About this vendor
We haven’t met yet, but we’d like to bet you are just radiating! I mean how could you not?! In between being newly engaged, showing off your shiny new bling to friends + family—and lets be honest, your Starbucks barista—you’ve managed to find us! Ish just got real!
We're The Folks. I'm Lauren, He's Josh. As a husband + wife duo team we are certain of one thing, this is our THANG! We love, LOVE— as silly as that may sound! If you are looking for someone to be a fly on the wall, thats not us. We aim to be an invested, animated, emotional piece to your wedding day puzzle. We are with you through it all—we shed tears with you when your groom sees you for the very first time or your dad makes the sweetest speech, I send you memes + gifs to make you laugh when your other vendors aren't as amazing as we are and you are having a bad day, we get in your personal space and make ourselves an honorary bridesmaid and groomsmen (because I am 100% down to help you while you pee and make sure you only have one chin in all the photos), we bring mad dance moves to the floor and can often be seen belting out every song in between capturing grandma getting jiggy with it, and ultimately.. we fall madly in love with you--we can't help it, I mean look at you. When we have the ability get to know you on a personal level over the course of the planning process, no longer are we just vendors showing up to do our job— we become people coming along side our ride or dies and documenting the heck out of your wedding day. So the real question is, are you ready to do the dang thing or what?!
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Boudoir
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Photo
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
- Wedding Albums
Photo & Video Styles
- Classic
- Documentary
- Lifestyle
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Wedding
Awards and Affiliations
Reviews
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5
out of 5.032 reviews
I am SO thankful we booked Folk House for our engagement and wedding photos. Lauren was always so helpful and felt like more than a photographer on this journey with us. She was so...
organized and thought of all the small details and assisted in timeline, photo organization and just overall was amazing to work with. I absolutely love our photos and we had so much fun I wish we could do it all over again. Our engagement and wedding photos will be something I always cherish <3 thank you so much!
Having Lauren as our wedding photographer was one of the best decisions we made! From the first meeting, I knew she would be a breeze to work with since she is highly organized and...
structured and such an upbeat person to work with. We did our engagement shoot with Lauren and she was able to easily instruct us and vibe with us to lead to a wonderful shoot, so we knew the wedding would come out beautiful. Lauren and her team got all the important shots while never making us feel like we were being pulled away for photos.
Highly recommend working with Lauren and Folkhouse Photos!
We could not have been happier with our photography choice for our wedding day!!!
Lauren and her husband Josh (2nd shooter) were BEYOND amazing.
We had an engagement session and I...
immediately knew we would all jive well together.
She was a huge asset in helping us build our wedding timeline and she was more than willing to accommodate our specific requests.
Our wedding day was magical and we have the pictures to prove it ;)
Amazing people. Amazing photography. 10/10 would recommend ❤️
We loved working with Lauren, she was so sweet during our planning process and kindly accommodated our postponement. She ran a tight ship on wedding day and even delivered our gal...
lery early! Highly recommend!
Lauren and Josh are the best! Lauren made communication through COVID easy, her timeline was detailed and organized, and she makes you feel totally relaxed in front of the camera....
She captured so many beautiful photos in the in the midst of our rainy wedding day chaos. We will cherish our first look with our baby forever. I highly recommend this photographer!
We are obsessed with our wedding photos. Lauren was not only a photographer but a second wedding planner for us. Everything was so organized and professional. On top of delivering ...
amazing pictures she was able to give us Referal list for video and makeup/hair. Thanks to her recommendations it made our destination wedding completely stress free.
I can't speak highly enough of Lauren in this tiny blurb, but I will try! From the moment we had a consult, I was sold. She is so incredibly organized that it was like having a sec...
ond coordinator for our wedding day! Everything that we wanted to do, she made sure there was time to capture it- including sunset beach photos. Lauren and Josh are so sweet and easy to talk to/work with and they are also incredibly talented!! She was easy to get ahold of if i had questions and very flexible which was so nice considering our wedding was during COVID. 11/10 would recommend Folk House and i will definitely try to use them again for kids/family photos in that area some day!
