About this vendor
Carleigh Michelle Photography is a wedding photography company based in St. Louis, MO. Owner Carleigh began her photography journey back in 2010. Since then, she's covered hundreds of weddings, and she feels there's nothing quite like seeing two people make a promise to meet the future together. The pure joy of a wedding celebration still gets her every time.
Carleigh isn't just incredibly talented; she's also wonderfully down-to-earth and dependable. Her zest for life is apparent to everyone who meets her. Whatever you need, you can be sure she'll always be there, ready to answer questions, provide reassurance, or provide a helping hand and a shoulder to lean on.
Carleigh Michelle Photography wants to help you turn your day's precious moments into memories you can keep and treasure forever. Carleigh offers a range of packages to choose from, and she would be happy to discuss your plans and find a package that suits your particular needs. She invites you to reach out to her for more information, and she can't wait to meet you and get started.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Photo Shoot Types
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
- Trash The Dress
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Photo
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Dramatic
- Lifestyle
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Reviews
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5
out of 5.051 reviews
Carleigh did such a lovely job with our wedding photos that I involuntarily smile every time I look at them. She was great at keeping us chill even though we were running a bit beh...
ind and she gave excellent direction for the photos. She was also super responsive to questions in the weeks leading up to the wedding. My husband and I are so happy with how everything turned out and our friends and family love our pictures!
I will never use another photographer again! Carleigh is hands down the best! We used her for our engagement pictures and wedding and was blown away with our pictures both times. S...
he is fantastic at capturing the best angles, faces, poses, etc. If you are like me and need help with posing, Carleigh will guide you! She makes taking pictures so fun and easy. Definitely recommend Carleigh Michelle Photography!!
Carleigh was absolutely amazing and went above and beyond to make sure she captured all aspects of our wedding day! Communication was always quick and easy and the photos turned ou...
t better than I could have imagined. I highly recommend working with Carleigh.
If you're in need of a photographer, then look no further! Carleigh was so sweet and fun to work with, and she really made us feel comfortable during our engagement session, as wel...
l as on our wedding day! She made sure to get all the photos we asked for, and threw in some of her own artistic vision as well. TRUST HER PROCESS!!! Our engagement and wedding previews look absolutely gorgeous, and we cannot wait to see the rest once they are ready! Carleigh truly cares about your wedding and you can just feel the love and passion in her work. We could not have asked for a better photographer!
Carleigh was incredible! As soon as we met the day of our wedding it was like she was an old friend. She made us feel very comfortable and was confident in her skills and able to d...
irect our bridal party as needed (including our four dogs!!). She was very professional and calming, which is needed on your big day. Her portfolio is incredible, packed with candid “real” moments. We can’t wait to get our wedding photos back!
We're so happy we chose Carleigh as our photographer for our engagement photos and both wedding days! We postponed our original plans due to COVID, but she was flexible and capture...
d beautiful photos of our brief private ceremony, then almost a year later photographed the full wedding day we'd planned. She's so easy to communicate with, friendly, worked really well with our videographer, and of course the photos are stunning. Her packages were a great value also compared to other vendors we'd looked at. You won't regret booking Carleigh!
Carleigh is wonderful!! She makes taking pictures feel so easy, almost like a good friend is taking pictures of you. She made us feel comfortable right away. Which is important whe...
n working with someone like my husband and I, we don’t always take great pictures! There were so many last minute changes with covid but she and I both rolled with them, and she was great at keeping me updated and making sure I was taken care of. She’s also soo easy to communicate with and responds almost immediately. Plus, her pictures are stunning!! Look no further for an amazing photographer!
Carleigh is absolutely exceptional. From the moment we met her at our engagement shoot we knew our wedding day was in great hands. Last minute, Carleigh’s partner (our second shoot...
er) came down with covid and Carleigh had to photograph our wedding by herself. With such little notice she was able to work around our contract so we could utilize her full services. Look no further if you’re looking for a top notch photographer!
