About this vendor
You deserve wedding photos that feel like your day not staged, not forced, just real.
We’re an Albuquerque & Santa Fe wedding and portrait photography team capturing romantic, intimate weddings and elopements across New Mexico and Colorado. Our style is all about real moments the emotional, in-between ones, documented in a romantic, timeless way that actually feels like you.
From elegant hotel weddings to dreamy desert and mountain elopements, we offer a personalized experience so your photos reflect your story, not a template or trend. Whether you’re searching for an Albuquerque wedding photographer or a Santa Fe photographer for your destination celebration, we’re here to capture it all in a way that feels natural, effortless, and meaningful.
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
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
- Wedding Albums
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Lifestyle
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Wedding
Awards and Affiliations
3-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2023.2019.2018.
Best of Weddings
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4.9
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Where do I even begin? Bri is more than a photographer. She feels like family, and our wedding day made that clearer than ever.
From the very beginning, Bri showed up with a level ...
of thoughtfulness and care that went so far beyond just taking photos. She was thorough, detail-oriented, and always a step ahead. She helped me with the little things I knew I'd forget, and yes, she even helped me finally make up my mind about my shoes. Brown vs. ivory was a months-long debate she graciously saw through to the end.
What makes Bri truly incredible is the way she makes you feel on one of the most emotional, nerve-wracking, beautiful days of your life. She laughed with us, calmed my nerves, and made us feel like it was perfectly okay to be fully in our feelings because it was. She never tried to manufacture a moment. She just created the space for real ones to happen and then she caught them all.
Bri has watched our relationship grow, and somehow she has captured it in all its colors. The laughs, the tears, the nerves, the insecurities, the totally mushy gushy stuff. She saw us. All of us. And that is the greatest gift.
On your wedding day, you want someone who will truly see you, not just through a lens but as a person. Bri does that effortlessly. I cannot recommend her enough. She hasn't just captured our story. She's now a part of it.
We had the best time with Briana! She helped us feel so comfortable and relaxed during our engagement shoot and on our wedding day. Our photos turned out so beautifully. Highly, hi...
ghly recommend you hire Briana to capture your special day!
Briana and her team are photography wizards! The team worked together effortlessly and made the whole photo session a breeze. They were so efficient with the photos that we were ab...
le to get a good chunk of them done before the ceremony, which gave us more time to enjoy the day with our guests. They're very aware of how lighting and weather will affect the photos and were quick to think of a new location when our original one was too bright.
During the scheduled time for family portraits before the ceremony, another wedding was running long and taking photos in our location. The team was quick to adapt to that scheduling issue while making sure it didn't affect us.
If you're getting married in New Mexico (or anywhere for that matter!), we highly recommend Briana Nicole Photography for their amazing skills, great attitudes, and overall "fun to be around" vibes.
As you can see with all these glowing reviews, your choice of photographer should be this easy! Bri was easily the most highly talented, professional, and responsive vendor we had ...
for our wedding. We could not have been happier with her. She even helped the planner out with things during the event. Scheduling, coordinating, and communication were so smooth for both the engagement session and the wedding. We were the "we have no idea what we need pictures of" people, and she guided us clearly through the process and took really beautiful photographs of everything we could have requested. Our loved ones have had no issues ordering prints, and the whole process has been so smooth. We are so grateful.
Just book her already :) Briana is the best. From the very beginning, we have had the very best experience with her. We actually met her in 2020 when she did a mini session and we ...
still have those photos hanging in our house. Now in 2023, we will get to replace those with our wedding photos and I have a feeling we will continue to have her capture more of our big life events. Briana is professional, detailed, personable, SO stinking kind, and so good at her craft. She makes taking photos feel so easy and natural. It never felt like our day was centered around taking photos, but rather that she truly was capturing our day for what it was. She was so incredibly helpful when it came to finalizing our schedule and tailoring it so that we made sure we got all the family shots we wanted but also had time to just enjoy our day, I felt so at peace after we finalized that schedule! It was so clear that Briana is not only talented behind her camera but has so much experience and expertise to offer within the wedding industry. We will continue to recommend her over and over again :)
We could not be happier with Briana and her team. From the engagement photos to our big day, they were thoughtful and helpful with any question we had. She also communicated with o...
ur other vendors to make sure every thing was smooth and easy for us to enjoy our wedding. Our finished products, both the photos and video, are beyond anything we could have imaged to commemorate our special wedding day.
