Jason took pictures of our Wedding Ceremony as well as our Reception. I was amazed at how many…read morereally cool staged shots he got of pre-ceremony, my now Wife in the special car I rented (Not Your Average Limo. A 1967 Rolls Royce Austin Princess) for her to ride to the Ceremony in, Ceremony, post-ceremony, us with inside the same car heading to the reception, reception and everything in between. That was in 2011. I was hoping he was still in business for a couple I know getting married, but his website is down. Bummer. His pictures were extremely professional.

I wonder if there is another Jason Speros on the loose, because I can't believe the reviews I am…read morereading! I do not intend to be disrespectful to anyone's experiences, I just had such a great experience working with him. He was wonderful for my bridal portriats and wedding etc. I never had a problem getting a hold of him within a timely manner. Most of the times I received an immediate response. I was referred to him by one of my good friends, and she had the same wonderful experience we had. He is priced affordably and will travel. We had great quality photos and he took the time to pick out special parts of the reception venue that he wanted to photograph us in. He was good about getting us on track about getting certain photos for the night. When you actually get to the reception, you are so overwhelmed and it is all a blur. It is nice to have someone that will keep you on track without being overbearing and pushy. I think a lot of people don't realize that a great deal of work goes into wedding photos on the bride/groom side also. You have to communicate what you want. Everyone wants something different.

My husband (then fiance) and I knew from our first phone call with Francis that we would hit it off…read morewith him. Francis made him comfortable and we actually had fun taking our engagement photos. Throughout the wedding planning process, he was responsive, straightforward, professional, and easy to work with. He was up-front about costs and he didn't add on charges later (unlike many other wedding vendors). As for our wedding day, Francis stayed out of our way. He let my husband and I share private moments and he photographed them from afar, he didn't rush us, he didn't interrupt us throughout the reception, and he didn't make us take awkwardly posed photos (unless we requested them). Yet, he took so many incredible shots that truly captured the preparations, emotions, traditions, and excitement of our wedding day. He captured the essence of our interfaith wedding. We are beyond pleased with our wedding photos by Francis, and people constantly compliment his work. We love our wedding photos! He went above and beyond for us (he even had an ex-family member cropped out of a photo for us). It is apparent that Francis takes pride in his work, he truly enjoys interacting with people, and that he is a very talented, experienced photographer. We highly recommend Francis, and you'd be lucky to work with him!

Francis was one of the best decisions we made when planning our wedding. He made us feel…read morecomfortable with him from the get-go. Francis met us at a coffee shop to make sure we would all be a good match to work together, and we ended up hitting it off immediately. We booked him immediately and never looked back! Our engagement shoot was fun, and he helped put us at ease with being in front of a camera. Our wedding day was captured at a level I am still unable to articulate. He was somehow everywhere and nowhere at once. The moments he was able to capture without staging or prompting are everything I had dreamed my wedding photos would be. Everyone who saw them felt the emotions and joy of the day, and I am forever grateful I have them. Francis is professional, easy to communicate with, and freakishly talented. Stop reading this and hire him already!

Will and his team provided pre-wedding and wedding photos for my darling daughter in October. His…read moreprices for the product were high-value, approx $1500 for his services during the entire day (wedding book photos with copy privileges, etc.), with his assistant taking photos during the dances, as well during the preparation, dressing of both parties, etc. Truly a full-service package at a VDERY reasonable price. We've just seen the results, and are extremely happy with all of the work he and his assistants did. He was relaxed during the obligatory family and dressing photos, and made everyone comfortable during a pretty tense time. He had no problem with my camera-happy relatives snapping pictures right next to him, something that I've seen aggravate other professionals. I would highly recommend Will for you wedding photo needs! Dave Dixon 940-3961

