Minneapolis Wedding Photographers & Super 8 Wedding Films
Documentary-meets-editorial wedding photography by a wife-and-wife Minneapolis wedding photography team
The Storyteller Co Wedding Experience
Meet the photographers
Kayla & Zoey Love
Based in Minneapolis, Kayla & Zoey Love are the queer, trans wife-and-wife documentary wedding photographers behind Storyteller Co, serving couples throughout the Twin Cities and Minnesota.
STEP 01
Inquire & Book
Tell us about your celebration, your priorities, and what matters most to you. If we're the right fit, we'll send a custom collection guide with personalized recommendations, your proposal, contract, invoice, and the option to schedule a discovery call. Once your agreement is signed and retainer is received, your date is officially reserved.
STEP 02
Prepare With Intention & Ease
In the months leading up to your wedding, we'll be here as a resource whenever you need us. Your pre-wedding questionnaire helps us understand your timeline, family dynamics, privacy preferences, and every meaningful detail, while additional calls are always welcome as questions arise or plans evolve.
STEP 03
Be Fully Present in Your Wedding Memories
When your wedding weekend arrives, our focus is simple: let you experience it. We document the day as it naturally unfolds through select digital photography, real 35mm and medium format film, Polaroids, and optional Super 8, incorporating portraiture and offering guidance, only when it enhances the experience.
STEP 04
Receive Your Previews, Gallery, & Archival Keepsakes
The morning after your wedding, you'll receive a curated collection of scanned Polaroid previews — a first glimpse designed to help you begin integrating the memories & emotion of your celebration. You'll also receive a preview gallery including professional film scans within 48 hours. Within 6 weeks, your complete edited gallery and all commissioned films are delivered. Your physical heirlooms — including film negatives, retro Viewfinder, original Super 8 reels, Polaroids, commissioned albums, and other archival keepsakes — follow within 4 months, creating a lasting family archive to enjoy for generations.
Wedding Photography for Couples Who Want to Experience Their Wedding — Not Perform It
The best wedding photographs aren't manufactured. They aren't created through constant direction or perfectly rehearsed moments. They're witnessed.
At Storyteller Co, we believe your wedding deserves to be remembered exactly as it felt. The anticipation before the ceremony. The embrace from someone you haven't seen in years. The glance across a crowded room. The joy of a dance floor that forgot there was a camera nearby.
As a wife-and-wife Minneapolis wedding photography team, we document celebrations through a thoughtful blend of digital photography, authentic 35mm and medium format film photography, and nostalgic Super 8 motion film. Every medium serves a purpose. Together, they preserve not simply how your wedding looked — but how it lived, and how it felt.
Testimonials
"On our wedding day, Kayla and Zoey were a dream to work with. They moved seamlessly through the day, capturing every moment with such care and precision that we didn’t have to worry about a thing. Their calm, approachable demeanor made us feel at ease, and it was clear that they were not just there to take photos, but to ensure our entire experience was as smooth and enjoyable as possible."
A & A
Testimonials
"These two are true artists with an incredible eye for detail. They photographed both our engagement and wedding, and their creative vision blew us away. ... From our first meeting for the engagement shoot, Kayla and Zoey made us feel completely at ease. By the time our wedding day came around, it felt like we had invited two friends to capture our day. They brought so much energy and were fully present to capture every detail, big and small."
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Honest Moments. True Color. A Wedding Experience Built Around Feeling.
Your wedding is not a photoshoot interrupted by meaningful moments.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of the people you love most, celebrating your once-in-a-lifetime love story.
Our role is never to choreograph every interaction. Instead, we create space for your day to unfold naturally while quietly preserving the moments you'll return to for decades. With an observant documentary approach and an editorial eye for composition, light, and emotion, we create imagery that feels timeless without ever feeling staged.
The result is a wedding archive filled with genuine connection, thoughtful artistry, and photographs that grow more meaningful with every passing year.
Why Documentary Wedding Photography?
Documentary wedding photography is about trust.
Rather than directing every laugh or recreating every embrace, we anticipate moments before they happen and preserve them honestly. We pay attention to the subtle interactions that often become the photographs couples treasure most — the nervous smile before walking down the aisle, parents quietly watching from across the room, grandparents wiping away tears during speeches, friends dancing long after sunset.
When portraits are appropriate, we'll offer calm, natural guidance that never pulls you away from your celebration. The goal isn't to manufacture emotion. It's to create an environment where it can exist naturally.
Our work lives where documentary storytelling and editorial artistry meet: emotionally honest photographs with timeless composition, true-to-life color, and an enduring sense of place.
Why We Photograph on Film
Film asks us to slow down.
Every frame is intentional. Every shutter press matters.
Alongside digital photography, we photograph weddings on real 35mm and medium format film because no digital preset can truly replicate the softness, texture, depth, and subtle imperfections that make analog photography feel so alive.
Each format serves a different purpose throughout your day.
- Digital photography preserves fleeting moments as they unfold with speed and precision.
- 35mm film brings warmth, movement, and nostalgia to candid moments.
- Medium format film creates heirloom-quality portraits with remarkable depth and detail.
Together, they become a wedding collection that feels layered, tactile, and unmistakably personal.
Why Super 8 Wedding Films?
Some memories deserve a little more movement.
Super 8 isn't a replacement for traditional wedding videography — it's something entirely different.
Captured on authentic motion picture celluloid film, Super 8 preserves your wedding through grain, texture, light leaks, and beautifully imperfect movement. It doesn't aim to recreate your wedding exactly as it happened. It recreates how it felt to be there.
- The movement of a veil in the wind.
- The laughter shared during cocktail hour.
- Your grandparents swaying together on the dance floor.
- Children running barefoot across the lawn.
These fleeting moments become a living memory you'll return to again and again.
A Wedding Archive, Not Just a Gallery
Your photographs deserve to exist beyond a screen.
Every Storyteller Co wedding is thoughtfully preserved as a lasting family archive.
Your collection includes:
- Digital wedding photography
- Authentic 35mm and medium format film photography
- Optional real Super 8mm motion film
- Real Polaroid prints scanned & mailed home to you
- Physical film negatives & original Super 8 reels for generational archival safekeeping
- A custom retro Viewfinder keepsake with custom reels to relive your memories with ease
- Heirloom album commissions and print design, commissions & guidance for dark room prints
- Written guidance for preserving your archival keepsakes & family heirlooms for generations
These aren't simply deliverables.
These are your family history.
A Wedding Experience Designed Around Presence
Long before your wedding day arrives, we'll help create an experience that allows you to remain fully present.
We'll work alongside you and your planner to build a timeline with breathing room, guide you through family portrait planning with our signature Mantle Moments™, and help you decide how you'd like your story documented and shared.
On your wedding day, our approach is calm, observant, and quietly attentive. We step in when guidance is genuinely helpful, then step back so life can unfold naturally.
Because the best photographs rarely happen while everyone is looking at the camera.
Looking for Elopement & Intimate Wedding Photography?
Let's Plan Your Documentation Experience
Share your vision and details, and we’ll respond with a personalized quote within 24 hours, tailored to fit your one-of-a-kind celebration.
Fill out the inquiry form below or email storytellercollc@gmail.com for availability & a detailed quote