I don’t know if I can possibly sum up how amazing Briana and her team were on my wedding day in just one review. She went above and beyond for me to help my day be as flawless as p...
ossible, so much that she actually met a family friend in Abq before driving to Santa Fe to get my veil that I may have forgot at home, and was still early to my venue to be there while I got ready. She captured all of the sweet moments during all events, was extremely profession yet so welcoming and personable, making my entire wedding party feel extremely comfortable. Never once did she excluded any of the important little details. She captured the photo of my late father in my bouquet, even my reaction as they handed it over to me for the first time. She has a special eye and blessed me with very sentimental and true moments between me and my children. Looking back at my photos, I feel as if I’m living in the moment all over again. I can’t imagine having anyone else capture these precious and forever moments on my wedding day. So thank you Briana for being the special and talented woman that you are.
Briana and her team were so wonderful to work with! She was quick to respond and flexible with our needs. She made us feel so comfortable in front of the camera, and gave us the be...
st experience! I highly recommend her and her team for both photography and videography!
Briana was not only an outstanding professional photographer but also the MVP of our wedding vendors for our wedding in Santa Fe. We could not be happier with the photography and v...
ideography work done by Briana, Steven, and their team. We chose Briana over a few other photographers based on looking at her website, Instagram, and pricing options / packages. On the day of our wedding, she went above and beyond her duties as photographer and was a great professional presence to have on site. We fully recommend her services to future couples. One major plus was that engagement photos on Sandia Peak were included in the package. Both our engagement photos and the wedding photos are high quality, numerous, and priceless. We will cherish them forever! Check out Briana’s Instagram to see the many types of photography sessions she can do – not just weddings and engagements but family photos as well. She has a great eye for setting. If you want a classic New Mexico photo session, book her!
What an amazing and professional photographer Briana is!! I couldn’t have asked for a better photographer to capture one of the most important and beautiful days of my life. Not al...
so she was kind and patient but also very helpful with ideas and organization. I totally recommend her 100/10.
Truly could have not asked for more in a photographer! Briana is professional and easy to work with. She is organized and ensures she gets every photograph that you want and more. ...
She keeps everyone on track and makes sure things move efficiently. She is so personable and makes everyone feel comfortable, which leads to genuine smiles and laughs! We got a sneak peak for our engagement and wedding photos less than 48 hours after and our full galleries within weeks. The photos are absolutely perfect and something we will cherish forever. I couldn’t recommend Briana more!
Oh my goodness, Briana is the absolute BEST. She was the photographer at my wedding last weekend and not only is she a hopeless romantic, she has the experience and skill to captur...
e the perfect little details all the way to rounding up huge amounts of family members to take a photo with just the right amount of authority and grace. I would recommend her a hundred times over! She captured our day so perfectly, and we will cherish the photos she took forever 💕
I’m so thankful that I got to work with Briana this year. We came to her so stressed after having our wedding get hit by a hurricane. She made the most of our situation and capture...
d timeless photos that we’ll cherish for the rest of our lives. Brianna is so skilled at lighting, positioning her clients and bringing out the best of the environment you’re shooting in. I can’t express how delightful it was to work with her!
Briana did a wonderful job with our engagement and wedding photos. She brought a calm, confident air to our wedding. The turnaround time on the wedding photos, six weeks, was very ...
reasonable and we loved all the moments she captured! I highly recommend Briana.
Briana is an incredibly talented photographer. She captures the big moments (cake cutting, first dance) and the small (my dad seeing me for the first time, the flower girl giggling...
) in the most perfect ways. She was always so kind and professional. We received our photos quickly and loved every single one!
My husband and I found Briana after we encountered difficulties with our initial photographer. We booked her 4 months before our wedding and she was so nice and respectful and prof...
essional from the get-go. Our package included an engagement session, a gift box with printed pictures and a usb drive that included all of the edited images. We were worried we wouldn’t have time to do an engagement session, but Briana was super accommodating and we did our session at the Botanical Gardens. She captures true candid moments, which I absolutely love because it shows the real emotions that we are feeling in the moment. I didn’t realize how many pictures we would get back from our wedding, but we got a little over 750 edited images of the same poses with different edits so that we would have a variety. Briana and her team were so supportive and sweet during our wedding. We have absolutely loved working with her and truly loved our pictures. Our pictures take us back to our the magic of our wedding day and it makes me emotional, personally, every time I look at them. We would recommend her to anyone a million times over, regardless of the occasion.
