Tennessee

Madeline Oakley Photography

Website: www.madelineoakleyphotography.com

Homebase: Nashville, TN

Also serving: Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia with low or no travel fees. Serving Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington DC with travel fees applying.

“Wait, how do you want me to put on my shoes?”
“Just…put ’em on! I got you.”

At the same time the Lord quietly nudged me to make my faith not just an accessory to my business, but the cornerstone, I found myself being increasingly frustrated by how weddings often feel like one big photoshoot rather than a genuine celebration. I committed to providing beautiful documentary photography that honors the beauty in the transcendence of the sacrament of matrimony and the personalities of each individual couple, without over posing and constant staging. My goal is to be a calm, down-to-earth, organized presence that captures your day as it beautifully unfolds: with all its joys, tears, hugs, and graces.

I’ve been photographing for as long as I can remember. I “made it official” in 2020 when I graduated with my degree in photography from Middle Tennessee State University. After graduation I worked at a local portrait studio and started freelancing weddings to keep up with my own creativity. I fell in love with being able to preserve some of the most pivotal moments in someone’s life into art that will get passed down through generations. I also love that I get to fall in love with my own vocation all over again at every wedding I attend.

When I’m not photographing or editing, I’m chasing around two little boys, baking, developing a love for bourbon, and hanging out with my husband who is truly my best friend and love of my life. My vocation as a wife and mother truly fuels my passion for this business and ministry: I have my most productive brainstorming sessions walking babies to sleep.