About this vendor
Rebecca Gatto Photography is a colorful wedding photographer in New York's capital region. What sets Rebecca apart is her journalistic background: telling people's stories for the region's major newspapers led her to wedding photography.
With a flexible, all-about-you approach and a love for celebration, photographer Rebecca Gatto forms relationships with couples and guests for natural images that are true to your memories. She captures everything from happy tears to hilarious dance moves without intruding or interrupting. Her creative spirit and cheerful personality allow her to take spontaneous pictures while keeping the day fun for everybody.
Rebecca embraces any opportunity to photograph same-sex and gender-nonconforming couples, pets involved in weddings, and DIY everything!
Details
Business Attributes
- LGBTQ+-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
- Trash The Dress
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Online Proofing
- Photo
- Printed Enlargements
- Printed Proofs
- Second Shooter Available
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Dramatic
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Awards and Affiliations
2019 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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Reviews
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5
out of 5.015 reviews
Rebecca was a breeze to work with. She was very informative from the start, clear about her contract and services, punctual for every meeting and very available for questions throu...
ghout the process. On our wedding day, she was very laid-back and unobtrusive, sticking to the photo-journalistic style we requested. Her friendly personality put everyone at ease. We received our social media “sneak peak” within the day and our fully edited photos within a few weeks after as promised. I would recommend Rebecca to other brides, as well as consider hiring her again for any of my future photographic needs.
Rebecca was great! Incredible to work with from start to finish! Our photos turned out great - could not recommend her enough.
Rebecca is an incredible wedding photographer! We highly recommend that you reach out to her when you start planning for your big day. We chose an adventurous engagement shoot, an...
d Rebecca even hiked with us to our snowy, mountaintop setting and took beautiful photos. She considers every detail and is diligent to get every picture you hope to capture. She is quick to get you wonderfully composed, professional, finished photographs, so you can share them with your family and friends with ease. We were so happy working with Rebecca and hope you get to meet her!
Rebecca is the nicest, friendliest, and most helpful wedding photographer. We gave her a vague idea of what we wanted, and she ran with it! We got everything we wanted and more, an...
d the pictures came out fantastic as well.
She's also super easy to work with, especially when you've never planned a wedding before :)
Rebecca was amazing! She is so easy to work with and helped us capture the moments and details that were most important to us. She was also really good about taking pictures that...
made me feel good about how I looked on my special day even when I am a little self conscious about the way I look. Additionally, she captured some precious photos of my son and I which I love so much because I wanted my special day to be just as special for him as it was for me and she did an amazing job capturing the love that I have for my little guy and our new family!!!
She is fun and very personable! I'm very uncomfortable having my photo taken and she definitely made it an easy experience and my photos came out beautifully!
Rebecca is very personable and pays attention to your wants and needs. She captured my wedding perfectly and took so many gorgeous shots. I couldn’t be happier with her services. I...
would highly recommend her to friends and family.
We truly enjoyed working with Rebecca on our wedding day. With a very short notice (we eloped at a local courthouse), Rebecca was flexible and up for an early morning, weekday even...
t. She did her homework, calling the venue to make sure everything was in line, and even checked to make sure we were aware of logistics. She arrived before us on the day to the courthouse, and even beat us to the reception area and put up an adorable sign! She made us all feel relaxed and beautiful as she snapped photos. Our photos came out beautiful, our happiness shines through, and we look like ourselves. I cannot recommend Rebecca enough!
When we first started looking at photographers, especially within our price range, we weren't blown away by any of the photos or their portfolios. They were all serviceable, but we...
didn't really fall in love with any of them until we saw Rebecca's work! There was so much emotion and joy that was captured in her photos that we immediately thought she was the one we wanted to go with. When we met with her, she immediately made us feel comfortable and we ultimately felt like she would be the perfect match for us. Plus, she loved dogs!!!
We had our engagement shoot with her and we were a little nervous at first, but she helped to pose us and we finally loosened up and had some fun. We got a ton of great engagement photos all around downtown Troy. She even waded through some deep snow to get a few shots. That's dedication right there!