If you’ve been searching for a photographer and stumbled upon Carleigh, just stop looking and book her now! She is AMAZING and makes magic happen. I can’t say enough about how kind...
, passionate, and skilled she is. We used her for our engagement photos as well as our wedding and she went above and beyond for us during each event. Her second photographer, Sam, is also so amazing and bends over backwards for you as well. They both put you at ease and make everything so fun and seamless which in turn makes for great photos! She’s also extremely responsive which I loved. We had nothing but great experiences with Carleigh since day one.
Carleigh was amazing! Our engagement photos turned out perfect! She made us feel so comfortable! I cannot wait to work with her on our wedding day!
We just had our engagement photos with Carleigh and they were absolutely amazing. She is professional, personable, and made us extremely comfortable in front of the camera. The pic...
tures were better than I could have imagined and she got them to us extremely fast! We can't wait for her to capture our big day! 10/10 would recommend.
Carleigh did an absolutely amazing job with both our engagement and wedding photos. She was totally professional while shooting in venues she had never been in before. She is a tho...
rough and quick communicator and just all around kind person! Would absolutely hire her again
Carleigh was so great to work with, especially during a stressful time like covid. She worked with us while having to change dates and helped us through the details of the wedding ...
day as neither of us had much experience with weddings (she even put hubby's boutonniere on for him because he wasn't sure how). We love how our pictures turned out!
I don’t even think I can put into words how amazing Carleigh is! She made me feel so beautiful on my wedding day and she captured my husband my daughter and myself in a spectacular...
way. You can really tell how much love and work she puts into every single shot. She is so talented and so sweet you will not be disappointed!
Carleigh is the absolute best! She’s professional, flexible and great to work with! She’s helped me so much from having to reschedule our wedding because of Covid, to figuring out ...
our day-of timeline. Not to mention the quality of her photos! She’s amazing at what she does and makes you feel comfortable and confident. I HIGHLY recommend her!
Carleigh was amazing! I highly recommend her. We used her for both our engagement and wedding photos. She’s so much fun to work with and great at coming up with really creative sho...
ts. She even worked with us when we had to change our wedding date. My husband and I are so glad we went with Carleigh. We couldn’t be happier with how our pictures turned out.
Carleigh was absolutely amazing to work with! Very flexible and accommodating. She took amazing photos of us during our engagment session and beautiful pictures again of us with ou...
r puppy! Could not recommend her enough!
Carleigh is photographing my wedding on 10/2/21 and I wouldn’t choose anyone else. She photographer my fiancé and me before for our anniversary two years ago and we are still in lo...
ve with those pictures. She goes above and beyond tor her clients and I wouldn’t choose anyone else to photograph our special day! ❤️
Carleigh was extremely helpful and patient with me on our wedding day! She just kept saying yes all day with the constant changes and I don’t knows that we came across. I had no id...
ea how to stand for pictures and feel that I’m pretty awkward and you would never know in these photos! She was very friendly to all our guests, very punctual, extremely professional, and just a true joy to spend our special day with. Her editing skills are amazing and our wedding photos will forever be cherished in our home!!
Carleigh is the most amazing, fun, and professional photographer I've ever gotten to work with! She turned our story into memories that we will be able to remember forever! We were...
lucky enough to have our dog with us at both the engagement and wedding pictures, and Carleigh guided us into getting the best pictures with our pup! If you want someone who is fun, kind, and will be there for every step of your wedding Carleigh is your girl! I can't wait to use her for more pictures in the future!
Carleigh is your go to girl!! We have now done 3 engagement sessions with her because she is so talented and amazing! Totally wish she was available for our wedding, she is that go...
od! If you’re thinking about booking her, I 1,000% recommend her!
We loved working with Carleigh - she was so cheerful, calm, and professional from start to finish. She was accommodating of all our requests, had a sense of humor when unexpected t...
hings came up, and kept our family/friends focused and on track during the photo session. Our pictures are gorgeous (like, I keep looking at myself and annoyingly announcing, “Look how pretty I look!”), and we will cherish them. Highly, highly recommend Carleigh!
