About this vendor
Empyrean Arts is an independent wedding photography business operating out of Madison, Wisconsin. Passionate and professional, owner Elijah Jones is a seasoned photographer who loves helping couples re-live their special day through beautiful photos full of stylistic flair.
Elijah's journey as a visual creative started in 2010 when he began documenting landscapes before moving on to traditional portraits. After branching out into wedding photography, he established Empyrean Arts to provide to-be-weds with flawless photos and above-and-beyond service. Elijah prides himself on his energy and his adaptability, and he strives to exceed the expectations of every couple he captures.
Empyrean Arts is available to provide on-location photography services to celebrations throughout the US. Knowing that every couple is unique, Elijah has designed a selection of packages to choose from, depending on your specific needs and desires. His options include full-day coverage, online galleries, multiple photographers, and even professional videography services.
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Business Attributes
- Black-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
- Trash The Dress
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Drone
- Online Proofing
- Photo
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Dramatic
- Lifestyle
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
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out of 5.06 reviews
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Do NOT hire this vendor. We felt very betrayed by Elijah. When we initially met with him, he convinced us to be excited, inspired and hopeful we would get the most incredible wedding video. We truly felt like we had hired a friend. Even the day of our wedding he was nothing short of amazing. Then it all turned into the worst experience of our wedding, hands down.
We were promised a completed video no later January 7, 2024. Our wedding was October 7, 2023. The first few weeks following January 7, we didn’t give two thoughts about - we were just excited to see the video and figured it was taking longer than usual.
A few more weeks went by and the communication started to lack. Elijah told us it was just taking a bit longer… then a bit longer.
Long story short we gave up on the completed video and asked for our raw footage March 18 as this was most important to us. We got this April 28. It took him one month to just send us raw footage. Not even anything remotely resembling a completed wedding video.
His communication was disheartening and he never gave us any explanation to why things went the way they did. I stayed pleasant and patient the entire time because I didn’t anything to happen to our video.
7 months after hiring Elijah, we can confidently say it was the worst decision we’ve ever made in vendors. We paid him in full and have not received any sort of explanation or refund of the services NOT rendered.
Any future brides out there wanting to save themselves months of headache and anxiety pls avoid using this vendor.
Elijah is an absolute gem! We worked with him for our engagement photos in addition to our wedding and we both kept talking about how comfortable we felt with him and how easy he made it all seem. He has so many great ideas and creative ways to pose that it made our pictures feel so unique. He's very responsive and accommodating and that makes him a dream to work with. We had multiple other vendors from our wedding come up to us and say that they'd never had a photographer at a wedding do such a good job explaining how the day was going to go to everyone before Elijah. We've also had guests and members of our wedding party remark on what a great job he and his team did on our day. He also managed to wrangle my HUGE family throughout the day and captured great pictures of them all together. He's amazing at what he does and the team he brought with him were just as impressive.
Elijah with Empyrean Arts is seriously the best. Affordable, amazing product, good turn around time, friendly, kind and warm and extremely easy to work with! He knew what we wanted before we could even tell him. Hiring him for our future photography and video needs is a no brainer.
Elijah is so artistic with his work and took BEAUTIFUL pictures of our wedding. Since day one, it felt like we were working with a close friend. He worked us to make sure we had great photos and I LOVED it. Elijah and his assistant were so pleasant, professional, and fun to work with! Everything was given to us in a timely manner. Now, we sought him out again to capture and be a part of my maternity stages and later, to capture the first days of our baby because of how satisfied we continue to be with his work.
The entire day of our wedding was much easier knowing how prepared and ready to go they were. They helped make it smooth for what to do and how to take pictures. Found some really amazing places to take pictures. And the pictures came out absolutely stunning.
Elijah was the best photographer we could have asked for! He is so energetic and delightful to be around. He makes you feel so comfortable and like family. The pictures he took for our wedding are beyond gorgeous and I can’t help but brag about them. His eye for detail is phenomenal and because of that, Elijah will be our photographer for any occasion!
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Madison, WI | Willing to Travel ANYWHERE!
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