$2,500 starting price
About this vendor
First of Apryl Photography is a professional wedding photographer based in Jacksonville, FL. They aim to capture every special moment from your wedding day in a series of beautiful images you'll treasure for a lifetime.
Owner and photographer Apryl Stevens is a passionate photographer and storyteller. She specializes in authentic, natural photographs that capture subjects and settings in the best light. She takes a professional yet personable approach to ensure that everyone feels relaxed and comfortable while having their photo taken.
First of Apryl Photography offers flexible wedding photography services to suit any vision or budget. Her services always include digitally edited images and a preview just 72 hours after your big day. On your wedding day, Apryl will work closely with you and your wedding planner to create a timeline, plan shots, and ensure that your photography dreams become a reality. In addition to traditional wedding photography, Apryl offers engagement shoots, elopement sessions, portraits, and more.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Photo Shoot Types
- Boudoir
- Bridal Portraits
- Engagement
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Photo
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
Photo & Video Styles
- Documentary
- Lifestyle
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Wedding
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Apryl is a catch all photographer. She has a natural eye for capturing the tender moments to the big moments. Her photographs shine not only because she has excellent composition but because her style is primarily classic. These are the photos that will stand the test of time. She can transition seamlessly from snapping a quick candid moment to perfectly aligning a group shot with the utmost attention to detail. She ensures that everyone is “photo ready.” Another aspect of her is that she is wonderful to have around. Often times special occasions and family photos can bring a bit of nerves and stress. I’ve been fortunate enough to have her as the photographer on two occasions. Apryl handles these situations with ease and can gently navigate through the hustle and bustle to produce pictures that tell a beautiful story from the day. She can even hold the attention of my four year old little girl, a sometimes impossible task! Do not hesitate to hire Apryl for your photography needs!
Apryl was such a delight to work with! My husband and I are not big photo-takers, and Apryl did an amazing job of making us feel comfortable in front of the camera and capturing moments that felt authentic and not cheesy or overly-posed.
She brought an upbeat, friendly, and genuinely lovely presence to our day. She made us and our guests feel at ease, and I had many people come up to me to say how wonderful she was.
The next-day preview was a delightful addition to Apryl's services. Being able to look at some of Apryl's gorgeous work the morning after our wedding was a huge treat.
Overall, she did an amazing job. I would recommend her services wholeheartedly!
My husband and I did a long search for a photographer that could take good candid photos of our wedding. Apryl has an amazing creative eye and she wanted to go a little bit more into her editorial style while taking the photos and after having a discussion about wanting very candid photos, everything was unposed from there on out. I was worried about how the photos would turn out. As many people that you talk to about their one regret about their wedding it usually falls on the photos' outcome. Our whole family and us included were amazed by just the highlights sent over to us. I cannot tell you how much stress has fallen off our shoulders that we now have such beautiful and sentimental moments to look back on. She has outstanding professionalism, her creativity, and eye for a good photo opportunity do not go unnoticed. We are very grateful for how receptive she was to our wishes and she has given us this blessing that we can now look back on gorgeous, high-quality photos of the best day of our lives. Thank you so much Apryl.
~~~DO NOT HIRE~~~
When we first hired Apryl things seemed seemingly fine, but that was unfortunately before it came down to her providing us with our photos and video footage. We had hoped for a better and agreeable outcome with her, but that was clearly not what she was interested in. Your photo and video is supposed to bring back happy and beautiful moments of your wedding, but through our terrible experience with Apryl, she has now left such an awful taste when we think of working with her and the product she provided us with. We found her to be untrustworthy, unreliable, and unfortunately an amateur producer when it came to the video highlight reel she gave us. Through this experience she caused my wife and I so much anxiety and discontent that was still ultimately left unresolved.