Brianna was great when we met her, after that we didn’t hear from her till the day of the wedding. She took pictures of my husband writing his vows. When we finally got to look at ...
photos (six weeks later), his collar was sticking strait out. We had our ceremony and reception at the home, there was a brick wall and a pallet wall, all photos were taken in front of brick wall 🙁There is one to three close up photos that we liked, but out of 600+ photos, and $1700 later we have 32 photos (maybe) that we like, not even enough to fill our wedding album. I’m very much NOT impressed and saddened by the photos that we’ll NEVER have...
I couldn’t be more thankful for Briana and her team. They all were so involved and helpful on our big day. Even pryor to the wedding day Briana was so helpful! She helped me come ...
up with a wedding day time line that helped everything go as smooth as possible. If I ever had a question I knew I could just give her a call or text and she would be able to guide my through it. Aside from her amazing personality and support our pictures came out truly stunning! I am so thankful that I found such an amazing person to document our special day!
Briana is an absolute perfectionist! That is exactly what I was looking for in a photographer for my daughter's wedding. In the moment, so many things are going on during the wedd...
ing day prep. She handled everything so professionally in the middle of the chaos. She moved smoothly through everything she was doing. We took her direction and she didnt skip a beat from start to finish. Since wedding days are so busy, we lose track of the whirlwind we are in the middle of...... until Sneak Peek's are released... and then the entire Gallery... It is in those moments that you realize you had the perfect photographer who has amazing attention to detail, patience, creativity, experience and has successfully captured your Life Event that you can re-live every time you look back at the extra-special moments that will now be treasured forever! We are forever grateful to Briana for being the 'one' who did this for our family!
We have worked with Briana on multiple occasions and the work she provided us before our wedding was spectacular. On the big day, days after she just gave birth to her newest child...
, she was there and excited to get to work, showing her dedication and love for what she does. The details they captured were very impressive, and the color palette she uses is very impressive. We couldnt be happier with the moments she captured, and I would absolutely recommend her to anybody looking for pictures to get taken, for occasion.
Briana and Steven were amazing on our wedding day. They helped keep me calm while there was a storm going on right before our ceremony, and we’re so patient with our wedding party....
We will cherish our wedding photos forever, as all the moments that flew right by were captured beautifully. Not to mention Briana shot our wedding a week after having a baby. We are so thankful she was there on our special day, our photos are nothing short of amazing and we couldn’t be happier with our choice of photographer.
My wife and I were so blown away after seeing our Fall engagement photos, that we decided to upgrade our package to get a second engagement shoot in the Spring and the full-length ...
wedding video. Briana did an exceptional job at making our shoots both exciting and comfortable and worked incredibly well with her husband Steven (we can’t wait to see our wedding video!). I would say our experience with Briana and Steven was nothing short of perfect. We couldn’t have asked for a better photographer for our wedding and will be recommending them both to our friends and family!
When I started planning my wedding, I knew I had to find an amazing photographer to capture one of the most important days in my life. Briana, exceeded all of my expectations for a...
wedding photographer! She is definitely a master at her craft. We are so in LOVE with our wedding photos and engagement photos. My husband and I met Briana for coffee to plan our engagement and wedding photos. Immediately it felt like we had been friends for years. She made us feel comfortable and we just clicked. You can depend on Briana to go above and beyond for your special day! She was taking photos in the August heat while pregnant on our wedding day!!! We are also so appreciative for her husband Steven, who was the videographer. They make a great team! I highly recommend Briana for any significant event that you want photographed!
Briana and her husband Steven are AMAZING. We met Briana over coffee and immediately she was so easy to talk to. She’s reasonably priced, great at communicating and her work is bea...
utiful! Months before the wedding, Briana let us know that she was pregnant and the due date was so close to the wedding that there was a chance she may not be able to go. She gave us a few options, but we loved working with her so we decided to just keep her as our photographer and see what happened (she did tell us that she would have a backup photographer ready just in case!). She had her baby less than a WEEK before the wedding and she still came and stayed throughout most of the night! We got a sneak peek of our wedding photos within the same weekend and they are beautiful, I can’t wait to see the rest and our wedding video. So if you are looking for a sweet, hardworking, and dedicated photographer, I would highly recommend Briana! (And her husband Steven for videography!)
Briana and her crew were awesome to work with on our wedding day. They were there early, worked all day long, and even went as far as picking cactus out of my dress. Briana was 7 m...
onths pregnant and it did not affect her work ethic at all!!! I got a sneak peek within 24 hours and loved every single picture! She’s professional and does great work. Highly recommend!
