celebration- day before activities, rehearsal dinner fun, full wedding day coverage.
- Full day coverage, up to 10 hours on wedding day
- 2 rolls of 35mm film
- Personalized and curated online wedding gallery
- High resolution and web sized downloads
- Personal print release
- Rehearsal Dinner coverage, or day after session
Eight Hour Wedding Day Coverage
8 hours
Peak pricing $5,000-5,500
Off-peak pricing $4,500-5,000
Eight hour wedding day coverage
- 8 hour wedding day coverage
- Personalized and curated online wedding gallery
- High resolution and web sized downloads
- Personal print release
- 2 rolls of 35mm film
- Additional vendor recommendation list
- Custom timeline creation & planning
Custom Wedding Day Coverage
8 hours
Peak pricing $4,200-7,500
Off-peak pricing $4,000-6,500
Looking for a customized wedding day collection option? I believe that every single wedding day is different, and requires different approaches. If you'd like to create a custom wedding or elopement collection I'm happy to do that.
- 35mm or 120 film coverage
- Hourly coverage options to full day coverage
- Personalized and curated online wedding gallery
- High resolution and web sized downloads
- Personal print release
- Travel costs included within service area location
Intimate Wedding Celebration
4 hours
Peak pricing $2,500-4,500
Off-peak pricing $2,500-3,500
Hosting a backyard or intimate wedding celebration? I offer custom collections for documenting smaller celebrations.
- Hourly coverage available for local and S-Th
- Custom collection options
- 35mm film coverage
Reviews
Write a review5.0 out of 5
16 reviews
Amazing wedding photographer
Jessica did my daughter’s engagement and wedding photos. She is absolutely amazing to work with. We loved her style, the ease of communication, her follow through and can I just say… she is just a good person! Anyone out there considering her for a shoot, please forward with contacting her. You will not be disappointed!
Response from vendor•Oct 22, 2025Hi Tammy! Thank you so so much for the wonderful review- I'm truly honored to have gotten to get know you all and spend the day celebrating along with you!So happy we chose Jessica Max!
We booked Jessica Max for our garden wedding in May, and are OBSESSED with the photos! She is so talented at capturing the most intimate and candid moments without us even knowing that she is there. We added film photos onto our package and absolutely loved how they turned out. Jessica also captured polaroid pictures throughout the wedding that we got to look at the next day, which was so much fun. It's so hard for us to pick our favorite pictures to get framed, we love them all! Jessica is a true pro and an absolute pleasure to work with. We got a sneak peak of our wedding photos a few days after the event and received the full gallery within the expected timeframe. We absolutely loved working with Jessica Max and would highly recommend her to any couple planning their wedding!
Our Experience with Jessica
When I was in the throes of wedding planning over a year ago, I was reaching out to vendors and putting payments down for June 2, 2024, and was crossing my fingers my deployed fiancé would even be able to attend, thanks to his unpredictable schedule. Amidst the stress (and borderline panic attacks!!) I was having because of that, I was also receiving a lieu of impersonal emails with quotes from photographers. When I got the email back from Jessica, she was the only one who answered with excitement and personality, and gave me a sense that this was supposed to be FUN. All this wedding planning was a very lucky sort of stress, and she didn’t make me feel like I was just some box to check off in her inbox— she was personable and friendly, and I liked her immediately. For the course of the year, Jessica and I kept up with eachother with texts, messages, and Instagram— and I felt like she was already a friend when June arrived. Even after her 12 hour journey to Virginia, she was full of energy and ready to go. She helped adjust some coordination timelines and caught things that I otherwise wouldn’t have. She hung out with my rambunctious family all weekend, witnessing our love and laughter, WIDE range of personalities, and even some sisterly tiffs. Honestly, she whole-heartedly became part of our crew. She ran everything past me when it came to details. Duke and I are not people who are comfortable in front of a camera, and I LOVED having her specifically tell us what to do to look good, while still feeling incredibly relaxed and natural around her. Duke and I kept saying she had Jedi powers the way she was able to flip cameras, batteries and equipment seamlessly. I’m writing this while in the airport leaving our honeymoon, and not only did Duke and I, and our families fall in love with Jessica— I still have guests reaching out to me via text to tell me how they hit it off with her on their own, how impressed they were with her ethic, or how they loved pictures from our sneak peek (eeeek!) I am not a girl who naturally feels pretty or comfortable in front of a camera. Jessica gave me the gift of finally experiencing both of those things on our special day. I felt beautiful and at ease. She captured the bridal portraits that I hope my great grandkids will put in their family tree projects for school one day, some of Dukes family and mine meeting for the first time, friends dancing, and our grandparents mingling and giving us their love. Duke and I knew our big white wedding would be our one chance to have everyone we love in one place. We are well aware of the rarity in that, and the fact that we don’t have much longer with some of those people we love. We’re well aware that these are the photos Duke and I will be looking at with our grandchildren when we’re old and grey, thinking about “the good ol’ days.” These photos are all we will have left one day of the people we love so fiercely, and these versions of ourselves. We will endlessly be grateful for Jessica of her effort and the labor that went into photographing a weekend like ours. She captured every single aspect of us and those we love, and above all us, gave us the gift of memory. 3 Faith and Duke
JESSICA IS THE BEST!
Jessica is hands down the best. It was a true pleasure to work with her for our engagement and wedding photos! Her talent and eye is top notch. She is so kind, has great energy, and kept us comfortable and having fun while she captured all of our beautiful photos! I hope to recommend her to friends and family in the future!!
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