I got married recently (october 2012) and Will was our photographer. I can't express adequately how…read morehappy we were with the whole experience. First of all, you get a great deal if you book Will. His prices are by far the most reasonable in town for the amount of benefits and the artistic expertise you get. We got full printing rights, a DVD of over 1000 images in high resolution, and some of them touched up and edited. Secondly, WIll is an awesome guy. I immediately clicked with him when we did our pre-wedding tour of the venue. He is laid back, has a great sense of humor, and is also very professional. On the day of the wedding, all of our friends and family felt very at ease with him, and I even got compliments on how he isn't stuffy when it comes to other people using their cameras. He even incorporated some of my friends' photography into his own techniques (like playing with their flashes to get a cool effect in some of the pictures). I wanted a photobooth, and he helped me set up a great experience for our guests, including purchasing silly props himself, at no charge to me. His second photographer, though I don't remember her name, operated the photobooth, and she was great too. He is very versatile. We were thrilled with all of our pictures, which included formal posed photographs of family, crazy dance floor action shots, photobooth pics, and of course he captured moments from the ceremony flawlessly. I was particularly impressed with how he handled the family and wedding party photos after the ceremony. We had a huge party (eight people on either side), and our families are not small, and he had everything completely under control. Everything flowed smoothly and efficiently, and we were done and ready to join the reception within half an hour. We get to choose photos to have touched up, but I can't even begin to decide which ones to choose, since they are all so beautiful they don't even need to be touched up. It could have been a frantic, stressful day, but it ended up being wonderful and so much fun, and a large part of that is because Will and his second photographer did such a fantastic job. In fact, two of our friends who are getting married this spring were so pleased with our results that they hired him for their wedding. If you hire him for your wedding, you won't be disappointed!

Let me first unequivocally say before anything else that I cannot recommend Zach Hunt any higher…read more If I could give him 1000 stars, I would. When getting married, the one thing I wanted to make sure I had more than anything was beautiful, true-to-life pictures of the wonderful patchwork of family and friends that would likely never be together in the same room in the same combination again. Not only did Zach deliver photos more gorgeous than I could've imagined, I had zero stress about it in the run up to the event. It was fantastic to be able to talk candidly to Zach about what I wanted and feel heard. I wish this was the case with all wedding vendors! Zach shot our engagement and wedding photos on the San Antonio Riverwalk. We talked before hand and I told him I'm not a staged pinterest-y bride, but I wanted beautiful candid shots with bold, bright colors, and he did not disappoint. I received hundreds of incredible photos back within two weeks of the event, and literally wept in an airport while looking through them because he was so able to capture the love and fun of our event. It was such a whirlwind night that there were parts I didn't even remember that I got to see waiting for me in the photos. He did an incredible job prioritizing the people that matter to us so I could see in my family's faces how they were feeling. He caught all the important moments and then some, and we even threw in a dog and some children to make his job hard, and he handled it all with aplomb. If you want to make sure your event is captured with the life and joie d'vive that accompanies real life, Zach's your dude. We had such an incredible time, and now I have the best pictures I could ask for to remind me of our big day forever. My family is all gaga over them, too, and there's so many lovely family pics, dance floor action pics, ceremony and engagement with perfect light, perfect colors, and feeling radiating through. I call dibs on Zach for our 10th anniversary! I wouldn't trust anyone else to photograph so important an event after the perfect experience we had with him!

BEST PHOTOG EV. what I love is how the photos aren't you're "traditional" soft focus but it feels…read morelike you have paparazzi following you that WANTS to flatter your every angle and capture the moment. My best friend of 12 years Lindsay was married a few weeks ago and she brought on Zach to capture this personal event. The pictures to me capture my best friend and represent the event in its entirety. Zach is professional, fun, open, no attitude and easy to work with, he def felt like a party of the wedding party. When I get married I will fly Zach to Cali to have him be there to capture my wedding. What an artist. Truly blessed.

If you are looking for a 5-Star Professional Photographer, I highly recommend you give a call to…read moreJames. James was our photographer for our client appreciation dinner party at the SFO Airport Marriott. Our clients were older adults (age 55 and up). I asked James to take holiday photos of each guest and then work his magic as our event photographer throughout the night. Jame's shot list included clients, candid photos, high impact dancers during performance, and many group photos that our CEO & each table greatly enjoyed. James was very approachable and gave great directions when each client went to take their holiday photos. Most importantly, James was very flexible and proactive in capturing the evening' moment as I was running around. Throughout the entire event, James was very communicative - always replying to my emails - and offered his tips/advice in setting up our photo area. On the day of the event, he knew the event schedule and when/where he needed to be to capture the moments. Lastly, James was on time, professional, easy to work with, and extremely flexible. Our photos were edited and uploaded onto Google Drive & given a thumb drive. THANK YOU JAMES! We look forward to working with you for our future projects.

