WEDDING

GUEST PORTRAITS

Investment

Guest Portraits by Jillian Darville $3,750

Guest Portraits by Anna Teem $3,000

Guest Portraits by Emily Gladney $3,000

CONTACT US ABOUT YOUR EVENT

Please complete the form below and include that you’re interested in Wedding Guest Portraits, your wedding date, venue location, cocktail hour start time, and the name of the bride & groom.

We are currently booking 2027 & 2028 weddings on Fridays & Saturdays within one hour of Raleigh, NC. Each wedding includes one lead painter and one assistant.

THE PROCESS

Wedding Guest Portraits are such a fun addition to your wedding day and are a keepsake for your guests, as well as entertainment. The lead painter you book and one assistant will complete as many guest portraits on site as possible from the beginning of cocktail hour to the end of the reception. Any remaining photos will be painted following the wedding day and mailed to the bride and groom.

You can book Jillian, Anna, or Emily as your lead painter for guest portraits. We will each come with one assistant and arrive before the ceremony to get set up in order to begin painting guest portraits at the start of cocktail hour and into the reception. We will need a 6’ table, linen, and two chairs. The venue can typically provide this, and feel free to connect us with your venue or wedding planner. We can move the table from cocktail hour to reception, but have also done several weddings where one or both tables are already set up by the wedding planner/venue for a seamless transition. Depending on the venue, sometimes it works to have the same set up the entire duration of the wedding if the cocktail hour and reception are in the same general area.

When cocktail hour starts, the assistant will begin taking photos of guests who come to the table and we will work through painting as many photos as possible during the contracted 5 hours. Your wedding guests will be amazed and excited about their custom portrait and some will get to take them home that evening! We will have a framed sign on our table that says, “Live Watercolor Guest Portraits,” and another framed sign detailing the process for your guests. It can be helpful to consider where people will be congregating for the table placement. Typically, most guests will have their photo taken during cocktail hour and check back in with us during the reception time.

On average, we take about 5 minutes to draw and paint each person, 10 minutes per couple (this time is industry standard). We have multiple steps per portrait, so it’s not necessarily a consecutive 10 minutes because the paint dries between layers. Each portrait is ink and watercolor paint on a 5x7” piece of watercolor paper, and wrapped in a plastic sleeve for safe keeping as the guests bring them home. The paintings will be ready for framing and displaying in your guests’ homes to remember your wedding day by.

Any remaining photos (this will be the majority of the photos since we paint an average of 6 couples per hour on site) that have not been painted by the end of my contracted time will be completed and mailed to the bride and groom following the wedding day. We will send an email with the matching guest photographs to the couple as well so that they can match the guest portraits to the appropriate guests.