THANK YOU to my amazing clients have honored me with the Couple’s Choice pick for "Best Detroit, Michigan Wedding Photographer" for 15 years!
Too good to be true? Check out the Rave Reviews from my clients from The Knot and Google to see why my wedding photography
has made me a Top 10 Wedding Photographer.
Documenting your love story as it unfolds on your wedding day doesn't just mean photographing all the things on your timeline.
It's photographing all those little behind the scenes moments, the stolen glances, and the surprises
that tell your very unique wedding day story.
Capturing all of it so you can relive your wedding story is my passion and happy place.
Taking amazing photos is only one of my superpowers.
Helping with tips and timelines to set you up for success on your wedding day
means you'll have way more fun and the photos are just that much better. No worries about feeling awkward for all the camera shy couples who don't love the attention.
No worries, you'll be relaxing and laughing in no time. I've got your back.
♥ Are you looking for an experienced photojournalist to document all the candid wedding day moments that make your wedding day uniquely you?
♥ Will having a wedding expert make your wedding easier and stress free? Yes! With over 1,300 amazing weddings under my belt, I'm hard to rattle, always happy to help and am a great resource to use. I've got answers to all your questions.
♥ Are you an older, mature couple blending families or having a second wedding? You don't want a photo "team" buzzing around you, but are looking for great coverage of your friends and family? Are you sort of dreading the spotlight? Looking for a photographer closer to your age? Like you, I'm a grown ass adult.
♥ Is capturing all the amazing moments of your wedding day a top wedding photography priority? And you also want a few storytelling epic portraits too?
♥ The wedding photos aren't just about you, they're about capturing your friends, family and guest's stories too!
♥ If you're worried about looking awkward, don't worry. I've got your back. No cheesy poses, just good fun. Almost 90% of my clients are just like you. Bet you can't find the self proclaimed "awkward" couples who are camera shy!
♥ I'm also a de facto wedding coordinator who helps create a timeline giving you as much connection time with your guests and maximizing fun.
♥ Are you looking for a helpful, supportive, kind, slightly funny photographer who will advocate for you at every turn to help ensure your wedding day is as stress-free and fun as humanly possible?
♥ Photographing weddings is my happy place. I love sneaking around capturing things you never saw and am always looking for unique opportunities to create one-of-a-kind wedding photos.
♥ Oh, and I take freaking awesome photos too! I'm super proud of my 5 star rating!
♥ Love stories come in every size, race, religion, age, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation and tradition.
♥ If you are a loving couple, I would be honored to capture the joy surrounding your big day.
♥ Where there is love, there is a story worth telling.
♥ Specializing in older, mature, seasoned couples and second weddings. Like you, I'm a grown-ass adult!
♥ Having grown up overseas, I appreciate, understand and relish different cultures and traditions.
♥ Let's celebrate the heck out of everything that is unique about you, your relationship and your wedding day.
- You have full rights to view, print and use your wedding photos however you'd like!
- Access for a year to a secure online gallery of hand edited, high resolution digital files prepared for downloading and/or printing. Clients usually receive over 1,000 ready to use wedding photographs.
- Print directly from a professional lab connected to my site or print them yourself, your choice.
- Digital files are delivered within TWO FREAKING WEEKS of your wedding day!
- Email consultations to work on timelines to maximize your fun and time with your guests.
- A digital planning guide is included at booking to get you off to a great start.
- Professional, award winning, five-star and experienced photojournalist's coverage throughout the day.
- My stellar reputation after photographing over 1,300 weddings and having over 1,300 ecstatic couples who love vouching for me!
- Click for all my wedding photography pricing options.
♥ Please click for galleries, pricing, availability, answers to questions, and every other thing you might want to know about me like how I photograph weddings and what your wedding day experience would be like with me.
♥ I have a gazillion sample photos on my website so you can get a really good idea of the kinds of photos I capture.
♥ Finding something that tells your unique wedding day story is what I'm searching for during every wedding.
♥ Every couple has unique needs and every wedding IS different, so it's always fun for me to find all those mini stories going on around you (and behind your back).
Oh, sorry! Click for information about high school seniors, babies, maternity, boudoir, engagement, kids, family, branding, lifestyles, product and modeling photography.
