About this vendor
Haylie Ogalat Photography is a wedding photography company that serves the Kansas City & St. Louis areas. We are a husband and wife team! Our greatest desire is to create connection with people, and being a part of your wedding day allows us to do just that. You'll probably see us out on the dance floor with your wedding party & count us in when it comes to having a good time! Our photo booth brings fun & entertainment to your guest experience, and our editing style stays true to life. Real, authentic moments are captured right alongside classic portraiture. Marriage is important to us. We consider it a great honor to capture the day you begin yours.
-Haylie & Bruce Ogalat
Details
Business Attributes
- Black-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Engagement
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Second Shooter Available
Photo & Video Styles
- Classic
- Documentary
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Wedding
Awards and Affiliations
4-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2022.2021.2020.2019.
Best of Weddings
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Hall of Fame
Earned by winning 'Best of Weddings' four or more times.
Reviews
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out of 5.062 reviews
10/10 Haylie and her husband were amazing to work with, kept us on time and kept me calm throughout the entire day (even made sure I ate something for lunch). I can’t wait to get b...
ack her photos and video. Special shoutout to Mervin who was the videographer day of.
Haylie is simply amazing! Taking pictures are always stressful and difficult for me, but Haylie somehow makes the process stress free and enjoyable. She can do an excellent job tak...
ing charge to keep the process moving, but she also does a fantastic job in listening to your thoughts and ideas and turning them into a reality.
Haylie is also very prompt in getting photos back to you! Despite her speed, she clearly spends a lot of energy and thought on every photo. We just received our wedding photos, and we could not be happier! We would highly recommend her to anyone looking to have their special moments in life so beautifully memorialized!
Can't say enough about how incredible the photos and working with Haylie for my wedding was! Very responsive and professional. Wedding ceremony ran long and she did such an amazing...
job getting all the family photos we wanted under a time crunch. Throughout the whole day she was so efficient in taking fantastic photos without interrupting the flow of the day. She captured every moment, and photos turned out better than we could have ever expected. She got every photo we requested, but also captured so many others I never even knew I wanted! I've heard of other photographers taking months to return all the wedding photos and we had the full gallery in just 3 weeks with a preview even before that. Highly recommend to anyone!
Haylie did a wonderful job on our engagement shoot so we just knew she’d capture the wedding day perfectly. To our surprise, she brought her husband along to assist. We are nothing...
close to models, but they made us feel comfortable during the shoots showing us all the poses! I haven’t stopped getting compliments on our photos and I credit it all to their team.
I highly recommend giving her a hint of your vision then just letting her run with it. Some of the best photos were those we walked by a spot and she was like “ok stand on this ledge” or “lean here”. Her creativity is impressive and all the best photos are when you let her shine.
We loved working with Haylie and Bruce! They were always responsive to emails and my many questions, she even helped us develop a rough day-of timeline, which was above and beyond....
They are great at capturing organic moments, but they are also great at giving instructions in order to get a posed but natural shot. The photos have a beautiful, natural and bright look to them and that is exactly what we were looking for. We can't say enough good things about Haylie Ogalat Photography!
Haylie is such a talented and wonderful photographer! She has a fun personality and made everyone feel at ease, even the young children in our wedding party. Haylie was amazing to ...
work with and captured beautiful and natural moments for our engagement and wedding. She also has amazing turnaround time for the galleries. We love all the photos and highly recommend working with Haylie!
Haylie is the perfect combination of the type of vendor you want around you on your wedding day. She's calm, friendly, professional, while also keeping an "if something goes wrong,...
we'll figure it out" attitude. All of those qualities are so important to have in your vendors during your wedding. She kept us on track during the wedding day, and talked me through all of my questions and concerns in the lead-up to the wedding.
Haylie is great at giving direction during pictures. My husband and I are not super comfortable in front of the camera, and she talked us through all of our poses during our engagement session and during our wedding. Our wedding party also made multiple comments on how helpful she and her team were during our group pictures.
