Catherine Plaisted Photography

Catherine was amazing so kind and loving. Best photographer ever!!!! She listens to the bride and groom and there families and takes amazing photos she was worth every cent!

The experience with Catherine was absolutely amazing. She made both my (now) husband and I feel so comfortable taking photos with her. My husband is very shy in front of the camera and he quickly warmed up and was able to take photos with guidance from Catherine on posing. We asked a lot of Catherine for our wedding photos. She traveled all around Pittsburgh with us going from place to place doing different photos from the Allegheny County Courthouse, Frick Fine Arts Fountain and the Pittsburgh botanical gardens. I loved how she posed us but also would incorporate our ideas for photos/poses as well when we would make a request. She was amazingly accommodating with everything for the day and really helped to make it special. Everything from our phone calls to the questionnaire helped us to feel comfortable and really come up with solid ideas for what we wanted to do for the day.

Catherine was amazing to work with and all of her photographs were amazing! My husband and I booked her for both our engagement session and wedding day. During the engagement session, she spent time getting to know us and made two awkward engineers totally at ease in front of the camera. At our wedding, she drove the day for us and kept all of our photographs moving even when there were some uncooperative little kiddos involved. Even when some things were pushing back our timeline, she stayed calm, cool, and collected so that we weren’t worried at all. She had amazing sneak peek photos ready for us the next day and I have received so many compliments on her photos. We loved working with Catherine and cannot wait to see the rest of our wedding day photos!

Catherine photographed our elopement. I was frantically looking for a photographer as we very quickly planned a wedding. As soon as I spoke to Catherine on the phone, I knew immediately who I wanted to go with. She was kind and just as excited as we were. She made the whole process simple. On our wedding day, she was there helping to light candles and move furniture in our cabin as we got married in front of our fireplace in Cooks Forest, PA. The sneak peaks that we received are so beautiful and we cannot wait to see the rest. From the ceremony to champagne toast to pictures in the woods she had great ideas for both posed and candid shots. We loved working with such a sweet and compassionate person who also made the day so comfortable and so fun! We cannot wait to work with her in the future. I highly recommend Catherine for your large wedding or your intimate elopement. Either way she will capture all of the perfect moments!

Working with Catherine was a dream! My fiance and I haven't had many professional pictures done together but Catherine made us feel so at ease in front of the camera for both our engagement shoot and our wedding day photos. We were thrilled with how well she incorporated our last minute videographer and they worked together on a timeline for the day so that was one less person I had to coordinate with. We were also THRILLED with how well she accommodated our 4 dogs!! They can be a handful but Catherine knew how important they are to us and made sure to include them in pictures and didn't get annoyed by their misbehavior. All in all, I can't say enough good things about her and I have already recommended her to people that I know are getting married soon. I will definitely be using her any future events that I need photographs for.

Catherine was an amazing photographer. She made Ron and I feel at ease and comfortable while doing the ceremony. We had a list of photos we wanted to get, from the incline to our boat, and Cat delivered. She posed us in a way that was comfortable and did not feel forced. The initial questionaire and phone call went well and easy. We discussed everything Ron and I thought was important to us. How our wedding ceremony is just in front of our parents, and the reception will be in front of guests. The photos that she showed me were beautiful and I am so excited to see the rest.

Catherine was truly an amazing photographer to have with us for my husband and I’s wedding day! She made us feel comfortable and eased any anxieties we had about the day. We are not comfortable with being in front of a camera, but Catherine walked us through every step of posing and had wonderful suggestions and ideas throughout the day. My favorite part of working with Catherine was how hands on she was! She was a huge help with things that caused me stress on my wedding day, like my wedding timeline, staying on track with our timeline, and even helping me with my bustle and veil! You could tell she truly wanted to help us throughout our big day and do whatever she could for us! Catherine had me fill out a form the week before the wedding with all the details of what I expected on the big day, and provided me with photo ideas. She called me the week of the wedding the review my expectations with me to ensure she understood exactly what I wanted for our photos! This made me feel comfortable and helped ease the stress of the wedding week. When we received our sneak peaks, we couldn’t believe our eyes! Catherine made us look like a bride and groom from a magazine cover! I can’t wait to see the rest of the photos! It was an amazing experience having Catherine photograph our wedding, and I would 100% recommend her to anyone!