Is there anything I don't photograph? Believe it or not, the portrait side of my career started with wedding couples asking for other sorts of photography.
Capturing the personality in the portraits is so much fun. I try to keep the sessions moving along and fun.
If you're looking for super posed, typical portraits, I might not be the photographer for you.
Almost all of my sessions are done outdoors, capturing who you are at this moment in your life. The images are dynamic and personality-filled images without the stress of perfection.
I'm an experienced, fun, relaxed, expert Michigan wedding photojournalist and wedding photographer. I'm a total professional, a bit silly, and I enjoy the heck out of life. I also end up getting photographed quite a bit while working. Here are some photos of me taken in the last couple of years.
And if by chance, you're actually curious to know more about me personally, you can either check out my
bio or my
professional Facebook page to see my latest "Sneak Peeks" from every ceremony I photograph.
Who took all these photos of me working? I only took one of them. The rest were done by either my favorite husband and fellow wedding photojournalist, Rodney Curtis , clients, fellow wedding photographers or friends.
Marci, I'm sick of reading. I want to see more wedding photos and I want to see them now! Okay, hold on, Veruca Salt.
Here's where you can find some of
my favorite wedding photography galleries
from around the Metro Detroit area. See if you can see why I've earned a 99.8% satisfaction grade from customers and have a 5-star rating.
Does my wedding photography look any different to you than all the gazillion other wedding photographers in Michigan? Can you see tons of wedding day moments? As a true photojournalist by training, I can spot moments coming a mile off and capture them as they happen. Can you spot all the epic wedding portraits that highlight something unique about the couple or the setting they were in?
I love the challenge of quickly finding a way to create a really unique wedding day portrait of the couple that no one expects. That blend of candids, reality and amazingly unique portraits are also what set me apart from other wedding photographers in Michigan.
I'm a Michigan wedding photographer based near Detroit, Michigan with many years of professional photography experience as a working photojournalist for the Associated Press, the Ann Arbor News, and freelancing for the Detroit News and Free Press. I switched exclusively to photographing Michigan weddings about 20 years ago and have now documented over 1,300 happy couples with their unique wedding day stories. My clients love my extremely unobtrusive style of photography, that I'm very easy going and that I appear to be everywhere, yet unseen, like a photo ninja! I also have a reputation as one of the best-rated, most affordable Michigan wedding photographers in the Metro Detroit, Michigan area. I'm certainly the most affordable Michigan PHOTOJOURNALIST in Detroit with the most wedding experience, that's for sure! I'm not inexpensive, but I provide the best customer service, best quality and best "bang for your hard-earned buck" for clients getting married on a budget who value photography, but want someone affordable. I also have a super fast (two week) turn around time with my images that my wedding clients LOVE!
In 2016 I made a lot of changes to my photography business to go as "green" as possible. To create an eco-friendly photography business, we added solar panels to our work space, now have all hybrid and electric vehicles and changed our delivery system to all electronic. Hopefully we've greatly reduced our carbon footprint. I don't for a minute believe I can save the world one photography business at a time, but I would be disappointed in myself if I didn't try to do my bit to make this world just a little bit greener and safer.
My clients receive over 1,000 edited, touched up and ready-to-print high resolution images they have full printing rights to within two weeks of their big day. All of my wedding pricing and packages are listed on my site. I think it's important to take all the guess work out of finding and comparing all the wedding photographers near the Metro Detroit, Michigan area so they can find the best, most reasonably priced photographer to fit their budget. I've raised my prices twice in 14 years.
A La Carte add ons to my wedding photography packages include the 11x14 inch albums that I create. If you're looking to put together your own album, I've got a great resource guide. I can also add in a second photographer, extra hours and extra photo retouching services.
I've got a billion samples showcasing some of my favorite wedding photography from all venues all over the Metro Detroit area displayed in slideshows so you can see not only my "best of" wedding portfolios from each year, but also see that each couple's photos are as unique as they are!
Since I've photographed so very many celebrations, I've included a section for wedding planning and wedding day tips and I've got a pretty extensive Q & A page that should help to answer a lot of your questions about how I work as a Michigan wedding photojournalist. Ask me anything, anytime... I'm always happy to help!