3/20/19 UPDATED REVIEW for 11/18/18 Wedding at Mercury Hall in Austin, TX: James was over 1.5 hours…read morelate to our event (missing all of our first look photos at the Van Zandt) and showed up seeming to be under the influence of drugs/alcohol. He was ultimately asked to leave after our wedding ceremony, because he was such a mess and his "assistant" was no help either. To this day, James has not provided an executed contract after multiple requests for one. Probably because he does not want to be held accountable. We should have seen James' lack of communication as a red flag, and honestly regret moving forward with him as our photographer. James has an endless amount of excuses for every single one of his mess ups when working with him. James can try to give excuses and claim he was not stumbling around during our wedding ceremony, but unfortunately we have 94 wedding guests as firsthand witnesses to his sloppy unprofessionalism. During our wedding ceremony, James was stumbling around and tripping over bushes. Not because there were uneven stones, but because he was trampling around in the landscaping. It was even distracting for me, the bride. James could not walk without stumbling, so during our ring exchange he planted himself crisscross applesauce in the middle of the aisle with his elbows on his knees in an attempt to stabilize himself. After my groom and I shared our kiss, we began to turn to walk down the aisle and there's James still planted in the aisle. We had to awkwardly stand there smiling waiting for him to register what was going on and get off the ground. He then proceeded to hobble along in front of us with his back to us (not taking any photos) as we exited down the aisle. We tried to give him the benefit of the doubt to shoot our ceremony even after he was arguing with us 10min before our ceremony was to begin, because he wanted us to push back our wedding ceremony 30min so he could try to capture sunset photos on an overcast day at dusk. My eldest brother had to ask James to step out of our suite because James had me in tears minutes before I was supposed to walk down the aisle. James was asked to leave our wedding because it was upsetting for us just to be around him/interact with him. He could barely carry a conversation. The reason there was one wedding guest with a DSLR taking photos during our ceremony is because I had to call one of my best friends to ask her to bring her camera to the ceremony when James informed us 30min before he was supposed to arrive that he would be would be an hour and a half late. I was in full hair and make-up in tears, because I was having to worry about whether or not our wedding photographer was going to show up. The 194 photos James finally sent us aren't like the photos in his portfolio. His photos were unedited, burst shots, out of focus. Incredibly sloppy work that he took over two weeks to give to us. We were able to salvage a total of FIVE photos. James missed the entire procession. James may have had some good moments as a photographer, but our unfortunate experience is also what he is capable of. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT take the risk in hiring him. James was not harassed or accused of anything other than being unprofessional, dishonest, and a complete disappointment. Note his Yelp review from Marty S. on 9/6/18 where he did a NO CALL NO SHOW to a wedding. I've contacted that bride and she confirmed James was fired from Bellagala after not showing to her wedding.

My fiancé and I had an amazing experience with Flipintex for our engagement photos. John was very…read moreprofessional and was happy to deliver on every crazy request we had. We went all around Austin to our favorite or memorable spots and John had a smile the whole time! He was able to tell us where to stand and what to do to make the pics look good. I always think as these photo shoots can be so awkward, at least for me, but John made it easy and comfortable and we had a lot of laughs. We took the pics Saturday and by Sunday he had already sent us several to choose from for our save the date. The quality of the photos blew us and our family away. Now we finally have some good pictures !!! I will definitely be going back for all my photography needs!

Edward shot our engagement photos in may and our wedding june 19th. He did an amazing job - even…read morewith a horrible model! At our wedding he was like where's Waldo 3d! He would be laying on the ground one second, then up in a tree the next! He is really creative and gets great shots. Our pictures were really easy to download which was nice! I absolutely reccommend Edward and will be happy to answer any questions or send photos. Rejsno@yahoo.com

My husband and I got married in October, and we had Captivating Weddings photograph our wedding…read more The pictures came out AMAZING, and they were both so wonderful to work with! We can't thank them enough for capturing such beautiful photos of our wedding day.

We had our first photo shoot for our engagement pictures last night. Amazing! I never thought I…read morewould have so much fun, And the pictures.... Well, Shannon gave us a sneak peak of 3 out of like 100+, I'm speechless. Can't wait to see the rest and have him shoot our wedding and more. Thanks again. This review doesn't do him justice on how great he is. You just have to experience it for yourself. 10 STARS!!!