We're a small team that was born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio. That doesn't stop us from delivering world-class wedding photography and videography. After years of doing all kinds of video as teeneagers, eventually we found weddings in 2013. We've been hooked ever since. Nothing is more exciting than being able to tell love stories as a career. We want to be the best possible storytellers for our clients. That's why we're big believers in printing albums and creating meaningful, narrative highlight videos, which we include on every photography and videography package we do.
Although we're based in Sandusky, we've shot weddings all over the tri-state area and beyond!
Jared Thornton
Team Leader/HeadPhotographer
Sometimes my wife tells me that I work too hard. But the reality for me is that telling stories through my art is something that is so core to my being, that I actually can't quit doing it. It's kind of like a bad habit that you're trying to kick - the itch just pops up constantly and you want to scratch it. That's why I do what I do.
My wife, Alyssa, and my Daughter, Caroline, are the most important people in my life. They mean everything to me. We usually spend our evenings going to Cedar Point to grab a bite to eat, or watching funny TikToks together.
When I'm not hanging out with the family, I love screwing around with computers or getting involved in some DIY project out in my shed. But, my real passion is creativity and art. I just love making things.
I didn’t know that I had been dreaming of being an artist for so long until I read a letter that I wrote to myself in the 6th grade that read, “I think I want to be a director or a pastor, but I feel like being a pastor would be very difficult”; Needless to say, not much has changed. My passion for creativity goes far beyond photography. As a child, I used to make stop-motion movie-parodies of “The Fast and The Furious” using HotWheels cars and my parents’ camera. I got into photography because I became interested in learning Photoshop so that I could make fun graphics for my Youtube Channel. As time went on, I matured, and so did my art, and the stories I liked to tell were deeper and real. And OneUp Creative was born out of that.
