Hiring Anthony Vazquez photography was one of the best decisions I made when planning my wedding!
After initially filling out an online inquiry, they got back to me right away. Upon going to their office the staff greeted me and I sat down and ...looked through albums and pictures. I didn't have to wait too long to meet with Anthony and he even stayed later than normal because I get out of work late. I really liked what I saw and thought his packages were competitive with some other companies I was looking into. He told me if I was interested that for the 2nd appointment I would meet with Barbara, the photographer who would be available to shoot on my wedding day. I went to go look at just a couple of other photographers the days and short weeks after just so I had some basis of comparison and spoke to my fiance about each of them. He had zero interest (of course) and basically just by looking on AV's site and facebook albums, he was like, "just go with this guy- he's the best. Their style is cool." I still wanted my fiance to meet him because I am not great at decision making, and he knew right away after meeting that we'd go with them. When we met with Barbara, she was very sweet and enthusiastic and I knew she would be a piece of cake to work with, with my type-A personality. I explained to her my vision and wants and stuff like that and she knew exactly what I was looking for. We met with Anthony again briefly, and he was/is just a really cool, down-to earth, intelligent person. It was settled. We ultimately booked Anthony Vazquez photography before we booked our actual wedding venue - that's how confident / excited we were to use them!
Fast forward a couple of months and we did our engagement shoot with Barbara in Central Park. It was a little difficult to schedule a time to do it and the days and times are extremely limited but that's because all of the photographers are so busy on weekends doing weddings! I got my engagement proofs back in exactly 1 week.
Our wedding was in November 2017 at Oheka Castle and Barbara was our lead photographer, as well as Ashley and their assistant Luna. Leading up to the wedding, Lucille, the office manager was so easy to work and responds to emails so fast. Anthony went out of his way and busy schedule to call me a few days before the wedding to wish us luck and to congratulate us. On the day of the wedding, everyone arrived ahead of schedule and ready to work it. Everything went so smoothly and they did the best they could to capture pretty much all of the shots I really wanted. A big important note was we were racing the daylight all day due to it being end of November! Everyone had such great energy. They worked so well and got along with our videographers and I was worried about them having to "share" time with us but it was so stress-free.
We got our wedding gallery within the timeframe they mentioned we would get them even getting married during an extremely busy wedding season + the holidays in between and we are so pleased with how they came out. My friends and family are obsessed with our pictures and they are always raving and saying, "Wow you guys had an amazing photographer."
The quality of their photos really shows. When I compare my wedding photos to friends I just know I made the right decision. Their customer service is top notch and their team are such happy, pleasant people. I still haven't finished my album yet - the pics are too hard to choose from!