Devotion: A Wedding Story
October 6–8, 2025 | Coastal South Carolina
Where wedding storytelling becomes fine art.
This is the love story you've always wanted to tell. Devotion is our inaugural editorial residency—crafted for fine art image-makers ready to make their most iconic work. You’ll cast your models, shape your narrative, and emerge with a story that is uniquely yours.
The Experience
Your set. Your story.
Before you step foot on set, you’ll shape a fully original narrative arc. You’ll submit your vision, then collaborate with our team to refine your storyline, select models and wardrobe, and build a production schedule aligned with your creative intent. Every scene is styled, timed, and built to serve your POV.
Over three cinematic days, your team will bring that story to life on location, across custom-designed sets, styled with couture fashion, and supported by a full-scale production team. No posing templates. No recycled sets. Just uncompromised artistry, executed at the highest level.
At CINÉ, no two editorials are the same because no two artists are.
You'll walk away with:
- A fully authored editorial narrative curated, cast, and directed by your team
- Unmatched production value across custom-built scenes with couture styling and agency talent
- Mentorship from leading editorial artists, including real-time feedback and creative critique
- Campaign-ready imagery for publication, positioning, and long-term brand legacy
Photographers, Filmmakers
$6,000
HMUAs, Stylists, Planners
$2,500
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*All inclusive, Limited spots available
Meet your creative guides
Collaborate with a world-class team whose work has graced the pages of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Lane. This is rare access to the creative minds shaping the future of fashion and wedding imagery—here to challenge, inspire, and elevate your process.
Sophie Kaye is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer celebrated for her romantic, cinematic approach to visual storytelling. With work featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Martha Stewart Weddings, she brings a painterly sensibility and timeless elegance to every frame.
At Devotion, you’ll have the rare opportunity to work alongside Sophie as she directs her own editorial—offering a front-row seat to her mastery of light, movement, and composition. This is not just a lesson in photography—it’s a window into how iconic imagery is made.
Vogue • Harper’s Bazaar • Elle Magazine
As seen in:
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER
Sophie Kaye
Anna Lord is a destination filmmaker for the nostalgic. She is a Colorado based visual artist who is passionate about narrating the quiet moments through a visceral experience. She strives to capture organic emotions & the beauty that surrounds her subjects.
Following the years she spent in university to get her degree in Fine Art & French, she traveled, worked, and lived in many cities in the United States & Europe — both of which greatly influenced her work.
Anna has been working as a visual artist for the past 15 years in both the wedding and fashion/commercial sector. Her work has been featured in Elle, The New York Times, Brides, Over the Moon, & more.
DESTINATION FILMMAKER
Anna Lord
Kacey Gustafson is the founder of CINÉ Creative House. She began her career in New York City’s fashion industry, working behind the scenes on major editorial and campaign productions across print, commercial, and red carpet. Her fashion styling credits include assisting on celebrated covers and features for Elle, Vogue, and Avenue Magazine—including Elle’s 30th Anniversary tribute, and productions featuring Dua Lipa, Nicky Hilton, Caitlyn Jenner, and Kelly Klein.
Now based in Charleston, she leads CINÉ’s creative direction—bringing together fine art, fashion, and storytelling through editorial and residency work.
Creative Director
Kacey Gustafson
With nearly a decade of industry experience, Madeline is a seasoned freelance artist based in NYC, she brings nearly a decade of experience across bridal, celebrity, commercial, and editorial work. She’s trained under industry icons like Cassandra Garcia and Troy Surratt, and began her career in theater, later studying makeup artistry at Emerson College with a recommendation from Bobbi Brown.
HAIR & MAKEUP ARTIST
Madeline Eleanor
Vogue • Forbes • Sephora • Style Me Pretty
As seen in:
Sophie Kaye is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer celebrated for her romantic, cinematic approach to visual storytelling. With work featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Martha Stewart Weddings, she brings a painterly sensibility and timeless elegance to every frame.
At Devotion, you’ll have the rare opportunity to work alongside Sophie as she directs her own editorial—offering a front-row seat to her mastery of light, movement, and composition. This is not just a lesson in photography—it’s a window into how iconic imagery is made.