Carleigh was a delight to work with. I located Carleigh on the knot and instantly knew I wanted to use her! Carleigh drove to meet me for a consult at a location about 5 minuets fr...
om my home, and was super patient even when I had to bring my two small children to the visit! She answered every question I had promptly and always re-assured me that everything was going to be okay, even when my panic wasn’t photography related. Carleigh braved the cold and dusting to produce beautiful winter engagement photos and did not disappoint the day of the wedding! I can’t wait to use Carleigh for family photos in the future and would highly recommend her to everyone for their wedding!
Carleigh is literally the most awesome, talented and comfortable photographer I’ve ever met!!! Her hard work, dedication and eye for beauty is unmatched!! She is the best of the be...
st and I couldn’t ask for anyone better! I am always amazed by all of her work and would want her for all of our photo needs, she’s not in your face or overbearing either, and that’s so important. She captures the moments while letting you enjoy them! She did our wedding photos yesterday and I am in constant awe at every picture, not to mention how quick she is!!!!! I love this girl and so will you, she will not disappoint!
Carleigh is simply put AMAZING! Super awesome to work with. Goes above and beyond what she does to capture the best moments and is overall just a super awesome person. The photo...
s of are wedding are absolutely perfect and couldnt have asked for a better photographer. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
Carleigh is BEYOND amazing. Not only is she the sweetest person to be around, she is so professional and unbelievably talented. I instantly knew Carleigh would be my wedding photo...
grapher after our first meeting together. She is organized, experienced, and so personable. She made our day so fun AND relaxing. I could not be happier with how all of our pictures came out, she did an incredible job!
Carleigh is amazing!!! Our wedding pictures are something that we will always cherish!! She has tons of great ideas and is so easy to work with. So glad we found her!!
Carleigh’s work is absolutely amazing. After we received our photos, we had multiple friends ask who our photographer was because she does such great work. Her prices are incredibl...
e also and you cannot go wrong with her. Book her ASAP!!
Carleigh’s photography is unlike any I’ve seen in STL. It’s moody and intimate and she doesn’t over expose the images like most photographers do nowadays. She’s super cool and easy to work with. Run- do not walk to book her for anything you need. I had the worst spray time of my life for our engagement photos and Carleigh reassured me everything would be okay. I literally cried when I saw our photos because they were so gorgeous.
Love Carleigh Michelle Photography! I got my engagement pictures and wedding pictures done by her and she does amazing work. Not only is her work amazing she is the sweetest person...
, professional, and will go above and beyond to please her clients. She was super helpful on my wedding day helping with coordinating, reminding me of things, and even taking some of my decorations with her to the reception hall. I would 100% recommend her as a photographer!
Carleigh has been there since day one with our engagement pictures to the wedding. She was extremely helpful along the way and a lot of fun to work with. She listened to what we w...
anted and even let us get a little adventures with some of the pictures. I could not have asked for a better photographer to capture our big day! We got a sneak peek and just the few we got to see are awesome and we can't wait to see the rest!!
Carleigh was BEYOND amazing! She is literally the sweetest person and so easy to work with! She was great at communicating with me regularly which included me randomly texting or c...
alling her with questions or ideas, haha. Our photos are beyond beautiful and I am so thankful she was there to capture our day. BOOK HER!!!! You won't regret it!
Carleigh is seriously the best wedding photographer out there, hands down. BOOK HER! She’s incredibly talented, gives helpful directions when you don’t quite know how to pose, and ...
was SUPER speedy in getting photos back from our engagement shoot. The best choice you’ll make!
You need to use Carleigh as your photographer! Our wedding day was the best day ever, and the amazing photos she took really brought everyone back to that great day. I can't say en...
ough good things about her. She made sure everything went smoothly and really went above and beyond for us. She got there early to make sure everything was ready to go, including making sure the groom was ready on time. She is also so talented and easy to work with. Carleigh made everyone feel so comfortable. She was truly amazing and we would use her again in a heartbeat!