We hired her as a still+video photographer for our wedding in April 2022. After the wedding, she was repeatedly late to meeting delivery deadlines of the photos and wedding video. Even though we reached out to her on multiple occasions, it would take her weeks to respond even after three attempts to contact her after multiple missed deadlines she herself had set. During one point she had unforeseen personal circumstances, so we of course were patient through that, but a few weeks turned into a few months turned into 8 months before we finally received all the material we paid for. Throughout this time, she continuously set new deadlines that she, again, did not meet. When we finally received the photos, we were unhappy with the quality but since that's subjective, I won't dwell on it. What I do want to highlight to warn other couples, is that the wedding reel she sent was clearly poorly made. She had months and months to work on it and it seemed as if it was done carelessly and rushed through. The sound and video clips did not match up with each other, sounds could not even be heard it parts, the reel was filled with sporadic cuts from different moments of the wedding without any clear direction or thought being put into it. Many of the key shots, like the actual ceremony, were shot from bad angles where our faces were hidden. The video was also 25% shorter than we agreed upon, and it took Apryl months to address our edits (This was already 6 months after the wedding day, when the contract we signed said it would be delivered within 12 weeks). The new video she sent still had amateur issues like random dark screens, an error message halfway through (screenshots attached), and issues with the sound/video not matching. We tried to reconcile these issues, but she refused so we asked her to get the raw footage so we can pay someone else to fix all of her mistakes. She wanted $500 and wouldn't waive it despite all of our flexibility in the 8 months it took her to send us the material and the unprofessional video she provided. Something I do not believe she should advertise services AT ALL for.
We feel so frustrated to be treated in this way especially when we felt we had built trust and a good relationship with her, clearly that was all a show. We feel an extreme sense of urgency to post this review so other couples do not get dragged through this same experience with her. Please save your time and money. WE URGE ALL COUPLES NOT TO BOOK HER!!
I am UK based and decided to have my wedding in Orlando. I knew I wanted a candid photographer as posed pictures weren't for me. I googled "Orlando candid photographer" and I found Apryl.
From first contact Apryl was nothing but a ray of sunshine. So positive, excited, and helpful. Going over pricing/packages, sending me example weddings, discussing the plans. I booked Apryl nearly 2 years in advance (during which she relocated), so when time grew nearer I sent Apryl my Pinterest in which I had saved ideas for posed and candid pictures. I thought it would maybe just Apryl an idea of what I was looking for, on the day she had remembered so many of the poses that I had blatantly forgotten. She even pulled out her phone and showed me my Pinterest. It's minor details like this on the wedding day that help. My brain was on major overload, so something like 1 posed photo I would never have remembered. Anyway Apryl was so good with it, and I even requested for props to be used and she was totally fine with it, even giving her own ideas.
I haven't received my full pictures yet, I am excited (can take up to 9 weeks) but from the preview I did get I am excited.
Words can not describe how perfect the photos from Andrew and Andrea's wedding turned out. I was the wedding coordinator and she blew me away on how much effort she put into making sure the bride and groom got the photos they wanted.
Apryl is an absolutely amazing vendor to work with and was one of our favorites. I wanted our photos to have an “edge” over the rest of traditional, yet bland, wedding photos you see - and she sure did deliver! She is great at coming up with natural looking shots, that are unique and different. We just received our first look of our wedding photos (and also did our engagement photos with Apryl) and they are AMAZING! I can’t describe how obsessed I am with them. My friends and family cannot believe how great they looked either.
Not only is Apryl amazingly talented as a wedding photographer, but she is also one of the greatest humans I have ever met. She is so kind and fun to work with. She also was able to work so easily with me on a date change, venue change, etc…. I was very stressed leading up to the wedding and she managed to relax me and help let me have fun! I cannot wait to work with Apryl on my future photography needs and hope you choose to work with her as well. You will LOVE her and her work! We love Apryl!!
Apryl is, in a word, amazing. She was flexible, understanding, and compassionate, delivering not only a quality experience, but also a quality product. Her photos turned out beautifully, and her professionalism in the face of multiple pandemic-related changes convinced me that I would not want to have had anyone else photographing my wife and I on our special day. Despite the postponement of our wedding due to COVID-19, Apryl was able to photograph us as we "eloped" to the downtown courthouse. She handled multiple schedule changes, payment alterations, and location-related issues with ease. She made it easy for someone like me (who hates taking photos) to feel comfortable in front of the camera, and managed to send us such high-quality pictures that I can't find a single flaw in any of them. Within minutes of her meeting us for the first time, it felt like a close friend was behind the camera, and I could not be happier with her overall performance or her finished product.
I worked with Apryl to shoot a video of our rehearsal dinner this June. I can not recommend her enough! She was super laid back and easy to work with, and so kind - especially with all of our plans changing during the uncertainty of the pandemic. She was very flexible with us! I absolutely loved the highlight video she made for us, and she even was kind enough to take some family photos when my overbearing family flagged her down. She also had a super quick turn around to us, and as a bride who wants to relive the best weekend of her life - this was amazing!