Her actual pictures speak for themselves, but I'd like to add that she got both of our FULL galleries back to us in under two weeks, which is incredibly fast for a photographer in the wedding industry.
We loved working with Haylie, and I look forward to booking her for all of our future photo needs!
Haylie was THE BEST photographer we could have had for our wedding. She was quick to respond to questions and SO easy to work with. She handles families and large bridal parties we...
ll and knew exactly how to have us pose for the best shots. Haylie was great about helping find idea locations for the season and time of day. And did I mention the turn around time for our galleries?! We would choose Haylie again in a heartbeat to capture our special day and now we have beautiful pictures to enjoy!
My fiancé and I we’re looking to get engagement pictures taken and had reached out to a few photographers in our area (although we were hoping for Haylie the most). Haylie responde...
d to us within the hour and was incredibly flexible to fit our limited schedule! We met a few days later at Shawnee Mission Park for our photos and she chose the most beautiful spots to take our pictures. This was our first time getting professional pictures taken and Haylie made us feel so comfortable and relaxed. 4 short days later I received an email from Haylie saying our album was finished! Her creativity and passion for her work made for the most beautiful pictures we could’ve asked for. Haylie was a pleasure to work with and I would hire her time and time again! 😊
Haylie. Is. The. Best. EVER! She has the best ideas, makes you feel comfortable, and is the most genuine + caring person. It was a joy to have her do our wedding photos. She even c...
aptured photos of our small ceremony at no extra cost when we decided to postpone our big reception. She is incredibly patient and executes flawlessly - I am so happy she was part of our whole wedding process. Oh, and she will join on the dance floor and dance it out, too! Seriously though, she’s the best. Better book her now or you won’t be able to later!
Haylie absolutely ROCKED. We're an out of town couple so the first time she met us in person was actually at our wedding, but she showed up, took amazing photos of the venue and fa...
miliarized herself with the entire property, and then hung out with me and my bridesmaids & really gelled so naturally with us. She works so fast with the poses, which made all of our posed photos look really natural. I loved her editing style as well - it really brought out the charm of our venue and the colors of our flowers. Her candid shots were also amazing, and I loved that she really listened to our request to get photos of guests, both posed and candid. Even during moments where I knew she'd be taking photos, I didn't actually notice her - that's how awesome she is at getting the perfect shot quickly, quietly, and efficiently! Hire Haylie if you can, she will make your wedding day so great and then you'll get to relive all the moments again when she sends your album to you (it was a 1 week turnaround time for us, which again is amazing).
I can’t express how grateful I am that we hired Haylie to take our engagement + wedding photos! She was so easy to work with and directed us perfectly to get the shots we desired. ...
Having a reliable, dedicated, and very talented photographer eliminated SO much extra wedding stress. I cannot recommend her enough for anyone that is looking for a great, easy going and talented photographer! On top of a short turn around time, I have received many many compliments on how amazing our wedding photos turned out. We are thrilled to have such beautiful photos to get to cherish and look back on forever. Thank you Haylie!!
Choosing Haylie was the best decision we made when picking vendors for our wedding. The photos she took captured every moment of the day and the emotions of the day as well. They a...
re images we can not wait to share with our kids someday and will have all over our house for the rest of our lives. She was diligent in getting every one of the shot ideas I had sent her and recommending other great ideas. She not only captured the posed pictures with family but so many of our favorite photos were the real moments which show so much emotion. She was calm and fun and the guys loved how funny she was when taking their pictures. It was so nice to have her with us the whole day because she didn’t feel like a vendor she felt like a friend. We can not recommend her enough!
HIRE HAYLIE! Seriously, she undoubtedly made everything from pre-wedding > wedding day > afterwards the BEST ever. After finding Haylie on this site, I inquired with her about phot...
ographing our wedding. We Facetimed to get to know her before booking and immediately knew she was the perfect photographer for our special day. We were able to customize a "package" that worked for us and our specific needs. Haylie made herself available at any time to answer questions via text/email, and even a couple coffee meet-ups. She has the kindest heart and truly cares about her clients. Haylie is efficient and amazing at all she does and I will continue recommending her services to everyone for weddings, family photos, etc.
