Moment Wedding Photography

My husband and are terrible at posing for photos. I look like I am trying--and poorly--to run for president, and my husband looks like a zombie unless I’ve made him laugh, in which case he looks great but really giggly. Not only can’t we pose, but we are horrifically romantic, and we wanted a photographer who would understand our lacey ideals. In the wedding planning process, it was finding the right photographer that gave us the most anxiety. But then, one night, we ended up skyping with Kayana.I was embarrassed that my Dad was making faces in the background and supremely self-conscious about how ridiculous she would think our romanticism is. Kayana was incredible about all of it. I hate to use such a term, but she “got it.” Not only so, but she “got us.” Intellectually, socially, emotionally, romantically--Kayana had the scintillating intuition to understand exactly who we were: she understood it, respected it, and ran with it. “Why don’t we take a drive out to your site?” she said at the end of the Skype call, “It will help me with your vision.” “We don’t pose well…” I faltered. “I’ve got it,” she said, and smiled in a way that reminded me of how older sisters smile, encouragingly. Kayana spent hour upon hour of her precious time with us: driving two hours out to our venue in Western Mass, brilliantly figuring out angles of light and when shots would look best, and listening to us ramble on about wanting to capture the “interplay between light and dark” and the classic romantic meeting in a romantic forest. Somehow, even though we are rarely understood, Kayana grasped our concept and put it into actuality, adding her artistic vision to it and building on the moments in an elegant way. She was responsive when I talked about having some traditional shots for my Mom, and she brought a beautiful sensitivity when I talked about my brother, who had some facial scarring from an accident and was worried about being in front of a camera. She was not only perfectly professional but also personal, compassionate, gentle, and considerate. Kayana’s work is that of an artist. She accommodated, all at once, our inability to pose, our need for traditional photos, our romantic wishes, our personal vision, our personality, the characters of our guests, the details of our venue, and her own burgeoning creativity. She understands, profoundly, the raw love, passion, dignity, and charisma that lay behind each shot, and she knows how to bring those abstractions to the surface. She is a visionary. She works with the physical, but she captures essences and brings them to sublimity. At the same time, she made us feel like she was our friend, and I have never felt more comfortable behind a lens than when Kayana was bubbling with excitement about a photo, or talking wisely with us about our “vision.” She is an excelling artist, she was our wedding photographer, and she became someone we consider a friend.

Kayana is wonderful! We wanted a photographer to capture the true essence of the day, not just images. Kayana captured, beautifully, both of these things. I am generally fairly uncomfortable in front of a camera, and we didn’t want to feel as if we were “on display” the entire day. Kayana was so seamless in her approach and so unobtrusive that she put us at ease and we honestly forgot we were being photographed. This is especially true for the moments following the ceremony, when we took our “posed photos.” We truly felt that this time was ours alone and we forgot she was even there – all while she took the most amazing photographs of us relishing in our post-ceremony glow. Kayana’s scenery, detail, dance and party shots equally portray the feeling of the day. Kayana was seamless to work with, from our very first meeting through the wedding and receiving our photos. She was professional, fun, and put everyone in front of her lens at ease. Hiring her was one of the best decisions we made. She gave us the very best gift of all – the ability to look at our photos and immediately be taken back, to our day, feeling the way we felt then. She tangibly captured every moment and we are forever grateful!

Kayana really is the best. I can't say enough about how much myself and my groomsmen enjoyed the whole process of being photographed. She listed to everything that my bride and I were looking for out of our experience and what shots were really important to us. Kayana and her partner were able to be unobtrusive while still getting the shots we wanted, especially early in the day as we were all getting ready, which allowed us to relax and really enjoy the whole day from start to finish. She also has a different point of view in a lot of her shots and was able to capture moments that seemed so small but turned out to be some of our favorite details. Thank you Kayana!