Carleigh is so incredibly talented! My fiancé and I just had our engagement pictures done. She was very flexible, patient with my crazy dog, and easy to work with! This gal really ...
knows what she’s doing! Not to mention we got our pictures back the SAME DAY! They are so beautiful and we cannot wait for her to capture our wedding day because we know they will be breathtaking. Thank you, Carleigh!
My husband and I had the pleasure of having Carleigh shoot our engagement photos as well as our wedding day. From the moment we had our first meeting we could tell that she was goi...
ng to take great care of us. She was very thorough and asked a lot of questions to make sure she understood what is was that we were looking for. When it came to our wedding day she was very organized and timely. We were able to get all the shots that we wanted as well as some last minute silly ones. After seeing the sneak peek of our big day we are super excited to see the rest! Thank you so much Carleigh for capturing our big day!
We are so happy we chose Carleigh to be our wedding photographer! We had her take our engagement pictures and we just knew we needed her to capture our wedding day for us! Neither ...
my husband nor I are very photogenic so in general, I'm always worried about how our pictures will turn out, but she gave such good direction during the pictures and had so many great shot ideas that it's actually hard for me to choose a favorite picture from our wedding day. She is so easy and fun to work with, we will definitely always use her for our future photographer needs!
Carleigh is the best wedding photographer and is absolutely perfect!! Both our engagement photos and wedding photos turned out better than we could have imagined! She really knows ...
how to capture the best photos and is 100% willing to work with you on photos you really want! Our wedding day flowed perfectly, we ended up doing a first look and after that we knocked out all of our photos including our wedding party photos prior to the ceremony! Carleigh was a joy to be with on our big day we all chatted like best friends and I couldn’t have imagined a better, more relaxing experience!
I can not rave enough about Carleigh. She was so calm and organized on our big day! Every photo she took was very intentional and emotional. Her photography captured every special ...
moment of our wedding day. Carleigh stands out above other photographers that we have had in the past because of her originality! She was full of fun ideas for creative photos.
She withstood extreme cold for our engagement photos, and extreme heat on our wedding day.
Carleigh - thank you for everything that you do. We will treasure these photos forever. You truly captured our relationship!
As everyone has previously stated, your big day really flys by! It's definitely emotional yet magical at the same time. I wouldn't have chose anyone else to capture this day for us...
. Carleigh was such a joy and laid back during our wedding. She was very helpful and made sure we got the best shots possible. I would tell anyone they are silly for not choosing her. She doesn't just provide pictures but a since of excitement knowing she is producing exactly what we want. Keep it up Carleigh! Maddie says thanks 😁
We met Carleigh at the Kimmswick Wedding Show and instantly fell in love with her. I don't know what was better, her personality or her work! The planning process was extremely sim...
ple. I would send her pictures from Pinterest and she would make them happen while keeping the wedding party in line. The turnaround time has been the fastest out of all photographers that I have ever used. She is all around a phenomenal photographer and we continue to use her as our family photographer.
Carleigh was an amazing photographer. For my wedding, photography was one of the most important things to me for my wedding and Carleigh exceeded my expectations. She was so creati...
ve and intentional in her shots. Not only did she capture amazing shots, she returned our wedding photos in half the time we expected. We spent months looking for a photographer and I'm so glad we choose her to capture our special day.
My wedding day was, without a doubt- the best day of my life! And Carleigh was able to capture every moment and emotion with her beautiful photography. We had an outdoor ceremony w...
here it rained, no POURED, and she was still able to take absolutely perfect photographs. It’s been a little over a year since that day, and I still look at the pictures on my walls and feel overwhelmed with love. That’s what Carleigh does. She captures your love story. If I could rate her more than 5 stars- I would! She’s professional, creative, and everything you could ever want in your wedding day photographer!
