Shelley & Portugal are wife-and-husband documentary wedding photographers serving Kentucky and beyond.

Your wedding day deserves to be lived and experienced

Our roots are in photojournalism and street photography, which basically means we've spent years learning to anticipate moments before they happen and capture them honestly. We're not here to make your wedding just look pretty in photos (though it will); we're here to document what actually happened on one of the most important days of your life. When you invite us into your wedding day, you're giving us permission to do what we do best: chase down the real moments that tell the story of this day. The moments you'll look back on in fifty years and think "man, we chose the right photographers."

ONE million stars out of FIVE, and that still doesn't feel like enough.

—  MAGGIE, 2024 BRIDE

I looked at many photographers for my wedding but no one truly captures the day like Shelley + Portugal

—  NATALIE, 2021 BRIDE