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Empyrean Arts is a boutique wedding photography studio based in Madison, Wisconsin. Owner Elijah Jones is a passionate visual creative with over five years of experience preserving precious moments in vivid celebration imagery. With a personable nature and a meticulous and creative approach to his work, he is ready to capture your day in a way that reflects your one-of-a-kind romantic bond.

Services Offered

Empyrean Arts is available to capture celebrations of all varieties throughout Wisconsin and beyond. Elijah believes that wedding photography should be a collaborative process, and he works closely with each couple to create an experience that reflects their unique vision. As well as photography, he also offers professional videography services to ensure your day is captured from every angle. His options include:

  • Engagement sessions
  • Wedding portraits
  • Multiple photographers
  • Digital files
  • Trash-the-dress sessions
  • Black-owned
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Frequently asked questions

Which of the following are included in the starting price?

2nd Shooter
Add'l Hours
High-Res Images
Digital Files

Which of the following are included in the price of your most popular wedding package?

2nd Shooter
Add'l Hours
Engagement Shoot
High-Res Images
Multi. Locations
Digital Files
Proofs

What primary photographic style do you identify with?

Contemporary
Natural
Photojournalism
Traditional

What photography services do you offer?

Additional Hours
Boudoir Shoot
Destination / Travel
Engagement Shoot
High-Res Images
Second Shooter
Video
Wedding Portraits

What photography items do you offer?

Albums
Canvas
Digital Files
Matted Prints
Prints
Proofs

Reviews of Empyrean Arts LLC

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Veronica Sent on 12/21/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Absolutely beautiful photos!

We could not have asked for a better photographer! Empyrean Arts LLC was so fun to work with and captured our day so beautifully! They went above and beyond for us and were so helpful through the whole wedding planning process. They were always a phone call or text away if I ever had any questions. Not to mention that they are very reasonably priced for the amazing work that they do! My husband and I are not the most photogenic people but they put us at ease and made it feel very comfortable and natural. I absolutely love their editing style and I could not recommend them enough!! We are so happy with how our photos turned out!!❤️
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Veronica Sent on 12/21/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful photos!

We could not have asked for a better photographer! Empyrean Arts LLC was so fun to work with and captured our day so beautifully! They went above and beyond for us and were so helpful through the whole wedding planning process. They were always a phone call or text away if I ever had any questions. Not to mention that they are very reasonably priced for the amazing work that they do! My husband and I are not the most photogenic people but they put us at ease and made it feel very comfortable and natural. I absolutely love their editing style and I could not recommend them enough!! We are so happy with how our photos turned out!!❤️
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Amanda Sent on 12/07/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Our Family Photographer for the rest of life’s adventures!

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.
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Marisol Sent on 12/02/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful, artistic, and detailed

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.
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Justine Sent on 11/30/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing Wedding Photographer

Can’t recommend enough!! Photos were absolutely gorgeous and I can’t help but brag about them. We booked Empyrean Arts for our engagement and wedding photos and we couldn’t be happier!
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Leslie Sent on 08/19/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing and helpful

They were super flexible and documented our day perfectly!
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Amy H. Sent on 08/16/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing work

We are blown away with our wedding photos and video.
From meeting before the wedding, talking about whAt we would like to the wedding day. Everything went smoothly and came out better then we could have imagine.
Highly recommend!!!
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Amy H. Sent on 08/16/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing work

We are blown away with our wedding photos and video.
From meeting before the wedding, talking about whAt we would like to the wedding day. Everything went smoothly and came out better then we could have imagine.
Highly recommend!!!
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Miriam Sent on 03/08/2025
1 out of 5 rating

Failure to provide wedding photos 9 months after wedding. Failure to respond to requests for performance. Disappeared with our money.

Mr. Jones received full payment for photography and video services on the date of the wedding, June 23, 2024 and in spite of repeated requests and failed responses, only a few preliminary photos have been provided. As of March 8, 2025, he has not provided the wedding photos and videos as promised. But he did insist upon payment in FULL on the date of the wedding.
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Linda Sent on 05/01/2024
1 out of 5 rating

The most awful experience of our entire wedding

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. We will be reporting him to the better business bureau.

Any future brides out there wanting to save themselves months of headache and anxiety pls avoid using this vendor.
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