We hired Haylie last spring for our June 2021 wedding. We had many Zoom calls and emails/texts to get to know her before our big day! Haylie also did our engagement photos in Augus...
t of 2020 and we were obsessed! We knew we had an amazing photographer for our wedding! Haylie is super efficient, always in the know, kept our day fun and on track! Our bridal party made multiple comments on how amazing she was keeping us all on time and organized! We had both of our engagement photos AND wedding photos within 2 weeks!! You will not regret hiring Haylie for your special day!
Haylie was so easy to work with! Her laid back personality matched with ours perfectly. She was very efficient with helping to coordinate are our group when needed for group/famil...
y pictures. Our pictures turned out amazing and every time I look at them I feel like I’m reliving the day. I highly recommend hiring Haylie for your special day!
Haylie is such a wonderful photographer! She arrived at the brides home early the day of the wedding to ensure she captured every moment of the day. What stuck out to me the most t...
hough, was that she told us how to pose when we weren’t sure what to do. She knew exactly what would look cute and made it so easy for us. She’s incredibly good at using any location. Haylie has such a fun personality and helped calm our nerves before the wedding with subtle jokes and funny moments during the shoot. My wife and I were so impressed by how quickly she got the photos back to us. Definitely recommend her!
Haylie is awesome!! I first met her when she did my sisters wedding and loved her so much that I had her for my own! Haylie was very efficient, organized and personable. She caught...
all the best moments! She even went as far to pick out the shadiest spots for our pictures considering it was 100° outside. She also got us a sneak peak of our photos within 24 hours of our wedding day! Overall, this girl is amazing and wouldn’t have wanted anyone else to be a part of our special day!!
Choosing someone to take our wedding photos was a big decision! It was so important to me to find someone that would capture our day so well and that we would have amazing pictures...
to look back on forever! Haylie blew my expectations out of the water!! She was so wonderful to work with and was the perfect person to take our pictures and party with us!! I will ALWAYS recommend Haylie!! I can’t pick favorites from our big day!! She made our day run smoothly and had our pictures back to us SO fast!! We LOVE Haylie!!
We loved Haylie from the second she walked into the room!! She is a jack of many trades and was able to touch up a couple of curls on my girls’ hair before we started pictures. Hay...
lie and Megan were very efficient workers and with our big families, we really needed that! Now let’s talk about turnaround time.. Haylie is SO SPEEDY QUICK! Our wedding was one of three that she had for the weekend, and I had all of my pictures back by Wednesday night!! The quality of the pictures were amazing and we are so pleased that we chose Haylie to be a part of our big day!
Firstly, let me say that hiring Haylie was one of the absolute best things we did for our wedding. Haylie, was the glue that held our wedding day together. Haylie did our engagemen...
t photos back in 2019 and when we had to postpone our October 2020 due to Covid, we set our new wedding date to make sure Haylie would be available for our wedding. She is one of the most gifted people I have ever met, has consistently gone above and beyond, exceeded all of our wildest expectations and truly has brought so much joy to us. She is incredibly professional, so skilled at her craft, and absolute angel. There simply aren’t enough wonderful things we could say about Haylie, if you do ONE thing for your wedding that you can rest assure you’ll be over the moon with excitement about - HIRE HAYLIE!!!! It ended up raining on our wedding day, which was planned to be an outdoor ceremony and all of our photos were planned to be outside as well. With Haylie’s calming and “take charge” attitude she helped me stay calm, and we still managed to catch a break in the rain (the only time it stopped raining all day) and she made my dreams come true for our outdoor photos, I always envisioned. She was a complete joy to work with, we admire her so much, not only as a photographer, but as a person, her huge loving heart, quick witted jokes and ability to bring our wedding day to life through the photos she took. Her turnaround time for getting our wedding photos back to us was....just unbelievable!!! We are so obsessed with Haylie, and the photos of our wedding day have left us, as well as our friends and families in complete awe. The countless compliments we’ve received about her, from family, friends, guests, vendors, the list goes on. We simply cannot recommend Haylie enough. She is truly the best photographer on the face of the earth.....hire her and find out for yourself!!!
