5 out of 5 stars and 38 reviews Best of Weddings (4x).
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(38)Willmar, MN | Serving all of Minnesota & beyond
About this vendor
Each moment at a wedding is just that - a moment. It's a fleeting snapshot in time that will never come again. It might be your father's belly laugh, your soulmate's tears, or a slice in time during your first dance where the entire world melted away until it was just the two of you.
Capturing those is what I do. For most of the day, I'm a nearly invisible force bottling up those moments for you before they fade into forgotten memories forever. During portraits I'm posing, lighting, and guiding you so you'll look your best. Above all else, I put effort into each and every second of the day.
I'd love to hear more about your story, your dream wedding, and to answer any questions you may have - so please, get in touch.
Details
Photo Shoot Types
- Bridal Portraits
- Engagement
- Trash The Dress
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Photo
- Printed Enlargements
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
- Wedding Albums
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Documentary
- Dramatic
- Lifestyle
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Awards and Affiliations
4-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2023.2022.2021.2020.
Best of Weddings
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Hall of Fame
Earned by winning 'Best of Weddings' four or more times.
Reviews
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5
out of 5.038 reviews
If you're looking for a photographer with artistic vision, you've found him. From the moment we met Aury we knew he was a perfect match for us. He made one of a kind photos and w...
e're super grateful to him for preserving those memories for us to treasure forever. Thank you!
Aury was the best! He went above and beyond to capture every special moment and there were some candids that absolutely took our breath away, not to mention the portraits! We hig...
hly recommend Aury. He was attentive, understanding, and was truly the best choice for us.
Aury was everything we were looking for in a wedding photographer! Very communicative, very chill, incredibly affordable, and his photos are breathtaking. If you are looking for so...
meone who shoots "true colour" without all the white-washed, sepia-tone edits, then he is your guy. And as others have pointed out, he is truly a photo ninja. He was everywhere, completely undetectable. He captured some of the best moments during the day without us even realising, and delivered some absolute gems of our friends dancing. We cannot recommend him enough!
Aury was absolutely fantastic to work with. He was accommodating to what we wanted, was always quick to respond and provide helpful tips for the day, but most importantly he takes ...
beautiful photos. We got our back quickly and I’m literally in awe of his work. He captured every moment and I keep looking through them and re living the day. I would recommend him 100%
Aury did a phenomenal job photographing all parts of our wedding day and being adventurous with us in our engagement shoot. He truly is a "camera ninja" in his effort to capture ev...
ery moment from the best angles while somehow not being noticed. He wasn't afraid to lay on the floor or tromp around in a muddy field to get the perfect angle. He had a special knack for capturing the kiddos that were part of our wedding day. Aury was very relaxed and easygoing throughout the process, in turn making us feel more comfortable. His wife Tara was such a great help with wedding party and family photos. We appreciated Aury's straightforward pricing, and we had our 1200 photo wedding gallery back within 3 weeks of the wedding! We were extremely impressed by Aury's professionalism and talent. We can't thank you enough for helping us make sure our wedding day memories will last a lifetime!
Aury was the best! Responsive, reliable, & creative! I'm so happy with the photos and he was great about sharing them quickly. I honestly don't even need any to be touched up becau...
se they're gorgeous as is.
We had a great experience working with Aury for our engagement and wedding photos. He has a true talent for photography and our pictures turned out beautifully. I honestly don't kn...
ow how he was able to capture so many special little moments from our wedding day but I am so thankful for such a beautiful and authentic collection of photos. Aury took the time to get to know us and figure out exactly what we were looking for - he even humored us by doing a mini photoshoot with us and our cats before the ceremony. I would absolutely recommend him.
My wife and I were absolutely blow away with the pictures Aury took of our engagement and our wedding. He was extremely professional and flexible, working with us to make sure we g...
ot great photos of all of our special moments. He was always quick to respond to any questions and concerns, and he made the entire process seamless and effortless. We definitely shopped around and I can confidently say that Aury is one of the best in terms of quality and value in MN. As stated above, we could not have been happier with our photos. I would not hesitate to hire Aury again for ANY AND ALL events in the future.
Aury was so organized, kind, and professional. The photos turned out so so beautiful and breathtaking. Some of our favorite shots was the candies he got throughout the day and ni...
ght. He gave direction when need be but otherwise was very excellent about being a fly on the wall. Again, can’t say enough how absolutely gorgeous our photos turned out. We’re obsessed! 100/10 would recommend!
