Hudson Valley photojournalist of 14 plus years, with a first party $5,500 starting price and Hollow Brook work.
Sweet Alice publishes $5,500 as a starting price on its own website, which makes this one of the few photographers in this batch whose floor is not borrowed from a marketplace. The studio states 14 plus years shooting weddings. The approach is photojournalism, and elopements and microweddings are sold alongside full days rather than treated as a favour. The site describes itself as LGBTQ plus welcoming. Hollow Brook Golf Club in Cortlandt Manor appears in the Westchester work. The base is the Hudson Valley, with no town stated. The service area runs across the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, taking in Westchester and Poughkeepsie. Westchester is a listed area rather than the home patch, which is worth knowing before you talk about travel.
A $5,500 first party floor tells you where the studio starts, and it is a firmer number than a marketplace figure because the studio wrote it. It still does not name contents. Work out what hours and how many photographers sit inside that base. Image count and products are the other two answers. If your wedding is small, get the elopement pricing as well. Then have the run down from the Hudson Valley quoted as a figure.
The studio site at sweetalicephotography.com. It carries the $5,500 starting figure and the 14 plus years statement, along with the elopement and microwedding work and the Hollow Brook Golf Club wedding. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
The Hudson Valley is the base rather than Westchester, and the county appears on a service list rather than as home ground.
$5,500 published by the studio itself is a commitment in a way a Knot starting price is not. It is the studio’s own statement about where its work begins, and it filters enquiries before anyone wastes a call.
What it still leaves out is contents. Ask what the $5,500 buys in hours and in photographers. Delivered images and products are the other half of the answer, and the next tier up should be priced at the same time. A floor with no contents attached is still only half a price.
Plenty of photographers will shoot a small wedding grudgingly, priced as a stripped down full day. Listing elopements and microweddings as their own specialty suggests a different posture, and usually a different package shape.
If you are planning a twenty person wedding, ask for the small wedding collections specifically. Whether the $5,500 floor applies to them at all is the first thing to settle.
Hollow Brook Golf Club in Cortlandt Manor puts verified northern Westchester work on the record. Cortlandt Manor is the end of the county nearest the Hudson Valley, which fits the geography.
For a wedding in southern Westchester, Rye or Mamaroneck or Scarsdale, the drive is longer. Get the travel cost to your specific venue as a number, and find out whether an overnight stay is billed for an early start.
Putting $5,500 on the front of a website loses the enquiries that were never going to convert. For a couple working to a fixed budget, that saves a week of emails and an awkward phone call.
The 14 plus years figure does similar work in a different direction. It is a claim about durability, and unlike a style adjective it is checkable. Ask for two weddings shot five or more years apart, at venues you can look up. A long book of work is easy to prove and hard to fake.
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