5 out of 5 stars and 111 reviews
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(111)Best of Weddings (6x).Sarasota, Bradenton, Venice, Orlando, West Coast FL
$595 starting price
About this vendor
At JVK Photography, every photography session is as different as each of the clients I serve. I want to learn as much as I can about my clients to ensure I capture what they are looking for. I know how anxious brides and grooms are to see their photos after the big day, I post a sneak peak within 24 hours and my turn around time for a full download of all pictures averages two to three weeks. I provide a minimum of 100 pictures per hour booked. Check out my 60+ reviews on my Facebook site.
***Booking discount if wedding venue is Marie Selby Botanical Gardens or Ringling Museum in Sarasota or any venue in the Orlando area**
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Photo Shoot Types
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
- Trash The Dress
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Photo
- Printed Enlargements
- Social Media Sharing
- Wedding Albums
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Dramatic
- Lifestyle
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
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We couldn’t be happier with our engagement photos! JVK Photography exceeded all of our expectations, capturing our love and personalities so beautifully. Her attention to detail, creativity, and ability to find the perfect lighting and angles were incredible!
Jessica made my wedding photography dreams come true on my big day, 12.7.2024! She was polite, insightful, respectful, helpful and above all else, she made sure she got the perfect shots! She really has the experience and talent to find the perfect lighting - even in the shade of trees where it can be tricky to get everyone's faces lit nicely. I will come back to update this review with more photos once I have them saved. The thing that drew me to her on The Knot was her affordability and her gorgeous portfolio. These are photos that we will cherish forever, and our family will, too. 10/10 would hire again for another event!
Jessica has been an absolute peach to work with! The patience & kindness on a hot July day has been exactly what we needed when everyone was overheating. Her professionalism is what I recommend to everyone. It was amazing to have her capture our beautiful moments on our special day!!
Jessica was an great professional who captured amazing pictures on our wedding day and made us feel very comfortable, she was kind and patient and we are very grateful that we found her. Thank you so much Jessica, we loved the work you did for us.
Can't say enough good things about Jessica! From a last-minute booking, to slight changes to our session along the way she was communicative and flexible. Most importantly, my fiancé and I had a wonderful engagement session experience and beautiful photos, we could not have been happier with choosing Jessica as our engagement session photographer!
Highly recommend Jessica and JVK photography. We booked her for engagement photos and wedding photos and videography. She went above and beyond as we asked if it was ok to bring our two little girls as well to throw in for a picture or two at the end. She agreed but that is not what she did. She then went above and beyond and got so many amazing shots. One with just dad one with both, just each other, alone. All of the different options she did it! It was a fun experience and not uncomfortable or corny! I will cherish these photos forever and my wedding is yet to come. Thanks Jessica!
Jessica was easy to communicate with … always responded quickly. She was on time and showed reliability when confirming details etc. She was extremely friendly and professional. She captured beautiful photos of our wedding/reception and we could not be happier with the results.
Jessica was so great to work with. I absolutely am in love with all my photos and the sweet moments she caught so that we can cherish them forever. She was quick to get all the photos back! I highly recommend her for your wedding or engagement photos!
Jessica is very helpful and professional. We hired her to photograph our intimate ceremony. Before the event, she is happy to answer any questions you have. She is very responsive! We had changes to our plan for the day and she happily worked with those changes. She captured the day beautifully and made the process enjoyable. Our family is not used to being behind a camera, but she was able to make us all look great! She provided a preview within 24 hours and then sent the entire portfolio in a little over a week. I highly recommend her to anyone I know and I would happily use her again for any future photography needs!
Jessica was absolutely amazing for our wedding day!! She was communicative before, during, and after the date. She came prepared and made our day so smooth with her flexibility and professionalism. Not to mention she took the most gorgeous photos I could have ever imagined! Highly Recommend!
Jessica exceeded expectations with her remarkable work on our engagement photos. Her keen eye for capturing genuine moments and attention to detail resulted in stunning, emotion-filled images. Her talent has truly added a timeless touch to our special memories. Highly recommended her for anyone seeking exceptional photography. Thank you Jessica.
Jessica was awesome to work with. Very flexible and professional. She takes great pictures!
Jessica was an amazing photographer! She made us feel so comfortable and helped us with posing for our engagement shoot. The photos turned out so great, I’m obsessed with them!