Aury was a joy to work with throughout our wedding planning process. We used him for engagement and wedding photos and could not be happier with our choice. First, he responded ver...
y quickly to all my questions and updates which was such a relief and made planning much easier! Second, as someone who is always uncomfortable in front of the camera, Aury was incredibly patient with me and gave me lots of very helpful posing direction which led to the first posed photos I felt truly beautiful in. Third, we selected Aury because we loved his documentary style photographs and he really delivered in this area for us. You can feel the emotions of our day radiating from our pictures and I'm obsessed. Finally, in our initial phone interview, Aury had the best response in regards to working with children during the wedding (something along the lines of "love them, they're always doing something adorable") and it shows up in our photos. There were five kids in our tiny COVID wedding, and even between their shyness and non-stop running around, he still managed to capture beautiful moments with each of them.
I have so many wonderful things to say about Aury and his photography, but for the sake of writing something you will read all the way through, I will try to be concise.
While I ...
knew there would be a few specific photos I wanted, I didn’t want all my wedding pictures to look/be posed. I wanted to be able to look back through my wedding photos years from now and be able to relive real, genuine moments. Aury is extremely talented at capturing natural interactions. His photos can simultaneously look professional while also hold that effortlessness of a snapshot taken at just the right moment. You can clearly see this looking through his website and social media pages, so I am stating the obvious by saying his photos are absolutely beautiful. What you can’t know by looking through his photos is how personable, down to earth, and just a genuinely good person Aury is.
Our wedding was August 15th, 2020. We had everything planned and ready go, and then COVID. For anyone who had a wedding this year… you know how difficult the planning was. The uncertainty, the changing of dates/venues/guest lists/etc. Aury was so understanding and supportive of any decisions my husband and I made during this time. He was quick in his responses and was patient with us as we re-planned the majority of our wedding. We are so grateful for his kindness to us through the whole process.
I want to also highlight his work the day of the wedding. Tara, his wife, was there as well to assist, and they both had such calm and professional demeanors throughout the entire day. The morning of the wedding was busy (to put it mildly), but Aury effortlessly blended right in and captured the moments as they happened. Tara was an amazing support and help as well. She made sure we didn’t miss any of the pictures from the list I had made, as well as helped with body and veil positioning. I don’t recall Aury taking a break, besides trying to sneak in a bite of steak here and there for dinner- he literally took pictures for close to the entire 10 hour day, which I think is incredible.
We received our digital photos within a few weeks from the wedding and were so immensely happy with how they turned out. I looked at them all every night for weeks after. The icing on the cake was coming home recently to find a package on our front step from Aury. Inside was a beautiful wooden box filled with some of our favorite photos, as well as a wood encased USB drive of all our photos.
Ultimately, I would 100% recommend Aury to be your wedding day photographer!
We had Aury do both our engagement and wedding. We are extremely grateful for the job he did, and how accommodating Aury was to work with, especially during covid-19. Aury captur...
ed our special moments with grace and poise, without us even knowing he was there (ceremony and reception). We also are extremely happy with how helpful Aury's wife was during the wedding day, she went above and beyond fixing the little details for each photo. Overall 100/100 would recommend Aury for your special day or event. Our photos turned out amazing!
Aury has exceed my expectations on every level! Along with many other brides, I booked my wedding for this summer but along came COVID. Aury has been extremely understanding, flexi...
ble, and very responsive throughout the 1,000 changes trying to plan and then re-plan a wedding. He was fun to work with on our big day and did an absolutely fantastic job capturing all the candid moments and also guiding us with the posed photos. The pictures turned out absolutely amazing. I will hire Aury again for all professional photography needs in the future, hands down.
Aury did an amazing job photographing our wedding. He was able to capture the personality and pure emotion during every part of our day. He was so flexible and understanding with a...
ll of our changes due to COVID. I have looked through our wedding photos countless times and I am STILL finding new favorites. Aury is incredible talented and I can't wait to work with him again at our reception next year! Thank you, Aury!
My wedding date has yet to arrive but I wanted to post so that other brides who are faced with issues due to COVID know that they have found their photographer. We originally picke...
d Aury G Photography because he was competitively priced and had great photos, we loved his style. Since COVID hit, our plans have changed about five hundred times due to family, constant regulation changes, and just planning a wedding during this crazy time. Each time I had to message him to say hey it's changed again and I've felt absolutely ridiculous (how many times can you re-decide something? Apparently a lot). Regardless of this Aury has been 100% in, super flexible, offering advice when asked and over all I feel lucky to work with such a wonderful person. You can tell he truly cares about making your day special. If plans aren't firm, if you're not sure what your day will look like but know you want to get married and need a photographer please reach out to him. He will be working with us this year for our intimate wedding 5/29/20 and again next year for our large wedding. I know my five stars won't change and I'll also be sure to post a review on his Facebook page as well.
Aury did such a beautiful job capturing our wedding. We are so in love with our pictures, he was wonderful to work with and we got our pictures back so fast! Which is definitely a...
n added bonus 😁 100% recommended! Getting the personalized gift box with the flashdrive and some photos printed off was a wonderful addition.
