Film Wedding Photography
35mm Film · Medium Format · Hybrid Film + Video
Here's something I want you to know before anything else: film is no longer an add-on.
Starting with my 2026/2027 collections, every single package I offer now includes film — because film changes the way images feel, and your wedding day deserves that. Whether you're eloping at sunrise, saying your vows at a courthouse with your closest people, or celebrating with a full wedding day, medium format and 35mm film are already part of the experience.
I shoot film (35mm + Medium Format 120mm) and digital, staying true to natural, honest color. The two formats work together beautifully — digital captures every moment as it happens, and film gives your portraits and intimate scenes a warmth and depth that no preset can replicate
What's Included in Every Collection
Film Is Part of Every Package
Here's how film shows up across my collections:
Elopements Every elopement package includes medium format film — shot on 120mm and developed with prints delivered alongside your digital gallery. Your film images will be edited to match your digitals for one cohesive, beautiful body of work.
Courthouse Weddings Every courthouse package includes medium format film + digital edits. Real, romantic, and timeless — even for the most intimate ceremonies.
Weddings All wedding packages (Package #1 and above) include 35mm and medium format film with 4x6 prints. Your gallery will be a seamless blend of digital documentation and analog artistry — the moments you lived, rendered in film.
Hybrid Photography + Video Both Hybrid packages — The Film Story and The Film Day — include 35mm and medium format film prints and digitals, alongside your highlight film and Video Motion Book. One team. One timeline. One cohesive story, told in stills and motion.
Want to add more film to your day? Additional rolls of 35mm or 120mm medium format are available as add-ons at $150/roll, including developing and prints.
Why 35mm Film Wedding Photography
35mm Film Wedding Photography
I shoot 35mm with the Nikon F5 — An iconic camera that produce images with a tonal range, softness, and organic character that digital simply can't match. The Nikon F5 is widely considered one of the greatest 35mm film cameras ever made, production stopped in 2004, and is fast enough to keep pace with a wedding day without missing a beat.
What makes 35mm so special for weddings? Film handles light — especially highlights — in a way digital sensors struggle with. Skin tones are warm and accurate. Grain is real and organic. And the resulting images have a softness and depth that feels like memory, not like a photograph.
Every roll is intentional. With a finite number of frames, every shot is considered — and that care is visible in the final images.
Medium Format Wedding Photography
120mm Film
Medium Format Wedding Photography
Medium format film takes everything you love about analog and elevates it. Shooting on 120mm film produces images with extraordinary detail, finer grain, and a tonal richness that makes prints stunning at any size — the kind of photographs you'll want to frame and pass down.
Medium format is included in every elopement and courthouse package, and in all wedding and hybrid collections. It's especially beautiful for portraits and intimate moments where you have space to slow down — and it's the format I reach for when I want an image to feel truly timeless.
Each 120mm roll ranges from 10 - 16 exposures, dependant on what film stock I use. Each roll is developed with care, and delivered as prints alongside your high-resolution digital gallery.
Hybrid Film + Digital + Video
Hybrid + Photography + Film + Cinematic Video
Hybrid Photography + Film + Cinematic Video
Hybrid is my most elevated offering — and the most seamless way to document your wedding day. One calm, coordinated team (lead photographer + videographer), one timeline, one cohesive story told across stills and motion.
Both Hybrid packages include 35mm and medium format film prints and digitals, so your gallery captures the full depth and warmth of analog alongside the completeness of digital documentation.
The Film Story — $6,000 6 hours · Lead Photographer + Videographer · Downloadable High-Res Gallery · 35mm + Medium Format Film Prints & Digitals · 3–5 min Wedding Highlight Film · Video Motion Book
The Film Day — $8,500 8 hours · Lead Photographer + Videographer · Downloadable High-Res Gallery · 35mm + Medium Format Film Prints & Digitals · 10–12 min Wedding Highlight Film · Video Motion Book
Every Hybrid package includes your lead photographer + videographer, downloadable gallery, full-resolution files, printing rights, and video download links in your gallery.
Why hire a Film Wedding Photographer?
Why Film?
There's a reason film is having such a genuine moment in the wedding world — and it goes beyond aesthetics.
True-to-life color and skin tones. Film renders color the way your eye actually sees it. Warm, accurate, and real — no preset gets this close.
Graceful highlight handling. Bright outdoor ceremonies, golden hour, sunlit windows — film handles light in a way digital sensors struggle to match.
Images that age beautifully. Film photographs don't feel "of the moment" in a way that dates them. They feel like memory.
Real grain, real character. Organic film grain adds to an image in a way a Lightroom preset never quite does. It's subtle, beautiful, and authentic.
Intentional, considered photography. Every frame on a roll counts — and that intentionality produces images with a quality of attention you can feel.
Let’s Talk Film
Whether you're planning an elopement in Joshua Tree, a courthouse ceremony in San Francisco, or a full wedding day in Southern California — film is already part of what I bring to your day.
I'd love to talk through which collection is the right fit for you.
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Mariela Campbell is a Southern California-based film and digital wedding photographer specializing in elopements, courthouse weddings, and intimate celebrations. Serving couples from Joshua Tree to Big Sur, San Diego to San Francisco, and destinations across the US.