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER
AS SEEN IN:
Vogue • Harper’s Bazaar • Elle Magazine
Anna Lord is a destination filmmaker for the nostalgic. She is a Colorado based visual artist who is passionate about narrating the quiet moments through a visceral experience. She strives to capture organic emotions & the beauty that surrounds her subjects.
Following the years she spent in university to get her degree in Fine Art & French, she traveled, worked, and lived in many cities in the United States & Europe — both of which greatly influenced her work.
Anna has been working as a visual artist for the past 15 years in both the wedding and fashion/commercial sector. Her work has been featured in Elle, The New York Times, Brides, Over the Moon, & more.
DESTINATION FILMMAKER
Kacey Gustafson is the founder of CINÉ Creative House. She began her career in New York City’s fashion industry, working behind the scenes on major editorial and campaign productions across print, commercial, and red carpet. Her fashion styling credits include assisting on celebrated covers and features for Elle, Vogue, and Avenue Magazine—including Elle’s 30th Anniversary tribute, and productions featuring Dua Lipa, Nicky Hilton, Caitlyn Jenner, and Kelly Klein.
Now based in Charleston, she leads CINÉ’s creative direction—bringing together fine art, fashion, and storytelling through editorial and residency work.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
With nearly a decade of industry experience, Madeline is a seasoned freelance artist based in NYC, she brings nearly a decade of experience across bridal, celebrity, commercial, and editorial work. She’s trained under industry icons like Cassandra Garcia and Troy Surratt, and began her career in theater, later studying makeup artistry at Emerson College with a recommendation from Bobbi Brown.
HAIR & MAKEUP ARTIST
AS SEEN IN:
Vogue • Forbes • Sephora • Style Me Pretty
HOW IT WORKS
Creative freedom, strategic structure
- Apply solo or as a group
- Self-select into small editorial teams
- Craft an original storyline within the shared cinematic world
- Choose from a curated menu of locations, wardrobe, models, and sets
- Shoot, edit, and refine with feedback from headline creatives
WHAT YOU'LL SHOOT
Visual worlds you'll create
- Couture micro-weddings and emotionally rich elopements
- Editorial lifestyle vignettes and leisure tableaus
- High-fashion portraiture and avant-garde beauty
- Travel-inspired storytelling and luxury moments
- Branded flatlays, motion reels, and cinematic behind-the-scenes content
Sample Schedule
THREE DAYS. ONE STORY. FULLY YOURS.
Day One:
Sunrise shoots, beauty + flatlays, keynotes, specialty location sunset vignettes
Day Two:
Narrative deepening, live mentor shoots, early feedback, golden hour capture
Day Three:
Sunrise vignettes, creative review, closing keynote, celebration dinner
Collaboration & mentorship
- On-set access to how headline creatives shoot, style, and direct
- Live critiques and guided feedback on your work in progress
- Creative roundtables on career-building, publishing, and pricing
- Real connection over shared meals, conversation, and downtime
BEYOND THE FRAME
After the residency
- Two rounds of post-residency feedback to refine and finalize your editorial
- Private alignment session with the CINÉ team to ensure publication readiness
- Optional media bundle: custom visual reel and behind-the-scenes content
- Strategic guidance on pitching, pricing, and long-term positioning
FAQs
Rain dates are reserved for October 20-23. Because this production relies heavily on natural light and cinematic outdoor scenes, we do not proceed in poor weather. Your experience will be rescheduled in full—never downsized or rushed. We don’t cut corners, and we don’t compromise creative. Your experience will be executed with full intent, quality, and continuity, exactly as promised.
Tickets are non-refundable but fully transferrable.
Travel insurance is strongly encouraged if you’re flying in.
Yes. All meals, snacks, and beverages will be provided throughout the retreat. From sunrise coffee to dinner on the final evening, you’ll be fully taken care of.
Yes. A full scene-by-scene production schedule will be shared with confirmed attendees prior to the retreat, along with wardrobe guidance, call times, and shoot groups.
No hidden fees. The only potential extras are travel-related (such as flights or optional hotel upgrades). Once you’ve secured your ticket, everything else is covered—including wardrobe styling, model fees, production, location access, meals, and transportation between sets.
- Luxury Airbnb, housed with your team very close to set, with 1-hour brand shoot trade-off
- Optional private hotel purchased separately (we’ll provide recommendations)
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