On our wedding day, she took a bunch of portraits of us and our family, but also was flexible enough to go to the roof of the building with us to take some gorgeous pics. She also got some great sunset shots and really helped to capture a bunch of great moments at the wedding. Can't wait to see them all!!
Rebecca was so sweet, so easy-gong, and just so fun to have around that day. We were so happy with our decision!
Our wedding photos came out amazing! When I planned for the big day, I really looked far and wide for the perfect photographer. It was a bit difficult due to the wedding date being...
so soon. That's when I met Rebecca. I looked over her work and thought she's perfect. I wanted photos that captured the magical moments on Cesar and I's special day and Rebecca excelled my expectations. She's patient, creative, and very accommodating to our requests. She stuck out in the cold to take our portraits and at some points laid in the snow for some killer shots of our personal items. I definitely will work with her again in the future. Hopefully it won't be as cold as it was on my wedding day. If so, I can only expect that Rebecca would do another fantastic job.
I was extremely nervous to have my engagement photos taken. I have no idea how to model and I'm very body conscious. Rebecca made my fears float away. She explained every step, pos...
ed us and made sure we looked our best. Not only did she listen to our suggestions, but she went out of her way to incorporate our ideas. She even captured some great shots with our dog who has a hard time sitting still and paying attention. I am so grateful for the work Rebecca put in and for once I am actually proud to show off pictures of myself. Contacting a photographer when you're a same sex couple is nerve-wracking. I am so glad we went with Rebecca. She was not only open and wonderful, but proud to take pictures of my fiancée and me.
Rebecca is amazing! She shot our engagement photos and I couldn't have asked for a better experience. We're both pretty camera-shy, but Rebecca immediately put us at ease. She knew...
exactly how to pose us, where to get the best light and backdrop, and how to make us smile naturally. She even brought props! Rebecca's creative eye, comfortable demeanor, professionalism, and easygoing attitude make her a wonderful photographer. She edited the photos quickly and even fixed the bug bites, acne marks, and scars we were self-conscious about. Rebecca is truly the best, and I can't wait to recommend her to everyone I know.
Our experience with Rebecca was 100% fabulous. She was fully engaged in her work the whole time and took magnificent photos which are hanging proudly in our home. She is a lovely, ...
attentive, talented photographer.
Our family's experience with Rebecca has been beyond amazing, she is a phenomenal photographer and became a really great friend! She is always prepared, on time, and super creative...
! We get to look at our photos and remember our wedding as if we are there all over again, thank's to the beautiful pictures we have to keep for a life time ♡ we look forward to keeping Rebecca close to our family for many future moments that we would love for her to capture. I don't know anyone that can do what she does, better!
My fiancé & I really enjoyed working with Rebecca for our engagement photos! I posted on a Saturday that I was looking for a local photographer to shoot our photos, on Sunday she e...
mailed me personally to let me know she had some ideas for the area we were interested in shooting, on Wednesday I contacted her to confirm we wanted to hire her, on Thursday she called to discuss what type of photos we were interested in, on Friday she called to say she had researched local attractions and could meet with us the following day for the shoot, on Saturday we met with her for the first time and had our photo session, on Monday night (2 days later!) she emailed me the edited photos in an album ready to download - incredible turn around and the photos turned out so nice! We told her we wanted non-traditional creative photos and she delivered! We told her we were going to have our wedding in Canada and she researched flowers to bring for our photo shoot that would fit the Canadian theme (did you know that the fleur-de-lis symbol is based on a species of wild iris? I didn't until Rebecca researched it and showed up to our photo shoot with silk iris' to incorporate into our shoot). We told her our honeymoon was going to be in Morocco so she researched Moroccan photographers so she could incorporate their style into our photo shoot. She spent extra time with us that afternoon and delivered more finished photos then we had contracted her for, all for a very competitive price! We really enjoyed spending the afternoon with her, I'm looking forward to booking her again in a couple of years for some family portraits as we grow our family. I highly recommend Rebecca's services!
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Rebecca Gatto Photography