Dani has been photographing our family for 9 years now. Her flexibility is unmatched--our first…read moresession was arranged within a couple days. When Dani found out that we wanted portraits with our sick dog, she squeezed us in and was so compassionate and loving to our terrier. Now, ten years later, we depend on her to capture all the changes in our lives. She's fantastic!

Dani's photographs are absolutely stunning. We chose her for our wedding because the samples we saw…read morestruck us as being both beautiful and *real.* I didn't want cookie cutter shots or heavy editing that would make us unrecognizable. I wanted an artistic, magical documentary of our unique event, and looking at my wedding album, that's just what I got. Dani was great at organizing our posed group shots--the must haves--but also captured those unexpected spontaneous moments that made the event unique and memorable. Like my husband dancing with his sister, or the look of utter shock on my friend's face when she caught my bouquet. (Btw, going to that friend's wedding next month!) The big bonus is that Dani brings more to the table than her talent. Her candor and years of experience make her easy to work with and a major asset to your wedding planning team, giving valuable advice and even helping pace the event.

I can't tell you how happy and excited I was to have Krisandra Evans photograph our company's…read moreholiday party. I've known Krisandra for several years. I met her thanks to Yelp. She used to do event photography for Yelp and also provided photo booths at Yelp events. We have many mutual friends and acquaintances. Krisandra has gone on to photograph weddings (her main gig) and do family portraits and other shoots for those friends and acquaintances. Along with her website, you can check out her stuff on her Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/krisandra_evans/. 2018 was my first year on our company's party planning committee. Having gone to countless Yelp events and seeing so much of Krisandra's terrific handiwork, it was a no-brainer for me to propose hiring her to cover our parties. I knew she'd be a perfect fit. Thankfully, everyone was on board with the idea and we booked her and a photo booth for our holiday party. Her quoted price was within our budget and she offered to work with me if it wasn't. Krisandra's photo booth and photos were a hit! The photo booth was a lot of fun. We got to choose a backdrop. We went with silver tinsel on white because it was nice and festive. The photo booth came with holiday-themed props. The photo booth had an attendant, Krisandra's lovely assistant Betsy McPherson. There were four pictures per photo booth session and we got unlimited prints throughout the night. Krisandra worked with me to get my company's logo and some additional text to print on the bottom of each photo strip. It turned out great. Both Krisandra and Betsy had fantastic attitudes. They were super sweet, warm, and friendly (that's why I love Krisandra). Betsy encouraged people to enter the photo booth and have fun with the shots. I've encountered many photo booth attendants who just stood there and literally did nothing or they just sat on a chair on their phones; very impersonal and unprofessional. Krisandra and Betsy were the opposite. They engaged with people and really enhanced the party's atmosphere. While Betsy ran the photo booth, Krisandra was out on the floor taking various candids and posed shots and shots of the space/scene, etc. Her pictures were outstanding. She covered the event well and made everyone look good. We got our photo booth pictures in less than a day and the event pictures in about a week. I know Krisandra shot the wedding of a mutual friend not long before our party, so she had many photos to edit after our party, and it was the holidays on top of that. Communication was good. Krisandra and I mostly communicated via email and she was responsive (unlike other photographers in the Atlanta area). We booked her and Betsy for three hours and she showed up one hour early (on time) to set everything up. To be on the safe side, I booked Krisandra several months in advance and we worked together through paperwork and any other issues along the way. For example, the Atlanta Braves/SunTrust Park required she provide a certificate of insurance in order for her to shoot and provide a photo booth for our event. At the time, she'd never heard of such a thing (me neither), but she was able to work with her insurance provider and produce one for me. I can't recommend Krisandra enough for event photography and/or photo booth needs. I look forward to the next time we/I get to work with her.

STOP LOOKING AND JUST BOOK HER!…read more Working with Krisandra was amazing since day 1. She replies in a timely manner and will work with you the best she can on prices/packages. I contacted her via email and she requested a phone call to make sure we both got our points covered. At first, I was a little intimidated/shy about it ... but I am so glad I did it. It sold me right away! She was just so kind and touched upon a lot of points I hadn't even thought of. She did an engagement shoot and our wedding. If you are a shy person and socially awkward, like me... DO AN ENGAGENMENT SHOOT! Not only will you have a little practice before the big day, but you will feel so much more comfortable on the big day. For our wedding, we had her, a second shooter and another handling the photo booth. Photo booth was such a hit! All three ladies were very sweet. I love Krisandra's style of photography. She is very relaxed/real and NOT cheesy. Engagement pictures were great and I received them pretty quickly. I received about 6 pictures the day after our wedding - she did post a couple the day of , on social media. EVERYONE LOVED THEM. I cannot wait to get our wedding pictures!

