Erika Mills Photography

Erika was so amazing at our engagement shoot and wedding! I’m usually so awkward in front of the camera and she makes you feel so at ease and helps coach you on poses, which I absolutely loved! We loved so many of our photos I wanted to print almost all of them! Do yourself a favor and check this one of your list and hire her! We will be recommending her to everyone!

I can’t even begin to thank Erika for all of her work! She captured every single special moment for me to my first look with my dad, the memorial details of my grandparents on my bouquet to my little brothers reaction when he first saw me! And everything in between! When I first saw Erika’s work I knew I had to have her as my wedding photographer. And as expected, she blew me away with her talent! Not only does she do amazing work but she is quick to get you back your pictures as well! My home is now completed with our beautiful wedding pictures! Thank you so much Erika, I will forever be obsessed with our album!

We were referred to Erika by our friend’s wedding photographers, who spoke so highly of her and her work. Even with such a confident recommendation, we were still blown away with her dedication, professionalism, and attentiveness to us throughout the whole experience. Starting with engagements, Erika made it all so easy, it truly felt like we were just spending time with a friend that happened to capture our beautiful photos. She prepared us prior to wedding day with a timeline and was available any time we needed to chat with her. Honestly, she was the least stressful part of our entire wedding planning experience, and even saved me from other stressors. On our wedding day, she captured such gorgeous photos of us and handled a 19-person wedding party in the middle of Virginia August heat like a champ! Looking back at our photos, she captured moments we wouldn’t even have thought to ask for, and we are so thankful! We love Erika and highly recommend you chose her to capture your once in a lifetime memories 😊

Erika was such an amazing photographer to work with! From the engagement session to the big day, she was helping and checking in every step of the way! On our wedding day, it felt like we had another friend there hanging out with us! She is great at guiding during the pictures and makes you feel so comfortable! We are so thankful for all the beautiful photos she took of us on our special day!

The decision of who to hire as our wedding day photographer was HUGE for me. I contacted so many people but was really looking for someone I knew I'd click with. These photos are keepsakes to have forever and it's so important that your wedding photographer is someone you are comfortable with and can really trust. From our first phone conversation I knew Erika had to be there on our big day. She was amazing and went above and beyond on every single thing. During our engagement session my husband and I both felt super comfortable with her, she made it fun, and the images were stunning. Erika was a total resource to me throughout engagement, she recommended vendors, helped out with the timeline and answered my many many questions. On our wedding day she was instrumental at keeping me calm, keeping everything moving and capturing the most beautiful pictures. Our wedding photos are stunning and it is impossible for me to pick a favorite. She also got our entire album back to us incredibly fast! If you want a wedding photographer who's a genuine kind person, crazy talented, and immediately feels like a friend... Erika is your girl. I can't thank her enough!

I think my first tears on my wedding day came when I first saw Erika. She truly made the entire process so special for us and was a dream to work with. I believe it was fate that we met in the first place, and I couldn't imagine anyone else being with us on our special day. From our first phone call, to our engagement session and then our wedding day, she makes everything look so easy. Not to mention she is INSANELY talented! And because she is a master at her craft, we get to relive our wedding day through her lens for the rest of our lives. That my friends, is the best gift I could have ever asked for.

She did our engagements and our wedding photos. I've gotten so many compliments on our photos!! She listened to what I wanted, made sure those were captured and even helped move things along when we would be running out of time. She has the sweetest soul too!

From the beginning, Erika was an absolute dream. She communicated often, was always ready to lend a hand and give excellent advice, and was one of the BEST cheerleaders. It's amazing when you feel like one of your vendors is a good friend, and I have no doubt we'll keep in touch even though our wedding is over. And don't even get me started on our images - they were absolutely STUNNING. She listened to our requests from the beginning, and made sure that she captured images that make my sentimental heart sing. If you're looking for photos that you can show your grandchildren, photos that will capture hearts and loved ones for a lifetime, Erika is your girl. She understands sentiment, and fights to make sure her couples get what they ask for. On wedding day, she was a BOSS and kept us ahead of schedule while still being sweet and wonderful. I couldn't have done all of this without her. Thank you Erika!

