Joe Cutalo Photography

Joe was amazing to work with every step of the way. We are so pleased with how our photos turned out AND we received them only 2 weeks after our wedding day! We will for sure be recommending Joe to everyone we know and using him in the future for all of our photography needs.

When we approached Joe to do our engagement photos the first thing I noticed (and the thing I came to appreciate most) was how calm and in control of the entire situation he was. He asked us where we would have liked to take our photos and when we hesitated to give an answer he asked us just to think of the places that were significant to our relationship and the places we loved to go together. It was as if he knew that is what we needed to hear - and it put us immediately at ease. We had come into the situation feeling that we had to have the perfect location for these photos, thinking that was the most important thing to insure that they looked amazing. Speaking with Joe reminded us that as long as we were having fun in the photos, the love and happiness we share would come through regardless of the location. He made it extraordinarily easy for us to enjoy the process. On the day of the shoot Joe was accompanied by his wife, Amanda - they worked together seamlessly. I really appreciated having Amanda there with us, she was another creative voice and I was sure she would have told me if I had lipstick on my teeth. Everyone in our family loved the photos and we couldn't be happier with them. He really captured who we are as a couple, the way we interact with each other, and what our relationship means to us. The quality and resolution of the photos was phenomenal so we had no issues whatsoever when we had a few prints made. Joe not only e-mailed us the photos, but he uploaded them onto his website. This gave us the opportunity to share the photos with friends and family that live further away from us. We were so in awe of the entire experience and so grateful for Joe's keen eye and his ability to capture even the most fleeting of moments that we asked him to photograph our engagement party and our bridal shower. Our experience with Joe Cutalo was as close to a perfect as we could have hoped for.

Short version: Joe is amazing, you will love working with him to capture the magic of your event, small or large. Long version: Joe was the photographer for our wedding in April 2016. He did an amazing job and we were thrilled with the photos and album he put together for us. We were planning a simpler ceremony and reception at the Off-Broadstreet Theater in Hopewell and wanted the focus of the photos to be more on personalities and activities, rather than set pieces. Joe was everything you'd want in a photographer: * attentive: listening carefully to our thoughts and preferences for our dream shots * detail-oriented: coming to our venue two weeks before the date to walk through the venue + iron out details, and following up on all of our emails with plenty of details * creative & resourceful: worked with us on all the details of the lighting in the theater, took many amazing photos with his own vision based on some of the rough ideas we thought up, finding vendors to work with to make our album customized to what we wanted * organized: asking for our shot list in advance and bringing the list with him to make sure we got all the group shots we wanted * patient! In summary, Joe is as close as you can get to a mind-reader in a photographer. Both Joe and his second photographer (Bernadette) were complete naturals, knowing when to give us input and when to step back and capture moments from a distance. Since the theater was on the darker side, Joe worked with the theater on stage lighting to make sure the photos of the ceremony were balanced. He also had a great sense of humor and put everyone at ease. All of the ladies who helped me get ready thought Joe was a natural at capturing the special moments of us getting ready while giving us space to do what we needed. I also loved how Joe & Bernadette worked together and bounced ideas off each other for our couple shots. They clearly respected each other and worked well together and it showed in our gorgeous couple shots. It's obvious that Joe is passionate about photography, has a great eye, and is eager to share his talent & thoughts on photography to capture your special day. We could not be more thrilled with how our wedding photos turned out and we love looking through the photos to relive the magic of our special day. Joe spent a lot of effort afterwards to edit the photos, put together our album, and create the right background/atmosphere effects in our shots. After seeing the photos, one of my friends who got married last year commented that she wished her photographer had done as good a job as Joe did! I completely trust his vision for capturing any event and we look forward to having him continue to take more photos of us as we grow our family.