To quote another review I see below - Victoria is a ROCKSTAR! Working with Victoria is one of the…read morehighlights of my wedding experience. We had to reschedule our original date due to the hurricane, and I picked the new date specifically so I could still have Victoria as our photographer. It's one of the best decisions I made. Not only is she amazing at what she does, she's also an amazing leader, a calm voice, incredibly nice and caring person, super creative, and can think on the fly like it's no one's business.
The best example I have of how amazing Victoria is would be when I first met her face to face. She walked in (early, if I may add) just as I was finishing putting my wedding dress on. Oddly enough, the one thing I was the most nervous about leading up to this wedding was my dress. Its beautiful, I love it, I felt like a true bride whenever I wore it - however, the straps just didn't seem to be tight enough and it was creating an odd visual for my upper area. I had gone to two seamstresses before the wedding and each one told me to get body tape, and it should be fine. So, I got some body tape, I even got a strapless bra, but guess what? It still was not fitting right. I was set to just accept that, that was how it was going to be. There are worse things to happen and what mattered the most was that I was marrying the love of my life, and all my friends and family were there to support us. So, when I was first greeting Victoria, I found it hard to focus because I was trying to sort through all my emotions on this dress malfunction. After exchanging a few sentences and jokes with her, something inside of me just felt so comfortable around her and I found myself spilling out the words "My dress isn't fitting right up here, and I have no idea what to do." Not even seconds later she was taking action with a neat trick she learned over the years - she cut off one of the dresses hanger straps and tied my straps together in the back. The anxiety immediately left my body as soon as she did that - I finally felt what I wanted to feel in my dress on my wedding day - Comfortable & Beautiful. Throughout the day little things here and there would come up and just like with my dress and Victoria was quick to find a solution and make sure everything was as it should be again.
The last story I will share is this - during our wedding rehearsal our coordinator asked if I could dip and I was honest and said, I have no idea. So, we tried it out and guess what? I cannot dip, like, at all. Fast forward to the wedding day, our coordinator had told Victoria not to ask me to dip because I cannot do it. Out of determination and a little embarrassment, I agreed to try again with Victoria's instruction. Guess what? No, I still could not dip. It just was not happening for me. So, instead, at the last-minute Victoria suggested something else - A twirl. So now I can confidently say that because of Victoria I now know I can twirl like it is no one's business and that photo turned out to be my favorite out of every single one.
Victoria - Keep being a ROCKSTAR! I will happily & eagerly recommend you to any and everyone who needs a photographer (and even those who don't, I'll still do it!) Keep taking photos & keep being you because you are amazing.
PS: I wrote this entire review once and it got deleted somehow, so I wrote it again because I need the world to know how amazing you are.