I came across Lauren's work through Instagram and I was blown away with the quality of her images and how genuinely happy her couples looked in the photos. Although I had already h...
ired a photographer for my wedding, I knew I wanted to work with her for my rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. To be quite honest, I should have broken my contract with the other photographer and hired her instead because our rehearsal photos came out much better than our actual wedding photos! In fact, we loved Lauren's images so much that we hired her once again AFTER our wedding to sneak in a few more bridal and couples portraits since we did not have much time to do so during the hustle and bustle of our VERY busy wedding day. All brides and grooms, please consider doing this more often, you will not regret it because you will feel more relaxed without the stress of wedding day.
Lauren's positive and vibrant attitude put us such at ease during both of our shoots. She has such a talent for not only capturing candid moments but knows just what angles to shoot from and instructs you on how to stand, etc. She also leaves no detail unturned and has a knack for sneaking in the loveliest detail shots of tablescapes, architecture, and the general surrounding.
We could not recommend Lauren more for your wedding day (so good, you'll hire her twice) and certainly feel as if we found not only a photographer for future family shoots but a friend as well.
I cannot give enough praise for Lauren and her husband. They did such a fantastic job from start to finish! From the moment I talked to Lauren on the phone I knew I had to get her!...
! Her personality is a bubbly, happy, perfectionist, and I knew that was just what I needed. My husband and I live in Atlanta but we were having our wedding on Pensacola Beach and she even offered to come up to Atlanta for our engagement pictures to help us out! And of course, our engagement session fell at the beginning of the Covid pandemic but Lauren was super flexible with us, eased our minds about EVERYTHING, and was perfectly fine with postponing our session. When we finally had our session (in the Atlanta summer heat 🥵) my fiancé was dreading the pictures, as he is not a fan of taking even one picture let alone an entire session. Afterwards he admitted that he actually had fun!!! That say A LOT about Lauren. She made us both feel so comfortable and like we had been friends for years!! Then when we saw our pictures we couldn’t believe how good we looked!!! In ALL of them! No awkwardness, frizzy hair, sweat?!? It was incredible. For our wedding, the beach house we rented had suffered damage from the hurricane that was not disclosed to us, but Lauren and her husband (our second photographer) was able to completely hide it from all our pictures!! Our pictures were extremely important to me and they nailed them! They captured so many beautiful details from my wedding day that my family and I worked so hard on, not to mention all the love we felt from everyone there, and we’ve only received our sneak peeks! I can’t wait to see the rest!
If you are looking for a photographer who likes to have fun while staying professional, who’s family oriented, detail oriented, and creates magically beautiful photos, look no further. You won’t regret it!
Where to start??? We did our engagement and wedding photos with Lauren and Josh and let me just say- they're effin amazing! Like literally, ahhhmazing. Just book them, like right n...
ow. Seriously.
Lauren and Josh literally felt like family. They knew exactly how to pose us, what to say to make us laugh and just have a great time. Both of their eyes for details was phenomenal in capturing the littlest of things that we didn't even have the chance to see the day of. The flowers, the getting ready, calming our nerves and multi-tasking(we was late y'all lol), making sure all of us felt special and we got the pictures we wanted. And how do you sweat your butt off in July but still come out looking like Beyonce?! Lauren and Josh, that's how.
Lauren communicated so well throughout and even helped with off topic photo questions like vendor recommendations- how sweet is that? She was very organized and had our sneak peeks and full album to us right on time. We couldn't be more thrilled we chose them. These pictures will be treasured forever and now Lauren and Josh hold a special place in our hearts too. So go on, book them already!!! You will NOT regret it.
We couldn't recommend Folk House more highly! We planned our wedding from out of town and actually never met Lauren or Josh until our wedding day, but you would've never known it f...
rom the way they seamlessly integrated into our wedding day.
Lauren was so easy to talk with via phone leading up to the wedding and so so so organized with her timeline and portrait preparations, seriously--she's really on top of it.
As I already mentioned, one of the most special things for us was how comfortable it felt having Lauren and Josh around on our day. We had a very laid back wedding morning and they matched our energy and kept us laughing.