Bella Vita Foto took the pictures for my wedding last October. Ingrid not only got pictures of…read moreeveryone but they were the most beautiful pictures I have ever had taken. I am so glad we had Bella Vita capture our special day.

I'm so disappointed in my wedding photos!! After Ingrid talked with me about recording my wedding,…read more I paid extra in the hopes of a fabulous video. Besides showing 2 of the same shots in different places in the video, 2 very important events were missing! A special tribute by my niece was her beautifully singing "I have nothing" by Whitney Houston and not one note was included in the final video. I was so disappointed! But worse!: my son made a wonderfully funny and loving toast. He had the guests and everyone there in stitches and smiles. What was recorded? Nothing! Ingrid frantically went around the room asking if anyone had recorded it. Another niece had so she sent it to Ingrid to be included in the video but it wasn't included. I was so disappointed in the final product. I called Ingrid and asked that, if redoing the video would be too much work, maybe she could just send me a copy of my niece singing and my son's toast. She hung up on me!! I emailed her months later indicating that I was very troubled by this but have never heard back. Here it is, a year later, and I still lose sleep over the disappointment of not being able to enjoy a good video of a very special event.

Kristin has an amazing eye - the pictures from our wedding are phenomenal. She captured moments and…read morememories and put an artistic flair to it. She was super easy to work with and a lot of fun. We really appreciated having her as a part of our day; I'm very grateful we found her.

My wife and I had the pleasure of using Andrea Mate Photography for my mom's 80th birthday party…read moreand our wedding in Miami. Andrea is really amazing and her photos are absolutely gorgeous, and somehow she has the eye to capture moments and expressions that all my family and friends love. We highly recommend Andrea!

Andrea just did my Birthday dinner. She was excellent. She took amazing pictures of all the guests…read moreand my family. She knew exactly how to get the best pictures without interrupting the flow of the party. I received the most incredible quality pictures the next day. I highly recommend Andrea for photo shoots, events, birthdays, showers and weddings. I guarantee you will be satisfied. Annette

Rachel and team did our engagement shoot and day of photos (and video) and I was so thrilled with…read moreeverything we got back. I am very type-a (sorry, Rachel) with how I envisioned both sets of photos coming back and my jaw dropped when we got our finals sets for each back. She picked an engagement spot that was exactly what we wanted (cool architecture but pretty secluded) and her and Riley gave us back really breath taking shots. Rachel and Rayna were both so professional, fun, and overall lifesavers on wedding day. Rachel came out of the shadows to help quick fix anything that came up, she has seen quiteeee a few weddings and was an unexpected helping hand in those chaotic moments. I am still in awe of the photos she took that whole day. Rayna shot the beautiful videography content for our wedding highlight film and I think I've watched the film that Riley sent us back about 100x. I highly encourage everyone to purchase all the unedited photos for whatever you (hopefully!) choose to book Rachel and team for, they are such talents at their crafts that it's impossible to narrow down your favorites for the professional editing since you can't pick them all!