There is literally so much that I could say about my experience with Catherine. For starters, I felt extremely comfortable with her, she made me really feel like I was in great hands and that my wedding would be captured fully. Our first interaction was our meet and greet before booking, where she brought samples of her work, and answered every single question we had. She was open, honest, and very kind. We opted out of engagement photos simply because we wanted more coverage on the wedding day, and she was very flexible in transferring that hour session into an extra hour of coverage the day of. I then followed up with her and I did a boudoir session with her. Boudoir is something that I always wanted to do but being so self conscious, I was hesitant. I went ahead anyway, and I am SO GLAD that I did. Catherine was so encouraging, and really made me feel beautiful… and boy, when I got my pictures back-in a very timely fashion might I add- I was in shock that I could look that good! It was such a special present for my husband for the day of gifts. Throughout the whole process, any questions I had she answered and was okay with sitting on the phone with me while I bounced ideas off of her! I appreciated that. Closer to the wedding, we scheduled a phone call to go over last minute details and go over the day of timeline she had previously sent to me. I had some accommodations that needed met, and she was up for the challenge! The day of the wedding comes, and she honestly was like a “bonus bridesmaid” as she said she would be. She brought her oh snap pack in case of emergencies, offered to pick things up if we needed it, and choreographed capturing our bridal suite And my husbands room with the second shooter brilliantly. It was flawless. At the wedding, after the ceremony, she was prepared and had every picture I asked for taken in a timely manner. So much so, that I felt like I was in a rush and I asked her for the time- all for her to tell me we were 30 minutes ahead of schedule!! That was such a relief. That gave my new husband and I a moment to really sit together and take in the moment before getting announced into the reception. She offered to take sunset pictures, which I really appreciated because she was attentive to timing and when the Sun would be setting, all the capture those moments for my husband and I. Although I was not in the best shape to take them, the fact that she went out of her way to offer that was very nice!! The party got the best of me faster than anticipated! Haha! The next day, we wake up to our sneak peaks! OH MY!!! I was gushing over them. She got so many beautiful shots, and it was just the sneak peak!!! We are waiting to see our full gallery, but from the sneak peaks I already know I am going to be in awe over them. It has been only 2 and a half weeks since my wedding and we will have our gallery back! Amazing. Overall, Catherine is great. She is talented, flexible, and has such a bubbly personality to really make you feel comfortable. Her work is beautiful and I could not be happier that we chose her to capture our day. I highly recommend using her to capture your special moments, because I know she will be my photographer of choice for everything from her on out!

Catherine was an absolute delight to work with from start to finish! She was organized, communicative, helpful, and genuinely fun to work with day of. She has great attention to detail in her photography and beyond, and I am so glad we chose her to document our wedding day!

Great experience working with her for a surprise engagement. Would highly recommend

We’ve only had our engagement session so far but we absolutely loved Catherine! We were both nervous going to the engagement shoot because neither of us get in front of a camera that often, but Catherine is so much fun and was on board for all of our goofiness. She arrived earlier than us and scoped out spots for the best pictures, and she helped us pose our naturally awkward selves in ways that would create beautiful images. Not to mention she had some cool photography tools to use too! We’re so excited for her to shoot our wedding day! Catherine’s prices are very reasonable and she works with you to create the package you are looking for. And her work is beautiful! Edit: Wedding day has come and gone! Catherine was such a pleasure to work with. In addition to being a great photographer, she helped keep our day on track and her calm vibes rubbed off on me (which was much needed). She sent us a questionnaire a few weeks before the wedding, and then followed up with a phone call about a week out to gather details about family/friend dynamics and a list of group photos that we wanted. This helped our group photos go smoothly and quickly. She also showed us a few photos on her camera screen as we were taking them, and seeing how great they looked helped us feel more confident going forward. Catherine got our sneak peek back to us in about 12 hours (when does she sleep?!), and they are absolutely stunning. We've already recommended Catherine to friends and family looking for wedding photographers and holiday photoshoots.

My wife and I chose Catherine for our wedding. She has great prices, is friendly, and works hard to give you, not only the best experience, but the best pictures too. She effortlessly made us feel comfortable and asked for our opinion as well which I really liked. I'd definitely recommend her to anyone. She's great at what she does.

I don’t want anyone else taking professional pictures for me! She’s so kind and easy going! Easy to communicate with and her response time is so fast (within a few hours when other vendors take days) I’ve booked her multiple times because she’s literally THAT GREAT!!! She’s open to any and all ideas and has a TON of her own too. I wouldn’t recommend anyone else. Catherine is amazing and her work is phenomenal.

Catherine is amazing! She was super responsive from start to finish, flexible, funny and incredibly easy to work with. We knew that our wedding photos would be the one thing we could cherish forever and she made sure to get every moment. She went above and beyond in so many ways to make sure we were always happy, she is incredibly personalized with all her clients, she even sent us a Christmas card months before our wedding with a cute little note that got us feeling very excited for the wedding! It was such a pleasure working with Catherine from start to finish, in the months leading up she was incredibly helpful and offered guidance for any questions/concerns we expressed and during the wedding she was very organized, went around the location looking for the best shot locations and coming up with ideas of photos/poses we could take at different locations. We as a couple haven’t taken many professional photos together and weren’t exactly sure of the right poses/where to look/etc but she took full control and made us feel at ease, comfortable and helped us to know exactly what to do to get the best photographs. The photographs that she took truly capture the joy of our wedding day. We were so impressed with how quickly she got our “sneak peek” photos back to us and how she was able to capture so beautifully the natural scenery from our wedding and the love/joy we both felt that day. We highly recommend working with Catherine Plaisted Photography, she is amazing!

If you want someone who is going to pour their heart and soul into making sure you’re happy by capturing every single detail, then Catherine is your girl! She did both our engagement photos and our wedding photos and we couldn’t be happier with how they turned out. Every time I look at my wedding photos I feel like I’m reliving the entire day all over again, she didn’t miss a thing! She was the first person at the ceremony so she could start taking photos right away, and didn’t leave the reception until the last guests were gone. She then stayed up all night and finished all of our hundreds of wedding photos in LESS THAN 24 hours. If you are considering hiring Catherine, do it. You won’t get another photographer who is going to put the passion and dedication into their work the way she does. We can’t wait to hire her again to take any future photos we need!

Catherine took my grandparents 65th wedding anniversary photos! She was easy to communicate with and had wonderful ideas for poses! And the photos are absolutely beautiful!