Documentary Wedding Photographer

For Couples Who Want to Live in the Moment

Guest First. Photographer Second.

I’m there as your guest, which means I am there to prioritize your experience. I take a documentary and candid approach to my photography, and prefer to find organic moments than stage fake ones. My goal is to show the full range of your wedding day: the laughs, the tears, the joy, all of the heart and beauty and love.

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Film Photos

Photographing weddings on digital & film

Hello!

I fell in love with weddings when I was nine years old. My teenage cousins had started a conga line that was snaking across the dance floor, picking up steam as it went. Drunk uncles and sober grandmas joined the fray, and soon the whole reception was in on it. I hopped into the middle, a huge smile on my face, and thought this is awesome.

After photographing over 200 weddings, I still feel this same sense of joy, optimism, and excitement every time I photograph a wedding.

I’m Tom and I love weddings.

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Weddings Photographed: 241

Cups of Dance-floor Coffee: Infinity

Photographing Weddings Up & Down the East Coast

My family and I live in Raleigh most of the year, with a chunk of the summer spent in Maine. With immediate family from Toronto to Honduras and many points between, we are frequently on the go.

In 2024 & 2025, some of my favorite wedding destinations were Baja California, Acadia National Park, Portland Maine, Boston, and Iceland. In 2026, I look forward to photographing couples in NYC, New Hampshire, Maine, Texas, Massachusetts, Atlanta, and Switzerland.

As always, I also photograph couples across North Carolina & the Southeast.

Featured Weddings

Maine Lakehouse Wedding

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Salem Massachusetts Wedding

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Coastal Maine Wedding

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Love Notes

I can't say enough good things about working with Tom. He is profoundly personable, kind, and communicative along with being utterly skilled at his craft. Everyone we worked with for our wedding was excellent, but Tom was the person who really kept us excited and confident throughout the entire wedding planning process. Endless stars.

Nan Z.
If we could rate Tom Waldenberg in stars, we’d need NASA-level math, because five is nowhere near enough. Tom wasn’t just our photographer. He was our makeshift-coordinator, our chaos-controller, our stress reliever, our honorary family member, and, by the end of the night, the friend we half-expected to see wearing a lampshade on his head.

Jordan & Sean
Having Tom as our wedding photographer was such a dream. The pictures turned out insanely beautifully and I get so happy when I look back at them. Tom was incredible to work with from the very first email, where he was communicative and very easy to talk to. He was a calming presence during the entire wedding planning process and made me feel a little more sane (which is such a wonderful thing because wedding planning can feel like the entire world is conspiring to make you go insane). I feel so lucky that we stumbled upon the perfect photographer to capture the energy we were going for.

Ngara & Lucian
If I had ONE piece of advice for anyone planning a wedding... it'd be to hire Tom as your photographer! He's reliable. He's respectful. He's helpful. He's personable. And he's so talented! In all the conversations we had with guests, the comment we heard the most was how great Tom was. Hiring him was easily one of the best decisions we made about the whole wedding!

Julia & Ben
Stop searching and pick Tom! He’ll remember your family member’s names all day long. Tom will feel like a guest and friend and fit in seamlessly at your party. When recapping your wedding with friends, they’ll all mention how personable and wonderful the photographer was. He’ll make you truly laugh and photograph all those genuine smiles. Oh yeah, and his photos…he’s given us priceless memories we’ll cherish forever.

Katie & Ryan