We Are Matt and Jess

Matt and Jess are a husband and wife wedding photography and videography combo headquartered in Ojai, California. We enjoy the ocean, mountains, and desert, and California offers them all, making it the ideal home base for us. Southern California, the Central Coast, Northern California, Colorado, and Central America are where we usually shoot. We want to be more than simply your wedding photographers; we want to be friends with you! For us to fully capture YOUR genuine connection, we need to make genuine bonds with our couples. Matt has been shooting with Jess for the previous eight years. We consider ourselves extremely fortunate to be able to call this storytelling medium our "work." We met when we were both 21 years old. We had fallen in love. We spent a summer in California together beside the sea. We made preparations. Then Matt went out to see the world, Jess returned to the Midwest to finish her degree, and our love couldn't survive the distance. We said our goodbyes. We hadn't spoken in over five years. We were pulled in opposing directions by life. Matt would write in his journal about seeking "a love like Jess" during those five years. Then one night, over the phone, we reconnected. We conversed till the sun rose. For the second time, we fell in love. We have two cats, a pitbull named Cookie, and a 200-pound "mini" pig named Fiona, and we live in a beachy small cottage in Ojai, California. Home is our favorite location on the planet. The beach, hiking, yoga, artisan drinks, and music festivals are just a few of our favorite things to do. Thank you for spending some time reading about our love story. We're ecstatic you're here, and it would be an honor to capture your story.