Carly was our wedding photographer and we are so thankful we chose her. After multiple reschedules…read moredue to Covid, Carly still managed to accommodate our engagement photos and wedding photos. She worked with us to craft a custom photo package that fit our needs and budget. My partner is shy in front of the camera, but Carly made us both feel at ease. She provides just the right amount of direction while making the poses feel natural. We appreciated the excitement and good energy she brought on both the engagement shoot and wedding day. One of the reasons Carly's work stood out to me in the first place was how the colors in her photos were vibrant and true to life. We were extremely happy with how the photos turned out. As a perfectionist that has worked with dozens of photographers in various jobs (music events, real estate and modeling), I know how rare it is to find such consistency. After the wedding we received a digital album and she had a convenient system for us to order high-quality prints. Carly is a talented photographer with an obvious passion for her work - we highly recommend that you get on her schedule!

Carly was absolutely amazing and the photos turned out stunning. She was really able to make me…read morelaugh and capture the moment and light in just the right way. I look forward to working with her again in the future.

From the stunning photos to the wonderful photographers, we are so happy that we chose Claudia…read moreDalton Photography for our wedding! Wedding planning is stressful enough, but finding a reasonably priced photographer with a nice portfolio proved to be a challenge. As with many things with our wedding, everything just fell into place. After seeing Claudia's photos of a mutual friend, I reviewed her blog and reached out to her with a few questions. A couple weeks later, Claudia and her husband Peter met with me and my fiance' to discuss our vision for engagement and wedding photos. They were very supportive of our ideas. Besides incorporating what we wanted, they went above and beyond to ensure that we had great pictures. Prior to our engagement session, I shared pictures of locations in Old Town Alexandria and talked with Claudia a few times by phone and email. They even recommended some places. The photos came out great, and we loved so many of the shots. A couple weeks before the wedding, Claudia and Peter were nice enough to meet with us to find good shooting locations in our venue and in the nearby area. The shots from the wedding were incredible! We get tons of compliments on our photos, and we often hear that Claudia has such a great eye! Plus, the presentation of our photos in their custom packaging was very beautiful. I highly recommend Claudia Dalton Photography! Claudia and Peter are just wonderful people. They truly captured all the love and joy during this special time in our lives. Thank you for everything!

Our family had a very negative experience with Claudia Dalton Photography (CDP), so I am using this…read moreforum as a means of expressing my feelings on the matter to share my feedback with other folks looking to acquire professional photography services. This is not meant to be a personal diatribe against Claudia as I feel that she really is a nice person, however this is the only means that we I have to voice our displeasure and share information that may aid another person or couple. We contracted CDP to provide two photography sessions, one for a pregnancy shoot, and another for after the baby was born. It seemed to be explained to me that we were receiving a bundled discount for services, and from my perspective, that other perks such as a hair dresser / makeup artist were included as part of the deal. Our family has hired photographers in the past, and the typical arrangement is that we pay the agreed upon fee for the photographer's time and a quantity of included digital picture files and / or prints. CDP does not operate in this fashion however as all of the digital files or prints resulting from your photo shoot are purchased separately on a strictly ala carte basis. The long story short of it is that we signed a contract with CDP for $300.00 for our two photo shoots, and then realized after the fact that we could not afford the ala carte pricing for any of their products. This was extremely distressing to us as we are a young family, and a luxury item such as this is something that we have to carefully budget and plan for. To invest $300.00 and come away with no real product is very upsetting. We expressed our concern to CDP, saying that we could not afford their products, and asked for half of our money back (we had just completed the first photography session and would not be seeking to schedule the second). CDP refused to meet us half way however, the tact taken from their party was more of a, "Well that's too bad, I am sorry that this didn't work out better for you." That response added insult to injury. From our perspective, CDP failed in the following respects: 1.       Clear Communication: CDP did not send their company policies, business practices, pricing list, etc. in one clear concise email. Some of these details (such as a pricing list) are not made available for reference on their website or are even in their contract. If I piece together the 5 or so emails that we exchanged with CDP, I can understand more fully how her business works... however the reality is that life (and my life) has many demands on it and if something isn't spelled out clearly and succinctly, I may interpret it or fail to comprehend it clearly. I should have looked into that string of emails that we exchanged more closely, and in retrospect asked more questions... but I also feel that CDP can do a better job of explaining their business practices to folks who have no familiarity with them.   2.       Value: CDP's prices are much higher than ANY other photographer that I have ever worked with. For example, the cheapest print offered was $75.00 and 20 digital files ... were $2,100.00. That is almost as much as I spent for the entirety of our wedding pictures. If CDP were a celebrity photographer, or had the portfolio to command such a high fee, I suppose that would be one thing, however there is nothing about CDP's work to suggest that her fee should be head and shoulders higher than other photographers in the area.   3.       Customer Service: As a client, I will own my share of the guilt in our negative experience, that I failed to properly understand CDP's business practices and prices before signing our contract. I should have read more carefully through our correspondence and asked more questions. However, when our family voiced our concerns, that we could not afford her work, and that we had backed ourselves into an unfortunate corner, we were met with absolutely no empathy. CDP was polite but refused to do anything for us that might improve our otherwise unfortunate position. The reality is if CDP had even tried to work with us a little... perhaps refund part of our $150? Offer some untouched digitals? A Print? Something? Had their response been anything other than "Well that's too bad", we could have walked away from this transaction feeling somewhat whole. Instead, we feel like we spent $300.00 and received next to nothing to show for it. Claudia is not a bad person, if anything, she is inexperienced with the business aspect of her part time photography venture. Maybe she'll take some of the lessons learned from our encounter and use them to better her practice. Either way, our family will not be using her services in the future and cannot recommend them to anyone else.

