About this vendor
Ashley Purple is a wedding photography business based out of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, with over 10 years of experience professionally photographing portraits and weddings.
Details
Business Attributes
- Hispanic or Latinx-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Photo
- Printed Proofs
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
- Wedding Albums
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Awards and Affiliations
2023 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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Ashley Garcia is more than just a photographer! She has a gift for capturing people’s raw emotions, beautifully in many different lightings and landscapes! She took our engagement ...
photos and our wedding photos, so it feels like we got to connect with her beautiful soul. She’s sweet, funny, and made us feel incredibly comfortable! She also made us look amazing. We can’t put into words how happy we are that she was able to capture these beautiful moments so we can look back on this day for a lifetime!
Having Ashley photograph our wedding weekend was nothing short of a dream come true! When I first started looking for photographers, her work immediately stood out. Her photos spea...
k for themselves. They are timeless and elegant, and Ashley captures people, light, movement, emotion, and joy so clearly and beautifully. What I love about her photos is they feel vivid and real, and when I look at them, I am brought back to a particular moment and feeling. Beyond the quality of the photos, there are many other things that stood out about working with Ashley.
Firstly, she is responsive, sends super timely communications, and is the easiest person to work with. Everything was really clear and she gave excellent feedback. For example, we really wanted our day to feel relaxed and didn't want to many formal pairings. However, it can be hard to know what is the right number. She helped review or photo pairings list and gave us feedback on how to trim it down. This allowed us to have less time taking formal photos, and more time enjoying our day and getting to relax and enjoy time with guests. She gave us the gift of time!
Secondly, she really listened to us and heard what we wanted. We shared our vision for our photos - natural, candid, in the moment captures of us, as well as our families and friends who traveled far for our wedding. She captured that so perfectly!
Finally, Ashley is kind and warm and exactly the type of person you'd want to spend a weekend with. She isn't pushy at all, but made sure we got the right shots at the right time. There were numerous times throughout the weekend where I thought, "Wow, this would be a great time for a photo" and I looked up and caught eyes with Ashley because she was thinking the same thing. She made me and my husband feel confident in front of the camera, with helpful (and gentle!) feedback on posing.
If you have seen her work, you probably didn't need to even read this review - it really speaks for itself! Amazing quality, amazing person.
First of all, wow. Ashley captured our day in the most timeless and elegant of ways. As our two year anniversary approaches, the photos continue to take our breath away. We really ...
feel like our love is depicted. And I, the bride, will add that I feel so stunning and graceful when I look at these photos.
We love Ashley’s attention to detail, her ability to capture whimsy, joy, emotion, and depth of feeling.
She was amazing at wrangling our families in a way that felt effortless (we know it was not, they are not great at directions). She has an incredible way with people. It didn’t matter if the guests were under one or over ninety, each photo is an intentional portrait with so much personality.
Do not hesitate to book this magical photographer. You will fall in love.
Ashley is so amazing to work with. She has a fun and sweet personality, and helped to put my pre-wedding nerves at ease! She worked on my wedding photos and quickly had a preview f...
or us, and we are in love with what we have seen so far. The lighting is amazing, and her eye for detail and capturing sweet moments is so impressive. Can’t wait to see the rest. Would definitely recommend her to be your next photographer!
Ashley did such a good job on our wedding!! We hadn’t seen each other due to postponing our wedding for a year and half through the pandemic but when we saw each other the vibes we...
re high! She totally captured our vision and really made everyone feel comfortable. We also got our gallery exceptionally fast and every photo was to die for. I would recommend her over and over, she’s worth every penny. Thank you again for capturing the magic of our day!
Working with Ashley to photograph our elopement and subsequent wedding was a DREAM. Most importantly, the photos are fantastic—super professional looking. I'm a designer so I am pi...
cky about things like composition and depth of field and Ashley continually impresses me with her style. What's more, Ashley's personality is genuinely just delightful to be around. Always chill, makes you feel at ease, offers art direction without being overbearing. I couldn't want anything more—would hire Ashley again in a heartbeat and have already recommended her to many of my friends.
