Rebecca Skidgel Photography

f our vendors from so far away without knowing anyone or anything about the area. Our planner found Rebecca and showed us her previous work, I was already so impressed by her editting and style, I was ready to book her right then and there. Instead, Rebecca wanted to set up a zoom call to chat so that we could make sure we vibed well together...this proved to be so important later on as photography is such an intimate experience if done well. Rebecca and I clicked instantly on the call. I loved how she both made me laugh and also made me feel as though she would be incredibly organized and on top of everything. We booked her for our wedding right after our call and our experience throughout the wedding process was great. She followed up with us regularly regarding payments and also had us fill out questionnaires that would help her get to know us better and also be more prepared for the big day. We also scheduled to do an engagement session with her while we were in Sonoma for a few days about a month before the wedding. Would highly recommend this to anyone who is getting married and hiring a photograher. Rebecca literally sent us a full on guide of what to wear and bring for the session, which was insanely helpful since we would be traveling there via plane. The guide also had full descriptions of all the locations she would recommend we choose for our session. We selected two locations and literally had THE BEST time during our shoot. She made us laugh and had the most helpful cues for us in order to really capture our love and personalities. On our actual wedding day, Rebecca went above and beyond to capture EVERY SINGLE MOMENT. We had a non-traditional wedding day and planned to have our ceremony in the morning, a picnic in the park during the afternoon, and dinner and dancing later on in the evening. Rebecca was all up in there for every single event, capturing so many special moments that we will cherish forever. Not only that, she also went out of her way to pick some champagne and sneak my husband and I away for a minute after our picnic to drive us to a nearby vineyard to snap some amazing extra photos complete with spraying champagne. It was honestly such a blast, we were doubled over in laughter multiple times throughout the day while taking photos. When I think back to our wedding day, not only did Rebecca truly make it special with the photos she was able to capture, but she also made it special just by being there and being so incredibly fun, supportive, and excited. In terms of timing and efficiency...we literally got several sneak peeks JUST HOURS after the reception ended and received more sneak peeks from the day about two days later. She works so diligently, but it is also so obviously she pays extra attention to all the little details in her work and wants to ensure that your when you look at your wedding photos year after year, it will feel just as good to look at them as the day itself was.

would 100% recommend to use becca as your photographer when you need amazing shots while your in the Napa area!

e sure we were on the same page with the look and feel. She answered any and all questions we had leading up to the day and was super precise with the timeline, and really gave us peace of mind. Working with her took loads of pressure off me, my now husband, and our families because she thought of everything without us even having to ask. She arrived promptly on the day of the wedding, and was professional and friendly. She brought a lot of fun , positive energy to the day without being distracting in any way. She made sure to get every shot we hoped for and others I didn’t even know to hope for. Just couldn’t have been better from start to finish!! In case you couldn’t tell from the rest of the review I highly highly recommend booking her!

ouse, family, and friends, Becca is the right photographer for you. We initially came across Becca after scrolling through her Instagram. After meeting with her, we could immediately tell that she would be a great fit for our wedding based on her high energy, can-do attitude, and eagerness to connect with our vision. Throughout the planning process, she was incredibly organized and collaborative to ensure that we would get all the photos that we had envisioned, along with some fun ideas she had (hello, champagne popping under twinkle lights!) that aligned perfectly with the vibe of our big day. Her positivity and general energy were exactly what we needed the day of the wedding - lightheartedly not putting up with nonsense from family and sticking to our well thought out timeline so that we could get to spend as much time as possible together and with our family and friends. Not only were our final photos BEAUTIFUL, but she made the entire process stress-free and fun. She is truly a dream to work with.

Napa Valley when we were visiting in the Spring of 2023 to display on our wedding day. After researching countless of photographers who could shoot in the Bay Area, we finally decided on Becca because we loved her portfolio and her vibes as a photographer (lively and lighthearted!). From the onset, Becca kept an open line of communication with us even though we were halfway across the world from her! She provided us with her very handy guidebook and even allowed us to consult with her over Zoom and WhatsApp as and when we needed to regarding suitable locations and outfits for the kind of photos we wanted. She was even kind enough to send us recommendations for general things to do/see around Napa Valley considering it was our first time there! During the shoot, Becca made us feel immediately comfortable in front of the camera. Her directions were clear and she was overall such a joy to be around. The pictures came out beautifully and we are very happy that we went with Becca! Choose Becca, y’all, you won’t regret it!

uld be difficult planning this from the other side of the country but she truly made it an amazing experience. She captured memories that will last a lifetime. Will definitely be flying her to our wedding wherever that might be!! Highly recommend her to anyone looking for a photographer for these special occasions! We are grateful to have found her.

