Archive for the ‘Testimonials’ Category

Today we had a quick model session with Lydia because her mom received an email from us. The message we sent to many local families asked for models between the ages of 2 and 12 for our new studio at Carnation City Mall. No cost, and we would actually give them a free 5×7 for coming in for us to see if we could use them on some new photo items. We know what items that we want to purchase – we just need some cute models for these items.

Here is a comment that Regena said about our services and her daughter’s time at our Mall Studio – Catchlight.

Hey Nicole!! I just wanted to say thank you for sharing some time with Lydia and I! Bruce did a fantastic job with her today and Lydia hasn’t stopped talking about him yet!!! This was a great experience for both her and I and I can’t wait to do some more soon!! – Family photos may have to happen in the spring
Have a great weekend
Regena and Lydia too!

Thank you Regena – we are looking forward to some more fun with Lydia at the studio. Let us know when you are ready for Family Portraits and we will make certain that everyone involved will have a great time, as Lydia did today.

We photographed Michelle and Ryan’s wedding and since we were dropping off their album we would tape their testimonial.

Here is what they have to say about their wedding day.

I just learned this year that a wet knot is a tighter knot. It rained on Michelle and Ryan’s wedding day, but they were prepared for this possibility and this did not phase anyone from enjoying their wedding ceremony and the reception. Have you seen the home movie clips of brides and ladies getting knocked down during the bouquet toss? Well some of Ryan’s friends thought that it would be cool to tackle him after he sent the garter sailing. Even the DJ commented that this was the first time that they had seen this.

Michelle and Ryan – Thank you again for selecting us to photograph your wedding.

We love hearing from couples that we have photographed their wedding – we love hearing from anyone that we have photographed. Michelle and Ryan were a lot of fun. Nicole and I had a great time with them as they had so many great ideas for their pictures. Engagement pictures – well we were so lucky to have been in front of a theater, and have the sign changed to have their names up on the marquee. This made Ryan’s day as he is really into anything neon. Visiting their basement, you require a sun block of 30 spf or greater because of all the amazing neon signs that he has collected over the years. He needs all of those neon signs to light up his extensive collection of beer cans & beer bottles.

Here is the comment on our Facebook wall:

Hi Nicole, hope everything is going well. Ryan and I have gotten a lot of compliments on our wedding album! Wedding party update… Stephanie (bridesmaid) had a baby girl in April 2009, Alana (matron of honor) had baby boy two weeks ago…..

This is so great. As many of you have found, Facebook is such an incredible networking site. We have contacted many of our high school friends, which are some distance away for us, as well as keep in touch with so many of the couples that we have photographed their wedding.

We treat our photography as a way to build a lifetime relationship – not just a one time service.

Michelle and Ryan – we are so excited that everyone loves your albums (engagement signature album and your bridal album). The weather was not the greatest on your wedding day – but you guys made it happen anyway. We just learned this saying at a wedding in 2009 – a wet knot is a tighter knot. Thank you again for allowing us to capture your special day, and we are here for any other special days that you may have coming up.

This is the comment that we have heard from some of our guests that stopped by our Bridal Show booth yesterday. It seems like there are 2 flavors of wedding photographers – “We loved our photographer” OR “Our wedding photographer was a jerk”. We hear this comment and others similar to this all the time.

We had a bride come to our booth yesterday and who is planning her second wedding – and from her first experience, she knows that wedding photography is something that she is budgeting higher on. Why? Because the images that she received from her first wedding were not what she expected – “I went cheap, and I received exactly what I paid for”.

We can relate to this experience, and that is why we would never give this type of experience to our couples. You will find that we try to go above and beyond with our customer service.

Would you like to find out more? Send us an email with any questions. Contact us here.

We just received a Thank You note from a wedding couple that we will be photographing on October 17 – Lynn and Chris. They are already excited about their wedding day, and are thrilled that we will photograph their wedding. They sent us a thank you note, along with a payment for their wedding photography coverage and album. We are grateful that we can be photographers and be paid for what we love to do.  What makes it even more special is to touch someone so much that they take time out of their busy schedule to send us a note, which says  that they are looking forward to having us photograph them on their wedding day.

Lynn and Chris – can’t wait to photograph your wedding. I am certain that we will have so many amazing images to choose from, that you will have to buy a LARGE personal photo album to keep all of the images that you will be able to print from your image CDs. Plus it will be a challenge to select images for your wedding album. See you soon.

Lynn and Chris will be married on October 17, 2009. I had the chance to photograph their engagement portraits at the Buttler Rodman Museum, at the Youngstown University, where they will be hosting their friends and family members during their reception. What an amazing place to photograph at and what a great couple to photograph.

After Lynn looked at our latest revision of her enagement album online, she and her fiance live outside of Washington, DC – so travelling back and forth to our studio is not that practical. The internet is how we have been in contact with Lynn and also how we are displaying her portraits to her. No need to make an appointment with our studio – she just takes a look online when she gets a minute.

Lynn’s comments regarding her engagement album were:
Love it!!!!
Once again… thank you, thank you!!!!!

Again we are thrilled that our couples LOVE their images and LOVE the album that we have designed for them. Making our couples happy is what we are all about.

Here are a couple of images from the album that Nicole worked on for Lynn and Chris couple.

We photographed Jenn and Stephen’s wedding on June 13, 2006. They were married in Polk, OH and had their reception at the Diamond Event Center and just sent Jenn a link to her slideshow so that she could take a quick look at the images that we captured from her special day.

Their ceremony was early and their reception was around supper time, which meant that we had lots of time to go around and have some fun and romantic portraits of Jenn & Stephen.

What was the bride’s reaction to seeing her slideshow just over 2 weeks after her wedding? Here is what she said in an email to us:
OMG!!!! BEAUTIFUL I WAS CRYING!!!! I can’t wait to see the other photos!!!!! Thank you both so very much…

This is the reaction that we want to get from all of our wedding couples. We make certain that the entire wedding party is taking care off. From the Tide To Go (Stain removal pen), sewing kit, water & sports drinks to Licorice for the kids (big and small) in the wedding party. The idea is to keep the wedding party content and not to loose anyone that is going to get something and not be in the picture.

Here are a couple of images from their wedding.

Their slideshow can be found at this link (a small driver will install – it is not spam):
Jenn & Stephen’s Slideshow