5.0 We have great things to say about our entire team of vendors, but ESPECIALLY Erika. I'll start at the beginning: I was provided a long list of photographers from a coworker (who used to shoot weddings), and I researched them all. I narrowed my list down to a few, but after having a phone conversation with Erika, I knew I had to have her shoot our wedding and engagement photos. We clicked so well from the start, she is extremely personable, so fun, flexible, lively, and open to embracing your own ideas and vision. During our engagement session, we discovered that Erika is just so natural at shooting and working with people!! She made us feel comfortable and at ease in front of the lens...even my husband felt comfortable and actually had FUN!!! She delivered our photos to us so promptly and we were over the moon with how ALL of them turned out! The electronic gallery program she used was extremely user friendly and made it very easy to share with family and friends, who were also OBSESSED with these pictures! After engagements came wedding planning and the wedding! Erika played a KEY role in helping me with a lot of the design/styling decisions, our timeline, executing the little details that were SO important to me (that my other vendors actually forgot about), and she rolled with the changes that inevitably happened on our wedding day so gracefully. She promptly showed us sneak peaks that literally made us squeal, and she had our full gallery delivered to us faster than I could have ever imagined. The quality of her photographs is insane and she captured our day so perfectly. To sum it up, we hit the JACKPOT with Erika. She has gifted us with such precious keepsakes from our day that we will cherish forever. BOOK HER. You will not regret it.

Erika was absolutely amazing!!!! She went above and beyond for our wedding photos. She made my husband and I feel so comfortable during our engagement shoot, and even more so for the wedding. She is incredibly kind, and you can just tell she cares about the brides that she shoots. I can honestly say there is no better choice than Erika Mills! Our photos were STUNNING and we had so much fun shooting. Not to mention that she is an amazing business women with amazing skill for detail. She sent us a magazine that gave us so much details about the schedule of our wedding day and really helped with what to expect. I cannot stress enough how the best decision for your wedding day will be to choose her as your photographer. It was the best decision we made for our wedding because when its all over and the day passes, I get to look at my beautiful photos and remember the best day of my life!

Erika and her team did an amazing job with both the engagement and wedding pictures! They were extremely accommodating, especially with the little kids. The pictures turned out better than we could have asked for, and she had them categorized and on the website within a week. Truly unbelievable. We highly recommend Erika to anyone who for both engagement and wedding pictures!

Erika is INCREDIBLE!!! I knew since the first time I met with her, which was at a Starbucks when we were wearing the exact same thing, that she was the right person for me! She was so easy to talk to and had tons of ideas. I was so excited to have her to use for our big day! When it came time for engagement pictures, I was very hesitant. They were not really my style and I admit that I was somewhat dreading it. BUT, Erika made us feel so COMFORTABLE and I LOVE the pictures she got of us. She was so flexible with our limited schedule and did it right before the holidays- she went above and beyond! Now the day off, Erika was a godsend. With the weather looking iffy and at an outdoor wedding, I would say I was worried, very worried. But she had back up plan after back up plan. When it did begin to rain, she immediately suggested other ideas and it just fell into place so perfectly. She captured our reception perfectly. One of my favorite parts was when she pulled us aside to show us some of the pictures she had already taken. They were BEAUTIFUL!!! I would HIGHLY recommend working with Erika. She is thoughtful and hardworking and one of the nicest and sweetest out there! We were so lucky to have her be a part of the most important day!

Erika is the best! We have known each other from high school so I was excited to have her document our big day. From the emails and phone calls during the planning process, I knew she was there to help make our day amazing. She offered advice on what to wear for engagement pictures, timeline for day of and an alternate idea for a first look. For our engagement pictures, we were both nervous in front of the camera but she coaches you and by the end we were having a blast! When it came to the wedding day, she was calm, cool and kept the show moving. She had our images done in less than a month which is crazy fast-and they are amazing! Thank you Erika for your patience in the heat of our day and for delivering such quality images that we will cherish for years to come!

Where do I even begin?! From the moment we got engaged I knew we wanted Erika to be our photographer. I knew her from years back and followed her photography page and fell in love with the way she photographed. From contacting her for a quote to the wedding day she was so on top of everything and so organized and planned everything out with her timeline that it gave us a peace of mind so we could relax and let her run the show. If we had any questions she would get back to us within a reasonable time, which made us feel important to her. She really cares about her couples! She knew exactly what we wanted and made us feel incredible and comfortable in front of the camera. Our engagement photo session was a billion degrees outside, and yet she took her time to get to know what we wanted out of the images and to make sure we got the images we wanted. They turned out amazing, so we knew our wedding images would too. Our images from the wedding were more than we could have ever asked for. They are stunning images. We literally look at them every day still and wish we could relive that day over and over again. Best day ever and we have the best images ever all because we picked Erika to be our photographer. Thank you so much Erika! We can't imagine this day without you.

