I would not recommend Kat. I was part of a wedding where she was hired to take photos, and unfortunately, despite the payment being made in full, she never delivered the photos. Multiple attempts to reach out have gone unanswered. This experience has been very disappointing and unprofessional. read more

My husband and I used Kat for our wedding this past year and were left feeling extremely disappointed with the level of service we received during such a special time. Our engagement was about a year and a half, and during the first couple of months, Kat was responsive and answered all of our questions in a timely fashion. However, after those first couple of months, it became increasingly difficult to get a hold of her. At one point we thought we had been scammed because we stopped receiving responses for 2-3 months. Eventually, we reached out via Instagram messenger since these messages show a read receipt when viewed. She responded and was apologetic and mentioned she had been going through a tough time personally. Understandable of course. However, in the midst of planning your wedding, the thought of your photographer being MIA and unreachable is insufferable and unprofessional. On the wedding day, Kat arrived with an assistant- both were very nice and did a good job overall of capturing all the photos we wanted! She was friendly and made us feel comfortable, especially given that this was our first time meeting her face-to-face. Post-wedding, we were promised a blog post and a sneak peek of our photos. There was never a blog post. The 'sneak peek' was a 10-second Instagram Reel, not a handful of photos emailed to us as we had hoped. Our wedding was in the middle of June, and we had to practically beg her to give us updates on when we could expect the photos. On August 8th Kat told us "My goal is to have the photos delivered to you in the next 10 days". 10 days later, she responded, "Blog post tomorrow". At the time of writing this review, it is mid-December, and we have yet to receive a blog post, which at this point is irrelevant. The following months weren't much better, we reached out to Kat countless times for updates. When we were lucky enough to receive a response, the responses consisted of excuses, delays, and major health scares (car accidents, fractured ribs, refractured ribs). Again, if the health scares or emergencies happened, that is out of anyone's control and incredibly unfortunate - so we were very sympathetic to all of her stated explanations. She ended up responding that due to the delays, she is having another 'trusted' photographer assist in the editing of our photos... We hired Kat due to her photographic style, and when she made this decision without consulting us, we were surprised. We didn't receive all of our images until the end of October. Over 17 weeks after our wedding, nearly 5 months. This amount of time was unprofessional, insufferable, and incredibly worrisome, thinking something happened to our photos. Once reviewing the final photos, we were very pleased with the quality and number of photos received. The photos were beautiful. However, I wish I could recommend Kat, but I need to express caution and warn future couples about the level of service we received. read more

My cousin got married 5/21/22 and have yet to receive her pictures. Was promised the pictures within 6-8 weeks and now she is not responding to their messages. She was paid in full and ran off with their money. read more

Katherine met up with me to discuss her wedding package a while back and she made everything so easy. She has very reasonable prices and personalized packages (you can pretty much make it your own if need be). Also for this who are in LE/Military she does honor a 10% discount so I love how supportive she is with that. We got an engagement shoot out of the wedding package we chose and we got to see her true form. She made it so easy considering any photo shoot can almost end up turning into prom style look (which DID NOT FEEL/END THAT WAY THANK GOODNESS.) We want to Muir Overlook, as were the original plan was the beach did not go as plan. Thank you California weather. She made us laugh at her crazy stories that helped the look for my favorite pictures. We got a plentiful amount of pictures that took my breath away. I'm so excited for my wedding and what she will capture. I will always recommend her to everyone. read more

I have nothing but positive things to say about Kat Murillo Photography! My husband and I hired her in 2019 for our wedding we were originally planning in 2020. Due to Covid-19, our original wedding date was postponed, and Kat helped us seamlessly transition our contract and deposit to our new wedding date. Kat's attention to detail was every Bride's dream come true!! Kat was an absolute Rockstar when it came to discussing our wedding day timeline, shot list and various details we wanted photographed. You could tell that she cared about all the planning that goes into coordinating her couple's special day. Kat was a joy to have photograph our wedding day. She showed up early to make sure everything was ready to photograph our detail shots, kept us on time throughout the day and captured everything we had discussed. Fast forward two and a half years later and we are overwhelmed with joy looking at our wedding gallery. We have received countless compliments and look forward to working with her again in the future! To say that we are happy to have hired Kat as our wedding photographer is an understatement! read more

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Kathrine was our photographer for our wedding on Sept 1, 2018. Kat was a pleasure to work with!! We have a massive family and wanted pictures with many different arrangements and she was very organized and efficient to make this happen. We just got our gallery and OH MY!! We are in love with the photos! Our wedding was the best day of our lives and Kat truly captured the joy and beauty of the day! Not to mention her use of light in our sunset photos - LOVE! read more

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I have left messages, texted, called, with no response from KCM. Very disappointed, because I used this photographer 4 years ago and the service has declined. Good business people should respond to customers seeking their services. read more