Love you so much Haylie!!!
Thank you for everything and being an integral part of the best day of our lives!
Love always,
Claire & Derek
HIRE HAYLIE! seriously! Not only Haylie is insanely talented but she is so flexible and easy to get alone with. Not to mention her turn around times are PHENOMENAL! This girl runs ...
two businesses but still manages to ensure her clients are getting their photos in a timely manner. (It’s unmatched honestly!) We had a rowdy group but Haylie rolled with the punches, we all had a great time! We would hire Haylie 100 times over so you should too!
Haylie was our wedding photographer this May 2021, she was incredible! She was so easy to work with and always up for anything. We had a large wedding party, and she was so great w...
ith all of us. She worked so well along side our videographer, and other vendors. Best of all she took the most amazing pictures of our special day. She got all our Galleries back quickly. We received countless compliments on Haylie and her photos. I can’t recommend Haylie enough, she’s the best!
Haylie is an AMAZING photographer! She is positive, a great communicator, and just so easy to work with. Haylie made a rainy wedding day turn into something beautiful and fun that ...
we get to look back on and remember forever. We love how our engagement and wedding photos turned out! Afterwards, all of our family commented on how organized and efficient she was throughout the day (regardless of the weather) and my husband and I can't agree more!!
Haylie was amazing!! She new exactly what she was doing, was personable, and was also super fun!! She had our pictures back in a week after our wedding. I would highly recommend Ha...
ylie!
Haylie is the BEST! She was super responsive throughout our planning and exceeded our expectations on our wedding day. She went above and beyond to get the best photos - she even w...
rangled a sassy flower girl. The photos are phenomenal - our family and friends have all raved about how beautiful they are. Haylie's turnaround time was less than a week - you sure won't find that anywhere else! We couldn't have asked for a better photographer to capture our special day.
Haylie is amazing! We recently received our engagement pictures and I cannot wait to see her work her magic on our wedding day! She drove out of her way to take pictures around our...
home, which was so special to us, and she even came earlier than we planned originally due to some crappy weather that was forecasted. She made it happen!My fiancé has never enjoyed having his picture taken, but he was so confident and had so much fun! She made us feel comfortable and the entire experience was amazing.
This photographer never disappoints. She traveled over six hours, made sure that even if I would’ve forgot something she made sure to remember those photos that I would’ve wanted t...
o look back on. Haylie went above and beyond and even went over on time because she knew how important another shot would be even though it was pretty difficult to get there. When they say she is photographer of the year they are not kidding
Haylie was great to work with-so bubbly and personable! She really got to know us as a couple & our family in order to shoot what was most important to us that day. She's also very...
quick in her ideas & doesn't make anything too posed which we appreciated because we were able to be ourselves & have fun with it and the pictures ended up showing that!! Deff one of our fav vendors to work with!
Haylie is amazing! From the start she was laid back and easy to talk to, which was great during a stressful COVID wedding planning season. Her pictures speak for themselves, they’r...
e AMAZING! I love the look she brings to her photos, which is why I chose her. Everyone who has seen my photos agrees, they are beautiful and I got so many great shots, both at my engagement session and at the wedding. She brings a softness and glow to her pictures, and it just makes them all look great. She was also great working with my videographer, who both chipped in to help flip our space at the wedding when we were running low on time. She’s there to make the day keep in track and run smoothly, even when you have family who don’t listen very well! I would recommend her to anyone who asks who to go to for a photographer. Now I only hope she’s less busy when I have a baby so she can shoot my family photos too ;)
I am so glad that Haylie was our wedding photographer! She was so easy to work with from the time we first inquired with her until after she delivered our final gallery (which was ...
so fast after the wedding day btw). Haylie is definitely a take-charge kind of girl, but at the same time is sooo easy-going and can roll with literally anything. Basically she's the best of both worlds! In addition to taking the most beautiful wedding and engagement photos for us, she was honestly just a great person and energy to have around on wedding day. She's fun, professional, organized, and so clearly a talented photographer. Hire Haylie!