ld have hoped for, and our friends and family loved working with her on our wedding day. Becca is so professional, fun, and an amazing artist. It was raining all week leading up to our day, and she came out the day before to scope out lighting and potential spots to shoot, and she had umbrellas for us just-in-case. Her process made it so easy and stress free for us, and if we could only hire one vendor again, it would be her in a heartbeat!

d she showed up to our wedding having never met us in person or been to our venue and was an absolute professional who made the entire picture process so easy and fun. Above all things though, you're hiring your photographer for the photos, and Becca's photography is - to steal the word I've seen most often since we started sharing our pictures with family and friends - stunning. She has the eye, her editing is fantastic, and the final product is something you will be absolutely thrilled with. 10/10 would recommend!

h great communication, a suggested itinerary, and little surprises along the way. It was truly a treat working with you. THANK YOU!!!

est. We were at the cold and windy beach, so I wasn't sure how our pictures would turn out but we were completely blown away by our gallery. We booked with Becca because of her gorgeous wide sweeping shots and were so happy with our pictures! We had the best experience ever, we can't stop looking at and printing our pictures, and are so excited to have her capture our wedding. I can't recommend her enough!

ther. Her style is absolutely stunning and everyone I have shown the photos to have been amazing. I am so excited to have her shoot our upcoming wedding! She is definitely worth the investment.

er zoom through the planning process to the day of, I was so impressed with her vision, thoroughness, attention to detail, and fun loving nature. To top it all off, Becca is an incredibly talented photographer and so much fun to be around. Everyone at the wedding commented on her amazing ability to keep things moving, remember names, and capture all the special moments. We just got our sneak peek and are so thrilled with our photos and how Becca captured our special day! These photos will be cherished for years to come. 10/10 recommend hiring Becca to capture your special day…and your after party too!

seeing her wedding photos. When the time came for me to choose my own photographer for our special day, I quickly reached out to Becca. As I was already a huge fan of her work. All her photos seem to capture the love, fun, joy and energy of each of her clients. You could feel the love and happiness in her work. I knew I needed that same vibe for my own wedding day. After our first virtual meeting, we decided she in fact was the right photographer for us!! We quickly signed a contract and scheduled a walk-through of our venue with her and some of our other vendors. Becca had never shot at our location, and it was great to get a set of fresh eyes on the space. Our wedding day was magical and filled with so much love, a few days after the wedding we received our sneak peeks and I literally burst into tears of joy, I could feel all the emotions all over again just looking at those sneak peeks. She captured every special moment we had discussed leading up to the wedding. I can’t wait to see the rest of them. Thank you, Becca, for being a part of our special day and this is just the beginning of our relationship as I hope you capture every milestone and special moment in Nick & I’s lives.

She even stopped by our venue a few days early to find the best spots and stopped by to meet all my family. The pictures were delivered incredibly fast, with sneak peaks less than a week after! She captured all the emotion of the day which was so important to me and my now husband. We cannot recommend her enough!!

ng on her expertise. She was extremely organized and clear about how to accomplish this task (so much so that my nerves were almost nonexistent. I was simply excited about the plan). A few days before the big day, she visited the spot and sent videos explaining my options. It was go time from there. The big moment was captured perfectly. She made the moment fun and easy going, while still being so professional. Both my fiancee and I are obsessed with the results. She even sent over few sneak peeks hours after the proposal. I couldn't recommend Rebecca more!

ge help on the wedding day, ensuring that everything went on time. I normally hate taking photos, but she made the experience a fun one. She was very organized and efficient, and a great photographer to boot.

