I cannot say enough good things about Michaela and Josh! The tl;dr version is up first for all you busy brides. Please read on below for my gushing but super honest review.
Photos: 5 stars. Unequivocally. I have gotten SO many compliments on these photos. They will capture you at your best. Your absolute best! If you're looking for photos with a lot of natural light and a "romantic" look, look no further. You will feel like you should be in a bridal magazine!
Personableness: 5 stars. Absolutely wonderful humans. You will want them to be your friends by the end of this! My wedding party also fell in love with Michaela and Josh!
Professionalism: 5 stars. Michaela is so so so organized and I just love how she runs her business. This is so key if you're planning your own wedding without a planner. She is honest and transparent.
Payment: To be honest, I love that she had a payment system so that it auto-deducted over 8-10 months. It's so nice to not have the traditional huge lump sum payment when all the other vendors are also asking for their final payments.
After our venue, Michaela and Josh (Moose Studio) were the first vendors we booked. I was in Shanghai at the time when I interviewed them, so I stayed up until midnight and they woke up early at 6am to accommodate my schedule. Huge kudos and thanks to them for being so accommodating for just a client meet and greet. We talked for an hour and it went by so quickly, and honestly after the meeting, I just knew that they were going to be our photographers. Just goes to show, I should always trust my gut.
In the package that we chose, we got free engagement photos and I highly recommend getting your engagement photos done with your wedding photographer if you can! If you don't like their photos, or just don't vibe, there will still be time to change course. Thankfully, we didn't need that at all. Michaela made us feel so at ease; we have never taken professional photos before and we definitely needed to be put at ease. We were laughing throughout the whole day and truly had fun with it! Michaela sent out a cute little gift with a magazine she printed herself (with gorgeous photos and chock full of tips!) as well as some champagne gummies. The magazine included tips for what to wear during the engagement shoot which I relied on heavily the few weeks before our shoot. Our photos turned out amazing. We even used two of them for our guestbooks at the wedding (we made them into puzzles that we framed and will display proudly wherever we live!) We have gotten so many compliments on them over the years.
Years? Yes, you read that right. OG Covid bride here! We were supposed to get married April 2020 but alas, the world had other plans. Michaela and Josh were so incredibly supportive throughout this whole process and made sure they were available for every postponed date. Finally, two postponements later, we JUST had our wedding. Michaela and Josh have such a fun vibe and are so positive and encouraging, and tell you exactly what to do. It was as if no time had passed, and just like old friends, we picked up where we left off! They were honestly probably just as excited as we were to get married! Even though Michaela and Josh are super nice, Josh does have a loud voice and will turn it on "stern mode" to help you corral the cats you otherwise call "wedding guests". It saved us a lot of extra waiting around when you have a bjillion other things to do.
I've gotten a few sneak peeks thus far, and the photos are once again GORGEOUS. Has someone casually asked if I'm actually a supermodel? Why yes. I can't wait for the whole album to drop soon! A few of my wedding guests have even asked if they do newborn photos! Selfishly, I hope they start doing them soon!
Michaela and Josh are now travel wedding photographers as well, and my god, I can't wait to see all the beautiful new locales and couples they'll be photographing! read more