As soon as I saw the Groupon for this deal I was intrigued. After researching his website I…read morerealized what an amazing deal the Groupon offer was. We chose the Jewel Box in Forest Park on a beautiful Fall day in October to shoot our family portrait. Joel was great with the kids and my 18 month old boy barely stays in one place but I knew Joel captured some great shots. We did multiple family shots, the kids together, individual, mom and daughter, dad and son. My 4 year old daughter felt like she was a model... Joel just kept shooting and she loved every minute of it. When we got our high resolution DVD a week later I could not be happier. Apparently he sold over 1000 Groupons and he personally does each one. If there is another similar special I am on top of it for next year. Thanks Joel!

How to word this as nicely as possible because he was very sweet. Without the Groupon there is no…read moreway I would have paid for this. We got 1 hour in the package, but he was 15 minutes late, so our very rushed session was actually only about 40 minutes (he had clients in the next hour slot that he didn't want to be late for- ouch). Tower Grove Park was our chosen location since it has meaning to our family. Rather than go in and around the park he shot next to a building and a fence. Our pictures look like they were taken in a parking lot, not the park. He would only shoot in shade which did help the pictures, but it would have been nice to be told this before hand so I could find a better location. We got 5 nice pictures out of it, but it was incredibly disappointing.

My husband and I chose Cate Jackson to photograph our wedding and our engagement photos. First of…read moreall, I really love her style and work. When she first met with us, she helped us create a "package" that included everything we needed, modifying it based on how many hours, if we wanted the second shooter, etc. She has a great eye for scoping out places to take your photos and listens to what you want out of the experience, too. So, for our engagement photos, we wanted a more urban feel, and she took us to Tower Grove area for photos. For our wedding, we wanted more nature and so we went to Forest Park. Even on a busy fall day in Forest Park, Cate had come by ahead of time to check out the spots where the best fall foliage could be found! As a result, we have some awesome pictures! One of the greatest things about our wedding photos is that we have two angles of everything. Her second photographer was amazing! She took just as great of pictures as Cate, and it helped us capture alternate aspects of everything. We waited for about 10 weeks to get our photos back, but when we did, we had a treasure trove of about 1200 pictures! When my husband and I looked through them to narrow down our favorites, we still ended up with about 500 "favorites!" Cate mails you your photo collection on a USB drive that is in and of itself a work of art (it has a wooden box with one of your pictures screen printed on it). She also sent along a form issuing us permission to print the photos at your discretion. Meanwhile, she also posts a virtual gallery where you and family members can order professional prints. We had a very good experience with Cate and are whole-heartedly recommending her to all of our friends and family!

After looking at a lot of photographers a friend recommended Cate. We really liked their wedding…read morephotos and we decided to schedule a meeting with Cate. During this meeting Cate sat down with us to discuss our wedding and the type of shots we were looking for. Cate really captured the exact look we were going for. I highly recommend her and tell everyone I know about her great photos.

Really great photos, really professional, but cool and down-to-earth. We just can't stop looking at…read moreour photos. We like that he followed us around all day, not just at the wedding. Even though it sounds weird, it was great to remember the whole day, not just the event itself. We also loved that we got digital high-res versions of our pictures and didn't have to force our family to pay $20 for every 4x6 reproduction and who knows how much more for enlargements! Keep that in mind when pricing around, it's really worth it. Tim rocks.

Dayton photographed our wedding after being connected to him through a company we booked for our…read morephotography and DJ. We couldn't have been more pleased with Dayton and would have chosen him ourselves. He met with us before to make sure he got all the photos we wanted and was awesome to work with the day of the ceremony. Super personable and willing to do anything we asked. He worked hard for us and got great pictures. Would recommend him. He's a great photographer and a super nice guy on top of it.