Aury and Tara photographed our wedding last weekend and they were so wonderful to work with! I can guarantee they documented our day in all of its essence and authenticity. Aury wa...
s straight forward on pricing and I appreciated that. He also does a great job of trying to understand what you are looking for from them before the event. They both were so wonderful to have as a part of our day and we could not imagine anyone else being there to photograph the most intimate moments of the start of our lives together. We cannot thank you guys enough!
Aury is so, so, so good! The pictures we received were gorgeous and captured parts of the day that I'll want to remember along with parts I didn't even know happened! He was prof...
essional yet easy going and clearly knew his stuff, and the turnaround compared to friends of ours that have gotten married was ridiculously fast. It was nice to know we were in good hands.
Aury captured our wedding 9/7/19. We absolutely love them. He does excellent work in capturing beautiful candids throughout the entire day. It was like reliving our wedding when we...
look at the pictures which is so important because the day just flies by. He is super quick in taking wedding portraits of the wedding party and does awesome work with just the bride and groom shots. Anything that is important to you is important to him. Be sure to take advantage of the paperwork he sends you before the wedding (questionnaire) as he works to get everything you have asked for. We have a wonderful gallery of photos that we will cherish forever. Not to mention our wedding day was cold and rainy and we had to take on our plan b for our ceremony... but no worries, I think the pictures turned out better than they would have been with our initial plan.
Thank you so much Aury G Photography!
Aury and Tara were amazing to work with on our wedding day. They are very calculated on the photos they take to make sure the are the best. They worked with our crazy schedule thro...
ughout the day, especially the many family photos before the ceremony. They both worked their tails off for 12 hours straight with little breaks to capture our most important day. We cannot reccomend them enough. Thank you Aury and Tara!
Brandon Warren and I hired Aury and his lovely wife, Tara, to photograph our wedding on 8/3/19. I have a lot of good things to say and I'll tell a longer story, but what you need t...
o know is that they are good at both the technical parts of their job and the communicative parts of their job which is very important when you're stressed before and during your wedding.
Being a photographer myself for a long time, I was very picky. Like most people, we still had a budget to stick to and I quickly became frustrated at how difficult it was to find wedding vendor pricing information. Everyone had an over-complicated form to fill out just to find out if they were in our budget at all, or even available on our date! I was having to send out details of our love story to everyone just to find out they were too expensive or already booked. It was exhausting to talk to so many people just to qualify them. When I was considering photographers, one of the most important things to me was to see an entire wedding they had shot. When you see more than just the absolute favorites, you can get a good idea of how they handle more difficult moments. Things like movement, indoor darkness. nighttime darkness, etc. Aury and Tara are great at moving around everyone without being in the way and still making sure to light everyone correctly. It's an extremely difficult task and I was let down by quite a few others whose personality I had initially loved and who's "best of" wedding galleries looked impressive. The thing that drew me to using Aury and Tara the most was that they was so straight forward right out of the gate. You can find wedding sessions right on his website and you don't have to tell your life story just to check dates and prices. On top of that, he was just as easygoing and straight-forward when we met in person. It's clear that he knows what he's doing and you won't have to think about it. As an added bonus, we got our wedding gallery back in about 2 weeks, which is very fast and we loved our images!
In conclusion, we strongly recommend Aury G Photography. Using them was low-stress and our images were beautiful, fun, and fast! Thank you Aury and Tara!
Aury and Tara are simply the best! They did such an incredible job for our wedding! The candid photos Aury got during our reception were our absolute favorite! Aury is so easy to w...
ork with and just a hands down nice guy! I highly suggest him for pictures!
Aury did an absolutely amazing job with both our engagement and wedding photos. The weather was pretty crappy on our big day but Aury made all the photos beautiful. He was also abl...
e to handle my big crazy family and get a decent shot of all 31 of us. He does 12 hours of coverage which is unbeatable. I can’t put into words how happy we are with our photos. So glad we chose Aury.
We are so glad we booked Aury to be our wedding photographer! He and his wife were professional and fun to work with, and the quality of the pictures we got were amazing. He even t...
rekked through a blizzard for our engagement photos. He was constantly documenting our wedding day and catching all of the little details. He has a talent for capturing both posed and candid photos. Finally, we received our wedding photos in only 2 weeks, which is incredible compared to the months it takes other photographers! Overall we could not recommend Aury more.
My partner Eric and I could not be happier with the amazing work Aury did photographing our reception! We did not have a traditional ceremony and did not have a dance either, was ...
just a formal dinner with family and friends (wedding size of about 80). Aury and Tara fit right in and were able to catch so many great moments throughout the night! They were both professional and worked with Eric and I to make sure they captured everything we had hoped for during the night. Aury has an amazing eye and was able to achieve so many great shots. It may sound odd, but I never thought that pictures could actually capture the atmosphere and the feeling of the moment, but his do. Looking through the pictures of our reception bring me right back to that joyous night and I couldn't be happier we were able to work with Aury!
