Nice to meet you,
My name is Mary Basnight. I'm a wedding photographer based in Outer Banks, North Carolina
The Outer Banks of North Carolina offers a unique, dreamlike setting for a wedding. With an artist’s eye for composition and detail, Outer Banks Wedding Photographer Mary Basnight unobtrusively captures the spontaneous and posed moments, melting art with story, to create an unforgettable personal memory for you to treasure. Shooting in both color and black & white using high-end digital cameras, Mary states, “Black & white imagery sets the tone and romance of the event, while color complements the details and together, they make for an artful, interesting wedding album”. While viewing the extensive portfolios on this site, pay special attention to Mary’s ability to intimately reflect the personality of each of her clients.
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Photographing a beach wedding can be challenging. Wind, seas, tides, and quickly changing weather mean you have to know the area intimately and always have a backup plan.
When you choose Mary Basnight as your Outer Banks wedding photographer, you gain Mary’s life-long knowledge, experience and insight in planning an Outer Banks wedding. She spends the critical time needed getting to know you and how you want your wedding documented. She’ll work with your other service providers too, ensuring that the event can be photographed as you wish it to be.
Mary applies a team approach to Outer Banks wedding photography coverage utilizing highly trained assistants. This allows each event to be covered from a variety of angles, with a variety of lenses. “The team approach allows us to shoot close up and from a distance at the same time, or focus on what the bride and groom are doing while capturing the reactions of family and friends,” says Mary. With Mary Basnight Photography, you will have the skills of two photographers at your event.
Outer Banks Photographer Mary Basnight, utilizes state-of-the art computer technology, bringing your wedding images to you, your family, and your friends in the most convenient, timely way. Each wedding is posted on a secure website, allowing photographs to be viewed and ordered online.
Our Process
We provide all our clients with dual coverage on their wedding day. Mary Basnight will be their primary photographer along with a secondary photographer.
Working as a team, we provide our clients with full coverage on their wedding day. They receive a complementary mix of images taken from different angles and different viewpoints. The coverage style will provide the most amazing mix of images. Second, MBP provides creative wedding photography planning advice. When our clients want to know the best time to set their ceremony, the best time to shoot the family photos and so on, we can creatively provide our clients with options so they can make an informed decision on how they want their wedding day to be. MBP will help structure where and when to take photos during the day so clients will not be spending noticeable time away from guests. Last, MBP will attend the ceremony rehearsal when possible. This is not a photo op. More importantly, this is part of the planning that goes into how MBP will provide coverage on the wedding day. It is also an opportunity for MBP to meet the most important members of both families and the wedding party, give last minute advice if needed and to introduce ourselves to your family. We want them to feel comfortable asking of us anything come the day of the wedding.
We also include the high resolution files with our “Classic collection” packages which will allow you to have full control of your wedding images to have them printed wherever you wish or to create books and web based presentations.
Kind Words
From some of our clients
Mary & Mac did our engagement & wedding photos & we could not have been any happier with the results. They are both amazing photographers that you will instantly feel comfortable with. It was like I had known them forever. Our photos were amazing & unique & we have received so many compliments on them. We will definitely have future sessions with them.
- Brandi
We loved having Mary and her husband take our pictures for our wedding! They did an amazing job and Mary even teared up when capturing our first look, really meant a lot to me knowing how much she cared about capturing our perfect day! I would absolutely recommend her!
- Laura
Iknew I wanted Mary Basnight as the photographer for our wedding before there was a decision to be made. Every time I googled ‘OBX weddings’, the images that I was drawn to were photographs that she had taken. She and Mac did a fantastic job capturing not only every detail of our wedding, but also the personalities of me, my husband, our bridal party, and our guests. Beautiful photography! Highly recommend!!