Ashley photographed our wedding in Big Sur, California, in October 2019. The images were stunning, not only because of the beautiful venue (and bride!). Ashley truly has an eye for...
arresting images that catch you and keep you looking. Prior to the wedding day Ashley also took my fiance and I out for an adventure engagement shoot, which we did in Yosemite. We spent the entire day together laughing and criss-crossing the park. We had a great time. Since the wedding we also asked Ashley to do a family photo shoot at a local nature area. Every photo we have framed in our home, on my desk, as my laptop background, or that we sent out as cards for years, was taken by Ashley! Her style has an inherently epic flair. Her way with the subjects puts everyone at ease and draws out the look you want. I wish I more often looked like the photos I see of myself that Ashley took!
From quality photographs, to a wonderful presence and personality, Ashley is the kind of photographer you'll hire over and over again, and then invite to your family dinner just to have her around more. I could not recommend her and her work strongly enough.
Ashley was an amazing photographer for our wedding and maternity shoot also! She is so fun to work with and we laugh and have the best time with her. Our pictures turn out exactly ...
how we want them to and with just the right vibe!
Ashley is great to work with. Super personal and makes you feel special on your most special day. Super talented and has a great eye for details. Absolutely loved working with her ...
and Bobby!
Ashley did not shoot our wedding but instead shot for our business and did a MARVELOUS job. We saw her shoots she would do with another local company and LOVED her style and eye fo...
r THE ANGLE. LOVELY personality and REST at ease she will surpass your expectation!
Ashley did my engagement pictures and they were the best!! I loved them so much! I wanted to hire her for my wedding but she’s so amazing she was booked up. You won’t regret hiring...
her not only does she take amazing picture she makes you feel so comfortable with her is not awkward getting your picture taken
Ashley Purple Photo, I can’t say enough good things about her services. She shot our engagement and wedding photos, and her work is magically magnificent! I often look back on our ...
galleries and fall in love with the photos more and more each time. She has a great demeanor about her, making it easy to be natural in front of the camera. Hire her! You won’t be disappointed.
We love Ashley! She is such a down to earth person and made us laugh the whole time while taking our engagement photos. We are both awkward people and put us in front of a camera? ...
We were so shy! Haha but she helped us tremendously. Unfortunately covid happened and we couldn’t do an actual wedding with her but we have our engagement pics and LOVE them.
Working with Ashley was the best! She listened to what we were looking for and executed it better than we could have imagined. Her photos are creative and full of intent and we cou...
ldn't be more pleased with our finished album, which we also received very quickly. She is also the sweetest!
Ashley was an absolute dream to work with - even if you don't love being in front of the camera, she will put you at ease. My partner and I had our engagement shoot and wedding day...
photographed by Ashley, and we were both nervous - but we instantly had a great connection with her. She is legitimately interested in capturing who you are as a couple, so expect lots of tender moment shots, candids, and absolutely beautiful editing/aesthetics.
She also made us feel super comfortable as queer folks doing things a bit non-traditionally. She isn't working with some sort of formula - she's really getting to know you, and the pictures show it. On our wedding day, she and her second shooter were able to capture tons of great shots from every moment of our big day without being intrusive or disruptive. The night before I had a little anxiety attack about how I was going to look in the wedding photos, and I emailed Ashley, and her response was so comforting. We cannot recommend her highly enough!
We found Ashley through Instagram and I am so happy she popped up on my feed! We needed our engagement photos for our wedding save-the-dates and Ashley was able to meet us at our f...
avorite beach in San Diego. I was nervous to shoot the pictures in front of people at a public beach, but Ashley made the whole experience so fun, friendly, and natural. We were laughing and joking the entire time and this energy really came through in our pictures! The picture gallery is so incredibly beautiful and a few tears were definitely shed. I have them hanging in my living room and I always get compliments on the photos. I will always recommend Ashley for any photography needs and I can't wait to see the photos for my wedding! I know they will be just as amazing!
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Hawaiian Islands, California
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