If you’re scrolling through reviews like I always do, stop now! Aury is your guy!
My husband and I are not good in front of a camera, but you would never know that in Aury’s photog...
raphs. He made everything very easy and FUN! He is super nice, easygoing, and very talented! Also, his wife is the sweetest. Aury quickly understood our style and captured our wedding day perfectly. Our photos turned out incredible and we will cherish them forever.
Thank you so much, Aury.
EXCELLENT - I couldn't have asked for a better photographer for our wedding. Aury was helpful throughout the whole process and was quick to respond to any questions we had leading ...
up to our wedding day. He is wonderful at capturing the moment and we can't wait to cherish these wonderful pictures for years to come.
We were so unbelievably happy with Aury and his wife for our wedding! They were so fun to work with, laugh around, and from time to time make them feel awkward around our friends a...
nd family! We received our photos back within 2 weeks, which took us by surprise since there were so many - and we loved them all! I would recommend Aury to anybody, as he's professional as well as someone who you feel comfortable having a good time around and does an amazing job capturing those special moments!
Aury and his wife were so incredibly wonderful for our wedding photos. They were flexible, friendly, energetic, and overall a complete joy to work with. I highly recommend them for...
your wedding or any other professional photography needs.
AMAZING - words will not be able to describe how happy my husband and I are with Aury. My photos came back as perfect memories of our day not just staged photos. There were so many...
photos I didn't even realize he was taking. This allowed me to stay in the moment and not worry about how I was looking in a photo (which I think is everything you want in a wedding photographer). A great example of this is, my husband gave me letters to open before we got married. Aury captured a photo of all of this but the last one was my favorite. It is a view of the letter where you can see my husband's signature. It made me cry because it brought me right back to opening such a sweet gift and how excited I was to walk down that aisle to marry him. I am so happy with everything and it makes it even better that Aury and his wife are truly wonderful people. They are so sweet and kind. We are so happy we were able to share our day with them! Best ever!!!!! Thank you so much Aury!
Aury was great for my wedding!! We got married on an island up north and that alone comes with its own challenges, plus it’s not a normal wedding venue. Aury was great and the cand...
ids he got throughout the day are the best (especially during the dance!)
Aury did a great job with our wedding photos! We absolutely love them. He did a great job capturing both formal pictures and in the moment ones. He is super calm and easy to work w...
ith--the best combination on a emotional day like a wedding! Also, he worked with us to get a custom package; adjusting the number of hours and features we wanted. Would highly recommend. Thanks Aury for being a part of our day!
Aury is hands down amazing! Our pictures turned out better then ever imagined and he was awesome to work with. So glad we made the choice we did and are happy we have fantastic pic...
tures to look back at for years to come!
Aury and his wife Tara are spectacular! They shot our wedding in what felt like a million degree weather and 100 mph wind, but the pictures turned out incredible. They are both ver...
y sweet and kind to work with as well. Our wedding pictures came back and I am obsessing over each and every one. He has such an eye for capturing not only the bride & groom/wedding party, but all of the guests as well.
Aury is a terrific wedding photographer. Our wedding was 100 degrees with 30mph wind, and you wouldn't know it by looking at the pictures.
One of his best talents is capturing can...
did photos, which were some of our favorites from the whole day.
If you're considering Aury, don't play yourself by looking at other photographers that might be a little cheaper, the quality of the photos speak for themselves. We couldn't be happier with how our wedding photos turned out.
Side note, if you want a 2nd shooter, Aury's wife Tara is also very talented and great to work with. Highly recommend.
Thanks Aury & Tara!
5 stars is not even close to the rating Aury and Tara deserve! This dynamite duo is full of creativity! They captured every moment better then we could have ever imagined for bo...
th our engagement photos and wedding photos. We have had an outrageous amount of compliments on our photos that Aury and Tara did, we feel incredibly blessed to have had them share in our best day ever! THEY ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aury and his beautiful wife Tara make for such an amazing team and I can't imagine having anyone else shoot our wedding. Aury has an amazing eye and is so creative! Not to mention ...
he is just such an awesome person and made it so fun to have our pictures taken. They are both so "go with the flow" and just genuinely incredibly kind. They were such a huge blessing to us and it was more than anything I could have ever hoped for.
Aury has an incredible talent for photography. I have been consistently blown away by his work. I love the male aspect of capturing our wedding as it is different from everything ...
I've seen in other photos. He loves to capture candid and in the moment photos, which I love. He does not charge on a time-limit which was important to us, and he was prompt at showing up to the salon when we had planned, and he stayed late into the dance. He was wonderful to have around and did not get frustrated with the wedding party as I have had experience with in the past with other photographers of weddings I've been in. Highly recommend!!!
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