I can not say enough great things about Carleigh! She was so responsive to me with every change and detail that I added for the wedding! I went from booking her for 5 hours to 7 an...
d she did it no problem!! She was amazing to work with and made everyone relaxed and have fun while taking photos in Missouri heat and humidity. She was the best investment to my wedding!! When I started my wedding planning, I was scared because of all these photo pricing but was so thankful when I found Carleigh because her style is absolutely gorgeous and in budget!! I have gotten a preview of my photos and LOVE them, so excited to get the rest back!! Good luck and happy wedding planning to all you brides! Take this stress off and book with Carleigh, I recommend her to everyone!
Choosing Carleigh as our wedding photographer was a no-brainer! She met with us beforehand to get a feel for what we wanted and then on the Big Day she made it so easy to relax and...
enjoy the day! And the photos? Perfection. The style and the overall feel of them is so stunning. I absolutely wholeheartedly recommend her!
Carleigh was a huge part in making my husband and I’s day so very special. People don’t always tell you this but not everything on your wedding day goes as planned, and Carleigh ro...
lled with some changes we had to make last minute at our wedding. She helped keep me calm in those last few moments before I walked down the aisle and while I was preparing to marry the love of my life. Carleigh is an incredible photographer but she is first and foremost a genuine person that wants to make your wedding day special and memorable. Carleigh did our engagement photos as well as our wedding photos and they were everything we could have asked for and more. She was willing to drive an hour to my family’s property to get our pictures taken by our lake because it was something I had always wanted. We immediately booked her for our wedding photos and they turned out so beautiful. Carleigh is great with giving direction and keeping everyone at ease and has fun with your wedding party. I would not recommend anyone else but her because she’s amazing!
Carleigh was absolutely amazing on our wedding day! It was so hot that day and she was a trooper with us trying to get the best shots possible. My husband and I (and our families) ...
were very pleased with the finished photos. She was very reasonable priced as well! Definitely recommend!
If I could give Carleigh a million stars it wouldn’t be enough. Her work is incredible. She caught every moment in such a beautiful way. The option of having a second photographer ...
was great as well. What we received for the price we payed was well worth it. I would, and do, recommend her to everyone. Not only was her work on our wedding day spectacular, but from the moment we went with her, until after we got our photos, she was there for anything and everything we needed. I am so appreciative of her and I will use her again for our next adventure. Thank you, Carleigh.
Carleigh Michelle Photography was by far the best investment for our wedding! We were beyond impressed with her professionalism, her eye for the perfect pictures, and her eagerness...
to make the day forever memorable. We've had numerous compliments on all of our photos, and even had a couple use her for their wedding. If you want unbelievably beautiful wedding photos that you can forever treasure, she's the person for you.
Photography was the first thing we booked after getting engaged and Carleigh was our first go to! Not only was she the easiest, most thorough person to work with, but I went into m...
y wedding day with no worry on photography because I knew she would work magic. Not only was every picture absolutely perfect, we got them so quickly!!! The day after our wedding we already had previews:) I recommend her to every engaged couple I come across! Thank you Carleigh for capturing our day so perfectly
Although it’s so cliche to tell someone their wedding day will fly by, it is so very true. You spend months and sometimes years planning for this one day that feels to be over in a...
matter of minutes. When the day is over, the decorations are gone, the cake is eaten, what are you left with? For me it was a blur of a magical day but let me tell you, after seeing my wedding photos it brought back every moment. Hearing my husband read his hand-written vows, dancing with my dad, seeing all of my family crying of happiness... every memory was brought back in these pictures. Carleigh captures these moments that you sometimes can’t even put into words. We’ve been married about a year and a half and I still cry looking through our photos. She has such a true and uncanny talent, I can’t imagine anyone else taking photos of big moments in my life. These are not your average cookie-cutter wedding photos either, she can bring your style and personality into photos unlike many photographers nowadays. I will continually recommend her as a photographer as she gave me one of the greatest gifts of my life; memories of one of the best days of my life.
If you are searching for a photographer, Carleigh Michelle Photography will not disappoint you!
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