I've included links to my favorite and best Michigan and Detroit based wedding professionals in hopes of steering you towards people I've worked with and know bring something special to the celebration day experience. Anybody who is on this list is someone I've worked with enough times to know they are true professionals, LOVE what they do and can make "it" happen at each and every wedding.
I rely on the happy referrals of my clients to keep my wedding photography calendar full, but if you're looking for reviews from places like the Knot, where I'm in their "Hall of Fame", you'll find lots of reviews I've received over the years. Those all come from my Michigan couples who are happy to spread the good word! I do have a rave review section, where I post thank you cards couples send me. I also love it when clients who love my photojournalistic style of wedding photography post their reviews on sites like; Wedding Wire so everyone can read about their experience with me and my photography services. I also made a "Best Wedding Photographers" list several years running for "Top Wedding Photographers in Michigan" from Expertise! They reviewed hundreds of the top Metro Detroit wedding photographers. The list is super impressive; I'm psyched and honored to be on it! Thanks to all my Detroit area couples who voted for me as their "Best Detroit wedding photographer and Detroit wedding photojournalist" 15 years in a row!
Here's a super cool award I won in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 for "Top 3 Best Rated Wedding Photographers in Detroit, Michigan". Crazy cool, right?!?
This year I was invited to join the Better Business Bureau because of my stellar reputation as a highly rated wedding photographer in Metro Detroit!
This is a site that ranks all things wedding related called "Wedding Rule". I'm ranked 5th in their top 28 Michigan Wedding Photographers for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Yay!
And this award is also super cool. Only 19 out of 292 wedding photographers were picked by Expertise as "Best Wedding Photographers in Detroit, Michigan". This is my 6th year to win this one and this year I'm at the top of their list!
Proud to be featured on the World's Best Wedding Photos site!
I'm obsessed with photographing high school seniors! I find them informative, inquisitive and I always learn something new from them. All my sessions are outdoors and scheduled Monday - Thursday in the afternoons and evenings. I've got tons of senior photo locations as well and a page with tips and help for seniors to get the most out of their sessions with me.
Yes! I do photograph pregnant women with their baby bellies. It's an interesting, strange time to have your body morph so completely and while I do take more traditional maternity photos, it's also fun to show how challenging and awkward your new body can be with a lifestyle maturity session.
Honestly, I'm not sure there are better things in the world than photographing newborn babies. These sessions aren't rushed. They are calm and are all about cuteness without any stress. I don't put babies into awkward poses, I just celebrate who they are in their first week or two on earth.
Congratulations! Proposals can be tricky and require a bit more planning on both our parts. Some locations need permits and/or permissions. I can help you with that and come up with a plan so it's not so obvious what's about to happen.
Yay! Check out my list of engagement session locations I love to use, or you can create a custom package if that's your thing.
Fantastic! Women find my sessions to be empowering and fun. I've got lots of ways to make you look your best and delight your partner. EVERYONE feels nervous. Honestly, the strangest poses can look amazing, but you'd never know that from looking at the photos.
No worries! Whether you want to update your photos after you've freshened up your look and need something for your acting or modeling portfolios or you're just looking for nice images to use for whatever purpose, I've got you covered. These sessions are outdoors for a contemporary and modern feel that everyone is looking for. Let's show your personality off a bit, shall we?
Of course! Since a website is often the first thing potential clients and customers see about you, why not get personality-filled images that show off your space, your stuff and your staff to bring people to you? I can certainly help with that.
I wrote and photo illustrated three children's books for Penguin Putnam that got picked up by the fabulous Dolly Parton and her "Imagination Library" book club, which means there are over 2,000,000 copies of my books all over the country!
My three published books are; "Big Sister, Little Sister","Big Brother, Little Brother" and "I Was So Silly; Big Kids Remember Being Little".
If you're looking for my most current published work, you'll find it on my blog. It's parked at marcicurtis.com/blog/. Keeping the blog current isn't my top priority (my clients all get that #1 slot!), but I do try to post some fun shots, current wedding trends and advice along the way.
People always misspell my name, so if you're looking for Marcy Curtis or Marcie Curtis or Marcy Kurtis or Marcie Kurtis you should still be able to find me.
That's all folks! Quit reading this and go check out all the cool photos I have on the site!
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tel. (248) 688-9294 email: [email protected] located in Troy, Michigan