I'm so glad I found Donnie to do my wedding photos. I wanted a classy elegant wedding on a budget…read more When I was researching photographers, they were all above what I wanted to pay. Any photographers that I found that were reasonably priced had awful pictures on their website, or no pictures at all. When I came across Donnie's website I thought it had to be to good to be true. His prices were very affordable, and the pictures were beautiful. After our consultation I immediately booked him for my wedding. During the wedding he was extremely professional, took all the shots I wanted, and he even stayed a little pass his time to get pictures of the cake cutting at no additional charge. I would highly recommend Donnie to anyone getting married. He is an excellent photographer and his prices can't be beat.

I can't say enough about how happy I am with Sydney. She came with to my house with a car full of…read moreawesome props and a heater and most importantly, her positive attitude and patience. My newborn was not cooperative for the first 2 hours of the session, and Sydney made me feel at ease, which eventually helped the baby to calm down and allowed her to capture beautiful photos. I could tell that she really wanted to be here and that she genuinely cared. Also, I unfortunately had to reschedule to a different day at the last minute, and she was extremely accomodating, which helped me so much. I highly recommend Impulsive Joy Photography and already have told my friends.

Fantastic! We…read moreselected David at the referral of another officiant because he does weekend weddings. From the first moment I called David to set up our date and time, I knew he was going to be helpful and make things easy. He was very knowledgeable about the process for Virginia marriages and could be reached through phone, text, or e-mail to answer any questions I had. His prices are also very reasonable, and were much less than many of the officiants I had looked at to conduct our ceremony. David was on time for our wedding, was very polite, and did what he came to do. I couldn't have been happier with the process, and it was one less thing a stressed bride needs to worry about on the big day. Thanks, David!

Fast and simple. David is a nice person because my husband was late and I was waiting outside of…read moreanother side of the door. We both didn't see David but he was waiting for us. Of course I do not recommend being late on the court wedding day; but having such a nice marriage commissioner made our wedding so easy. Also, People in the court know David pretty well; this means that he's been practicing a lot. You don't need to be worried of getting married then found out the marriage commissioner was not authorized. Yes, this happened on other unfortunate couples.

im and Jason make a great team! They were very easy to work with for my wedding and very…read moreresponsive. They helped me with the wedding ceremony/reception time line, effortlessly moved the events along, and played the songs that we requested. They were able to make song recommendations for my ceremony and found all of my relatively unknown songs and offered a great value! (yes, they have up-lighting). It really helped that they knew our ceremony and reception venue (Lost Creek Winery) like the back of their hand and have a great working relationship with the staff there. Thanks for a memorable evening, it was a true pleasure to work with you.

My 7 year old son has ADHD and it's always challenging to get good pictures of him because he's so…read morebusy and always on the move. I really wanted some pictures of him to capture the true spirit of him- he's such a great little guy. I reached out to Sandrine for some help and she was gracious enough to take some pictures of him. During our pre shoot discussions she asked me to tell her about him and I mentioned that he played soccer- she had me bring his uniform and ball. We went out to her studio and she handed him a soccer ball and captured him running through the field kicking his ball. I got the most adorable photos of him. Nothing was staged or frigid- the pictures really told the story of who he is. (without us forcing him to sit still and yelling at him to smile) This was a fun experience for both of us. Sandrine specializes in professional headshots- I'm excited to set up my own appointment soon. She was such a great lady and made us feel super comfortable. I'm so thankful to have met her!

This guy...what an extraordinary person. We hired him as our deejay but he was sooo much more! He…read morewas a major part of the entire ceremony as well as the reception. We could not have had such a smooth, exciting, fun filled day without him and all of the joy he brought to our family that day. We would definitely hire him again for events. If you are looking for a deejay that goes above and beyond, Mike's the one to hire. Above and beyond and worth every penny!! Thank you sooo much M & T Entertainment