HIRE HAYLIE!!! Seriously, Haylie is incredibly talented and captures everything. She took our engagement photos and then photographed our wedding, and the photos are incredibly stu...
nning! Every question or suggestion I had, she really listened to them all and helped our wedding day run so smoothly (she even calmed me down when I was freaking out for a little bit). She embraced our crazy large wedding party and had fun with us/we had so much fun with her. Overall, Haylie does not disappoint and adds so much to wedding planning and your wedding!!
Haylie Meyer was incredible and captured our small intimate wedding perfectly. We cannot recommend her enough! She sets the bar high for a photographer. She encompasses all the qua...
lities one looks for in a photographer and so much before! Haylie has a gift and I promise hiring her will be the smartest decision you make. We will cherish our photos forever. Thank you so much Haylie!
Haylie Meyer was such a fun and spontaneous photographer to work with during our engagement session and our wedding day. She was helpful in every way possible. I love that she was ...
always telling us what poses to do and there was never a moment she wasn’t capturing a picture! Very talented!
Haylie is absolutely amazing and incredibly talented! We are so glad we chose her to take our engagement and wedding photos! She captured our love for each other and our wedding da...
y so perfectly! She made the entire process stress free and fun! We were really impressed with how easy to work with and detail-oriented she is and how quickly she edited our pictures. It is impossible for us to narrow down our favorite wedding pictures because they all turned out so good. She truly has a passion for photography and her clients. You will definitely not regret choosing Haylie to capture your big day!
Where do I even begin?! Haylie delivered engagement and wedding pictures that were more than we could have ever imagined! We was so nervous using a photographer that we wasn’t fami...
liar with but it was OH SO WORTH IT! We have had so many people comment how she captured our personalities and relationship so well and I couldn’t agree more. She has the sweetest soul, is go with the flow and makes sure the bride and groom have nothing to worry about. I never thought I’d become friends with a stranger who was photographing my wedding, but here we are... I can’t even stop talking about how sweet her soul is and how much I appreciate her love for Christ, and hearing about after a year full of weddings she was going to leave to continue work in Uganda less than 2 weeks after our wedding.
If you are looking for quality, affordable and a wonderful person to capture your special moments, Haylie is your girl! <3
Haylie did the photography for our engagement photos and wedding and did an incredible job! She handled our large wedding party SO well and captured every sweet moment so perfectly...
! Our families could not stop talking about what a wonderful job she did and how patient she was with our large, rowdy group! :)
Haylie is such an incredible person! We could not have asked for a better photographer. Everything is so easy. She truly knows what she is doing. When she needs to, she provides gr...
eat instructions to create the best photos. But also, she makes you feel so comfortable, and at times it feels like she’s not even there! No awkward photos here! She made our rainy day (no, not sprinkling. Torrential down pour) so relaxed and easy. I’ll never look anywhere else for a photographer. Love her and everything about what she does. Hire her and you won’t regret it. You may even be lucky like me and get a new friend out of the deal :)
My husband and I LOVED having Haylie as our wedding photographer!! She was super easy to work with and handled our large wedding group well.. we got all of our photos done quickly ...
and she helped us stay on schedule. Not only that, but our pictures are stunning!! I can't stop looking at them, and I can't even pick out a few favorites because they're just so good! She captured our personalities perfectly and I'm so happy we chose her. I will continue to relive our day through her photos for years to come! <3
Haylie beautifully captured my engagement photos along with my wedding. Using her as my photographer was the best decision I made. She is AMAZING at what she does. All of our photo...
s captured the emotion between us. She works with the natural lighting and sights around her to come up with poses on the go. Nothing felt forced and she even danced with our wedding guests. She is so fun!
1000% recommend for any wedding or photography needs!
Haylie was wonderful! Her photos were beautiful and creative. She was flexible with our schedule to make sure we had photos of our entire day and engagement photos were included. W...
e had our photos within a week— before we were even back from our honeymoon! She’s a high quality photographer who was great to work with. Cannot recommend enough!
