About this vendor
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Thanks for checking out my page! Would love to discuss details about your special day! Photography has been a passion of mine since I was just a kid! Couples and weddings are what I live for! Bring me all the ideas you want and together let's take some awesome photos!
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Business Attributes
- LGBTQ+-owned Business
Photo Shoot Types
- Engagement
Photo & Video
- Photo
Photo & Video Styles
- Classic
- Lifestyle
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Wedding
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Ben and Kelsey did such an amazing job capturing our wedding! Ben was extremely easy to communicate with throughout the planning process. They were fun and professional and were a ...
dream to work with! We also got our photos back so quickly which was an extra special surprise. Thank you so much!
Few words can describe how incredible of an experience my wife and I have had using Ben as our go-to photographer for all occasions. My wife hired Ben to take her senior photos in ...
high school and we just recently hired him to shoot our engagement photos and our wedding. He has a natural eye for a good photo and can adapt quickly to new settings, conditions, and environments. Despite being young, he has a lot of experience and a breadth of knowledge in great locations for photoshoots. Even if he’s shot at a location many times, your photos will still feel unique and personal.
Perhaps the best part of hiring Ben as your photographer is his personality. He’s easy to befriend, personable, and is incredible with kids. He’s very patient and if it weren’t for his easy-going persona, I’d have been a nervous mess during all our photoshoots. Rather, I recall commenting to my wife how genuinely enjoyable it was to get our photos done with Ben. It felt less like a “to-do” or a chore and much more like an experience.
But of course, you hire a photographer for the results. And the results are stunning. I don’t generally enjoy looking at pictures of myself but Ben’s photos feel less like looking at pictures of yourself and more like reliving moments in time. He has a such a knack for capturing the beauty of a moment.
Perhaps the best part is that he gives you lifetime access to all the full-resolution digital copies of all the photos he took/edited. There may be a premium for this built into his fees, but compared to other photographers I’ve used who charge exorbitant fees for each digital copy you want to acquire, this is a probably still a steal.
To say Ben is a photographer is to say Picasso was a painter: he’s one of the friendliest, most talented, and natural artistic professionals I’ve ever met, and if you want a photographer that won’t leave you disappointed, Ben is your guy.
Ben was our photographer for our wedding and WOW did he and his assistant go above and beyond for us! They were both super heroes the whole day- from delivering one of our dresses,...
fixing our trains, and making sure everything ran smoothly for us, they were fantastic from beginning to end! When we got our photos back we were absolutely blown away! Ben is so talented and he captured our day perfectly as we knew he would!! Ben and Kelsey are both so great to work with, we would HIGHLY recommend them for your special occasion! Thank you again for helping make our day perfect!
Ben is the absolute best. He is so wonderful and easy to work with. The pictures were gorgeous and exactly what we were looking for. We have received so many compliments on our pic...
tures. Ben also did an AMAZING job dealing with my very large, loud and crazy family. I would 100% recommend him to any couple!!
Ben was amazing to work with. He made us feel so comfortable, and his work is absolutely stunning. Would 1,000 times book Ben over and over again. Highly recommend.
The best photographer you will find. I knew I wanted Ben to do my wedding photos the first time I ever saw one of his images, long before I ever met my husband. He’s so talented, s...
o easy to work with, worth every single penny. People have raved to me about how wonderful our engagement and wedding pictures pictures are. His assistant, Kelsey, is also just as amazing. They work so seamlessly together and make you so comfortable in front of the camera! I cannot recommend them enough!
Amazing! Our wedding was this past Saturday and we already have all our pictures back. He was so much fun all day and really captured every picture we wanted and then some!
Ben is phenomenal! He made us feel so comfortable and natural throughout both our engagement and wedding pictures. He takes amazing photos and has a great personality to go with it...
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Benjamin was amazing to work with from the very start of the process to the end. We met Benjamin for a coffee meeting to discuss what we were looking for in a photographer. He went...
over every question in full and we left with no worries on our mind. We ended up booking Benjamin for our engagement photos and wedding photos. Our engagement photos had to be split into two different sessions due to a football game in Ames. While it was not planned Benjamin was very open and willing to have another session so we could get photos where we wanted.
The wedding day. This is one day you want to make sure your photos are amazing, and they were. I made a timeline for Benjamin and he made sure to stick to the timeline and get all photos desired. Benjamin even stayed beyond the original departure time planned so he could get a couple last minute shots.
I cannot say enough about our overall experience with Benjamin. This was one stress I was not worried about the day of the wedding due to his professionalism.
Contact
120 W Broad St, Story City, IA
Benjamin Gruwell Photography