Belle Mer: A Longwood Venue sits about 10 miles from the center of Block Island — 4.8 ★ from 216 Google reviews. Senior photographers and filmmakers, travel included, prices published.
Indoors, the light is our job rather than the sun's. We light the ceremony and the dance floor with intention — enough to see faces, never enough to notice — and we find the best daylight nearby for the portraits.
From coastal estates to city hotels, Block Island weddings carry a traditional rhythm: church or garden ceremony, formal portraits, a seated dinner. We run the family formals quickly and quietly so the rest of the evening can be candid. If we have not worked Belle Mer: A Longwood Venue yet we visit it before your day — light, timing, logistics — so nothing about the venue is a surprise on the morning of.
At Belle Mer: A Longwood Venue the sun sets at 8:20 PM in June and 6:04 PM in October, with golden hour opening around 7:38 PM on a June evening and 6:18 PM in late September. Start a summer ceremony near 5:35 PM and you will still have the good light for portraits; in autumn move it an hour earlier. The full month-by-month table is on our Block Island page.
Selected frames from the Olivia Layne Studios portfolio — not photographs taken at this venue. Ask and we will send full galleries closest in size and setting to your wedding.
A collection costs the same at every venue we work: travel is included and there are no venue fees. The prices below are pay-in-full (the payment plan adds $500 with half down at booking). These are the eight-hour collections; the four-, six- and ten-hour versions are on the collections page.
$2,100 · The Magnolia, 8 hours
Several hundred edited frames, soft and true to colour.
$1,600 · The Anthem, 8 hours
A highlight film and extended edit cut from your own vows and toasts.
$3,600 · The Heritage, 8 hours
One team for both, plus a complimentary engagement session.
Not yet, and we would rather tell you so. We visit Belle Mer: A Longwood Venue before your wedding and plan the ceremony light, the portrait spots and the walking time between them.
No. Olivia Layne Studios works nationwide and travel is part of every collection, so a wedding at Belle Mer: A Longwood Venue is priced exactly like one in our own neighbourhood.
Most Block Island couples book eight to twelve months out; peak summer and autumn dates go first. A signed agreement and your deposit hold the date, and the balance is due two weeks before the wedding.
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Olivia Layne Studios is an independent wedding photography and film studio. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or booking on behalf of any venue named on this page; venue names are used to identify where we work. Ratings and review counts are Google's, as of our last check, and can change. Confirm availability and policies with the venue.
