SARAI

About Sarai

Built on a simple belief:memory is a luxury.

Guests gathered around an elegant candlelit dinner table

Our Story

From one Long Islandwedding to threehundred and fifty.

Sarai began the way the best things do — at a wedding. Watching guests crowd around a tired, fluorescent-lit booth in the corner of an otherwise breathtaking room, our founder asked a question no one in the industry seemed to be asking: why is the most-visited corner of the event the least designed?

We spent a year answering it. Studio lighting instead of ring lights. Archival prints instead of glossy strips. Attendants who dress like guests, not staff. Backdrops composed with the florist, not shipped from a warehouse. The result was a photographic experience that belonged in the rooms it stood in — and Long Island's planners noticed.

Today Sarai serves the weddings, brands, and families of Long Island, the Hamptons, and New York City. We remain deliberately small, deliberately obsessive, and deliberately booked by people who care about the details no one else sees.

Champagne toast between guests at a refined celebration
A grand ballroom dressed for a luxury wedding

What We Believe

Standards that don'tscale down.

01

Design before equipment

We start with how the experience should look in your room and build backward. The hardware is invisible; the moment is everything.

02

Hospitality, not staffing

Our attendants are trained hosts. They welcome, style, and direct like portrait photographers — because they are.

03

Keepsakes, not output

Prints on archival stock, galleries graded like editorials, boxes designed to be opened on anniversaries. We make heirlooms.

04

Precision, always

Load-in schedules to the minute, COIs before they're requested, backups for the backups. Luxury is reliability.

The People

A small team withimpossible standards.

Sarai is run by a tight ensemble of photographers, designers, and event professionals who have worked the most demanding rooms in New York. We take a limited number of events each season — when we're at your event, we are entirely at your event.

Moody ambient lighting washing over an evening event

Limited dates each season

Your guests will rememberhow it felt.

We accept a limited number of events each season to keep every installation at our standard. If your date matters, let's hold it.