Most importantly, they produced the most beauuuuutiful photos. They've done this a time or two and know how to get perfect lighting and how to pose everyone in a way that will come out perfectly. We can't stop looking at our images and everyone we've shown feels the same--they are amazing!
Photography is such an integral part of your wedding day and choosing Lauren was one of our best decisions! I really wanted a bright, neutral feel, to go with our overall theme, a...
nd she captured everything beautifully. From our initial phone call and throughout the process, she was such a calming presence.
She makes everyone feel comfortable and our photos came out so natural because of that. She listened to my requests, and helped with suggestions when I had no idea what I wanted. I can't recommend her enough!
Where do I even begin?! I could go on and on about the beauty of the photos that Lauren captured but I think her work really speaks for itself. What you won’t see on Instagram or F...
acebook, is the behind the scenes work that the Lauren's team pours into their clients. Choosing a wedding photographer was very important to me - I am extremely critical and prefer a certain style. After looking at multiple photographers work and reading hundreds of reviews I finally stumbled upon Folk House. I sent Lauren a message and she was so quick to respond (start to finish). While speaking with Lauren on the phone, I could hear her passion for storytelling and for relationship building with her clients. After our conversation it was a done deal, we knew we wanted Lauren on our team.
What you also will not see on social media is the thoughtfulness she put into every shot. Whether it was helping me to not have awkward hands, or helping me to be patient on the day of to capturing my mom zipping up the dress, Sean and I both felt as though she had our backs to bring our wedding day to life in these pictures. These photos are everything we could have dreamed of and more. Folk House can definitely be trusted with life’s most special moments. Thank you for giving us this gift we can share together and with our family and friends for a lifetime. You are a gifted soul.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Lauren & her assistant were nothing short of perfection! BRIDES, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DON'T THINK TWICE ABOUT BOOKING WITH FOLK HOUSE. Lauren also shot my boudoir photos a month...
before my wedding, had them ready in THREE weeks, and made me feel like an absolute queen. Their communication is VERY punctual, and I never once felt nervous or worried about a thing. Folk House's social media is up to date, which always helps when choosing a photographer, and they help with ANY questions. Something that I REALLY appreciated was that Lauren sent questionnaires months before my big day in order to get to know me and my husband. She actually cared. and it showed. She has such a BIG personality, and is a DREAM to work with. Folk House photography was the easiest and BEST decision I made for my big day! I would recommend Folk House Photography to other brides and even families 100 times over.
From the very beginning Lauren was the best! We planned a small destination wedding. We wanted great pictures within our budget. I found her through the Knot and checked out her in...
stagram and I loved her aesthetic. After our first conversation, I felt like I was talking with a close friend. She was so sweet, and was able to help me stay within my budget. She was easy to get in contact with if I ever had any questions and very organized! The day of she made me feel so comfortable. My family loved her! She took so many photos and even brought in a 2nd photographer as a surprise which was so amazing! 100% recommend to anyone
Lauren has been great from the beginning. She spent almost an hour with me on my first call just talking about my vision for my wedding and listening to the parts of her photograph...
y that I loved, so I felt like she really cared about delivering what I wanted. It made it easy to say yes to booking her.
I had SO much fun during our engagement shoot with Lauren. I didn’t know what to expect, but she was super easygoing and fun to talk to, so she put us at ease. My fiancée is definitely not the type to like to be in front of the camera, and she made us laugh and be a little silly which helped us feel comfortable. She also was very clear on timelines to receive our photos, and we received them on time! She captured so many perfect moments, so we’re super happy and can’t wait for the wedding!
Lauren has been amazing to work with so far. From our initial contact to our engagement session and soon our wedding! During our initial contact I let her know my concerns and she...
reassured me she could get the job done! I anticipated things being awkward since we were doing the session with my kiddos, but she made everyone feel comfortable and everyone had a great time. I can't wait for her to capture our wedding!!!
Stephane + Marlon
From the minute I reached out to Lauren, I knew she was going to be the photographer I booked! I was so impressed with how put together her communication and plans were from the mo...
ment I hit send on that inquiry form.
