A couples boudoir session is a private, guided shoot for two people in our downtown Salt Lake City studio, with an all female team. It runs about three hours across two sets, every pose is directed for both of you, and you see your images the same day. Most couples arrive nervous. Most leave asking when they can come back.
Short answer: plan on most of a half day. Hair and makeup, wardrobe changes across two sets, the shoot, and a same day reveal. The couples session fee is $449, with hair and makeup included for one person. Everything is guided, tasteful, and private.
What happens before you arrive
It starts with a free phone consultation. Tell us about the two of you, what you are picturing, and what you are nervous about. We help you pick two sets, plan the looks, and sort out wardrobe before the day. Bring options, and bring anything with a story, a favorite book, a jersey, an instrument, a piece of jewelry. Tell us in advance and we plan a set around it.
What the day looks like, step by step
Arrive and settle in
We are at 629 S State Street in downtown Salt Lake City, about twenty minutes from the airport. Park in the alleyway behind the building and come to the gray door. There is no signage out front and no waiting room full of strangers. You walk in, the door closes, and the studio is yours. No other photographer and no other client is in the building during your session. Couples fly in from Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and Arizona for this, and we will help you plan timing, wardrobe and the rest of the trip.
Hair and makeup
Professional hair and makeup is included for one person. Adding hair and makeup for your second person is $100, just tell us when you book so we can schedule the time. The studio has a dirty soda bar, mocktails and snacks, and a wardrobe closet that runs XS to 5X, so you never have to buy anything.
The shoot
The shoot itself runs about three hours across two sets. You do not need to know how to pose. We direct every pose, hand and look for both of you, and most of the direction comes as prompts, not instructions. You get a starting position and something to do inside it, and the frames we keep are almost always the ones a half second after the prompt lands. The first ten minutes are the only genuinely awkward part. Then it starts feeling like a date.
The reveal
You see your gallery the same day, on a big screen. A session produces 200 to 400 images. You review all of them at your reveal, choose up to 150 for professional retouching, and receive the entire gallery soft edited. Images and artwork are chosen at your reveal, and we walk through every collection option on your consultation call.
The five worries, answered honestly
We will be so awkward
You will be, for about ten minutes. Then the prompts take over and it starts feeling like a date. Awkward is the beginning, not the session.
He does not want to do this
Most partners arrive skeptical and leave asking when the next one is. He is not the subject being studied, he is half the picture, and we direct him just as much as you.
We are not models
Nobody we photograph is. Every body, every size, every age, and every length of relationship belongs in this studio.
How far does this go
Tasteful, implied, and romantic, never explicit. The boundaries are written out in the next section so you know before you book.
Who else will see these
Only the two of you, unless you give explicit written permission. Plenty of couples make an album nobody outside the marriage ever opens.
Where the line sits
This is the question most couples are too polite to ask, so we answer it before you have to. Couples sessions are sensual, intimate and playful, and they stay firmly inside clear studio boundaries. Knowing exactly where the line sits is what lets most couples relax into it.
Posing is guided and implied. No explicit sexual activity is photographed. Male partners remain in underwear at all times. Consent, comfort, and boundaries are checked throughout the session, and you can stop or change direction at any moment. Your images are shared publicly only with your explicit written permission. You choose your own comfort level: fully clothed, black tie, cozy, or lingerie.
What to wear
Couples styling works best when the two looks feel intentional together without reading as costumes. Bring options, we will help you build the pairings before you arrive. Good starting points are black lingerie, bodysuits or robes, a crisp button down shirt, jeans or denim, simple black underwear or boxer briefs, neutral tones or one shared accent color, a leather jacket or blazer, barefoot styling, and rings, jewelry, or anything with a story attached. Our in studio client closet runs XS to 5X.
The seven sets couples come back for
30+ signature sets live inside our 4,500 sq ft studio. These seven are the ones couples come back for. Gentleman’s Lounge is leather, low light, whiskey glasses and a private club closeness, the set skeptical partners fall for. Whiskey and Cards is a poker table, a bottle of something good, and the kind of slow evening you would actually spend together. White Sheet is soft, warm and timeless, nothing to distract from the two of you. The Rain Room is actual falling water, backlit, bold, cinematic, and the single most requested set we have. The Red Room is saturated crimson, dramatic and unmistakably charged, while staying entirely tasteful. Speakeasy Bar is grown up, stylish and a little bit funny, made for couples with real chemistry and a sense of humor. Dark and Moody is deep shadow and hard light in the Noir Room, drama without a dungeon, and the softest way into something bolder.
Who books a couples session
Engaged couples
A romantic pre wedding experience that is not another engagement shoot in a field. It pairs beautifully with bridal boudoir.
Parents reconnecting
Step out of logistics mode for three hours and remember the chemistry underneath the schedules.
Military couples
A keepsake made before a deployment, a reunion, or any transition that is about to take time from you.
Returning clients
Loved your solo session? Bringing your partner into the studio is a completely different experience.
What it costs
The couples session fee is $449. That reserves the studio, the team, full creative direction, guided posing for both of you, planning support, and professional hair and makeup for one person. Adding hair and makeup for your second person is $100. Images and artwork are chosen afterward, at your private same day reveal. Financing is available through Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay, PayPal Credit, and in house payment plans, each through its own account. See the full pricing breakdown.
What you walk out with
You walk out the same day having seen your images. A session produces 200 to 400 images, you choose up to 150 for full retouching, and you receive the entire gallery soft edited. Full resolution files come with print and commercial release. Most boudoir studios do not offer that. Picture the drive home. One of you keeps pulling up the same frame on your phone. Neither of you can quite explain why it hits so hard, it is just the two of you, and somehow it looks like the version of you that existed before the mortgage and the carpool and the calendar.
Ready to see what it looks like for the two of you?
Book a free phone consultation, tell us what you are picturing, and we will plan it with you.