Erika is the absolute best! From our very first phone conversation, I knew there was no other photographer that could surpass her. She's smart, sweet, beautiful (inside and out), and is now one of my very dear friends. My husband and I can not sing enough of her praises. From our engagements to our wedding, Erika was there every step of the way to guide, help and advise. Thank you, Erika! Our day wouldn't have been the same without you!

Erika was without a doubt the BEST choice we could have ever made for our wedding photographer! Besides her photography being excellent, she is the sweetest person you'll ever meet. She went out of her way to make sure everything was so special and perfect for us. I would recommend her over and over again to anyone looking for engagements or wedding photography! She's incredibly organized and efficient and everything on our wedding day ran so smoothly and I give Erica so much of the credit for that! She's great guys, you can't go wrong if you choose to have her be a part of your wedding experience! ❤️

Erika is wonderful! After having her as our photographer for a small private elopement on the beach, I knew we had to have her photograph our ceremony for family and friends a year later. Both times she did a fabulous job. For our formal ceremony we had an outdoor venue and there were terrible storms forecasted during the time we had scheduled for our first look photos and ceremony. Erika was so accommodating and was able to come to the venue earlier so that we could get some photos outside before the storm hit. Erika is easy to work with, she helps make the process comfortable and natural, and is an amazing photographer.

I was Erika's bride but I am also a wedding photographer! Being a wedding photographer myself and searching for a wedding photographer, you would think would be a difficult process but it wasn't! I love the way Erika treats her couples, becomes their friend and truly loves what she does. It was important to me to have someone photograph our wedding day that had their heart completely in it! I don't believe in just showing up for a wedding day and that's that, and that is how Erika feels too. In addition she is extremely talented! She went above and beyond for us and we could not be happier with our wedding day photographs! How am I ever going to narrow them down for a wedding album?

Erika photographed our wedding and she did a fantastic job! She is wonderful to work with. I hate having my picture taken, but she put me right at ease. She really goes above and beyond.

Erika is absolutely amazing. From our first conversation, I knew that she was the one who had to shoot our big day. She even talked us into engagement photos (which we were totally against at first), and I am SO glad she did. When shooting with her, we didn't feel that uncomfortable, awkwardness that could arise. She totally made us feel like we've been taking these types of pictures your whole life. We love how her instruction for poses look natural and real. She was determined to get our photos back to us, with over a thousand pictures from our wedding, we had them in less than a week! So many compliments from people when we get to share them. They are absolutely stunning! We are so, so happy that we found her and can not wait to continue to have her capture our most special and memorable moments as a family. We love you, Erika!

There are not words for how amazing Erika was to work with! From the very beginning we knew she was the right photographer for us. She was warm and inviting and we clicked instantly. During engagements we got to know her better and she made us feel completely at ease while taking gorgeous photos. She maintained contact throughout the entire wedding planning process and had great tools to make sure we got everything we wanted out our of wedding pictures. And we did, the photos are breathtaking! Not only did she capture the most beautiful images but she was super speedy with the turnaround! Our experience was awesome and we <3 Erika!

I highly recommend Erika Mills for all your photography needs! The first time I shot with her, I knew I had to have her as my wedding photographer. Not only is she professional & creative but she gets to know you on a personal level so you feel so comfortable in front of the camera. Erika is always helpful, caring & such a joy to be around. She captured my wedding day perfectly & I will always think of her first when I want photos taken!

Erika is the most amazing photographer! She has done my engagement photos, wedding photos and maternity photos and they are all amazing thanks to her! Not only do I love her style, but she puts you at ease during all her sessions. Highly recommend letting her capture all your special moments :)

Absolutely Love Her! First time we met, I felt like I had known her forever. Love her approach to photography. Anyone who can get my husband to at least look comfortable on camera, is a magician :) The photos turned out amazing, both our engagement and day of pictures. I will definitely be using her in the future for any other pictures I may need!!!

We have used Erika for our anniversary pictures and then by my surprise, our engagement! So, naturally, she is who I picked to do our wedding pictures. She did an absolutely amazing job and she's so personable that you want to keep using her for all your picture needs. She helped me create a timeline so that we knew how the day would go and when it turned into a rainy mess she made sure we got the most amazing pictures that made the rain worth it.