As a Bride, you never know who’s going to be on the other end of those beautiful Instagram photos you fell in love with ... and rest assured Lauren is just as amazing as her photography. She made me and my Fiancé feel so at ease during our engagement shoot when we both have never taken a professional photo. We now couldn’t be more excited for her to capture our big day!!
If you want photos you’ll fall in love with, and a photographer who puts her whole heart and soul into your event; this is your girl.
Lauren and her team are AMAZING! I was planning a destination wedding and had no clue about wedding photographers in the area. I reached out to Lauren based upon my own research th...
rough The Knot and seeing her photographs on her website, which were gorgeous! She is so knowledgeable about how to plan the big day to make sure you get the most beautiful photos!
Working with Lauren was such a fun experience! Weddings can be so stressful, and Lauren knows how to handle it! She is so supportive and personable. I felt as though I was working with a close friend! I could call her/text her day or night and she was happy to help me out! She always responded so quickly to my texts and emails, it was such a relief working with someone so professional, timely, and cheerful!
Finally, Lauren was the perfect hype girl for our wedding day! I was so nervous and excited, and she brought an energy that created such a spirited atmosphere! I felt like Beyoncé throughout the entire day thanks to her!
I could honestly not think of a better photographer to work! She was instrumental in creating the perfect wedding day for my husband and I and our guests!
Where do I even start when it comes to Lauren?! She's been A1 from day 1. Literally the most down to earth and sweet person you will meet. She's hip, chill and all around fun and s...
o easy to work with. AND she sent me a gift?! Who does that? Lauren does because she's literally ah-mazing!
We are doing a destination wedding and I found Lauren via Instagram. I knew from her immaculate eye for detail and the way she captured the most precious of moments that she was the one. My fiancé is very camera shy but Lauren made him feel so relaxed and at ease. It literally felt like a close friend taking our pictures! We've had so many compliments from friends and family on the quality of the pictures and how she really captured us. I know she will do an amazing job on our wedding day and I Can't. Stinkin. Wait!
You're truly missing out if you don't book her! Do it- GO NOW before she books up! I promise that you will not be disappointed.
We had the most amazing experience working with Folk House for my daughter’s wedding. They were able to fit us in fairly last minute and made the whole procedure seem less. I lov...
e their website workflow. The pictures were everything we imagined and we will cherish them forever! Thank you so much for capturing this perfect day!
Lauren was an absolute DREAM to work with when planning our wedding in Rosemary Beach. She was the first partner we booked after securing our location and she provided so many gre...
at suggestions and connections for other vendors based on her experience working the chic weddings of 30A. Her personality was infectious and I felt like we were old friends when we finally met during our wedding week. She was authoritative and direct when she needed to be but also oozed warmth and joy that made everyone she interacted with totally relaxed. Her second shooter was a delight and the first round of photos we've gotten have taken my breath away. She's an A+ professional in how she runs her business but also in how she captures these wonderful events. Hire her and you absolutely won't regret it.
Folk house creative has two fabulous photographers- Lauren and her husband Josh. They bring great energy and very down to earth to work with! Lauren has great energy and lots of en...
thusiasm. She came with us on a walk through of our ceremony and reception space months before the wedding so we were all on the same page for the big day!
On the big Lauren came early and took some beautiful detail shots. She was also flexible enough to add in some extra shots of the bridal party when I asked. Josh did a great job with the groomsmen and helped set up some great photos/candids that we love! So far we have gotten the first batch of photos back and they exceeded our expectations! We are just dying to get the rest of the photos for our big day!
Lauren is incredibly talented. It's amazing how well she is able to capture a moment. She brings her creative vision to every shoot, so you get wedding photos and you also get beau...
tiful photography. She knows exactly how to pose you when you're all flustered and excited - and somehow it all looks natural and gorgeous.
I've had so many compliments about my photos, and I personally couldn't be happier with them. Oh - and she is also the nicest most down to earth person ever. I felt really comfortable all throughout our shoot. I felt respected and I trusted Lauren to capture those important memories for us.
