Wedding Moments
The ones you almost missed. The ones you'll never forget.
A wedding is not a series of scheduled events.
It is the way your father looks at you before the doors open. The half-laugh caught between tears. The moment your partner sees you for the first time and everything else — the flowers, the guests, the carefully arranged details — simply falls away.
These are the photographs that matter most. Not the posed portraits or the perfectly lit tableaux, but the unguarded, unscripted moments that reveal who you are and what this day actually felt like.
For over fifteen years, Diane Stredicke has documented weddings across the Hudson Valley, Catskills, and New York City with a documentary approach rooted in observation, patience, and deep respect for the people in front of the lens. No orchestration. No interruption. Just presence — and the expertise to recognize a moment before it disappears.
The result is a body of work built not on direction, but on truth.
What Documentary Wedding Photography Looks Like
Great wedding photography is less about being in the right place and more about knowing where to look. It requires an understanding of human behavior — how emotion moves through a room, where the light will fall, when to stay still and when to move closer.
Every wedding has its own rhythm and its own cast of characters. The grandmother who dances when she thinks no one is watching. The best man whose composure finally breaks during the toast. The quiet between the ceremony and the reception, when two people who just got married find a moment alone.
These are the images that age well. They do not trend. They do not require explanation. Decades from now, they will still tell the story of exactly who you were on this day.
Hudson Valley Weddings, Documented with Intention
The Hudson Valley draws couples who care about place — about the quality of light on a river valley at golden hour, the texture of a 19th-century barn, the atmosphere of a vineyard at dusk. This region rewards photographers who pay attention, and it has shaped Diane's approach to the work in ways that are difficult to quantify.
Whether photographing a formal estate wedding in Rhinebeck, an intimate gathering at Basilica Hudson, or an elopement in the Catskills, the commitment is the same: to document what is real, beautiful, and entirely yours.
Every Couple. Every Form of Love.
Diane is a gay photographer and LGBTQ-owned business. Inclusive, affirming wedding photography is not a specialty — it is simply how this work has always been done. Every couple who comes here deserves to feel fully seen, fully celebrated, and fully themselves.
Your wedding day will be full of moments worth keeping.
If you are looking for a photographer who will document your day with intelligence, care, and an editorial eye — someone who will be present without being intrusive, and who will return images that feel as honest as they are beautiful — we would love to hear from you.