Briana was amazing to work with from start to finish. She was quick to respond to questions and always kept me in the loop. She is amazing at what she does and her style of photogr...
aphy is exactly what I wanted when looking for photographers to capture our big day. She traveled to Mexico to capture our Cancun wedding and I am so glad I chose her and her husband to document our special day. Our pictures were absolutely beautiful and I couldn't have asked for a better video. Super pleased with everything and we highly recommend Briana and will continue to use her to capture future live events.
Briana was amazing every step of the way. From our initial meeting to the day of the wedding she was super attentive and a delight to work with. We knew finding a photographer was ...
going to be pricey but briana was surprisingly affordable and worth every penny. Our photos came out amazing. Every single one of them are perfect. We honestly can't decide which ones to print and frame! There's no one better to hire for your event if you want stunning photos both candid and posed. Thank you for capturing our day so perfectly!
Our pictures came out amazing! Will use Briana for future projects. If you’re looking for an amazing photographer , look no further. You will find everything you need and more with...
Briana! Thank you so much for making this experience one to remember!
Briana has been our photographer ever since we began dating... from our first year photos, to our engagement photos! Then finally, she captured my dream day so perfectly. She gets ...
to know you & truly invests time & effort into capturing who you & your spouse are as a couple! I was in awe of my wedding pictures! Thank you, Briana, for being so amazing & thoughtful in your gift!
Briana was amazing! I was very pleased with my wedding and engagement photos and I absolutely loved how fun and easy she was to work with. She made everything go so smoothly. She ...
is so talented and has such a great eye! Thanks again Briana your awesome :)
When we were searching for our vendors, photography was one of the most important. We met with multiple photographers and finally found Briana. We knew right away that she was the ...
one! We used Briana for our Engagement & Wedding pictures. Our photos are INCREDIBLE! We have received so many compliments on our photos! Briana has a keen eye for detail, plays on natural lighting beautifully and captured our most special moments. Not only does she take amazing photos, but she is also a wonderful person! She was so easy and fun to work with! Her assistant, Steven, was also so fun to work with! I highly recommend Briana Nicole Photography and will definitely use her for all of our future photo needs!
Briana was so nice and patient with us since the beginning. I had a lot of questions all throughout the process and she was always nice and prompt. She is so talented and everyone ...
loves every single photo she took. She is so great. I am already trying to think of another excuse to have her take pictures. Highly recommended!
Briana is focused and extremely talented.
It's always a good feeling when a photographer is not only great at what she does, but a genuine person as well! Briana truly made my engagement and wedding photo experience better...
than I could have ever imagined. I also have to give props to her husband/videographer, Steven, too! He was so sweet to work with and they make a great team. Briana is so easy to communicate with, which anyone planning a wedding can appreciate. It rained like crazy on our wedding day but she was flexible and captured amazing photos despite the weather. We love her and her work! I highly recommend her for any of your special moments
Briana was a wonderful wedding photographer for our wedding in July, 2016. We walked away from that exciting time in our lives with beautiful engagement, bridal, and wedding pictur...
es we will cherish forever. Her prices were very reasonable for our budget. She lived about an hour and a half from us and met me at my choice location every time no questions asked. We had a great time getting to show her around eastern, NC. She is a great person to work with. I get compliments all the time for my pictures displayed on my desk at work. My favorite thing about working with Briana was the super quick turn around time she had for all my pictures. It made all my wedding preparations so much easier for everyone! We can't thank her enough for capturing all the wonderful moments during that time in our lives!
Briana is one amazing photographer! She made my day extra special and I walked away with some outstanding photos! She was the BEST price around and was WORTH EVERY PENNY! I am not ...
one to brag on someone unless they are worth it, and she definitely is. I have some of the most breathtaking pictures and I am truly grateful she was my photographer for my day. I would recommend her to anyone and I suggest you see her work because you will want her for you day as well!
Briana has seen our photographer for many special occasions and we just love her! She is very fast at responding messages and your photos are ready in a timely manner. She listens ...
to all of your ideas and gives you advice as well. She did such an incredible job on our wedding photos and captured every single magical moment. Highly recommend her for your special day!
Briana was professional, conscious of my preferences and she has a great ssystem for managing communication and payments. I didn't feel the stress that many of my friends felt wit...
h their photographer choices. Her images looked magazine worthy. Choose Briana for quality photography at a great local value!!!!
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