No one deserves this level of unprofessionalism. Dayton is literally in the background of a photo,…read moretaken by one of my guests, with his camera ON HIS HIP as my bridesmaids are making their way down the aisle. An hour in to my event start time Dayton was standing around socializing with my wedding guests. When I noticed and asked what he was doing, he acted confused. I informed him that he should already be taking photos since he was paid for the full 6 hour event. He began taking them, but asked me periodically throughout MY WEDDING DAY what kind of photos I wanted him to take/what other ideas I had. I feel any professional photographer should be able to answer this on their own. After dinner, which he was invited to join us for, he was again sort of loitering with some guests until my husband went and tipped him (for no reason other than the fact that it is just proper etiquette.) I guess receiving a tip, prompted some new found enthusiasm in him as he then started taking pictures again and asking me for ideas on what kind of pictures I wanted. This finally all culminated with just a bunch of portrait taking, outside, as we were losing the sunlight.... Actually getting the photos was another ordeal in itself. He mailed them out in a paper mailer the first time, which showed up empty with a split in the side. I can't help feeling a little awkward that some stranger probably has a copy of my wedding photos. I contacted him and he said he would mail them out that day. After not receiving them for two weeks, I reached out to touch base and received no response from Dayton for 5 days. When I finally heard from him he claimed that he had not been able to get back to me because he had been on an extended shoot, but had mailed the photos out two days prior. So I guess he could make it to the post office, but not answer his phone? When I finally received the photos, there were only 243, not the 300-400 I was promised. Editing was incredible poor. Many were either too dark or overexposed. Angles were strange and many not centered properly. There were some things that should have been cropped out if not avoided entirely (ie- and ugly broken utility box on the wall he took some of my husband's portraits against.) There we're also some photos that I remembered him taking that were left out entirely. A photo of myself on the staircase which was probably my favorite of myself that day, as well as a photo of my cousin and I and one of me and a close friend. I reached out to him to see about getting those photos and again, received no response for 4 days. When he did respond (December 21), he said that he was spending time with family and didn't have good phone connection, but would mail out the rest of wedding photos the first week of January. It is now the first week of February and I haven't heard from Dayton or received any photos.

Had so much fun in the photo shoot and loved my pictures! My husband and I did a photo shoot for…read moreour anniversary.

I reached out to Love and Life because I've been impressed with work Tracey has done for friends. I…read morewas a bridesmaid in a wedding she did about 5 years ago and the pictures were amazing. I was hoping she was available for my wedding next Spring. Unfortunately, she was booked. She took the time to research other companies and put together a thoughtful email with lots of details. This has saved me so much time. Incredible talent and great customer service, a perfect combination!!

It's hard to find someone you want to marry but picking Jeannie Liataud Photography should be the…read moreeasiest part of your wedding day. Jeannie is a true professional for both engagement photos and wedding photos. She is relaxed and easy to work with which lightens up a stressful wedding day. Her demeanor really allowed my now wife and I to relax and have photos that captured our love and all of the support from our friends and family.

Erin did the posed family photographs for the day prior to our wedding, as well as posed photos of…read morethe two of us on wedding day prior to the event itself. She was FABULOUS, and we love our photos. Life threw us (and Erin) a curveball that we had to work around. Just six days prior to the wedding day, the bride tested positive for COVID! As two of our siblings have very young children and we did not want to endanger our older relatives either, we had to completely rethink how the photography would work in order to keep people safe but still allow us to celebrate family and remember the moment. Erin came through with several creative plans with only days of notice, using depth and spacing artfully to deliver really wonderful shots. Erin is very friendly and easy to work with. Our whole family loved her and she was able to make both our little nephews laugh and smile! Thanks so much for going above and beyond to make our wedding photographs special in spite of the increased difficulty of the situation!

Erin is an incredible photographer! Her photos truly captured our happiness and love, and working…read morewith Erin was just the icing on the cake. It felt like we were just talking with a friend who happened to be snapping our photos. We can't wait to work with her more in the future!

We are in the process of wedding planning and, though we did not book Erica, I wanted to attest to…read moreher professionalism and thoroughness. I contacted Erica in December when I was soliciting many price quotes from photographers in the STL area. She provided me answers to my more basic questions like: What do you usually get to in your 8hr/9hr/and 10hr packages? Cost of packages? Shooting locations? She also went above and beyond at giving me a sense of more in-depth aspects of her work; she was able to send me a post of work she had done at both our wedding venue and our reception venue. Finally, when I requested some time to prioritize nailing down my venue before photographer and asked her to follow up in late January, she was one of three photographers out of 15 who actually did follow up! She has an attention to detail admirable in a photographer. We did not book Erica because we decided to go with a photographer with a slightly different editing style, but I would have no qualms encouraging friends to book with Erica. No wonder she's been in business since 2006!