It was an absolute privilege to get to work with Kortni for our elopement!! This will be a long review because we LOVED our experience with Kortni, but the short version is: hire her!! Not only is Kortni an incredible photographer but also a kind, calm, wonderful person to be around. She is so flexible, adventurous, and brings the perfect calm, kind energy to what can be a hectic day. She is truly an expert at her craft and I cried SO much when we saw our photos for the first time. The photos Kortni captured were beautiful, authentic, entirely natural, and somehow truly captured our love and that magical moment in time. She is an expert at calm, specific direction and knows exactly what to say to guide us in the moment—she made me want to hire her for photo shoots whenever humanly possible because it was just so much FUN! We didn’t know what to expect, never having had a photographer around us before, but Kortni exceeded our hopes for what it could be like by a million miles! We are kind of camera-shy people, but with Kortni it was insanely easy, comfortable, and resulted in a STUNNING end product. I can be pretty picky, coming from a fine art background myself, and was honestly blown away by the photos she took. I was so worried about getting good photos when looking for a photographer and I imagine many brides feel the same. Thankfully, if you’re reading this review, you’ve found Kortni. And that means you don’t have to worry any more—just book her 😊.
Now into some more specific-to-us detail, we were one of the COVID couples who had to make the tough choice to postpone our wedding due to the pandemic, but Kortni was incredible throughout the whole process. We actually live in Montana currently, but our original wedding was planned to be in the Lake George area. When we decided to postpone the wedding and elope in Montana in the meantime, we were shocked when Kortni offered to travel out to Montana to photograph our elopement instead! She and her equally awesome husband, Mike, made the long drive out. We invited them to stay at an Airbnb near Glacier National Park with us and they’re awesome houseguests to top it all off! If only we lived closer to the Adirondack region we’d totally be real-life friends with these lovely people. They were SO patient with us and willing to be unbelievably flexible as we went back and forth about whether to have the elopement in the Tetons or Glacier, all while they were driving across the country toward us!! We ultimately settled on Glacier and it was a truly magical evening. Everyone we show the photos to literally gasps a little at how beautiful they are! We honestly can’t believe we got so lucky—thank you SO MUCH Kortni!!! We are beyond excited to see her again and have her photograph our full-on wedding (the one we postponed due to COVID) this weekend!! It’s a tremendous relief to know that despite the inevitable stress that goes along with a larger event Kortni is one part we absolutely don’t have to worry about. Her calm, confident, kind presence will be a blessing in the midst of a hectic day.
As I’m sure you’ve seen as you’re looking through her work, Kortni is truly an artist. I tell everyone I know that hiring her was the best decision I made about the wedding by far (second only to deciding to marry my now-husband, of course 😉). So, help your future self out—check this off your giant to-do list. Kortni’s it, she’s the real deal, and will be the best decision you make for your wedding too.