“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken”
- Oscar Wilde
Our Tampa wedding photographers specialize in helping each of our couples feel comfortable and beautiful in their own skin AND turning their best day ever into beautiful custom artwork.
You’re in good hands
Carrie Wildes Photography by Numbers
700+
weddings photographed
15
years in business
2M+
photographs taken
69,294
pieces of cake eaten
About our Team
Welcome to Carrie Wildes Photography, your premier choice for Tampa Wedding Photography since 2008. Led by Carrie, our team specializes in crafting timeless wedding collections and lifestyle engagement sessions.
Beyond delivering stunning wedding images, we're committed to creating stress-free and enjoyable experiences for our couples. Our approach combines timeless and candid elements, ensuring your wedding story is told with grace and authenticity.
Choose Carrie Wildes Photography for unparalleled Tampa Wedding Photography, where your unique moments become timeless artwork. Our team is based in Tampa Bay, serving Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, all of Florida and destination weddings.
Our Values
We believe that your story is made of many priceless moments that need to be enjoyed for generations to come. To us, that is a huge responsibility and honor. As your photographers, we will be there to guide you every step of the way to ensure that your best day ever is everything and more than you could have ever imagined!
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Engagement Sessions
We love getting to know you during your engagement session! Most of our couples have never had professional photos taken before and tell us they are nervous or don’t even like to be in photos (especially the guys:-) This is all the more reason to do one as it helps you get comfortable in front of the camera and we always have so much fun! All of our full wedding collections include an engagement session with your lead photographer. The session itself is an hour or less and we will help you in finding the perfect location and outfit ideas.
recently engaged and have some questions?
We have created some special resources just for you! Take a look at our Tips for Couples!
Weddings We’ve Captured
Love is love and we LOVE all weddings regardless of style, size, gender, race, location, and belief.
We are honored to be a preferred photographer at many venues in Tampa Bay.
Here’s just a few. Click on the venue logo below to see our work there.
Tampa Bay Wedding Photography Pricing
Unique to when you invest in your wedding photography with us, and the entire amount of your wedding collection becomes an artwork credit after the wedding to spend on any of our beautiful artwork options (albums, wall art, etc) Our premium wedding collections include:
Unlimited photographs taken
* 2 Photographers - Carrie and one of our team
* Artwork credit equal to your collection to choose an album/wall art etc
*Slideshow of engagement/wedding day images during reception
*Behind the scenes photos/videos for social
* Professional editing of all curated images (generally 600-800)
* USB Drive of high resolution professionally edited curated images
* Online gallery for viewing and sharing with unlimited digital downloads
* Complimentary engagement session
Our Premium Collections for Tampa wedding photography range from $3990 - $7990 with most couples spending around $4990
We do offer options for intimate and weekday weddings that range between $600-$2490.
If your wedding is on a Mon-Friday check out our dedicated brand for Weekday Weddings.
Albums & Artwork
One of our favorite things we get to do with you is the Guided Art Experience after your wedding! During your Guided Art Experience you’ll get to spend your artwork credit where Carrie will help walk you through choosing the best images and artwork for your home. We have beautiful options to choose from with our heirloom and coffee table albums as well as canvas, metal, and acrylic wall prints. Here’s just a few examples of our wall art and album designs.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I reserve my date? . . .
To reserve your date a non-refundable retainer of $1000 for our full wedding collections is required or for intimate weddings it is a 50% non-refundable retainer. This ensures that you reserve that date specifically for you and you can check finding a photographer off your list!
What is the Guided Art Experience? . . .
This is my favorite meeting after your wedding! About 4-6 weeks after your wedding, we’ll either screen share or in person have you choose all images you would consider for either an album or prints. I’ll help guide you through in choosing what images best tell the story for your album and wall. This is when you will get to spend the artwork credit you have which is the full amount you spend on your collection. You can stick with that original amount and get beautiful artwork or you can spend as much as you would like.
What is included with the Complimentary Engagement Session and can I take it out? . . .
A complimentary engagement session is included with all our full wedding collections. It’s up to an hour with your lead photographer and we’ll help you choose location and style. The session and professional editing is included. 1-2 weeks after your session we’ll do a Guided Art Experience session and show you all the edited images, (60-80 ish) you’ll choose your favorites and any artwork would be in addition (prints, an album, sign in book, save the dates, etc.) Anything you order in print you get the high resolution digital file of. If you don’t use the session, we don’t take anything out of the collection because any artwork is in addition so you lose the experience but not any artwork.
What kind of weddings do you do? . . .
We believe that love is love and each couple’s wedding story is important and unique to them. To us, ethnicity, race, gender, size, style, or anything else is what makes your moments and who you are so special.
If everything is inside do you provide lighting? . . .
We are very experienced in all types of lighting and bring flashes and static lighting sources with us to every wedding so we are prepared for any situation.
What if your camera breaks? . . .
As professional photographers, we have at least 4 camera bodies and extra lenses, batteries and memory cards with us at all times so if there is an equipment failure you will never know about it!
What does Professional Editing mean? . . .
We photograph everything in color and then our graphic designer will give them a little love (color correct, brightness, black/white, blemishes, etc) so that everything you see is a beautiful finished product. We are photography, art, and design so our goal is to do everything related to those aspects for you.
My venue said all my vendors have to have a certificate of insurance, do you have that? . . .
YES! This is so important! We are a licensed and insured business and provide our certificate of insurance to anyone who requires it.
Words from Our Couples
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“We specifically hired Carrie Wildes Photography because they not only came highly recommended but also had the depth and quality of service we were looking for.”
- Erin & Joe