Haylie is definitely an amazing person and photographer! She shot my husband and my engagement photos last year and our wedding just last month. I really enjoyed working with her ...
because of her obvious passion and talent for photography as well as her openness and compassion for people in general. On our wedding day, Haylie was able to rally a rather large group to get the photos I wanted in a timely fashion. She rolled with it, even when a couple groomsmen demanded to lift me and my husband up in the air for a pic. I can't wait to see the rest of our photos from the best day I could've imagined. You can't go wrong with hiring Haylie, she will exceed your expectations like she did with mine!
We are SOO happy we chose Haylie to be our wedding photographer. She has a great eye and our photos turned out better than I could have ever imagined! Not only are we super happy w...
ith the photos but she was amazing to work with. She’s super sweet and flexible but also assertive enough to keep things moving on time. She was very responsive in the months leading up to the wedding and helpful in making a timeline for the day. Also, we got a “sneak peek” of about 30 photos the day after our wedding and she got all our pictures back to us 5 days after the wedding!! Some people wait months for the their pics! I would ABSOLUTELY recommend Haylie Meyer Photography!
Having Haylie capture our engagement pictures and wedding day was one of the best decisions my husband and I made! She is the sweetest person and does beautiful work. Haylie’s work...
is efficient (great for hot days and large families :)), but she does not sacrifice quality. We have received SO many compliments on our pictures. She has an excellent turn around time for sneak peeks and full galleries. I can’t imagine having anyone else capture our wedding day and highly recommend her to future brides!
We chose Haylie because we saw how beautiful our good friend’s engagement photos turned out, that were taken by her, and we were not disappointed. Haylie was very good at communica...
ting both before and during the wedding, and I felt like I had a friend taking my photos. We have so many gorgeous photos to look back on our big day thanks to Haylie. 10/10 would recommend!
Okay you guys - here's what's up. Haylie was the BEST decision we could made for our wedding day. Her work alone is beautiful and speaks for itself. However, there are a ton of tal...
ented photographers out there. The thing about Haylie that sets her apart is her sweet soul and passion for her work. She goes above and beyond for your day, and honestly just feels like another one of your friends hyping you up! She is kind, smart, and has a great eye for creativity, without straying from a classic wedding look.
Haylie did our engagement and wedding photos and we couldn't be happier. She is punctual, thoughtful, easy to work with, and manages people well (our family pictures were like herding cats and she made it happen LOL). We have not received all of our wedding photos yet (just the sneak peak) and I'm already entirely confident enough in posting this review. If you are on the fence about about booking with Haylie for your wedding/engagement photos - here is your sign - DO IT!
I promise Haylie is the kind of person that you can trust will go above and beyond for your day and give you beautiful images that will last a lifetime!
I loved everything about having Haylie as our photographer. She was easy and quick to communicate beforehand and on the wedding day. She is great at posing but also catching natura...
l moments. She uses light beautifully in pictures; they are truly quality pictures not edited. She was great for the family dynamics and making the day one to remember and look back on!
So glad we chose Haylie to be our photographer! We were a bit nervous for our engagement photoshoot but she made it easy and fun by guiding us through the process and laughing with...
us. On our wedding day she made sure we kept on schedule and directed our rambunctious families with ease. Her turn around time and amount of photos provided are excellent; we've received so many compliments!
Haylie was a joy to work with! She captured exactly what we wanted even though we didn’t entirely know. Our flower girl was having a meltdown and she knew exactly how to communicat...
e with her to get good pictures taken. Pictures came very quickly and we’re really pleased. We got an incredible value for our money and cannot recommend her enough.
Haylie was a delight to work with. She captured exactly what we wanted at our wedding with incredibly vague "this is what we like" instructions, and our pictures were absolutely br...
eathtaking.
She was incredibly efficient at the "cat herding"-like task of family wedding photo combos (which did wonders for my "Holy crap I'm getting married in an hour" stress), and throughout the rest of the ceremony and reception I honestly forgot that she was there.
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