If you are looking for a family photographer that is patient, creative, good-natured, engaging, and most of all talented, Kat is your girl. Between the span of January 2018 and February 2019, we have had 4 sessions with Kat to document life events - those being a maternity shoot, a newborn shoot, fall family portraits, and my son's 1st birthday. Each time, we are completely blown away by the images that are returned to us. For my maternity photos in particular, I am being honest when I say I did not feel like one of those 'cute' pregnant people. I was more of the uncomfortable all the time/awkward pregnant people. You would absolutely not know it in looking at our pictures. To date, they are now my favorite pictures I have of myself, ever. This was our first interactions with Kat as our photographer, and we were immediately made to feel comfortable. She is just that friendly and real. Backing it up even more, prior to our shoot, Kat was always available for any of our questions, including running our outfit choices past, to make sure that we are wearing an outfit that will coordinate well together, as well as with the theme. In addition, she has no problem rescheduling if the weather doesn't look like it's going to work out. I can't even quantify the number of compliments I got on these maternity photos. When our son was born - she made herself available to complete his newborn photos a mere 2 days after he came home from the hospital. She showed up to our house completely ready with everything needed. She is incredibly patient and gave us tips on making sure this tiny human we were trying to get to know was at his best for his debut pictures. He even peed on her backdrop, which I am still totally embarrassed about, but it was quite funny and she took it totally in stride. We ended up buying every single shot from our newborn photo shoot. There was not one image that we could have went without. Looking back a year and a half later, I still feel exactly the same. These are pictures we are going to truly treasure forever. In the fall, we did a short mini session with Kat. I was so excited to participate in one of these offerings of hers. Basically, you get a 20-minute chunk of time (a mini session) back to back with other sessions, all at the same location. Even though it's a short session length, we never felt rushed at all. We got quite a few images that we loved from this session - and it was so much fun! Lastly, we did a shoot for our son's 1st birthday. This is where I have to say Kat shined even more than normal on everything I have mentioned above. 1-year olds are not cooperative. Ours in particular, was grouchy the entire day. Kat is absolutely determined to get the shot, and her perseverance is the sole reason we got back some incredible shots of our grumpy boy. When she learned he loved Baby Shark, she immediately started singing it and dancing around to get a smile out of him. She was consistently playing with him to make him comfortable and happy, which we SO appreciated. In the weeks following the shoot - I become a stalker of her FB and IG pages. She will often post teasers of her recent shoots there and I LOVE when I get to see a sneak peek of our images. Once she is done with all of her editing/magic, she will set up some time to meet with you to go over all of your images, and this is where you can pick what you want printed. I truly love her style of picture taking. I always get back images that highlight the people, but also the great scenery we are in. They look absolutely fantastic on our walls, and we are so grateful to have found her! read more

I loved her work. She communicated well with my daughter and I. Everything went without the hits and each image was amazing. She loves what she does and it shows. Highly recommend Kat! read more

Kathrine took our family portraits and did a fantastic job. She made all of us feel comfortable and not awkward at all as taking photos sometimes can be. She was great with my kids and getting them to smile, even our teenager. She was fast getting the photos to us and the photos came out amazing. I love the lighting she uses for her photos. We were very satisfied with Kathrine and the photos we received. read more

Let me start off by saying that this young lady takes amazing pics. I have one star Because of the price(EXTREMELY OVER PRICED), she did a shoot for my about 5 months old at the time. We paid $150 and figured that we would get to choose the ones that we loved. long story short she wanted to charge us $3,000 dollars! yes three thousand dollars to get all our daughters pictures (about 24 pics in all, which we were willing to take half) and this would include "products" which we did not want, we wanted to pay for even a CD or USB with her pictures even if she charged us an extra $150 we would've paid it just to get her picture, I literally went home and cried, cause we lost three kids before my daughter and just wanted to capture some moments. She even offered that we do a payment plan( to pay down the $3,000) which made no sense. or we could take I believe 2 pictures for an additional $200 and something dollars. I've never been so annoyed. She did it at her house and yes the photos were beautiful but how can I pay $3000 for my newborns pics im not rich smh. I wanted to capture and preserve some moments but she ruined it for us. read more

I found Kat via her Instagram and fell in love with her work so I did a little stalking but found only one yelp review (this was back in March) so I was a little worried because you automatically assume that if there are no reviews, the work can't be that great. WRONG! I decided to reach out to her & book both my maternity/newborn photos along with a mini session for my little one's year birthday. Long story short, my princess came a month early so we had to cut the maternity session but OMG, the newborn session was AMAZING! Kat came to our home, made us feel completely natural and while our little one was fussy, you would have never known it from the pics Kat took. Please note that her work & the photos are not cheap so if that's what you're looking for, go elsewhere. If you want QUALITY over quantity, get all the feels from your photos & appreciate that you are purchasing an INVESTMENT of your loved ones - book Kat immediately. She's such a wonderful person & so easy to work with...you can find my little princess on her website, she's the one with the pink peony & greenery pic! read more

We hired Kat to do our wedding photos because of her beautiful photography and affordable prices! Kat has gone above and beyond on our engagement shoot and I can't wait to see what she does for our wedding. She made my fiancé and I very comfortable during the shoot; giving us go to poses, all the while having a fun light hearted attitude. I love how she edits her photos, they are whimsical and don't feel overly edited at all! If you are looking for a photographer go with KCM photography you won't be disappointed. read more

Great great great! It's always amazing when the person taking your photos is genuinely interested in you as a person and also well invested in your time. She listens, has a vision and also keeps your best interest at if you are seeking a photographer for any event Kat is your person! read more

Kat is amazing! She does a wonderful job working with young kids and trying to get the perfect shots when they won't sit still!!! She has also done a fantastic job with our family photos. We have worked with her the last several years, never dissapointed! I highly recommend Kat for all your photography needs!!! read more