About this vendor
My hope is to bring out the joy and love you already have for one another. So that tomorrow and in 10 years or 50 years you and future generations will never doubt the love you share.
Details
Photo Shoot Types
- Engagement
Photo & Video
- Photo
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Wedding
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5
out of 5.09 reviews
Karisa was beyond amazing! She took both our engagement and wedding photos. She was extremely organized and flexible throughout our entire planning process and her communication is...
top-notch. On our wedding day, I didn't need to give her any direction - she just showed up and killed it. Her personality was the perfect mix of taking charge and directing us and our group - without being bossy or making us feel awkward. She was super patient with my disorganized family (including little kids and dogs!). She showed an incredible work ethic. It was 90 degrees and humid on our wedding day and she barely stopped shooting to take a drink of water. Most importantly, our photos are absolutely STUNNING, joyful, and truly reflect us as a couple! Karisa is highly intuitive and she effortlessly captures who you are. She's also insanely fast. We got our ~1200 photos back SIX DAYS after our wedding! Seriously, hire her. You will not regret it!
Karisa was a wedding ninja - she got amazing shots and I didn't even notice as she whisked around our wedding reception! I appreciated her flexible and personalized approach and we...
ll as her strong communication from the first email to the wedding. Of course, her photos were beautiful as well. We wanted to go with more 'in the moment' photos and she captured some really lovely moments in addition to the posed photos.
I looked at a few different photographers before finding Karisa. I was looking for someone whose style not only matched mine, but listened to me and understood my husband and my pe...
rsonalities. We had an engagement session with Karisa as part of our package. I think it was super important because we got to see how she worked and she made my husband feel comfortable in front of the camera! At the wedding, she remembered everything we liked and didn't like. She made sure to get ask myself and my mom what pictures we wanted at the reception. Most importantly, she took us aside when we didn't know we wanted that to get some really special pictures of us. Couldn't be more pleased.
Karisa was an absolute joy to work with on our wedding day! Pre-wedding, all of her communication was prompt and professional, and she answered any and all questions we had.
Sh...
e made our wedding day so fun and easy - she made us feel so comfortable in front of the camera, and our photo timeline was a breeze thanks to her. She got us our full gallery of photos in less than a week, and we were able to enjoy them on our honeymoon! And the photos are phenomenal. We cannot recommend Karisa highly enough.
My husband and I had a short engagement of 5 months. Karisa was a breathe of fresh air in the scramble to find a fantastic photographer that would fit our vision. She is professio...
nal, prompt and incredibly accommodating. She came out to our house for our engagement session where we were comfortable, and her gentle demeanor really set everyone at ease. My step-daughters thought she was the best, and were excited to see her on our big day!
We received our pictures back this week, and we LOVE them!! We can't wait to share them with our friends and family. If we could give her 10 stars, we would!
We heard of Karisa through a friend of a friend but she turned out to be a safe bet! From the get-go, Karisa was kind and responsive in all of her communication with us. She did ev...
erything expertly and efficiently and always with a smile. She has a nice website set up with a login for the couple to answer some questionnaires about their day and to later view their pictures. Our package included a free engagement session, 8 hours of shooting time on the day, and a second shooter. The engagement session was great and I would recommend it for anyone that's a little nervous about spending a lot of time in front of a camera. Plus, you get to ramp up your excitement with some awesome pictures of you and your soon-to-be just with each and other and having a sweet, romantic time without the hustle and bustle of the wedding. In between the engagement session and the wedding and the wedding and getting our photos, she was good about posting a few here and there as little teasers. On the day of, Karisa did a great job of handling all of the crazy timing, people, and places that we had to throw at her. She managed everyone and everything while managing to stay calm which kept me calm! Our wedding was on a Saturday in Stillwater so the town was super busy and we had to change our after-wedding photo location on a dime and pick a new one to lead our procession of cars to. She didn't bat an eyelash and managed to get some great pictures of us at my dad's house, probably even better than what we had planned! She memorized our list of must-have pictures and was open to any suggestions we had on the spot. Her second shooter did a good job with the boys as well. It was helpful to have two shooters since my husband and I weren't always in the same location and neither was our bridal party. It also only took her about two weeks to finish the pictures. We are able to log in and view them all and download in them in different file sizes for whatever use we need. They are amazing!
tl;dr I highly recommend Karisa Joy Photography. She is a pleasure to work with and brings a romantic and fun air to your pictures.
Personality: I had not prioritized personali...
ty when choosing a photographer but quickly found out during our engagement session that it's very important! I was initially unhappy because the day we choose for our engagement pictures was cold and cloudy but with Karisa's upbeat attitude, I was fine just a few minutes into the photo shoot. Karisa energizes you through encouragement and just plain happiness when you're tired and had a full day of picture taking.
Style: We loved her style especially because that there was no strange "artsy" special effects. We wanted soft, romantic, fun and honest (why yes, I do have some wrinkles when I smile and that's ok). Even though it's been months after we sent out the album, our guests are still commenting how great the pictures turned out.
Business: The payment, contract, picture gallery and album review was all online which was so convenient! She was always prompt in responding to our questions and even checked in with us to make sure that we were on time to make key decisions.
Pictures: We got a preview of our pictures less than two weeks after our wedding. The entire online picture gallery was done less than a month later. It was sooo convenient to send a link to our guests (and others who couldn't make it) and have them download the pictures they wanted. Other guests wished that their wedding photographer had given them such good coverage of the event.
I was blessed to have Karisa Joy Photography document one of the most important days of my life, my wedding day. She is very fun and creative. I could not have asked for a better w...
edding photographer! Everyone still tells me how beautiful our wedding pictures are. I will look back at these pictures and cherish them for many years to come, sharing them with my children and my children's children. I highly recommend using her for any occasion. She has a very unique way of capturing life's perfect moments. You will not be disappointed!
I am notoriously unphotogenic, so I didn't expect a lot from wedding photos. But Karisa blew me away. The pictures look like a fairy tale, and I look great!
Not only does she ...
have an artistic eye and produce great photos, but she's also nice, fun, and very professional.
I DEFINITELY recommend Karisa.
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