My now wife and I decided to elope to NYC on very short notice. We quickly googled around and found Cynthia. She emailed us back very quickly, and we soon scheduled a video call to discuss details. She was not only very bubbly, friendly, and do...wn-to-earth, but also extremely helpful and insightful. We talked through our thoughts and ideas and she provided very helpful insight and helped talk us through some necessary changes to our plans as well as offering several good options for hotels, photo and ceremony locations, and even several good officiators. She also let us know of some of the legal stuff we would need to look into and answered our questions about COVID restrictions in NYC. Overall, she was extremely knowledgeable and helpful.
Despite the fairly short-notice, she was able to fit us and our ceremony in to her schedule. She was also very flexible! When we booked her, we knew the day we were going to have the ceremony, but we hadn’t finalized the ceremony time or location as we still had to confirm the time with the officiate and we needed to see the hotel balcony in person to see if it would be big enough or if we’d have to use a spot in Central Park that
Cynthia knew of. Booking her and paying her was very easy too! She had us fill out and sign a simple electronic contract with common-sense clauses. She offered multiple easy payment options including chase quickpay, venmo, paypal, and zelle of which we decided to use venmo.
Cynthia was very good about getting back to us quickly whenever we’d email her with any changes or information. We had to coordinate with both her and our officiate for the time and of the ceremony, for instance, and she was always very fast to respond.
On the day-of, she and her assistant Kim showed up early and they were even nicer in person! She and Kim were even helping us figure out how we should do our little mini ceremony on our hotel suite balcony with just the two of us, our officiate, and helped us set up our webcasting setup for some friends and family who were watching via Zoom. Cynthia took us to all of the best places in Central Park and Kim helped carry my backpack with some water for the two of us. Even though I had paid for an extra hour, giving us 3 hours total of her time, the two of them actually ended up working a bit longer than that without charging us any extra!
She shared a sneak peak photo or two with us to share on social media by the following day, and told us to expect all of the finalized photos within 8 weeks. She emailed us with the link to our photos on her online platform much sooner than that at 4 weeks from our ceremony! The website gallery she has set up is very easy to share with friends and family and includes options for saving either reduced or high-resolution photos to your cloud service such as Google Photos and to your computer. The gallery website’s prices are pretty steep, but there is a 20% discount for a couple weeks if you should choose to buy directly from it. For us, we’re content to get prints elsewhere since we have the high-resolution photos saved, but it’s nice to have the options!
The photos are absolutely stunning! The compositions highlight her expertise and artistic eye and her craftsmanship is clearly evident in the elegant editing and curation. In total, she gave us 669 fully-edited high-resolution photos including several GIFs!
We would recommend Cynthia Chung to anyone and everyone looking for an amazing photographer.