Lauren was absolutely amazing!!! She was super sweet and very accommodating. Honestly, I would forget that she was even there, she blended right in. I fell in love with her on my w...
edding day, but even more so when I got my pictures back. They were better than I ever imagined they would be. My only wish is that every bride knew about Lauren so their wedding pictures could be perfect like mine.
Lauren was so great and very attentive! She was quick to respond to texts, call, and emails. Lauren created a day of timeline and used her experience to lend great advice for photo...
s and other day of wedding events. We absolutely loved our pictures and the few we wanted to edit she did quickly and without any issue. She truly works to make her brides happy. After our first sit down I knew she was a perfect fit for us!
I will say that for the size of my wedding and our day of events we should have used a second shooter. We did not get every shot we desired BUT Lauren did a great job of shooting for the amount of people we had at our wedding. She has great recommendations, take them!
Lauren and Brittany were amazing!! I would highly recommend them to any bride.
Loving the pictures, they completely got my style. Very modern and fun.
You are the best!!!!
Lauren is AMAZING! I would recommend her for any type of photography but specifically she did an incredible job at photographing my most important day of my life so far, my wedding...
! I am so grateful that I was able to have her shoot it for us. Her attention to detail was impeccable and she made everything so stress free on a day that can be full of it! She went with the flow and made our every dream come true. I can truly look back at our photos and remember things that at the moment flew by, and they were captured forever!
She gave a perspective of my husband and I that completely describes how we wanted our day to be portrayed and we are honored! I wouldn't have chosen anyone else to photograph our wedding! Thank you Lauren and to all the Brides looking for a photographer...mark one major thing off your list and BOOK LAUREN with Folk House Creative Co. You wont regret it!
Lauren is the best photograher I ever met! I'm from Hong Kong and I found Folk House in Instagram, once I saw the pictures they posted, I know that's the one i want. Lauren is so p...
atience and detail-mind, she will try to know every clients what they wants and what they expect.
Also, she is so on time on our big day and she takes a lot of pictures which i love, she is so patience to teach us how to pose , where to look and most important how to make it in natural way. We have a lots of fun time during the photo shooting and I know she will have site visit the day before the big day. That's why she can capture all the beautiful angle of the places.
I'm truely recommend Lauren to be your photographer and I will definitely recommend to my friends, in fact, I already did and she loves her too!
Lauren did a great job capturing our private ceremony. It was rainy and windy and outside yet she somehow managed to make our photos so bright and clear! She even had us covered wi...
th extra umbrellas!
Would highly recommend this photographer!
This photography group was simply AMAZING! I seriously cannot say enough good things about Lauren and her team, they captured mine and my husband’s wedding day so beautifully! The ...
entire day was perfectly planned out, and these people fit right into our day so naturally. Their FOLK, ELEGANT, CREATIVE, and NATURAL photos have always been stunning, folk house even did our engagement shoot(my husband planned of course meeting them through friends of friends)! These people i would now consider friends, they are professional, sweet,and honest hard working for each specific client, they made us feel warm and special to be apart of their plans even, answering each question of what to expect in the ENTIRE wedding process as a whole. Would definitely recommend! ❤️❤️❤️
Okay, let me start off by saying how much I love this company and the quality of my wedding photos! As a bride, planning a wedding big or small is extremely stressful. Even with ou...
r wedding being an intimate one, we did not want to skimp out on our wedding pictures. It was just something that we did not want to budge on. Lauren was nothing but professional, friendly, and organized during the whole process. This girl had so many suggestions that I had never even thought about!! She always thought ahead of the game so I always felt confident in our planning. But, I am so glad that she put all of that effort into planning our big day with us because we would not have the wedding photos that we love so much! To top everything off, her personality made it extremely easy to feel comfortable and not so stiff in our photos. My husband and I felt like we had known her for forever and in return you can see how genuine our photos look. I would not change a thing and we are so happy and thrilled with our experience that I would recommend her to anyone! Best choice I’ve made other than saying yes to the man of my dreams!!!
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30A, Santa Rosa Beach, Destin, Pensacola
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