As someone who likes to take a lot of pictures, hiring the right photographer was perhaps the most…read moreimportant aspect of our wedding to me. After poring over dozens of photographers' portfolios, websites, reviews, and Instagram pages, my fiancee and I, with the help of our wedding planner (Wedding Belles), decided on Leigh Wolfe of Leigh Wolfe Photography. We are very happy with Leigh. We decided on Leigh for a few reasons: 1. Her pictures look great. Her pictures are bright, clear, vivid, and crisp. They have a timeless look to them. She captures events really well. I like the composition and angle of her shots. Other photographers have trendy looks that I'm not keen on (for example, some like to use a "faded" or "filtery" look which I don't want on my wedding photos). 2. She is familiar with our venue, the Atlanta History Center and Swan House. 3. She was recommended by our wedding planner. (We found Leigh independent of our planner as well.) 4. Her packages were within our wedding budget. Before hiring Leigh, we had an initial meeting with her and our wedding planner. We got to know her and take a look at some of her work in person (she brought samples). Leigh has an outgoing, fun, and positive attitude, all of which I think are ideal qualities for a wedding photographer. Her website is a great extension of her personality (https://bit.ly/2VkjKno). You can really get a good feel for her there. Her website and Facebook (http://bit.ly/2H5MEiw) and Instagram (http://bit.ly/2H3E8PH) pages are well done. She uses HoneyBook for proposals, project management, payments, and communication. She's on top of everything and a good communicator. More reasons to have confidence in her. When we made it official with Leigh, we received an unexpected thank you package in the mail. It contained a personal handwritten thank you card from Leigh and various goodies including a bottle of Prosecco. We went with the Signature Collection. It comes with a lot of stuff including 9 hours of wedding day coverage with a 2nd photographer plus a complimentary engagement session, wedding and engagement albums (65 images in a 10x10 wedding album, 25 images in an 8x8 engagement album), a complimentary wedding website and heirloom registry, and more. Leigh helped us decide on our engagement session locations. We wanted to do something in Atlanta and she knows the city well. Our engagement session ended up taking place at Irwin Street Market, the BeltLine, Jackson Street Bridge, and Atlantic Station (where we live). Atlanta means a lot to my fiancee and me and I was really happy with the locations. Our engagement session with Leigh was a lot of fun. She came prepared with her holster of cameras and camera equipment. Shooting with her was a breeze. I just did what I was told. She directed us. She told us where to stand, how to walk, where to look, and how to pose. Her cheerful and energetic personality made the shoot easy. She really put in the work and effort to get us some amazing shots. The engagement session ended up lasting about 3 hours (!) which is longer than the typical session. That was because we went to multiple locations and had to contend with less-than-ideal weather. Also, I asked Leigh if we could go to an extra location so that took additional time. I realize and appreciate that she went above and beyond for our engagement session. We met with Leigh about two weeks after our engagement session to look at all of our engagement photos. This was called the reveal and design session. She had taken about 800 photos and culled them down to 91. From those 91, my fiancee and I chose our favorites, which turned out to be 48 photos. Those 48 photos ended up going into our engagement album which Leigh designed with input from us. Since the Signature Collection we purchased only included 25 photos in our engagement album, we did have to pay for 23 additional photos. I did not hesitate paying because I thought it was worth it. Considering the amount of work and effort she puts in, I think her prices are fair and reasonable. Along with the hard album, we got digital versions of the 48 photos and a video slideshow with music. My fiancee and I love the pictures. They turned out phenomenal, especially considering it was cold, rainy, and windy during our shoot. We couldn't be happier with them. As for the hard album, it's fantastic. It's very high quality with extra thick pages and wonderful textures. The album flows well and it feels good to hold. Leigh even hand-delivered it when it was ready. One thing that really sets Leigh apart from the competition is how personable she is. She has taken a lot of time to meet and get to know us as a couple. Not only is she practical when it comes to photography, but she's also very much about the experience and making her clients feel special. This caters more towards brides, but as a groom, I appreciate her going that extra mile too. We're excited for Leigh to shoot our wedding next year!

I don't have enough wonderful things to say about Leigh! Since the moment I met her she made me…read morefeel like we've known each other forever. She was professional yet so down to Earth which made my {now} husband and I feel comfortable from the start. In addition to making an effort to get to know us on a personal level, her photography skills are out of this world. My husband and I never saw ourselves as "photogenic" people but we loved all of our photos from the the engagement shoot to the wedding day! Leigh captured our Best Day so perfectly. The photo reveal literally brought me to tears. My heart overflows with joy every time I look through the photos (which is often)! I can't have imagined a better person to be there with us through this journey and to have provided us with these photographic memories that will last a lifetime! We love Leigh and are so happy we put our trust in her because she knocked it out of the park!

John was great. He met me outside and walked me up to his photo shoot studio. I just wanted a new…read moreprofessional headshot for Linkedin and speaking engagements. John offered a glass of water to me, and we got right to shooting photos. He made the experience fun. Within 20 minutes of taking the photos, John shot all the options to me. I told him which 3 were best and he immediately started editing them. I got the edits within a day. John is a great communicator, he's fair price wise, and he made the experience fun. His work is high quality too. I strongly recommend John. I don't hand out 5 starts easily, but he's earned the 5 stars from start to finish.

They were great!! We hired Mariana and John to photograph our surprise marriage proposal. I thought…read morethey did an excellent job on the photographs. They captured the moment perfectly! Also, to maintain the surprise factor, I asked them to pretend to be strangers. They were able to do everything we asked and more! Definitely would recommend!