I'm a guy with little to no creativity. After just speaking to Apryl about a surprise proposal, I knew I was in good hands. She was attentive, asked really good questions and was available whenever I needed her. She had my proposal planned and prepped within 2 days. She also took the time out to swing by my work to create a video for my fiance to watch post proposal. All in all this was as elevated of an experience that I could ask for. She said 'yes' and so much of this experience came from April's creative direction. We plan on hiring her for all special events we have upcoming. Thank you Apryl!
I have known Apryl for some time but she did not let that get in her way of being so professional the whole time. She made us and our families feel so comfortable. She was also one of the first people to arrive at the church and made a point to find out which pictures meant the most to me and my husband. I am thankful that we had her there to capture our special day and would recommend her to anyone looking for a photographer and who doesn’t want to spend the crazy amounts of money that some photographers are asking these days. Apryl is wonderful and our pictures turned out so nice.
I found Apryl through recommendation of friends which is the way I like to hire vendors. This is also why I am excited to write this review for her. From the moment I spoke with Apryl, to the last email I received that our pictures were ready, she gave a 100% and made us feel so comfortable. She was professional, patient, enthusiastic, open-minded and most of all, AMAZING. Her excitement for every photo opportunity was adorable and also contagious. I trusted her vision from the very beginning and the end result exceeded our expectations BY FAR. I believe that her talent not only lies in still photos, but mostly in the candid shots. Capturing pictures that we sometimes forget because we’re so caught up moment, are the best surprise from her when she reveals the final photos. I will continue to use First of Apryl Photography in ALL of our life’s most special moments because I have no doubt that she will again make our wants and needs her main focus and assure we'll relive our most beautiful and special occasions through her gorgeous work.
YOU NEED APRYL!!!!
First of Apryl Photography is phenomenal.
Apryl’s ability to get the shots you didn’t realize you wanted or needed is unmatched.
She is the ultimate professional, and fully involved in capturing your vision.
Apryl does not disappoint, every bride and groom needs her.
The knowledge and experience that Apryl possesses of photography became quite evident in each and every photograph of our big day. I felt as though I could feel the emotion all over again in the way that her photos captured the moments.
Apryl was hired for my best friend's wedding, 03/30/2019. She arrived to our airbnb early, ready to work. She was energetic and nice, but not overly hyper.... she felt like another friend in the room. It helped calm the brides nerves and we didn't feel like we were awkwardly in a room with a stranger getting our pics taken. During the group shots she was attentive by adjusting our dresses and hair if it was in our face. By the end of the night she was on the dance floor having fun with us, too. When the gallery was shared with us I was speechless by the creative shots and raw emotions.....we didn't know she was there in moments... Highly recommend.
Apryl is a longtime friend and Just from experience are usually never mix personal life and business together and I knew exactly what I wanted for my wedding-with that being said I did a practice shoot with Apryl and I absolutely fell in love. I gave it a chance and Apryl was more on top of things than I was myself especially since our itinerary changed a million times. She shot our rehearsal dinner, all family events and was even early and went out of her way to make everything perfect- including a second shooter. NOT TO MENTION SHE WAS 9 MONTHS pregnant!! People still rave about our photos!
First of Apryl is an amazing photography company! My fiance hired Apryl to do a photoshoot of us and it turned into our engagement and surprise engagement party. She took beautiful pictures with our friends and family celebrating. She made me feel so comfortable and took both staged and candid shots of everyone. I highly recommend using Apryl. She's so sweet, funny and knows how to take amazing pictures.
Apryl’s imagination and skill sets will take your wedding pictures to another level! Her prep work and research prior to the event really propelled her on our wedding day! She has an eye to catch the moments that really hit home when you see your photos for the first time! She is super friendly and LISTENS to your wants and needs! She will forever be our photographer 😀
Apryl is an amazing photographer capturing those special moments, she is punctual, creative, and a vibrant personality!
Apryl takes pride in all her shots, whether individual, couple or wedding party shots. From beginning to end, Apryl is one of a kind, like no other and I feel confident to say, you will be very pleased to have First of Apryl Photography for your up coming session!
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