our welcome events, and our wedding day. (For the wedding day, she also brought along Alicia Laurene as a second shooter, who was just as wonderful.) She was helpful, organized, responsive, worked seamlessly with our videographer, and was generally a delight to do business with. For each of the events she communicated clearly what we should expect from the services we were paying her for, and what we needed to provide for her to succeed, and then blew us away with the results. Before the engagement shoot she got to know us (and our dog), and selected a fantastic location that perfectly captured our style and our desire to represent the area we would be wed. She quickly produced great teaser images, and followed them up with a huge album of absolutely stunning shots. Before the wedding weekend she was helpful and communicative, sent us a hugely helpful wedding guide, and requested a bunch of information to ensure that we would have all of the detail shots, individual and group photos, and important moments captured the way that we wanted. Throughout the process she was fun and personal and informal, but also immaculately professional. She must have had other clients, but she was so generous with her time and attention that we always felt like the only ones. By the wedding weekend she was not only a photographer, but a friend. On the big day, Becca and Alicia took the information we had provided and executed flawlessly. They unobtrusively captured the intimate moments of prep with the wedding party, they added levity and good guidance to the first look, and they wrangled the herd of cats that was family photos. At every step they made sure to be quietly present but also diligent about getting the shots. During the ceremony they moved through the aisles (something they had taken the time to clear with us beforehand) like shadows, and we barely noticed their presence unless we looked for it, when we would invariably find they were already in the best spot with the camera raised. After the ceremony Becca and Alicia worked as a team and separately to efficiently capture stunning Golden Hour photos in the nearby vineyards, capturing the beautiful evening and still getting us back to the reception with enough time to enjoy a good chunk of cocktail hour. Through dinner and the reception, they were always in the right spot, capturing the memorable moments (and unobtrusively re-staging them as needed), and managed to get us some teaser images faster than we thought was even possible. Through it all, they managed to capture fun and candid behind-the-scenes moments for social media without sacrificing quality or missing a beat. We have absolutely no regrets with our decision to hire Becca, and we would do it again in a heartbeat. The value she provided for her services was more than worth it, and she was an absolute professional and true friend who brought joy and humor without sacrificing any of her craft. We are already looking forward to a ‘wreck the dress’ shoot with her in the future.

he cares for each of her couples individually. From her super thoughtful welcome boxes to her beautifully curated wedding guides you can really tell that she puts her whole heart into her business.We chose bodega bay for our engagement shoot and the weather was far from perfect which had me worried, but Becca’s energy is contagious and within no time my fiancé and I were relaxed and having a blast. It felt like shooting with a friend who had known us for years! She didn’t hesitate to fix my hair or adjust my fiancés shirt we even brought outfit choices to the shoot and she helped us narrow down which would look best together. She made us feel so comfortable and that totally translates into our pictures. The very next day we received a couple of sneak peeks and within 2 weeks our full album was delivered and we were popping champagne, crying at how she had captured our relationship and personalities perfectly. Needless to say we cannot recommend her enough and will never get over how lucky we are that we found someone as talented and charismatic as her to capture our wedding day.

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ozens of photographer’s portfolios and interviewing a handful of the ones we liked, we just knew we had to go with Becca. She was really down to earth and our energies just matched. Hiring, planning and contacting Becca was seamless. The day of the wedding, Becca and her second shooter for the day, Amy, were on top of things. They worked really well with our videographer and wedding planner to ensure that we stayed on schedule. We had a long family/group shot list, but Becca and Amy were able to get all the combinations of photos we talked about. We received sneak peeks shortly after our wedding and let me tell you, I am ecstatic with the quality of the photos we’ve received and are super excited to get the rest of our photos. Becca was truly a joy to work with. So if you’re looking to hire a photographer who is fun, professional and uberly talented, go with Rebecca Skidgel Photography!

nning. My fiancé and I are definitely not naturals when it comes to taking photos but she made us feel so comfortable and we had so much fun. Her communication with us from day one has been prompt and thorough and our turnaround time for our engagement photos was much quicker than expected. We are so glad to have her on our vendor team for our wedding! Highly recommend booking with Rebecca - you won't regret it!

demeanor that helped bring out the personality in everyone she photographed (even those of us a bit more camera shy). She is also incredibly professional and detail oriented, both throughout the planning process and on the big day. We had some extenuating circumstances on our wedding day that led to half the bridal party being considerably late to the venue; Becca was the vendor that single-handedly went above and beyond, rearranging the pre-ceremony photo timeline on the fly. Despite the delays, we somehow still finished all our pre-ceremony photos AHEAD of time, all thanks to her. Our venue coordinator pulled me aside at one point and said Becca was one of the most professional, coordinated photographers she had ever worked with, which speaks volumes since this venue does weddings almost every single day! Becca’s photos captured the joy and love throughout all the big and little moments of our special day. And just as importantly, she is an absolute dream vendor to work with. Looking back, booking Becca was single handedly one of the best decisions we made for our wedding day!

the best client experience. She came to our venue on her own time the day before the wedding to make sure to scope out the best spots for photos/lighting, made us a detailed customized timeline, and helped make sure the day of flow went smoothly. She does a great job of keeping you on track with your photography timeline even if you're a few cocktails deep and distracted. We could not have imagined the day without her. She even took some polaroids for us that she gave us the night of and sent us a bunch of sneak peaks just a few days after the wedding! The pictures are perfect, captured our love and personalities so well, and I know we will cherish them forever. She also did our engagement shoot and we had so many amazing photos to choose from for our save the dates! She is so talented and was able to get great photos regardless that it was incredibly windy and cold. Rebecca is the perfect combination of professional yet fun and personable. Seriously you will not find anyone better to capture your day!