70s desert wedding photographer website design: Sienna
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Sienna is our 70s desert wedding photographer website design: a warm, slow, sunlit site with huge capitals over golden-hour photos, a hand-written script line, oval buttons and a palette of cream, khaki, peach and plum brown. On the demo it is dressed as Sage & Saguaro Photo, a fictional wedding and elopement photographer in Tucson, Arizona, run by a photographer named Maren. The business, its couples and its locations are made up, so you can judge the design on its own.
What does Sienna look like?
Sienna looks like a 70s road trip at golden hour. The first screen is one full-bleed, sun-flared photo with the headline set huge in tan capitals at the bottom left. A thin script line runs down the right edge, and an oval with a hand-written label sits in the corner as the button. Above it, a cream menu bar splits the links around a small sun-over-mesa mark.
On the demo the headline is simply Tucson wedding photographer, so a visitor knows who, what and where in one glance. Photos sit in rounded hairline cards, thin keyline frames and an oval mask, and one section turns black and white.
What colors does Sienna use?
Sienna moves through warm desert colors, one ground per section: cream for the menu bar and journal, khaki for the welcome, peach for the services, plum brown for the reviews and footer, and tan for the inquiry and for type over photos. Saddle brown takes the place of black for headings, body text and hairlines. On khaki, body copy switches to an even darker brown, #4a2b00, so it stays easy to read.
Cream
#eadfd2
Menu bar, journal and default page
Khaki
#b39e7f
Welcome section
Peach
#f2d5b3
Services
Tan
#e2c29c
Headline on photos, footer name, inquiry
Saddle brown
#663c00
Headings, body text and hairlines
Plum brown
#4f3432
Reviews and footer
What fonts does Sienna use?
Sienna uses three typefaces: Palace for the big capitals, Madison Script for short hand-written lines, and Barlow Condensed for body copy and small labels. Palace, from Tropical Type, comes in one weight with an italic, and Sienna lets one word in a caps line slip into Palace Italic, as in LET'S GET OUTSIDE. Madison Script, by Oksana Petrenko, draws small and thin, so it is set large and kept to two to six words. Body text is left aligned and never smaller than 16 pixels on a phone.
Headlines
Palace
Big warm capitals, with one word slipping into Palace Italic.
Script lines
Madison Script
A thin hand-written line for tag lines, signatures and the oval buttons.
Body and labels
Barlow Condensed
Tall and narrow, like a 70s road map.
The welcome: a framed photo, an overlapping oval, and a hairline that runs off the page.
How is the Sienna home page laid out?
The Sienna home page runs in nine parts, and no two neighbors share a ground:
- A cream menu bar, split in two around the sun-over-mesa mark.
- The full-bleed hero: the headline bottom left, the vertical script line, the oval button.
- The welcome on khaki: a framed photo with an overlapping oval photo, a giant tone-on-tone WELCOME, and a script Meet line.
- The services on peach: three rounded cards, the first in black and white, then a big call to action row and three short points.
- Kind words: a plum brown quote panel beside a soft double-exposure photo.
- The journal on cream: three story titles, alternating italic and roman, with a photo that changes as you hover.
- A black and white photo band with a two-word title and an oval button to the portfolio.
- The inquiry on tan.
- The plum brown footer, with the business name stacked huge and the mark beside it.
Rounded hairline cards, one in black and white, and one italic word in the big line.
The one black and white moment gives the eye a rest.
On a phone, the hero keeps all of who, what, where and the button on the first screen. The headline breaks onto three lines, the script line turns horizontal at the top, and the oval moves to the center near the bottom. Side-by-side rows stack with deliberate overlaps, like the oval photo overlapping the corner of the framed one.
On a phone, the headline stacks and the oval button moves to the center.
Why does this design suit a desert wedding photographer?
Sienna is built around light, which is what a golden-hour photographer sells. Cream, khaki, peach and plum brown move through the page like the light through a desert day, so every section has its own ground. Brown instead of black keeps it warm, thin hairlines run off the page edge, and one black and white band gives the eye a rest.
The motion is slow and soft: sections fade up as you reach them, reviews crossfade with a pause on hover, and a few photos drift a little. It all stops for anyone who prefers reduced motion. That calm pace fits couples who would rather say their vows on a trail than in a ballroom, which is exactly who the demo speaks to.
Can I get a website like Sienna?
Yes, in its feel, never as a copy. Our templates are a direction to start from, and every site we build is custom: send us a site you love, or point at Sienna, and we build yours around your light, your photos and your voice. Sienna is not sold as a template.
Every site comes with:
- A custom, high-end website
- F-Stop CRM included
- Booking built in
- Edits whenever you need them
- The auto blog uploader
- Search set up for Google and AI answers
- Your own portal (analytics and change requests)
- Real support
Read how working with us goes, or see pricing. When you are ready, Inquire now.
For the same big capitals on light paper, see Solace. For a darker, editorial take, see Garnet.