JVK Photography exceeded our expectations. Jessica was great to work with in advance and on the wedding day. She seamlessly moved about the ceremony and reception and captured our day beautifully. We absolutely love the photographs. The sneak peek was delivered within a day and the entire project was delivered much sooner than expected. We’re going to have a hard time choosing which photos to use for an album.
Jessica’s attentive and creative eye made for phenomenal engagement and wedding photos. We absolutely love them! She captured every perfect moment of our special day. We’re grateful to work with an artist that has a keen eye for storytelling and attention to detail! Her attention to lighting and composition produced ethereal shots, straight out of a fairytale. Jessica’s professionalism and organization truly shines through in her craft.
We not only got our photos back quickly, but the photo platform was very user friendly. We appreciated the endless patience and positive energy throughout our experience! We absolutely recommend booking JVK Photography for all your photography needs.
Jessica was fantastic! She was quick to reply and help plan out the day before hand. On the wedding day, Jessica was so professional and genuinely caring about my family and me. Every photo she ensured the lighting was good, each family member had photos taken and always offered me water when she could tell it was getting a bit hot!! My family looks forward to using her for all our futures weddings and parties.
Jessica was punctual, open to any requests for additional pictures and captured our special day beautifully! Everyone who has seen our wedding pictures has commented on how nice they are and the good job of the photographer.
My husband and I are so pleased with our photos that Jessica took. She was very patient with the fact that my husband hates pictures and we have a toddler that hates them as well! Our wedding session was smooth and effortless and our pictures are absolutely beautiful.
Love love love my engagement photos. She was fast, professional and budget friendly. She was so accommodating on location and timing. Would book her again.
My husband and I got married June 10th, 2023, on Siesta Key. We used a wedding company for our ceremony, that included photography with the package. We were a little hesitant to use the photographer provided, as our wedding photos were the one thing we really cared about. Especially since this would most likely be the last event with all of our family together. However, we currently do not live in Florida, and trusted the company's recommendation. After meeting Jessica, and working with her, she exceeded my expectations. We chose to have a smaller wedding with only our close friends and family. Because of this I didn't feel like a bride, or that I had gotten the same experience as others. After seeing my photos, I felt like a real bride, like I hadn't missed out on anything. I LOVE my photos. She captured everything I wanted and more! My husband and I will cherish them for the rest of our lives. Now that we are moving to Florida, I even hope to have Jessica capture our future life events.
Jessica was an amazing photographer for our adventure elopement at Lake Louisa state park. Photos turned out amazing and she was very nice, professional and punctual. Highly recommend!
I booked Jessica about 2 months out from when I needed photos. My sister was unable to attend my wedding, and I wanted to capture some of the special moments that were missed. Jessica was able to meet the day I needed and suggested a wonderful location for pictures. She was great to work with before, during, and after. The pictures are beautiful! My wedding day finally feels closer to being complete.
As far as this review, it would not allow me to select the proper date. Photos were taken on April 30th, 2023.
We went with JVK for our engagement sessions and could not be happier! The pictures came out perfect and we got them back super quick. Jessica was super helpful and flexible throughout the entire process and responds super quickly :)
JVK Photography was wonderful to work with! We called Jessica to help us with an intimate elopement civil ceremony that we wanted to have at the local historic courthouse. She was prompt with communications and even helped us to navigate closures due to the holiday, which we were not aware of. Jessica was on time even though we were late to our wedding (smile) and was flexible with pics inside of the courthouse, the main building, and in the beautiful garden outside the courthouse.
Jessica provides a "sneak peek" to a few of the photos while she continued her review & editing of the rest of the gallery. This came the day after the wedding and then the full gallery of photos came just 5 days later! Wow. Her professional photos turned out extremely well and we couldn't be happier with the way that she helped to capture our special day.
We highly recommend her!
Great communication and took lots of shots during the event! Affordable and responsive!
My husband and I renewed our vows at the Beach House in Anna Maria Island and thanks to Jessica, we have memories for a lifetime. Jessica was absolutely amazing in capturing essential moments. The final product was more than anything I could have asked for! From the breath taking sunset shots to the photos with our children. All in all, we are elated to have chosen JVK and thanks to Jessica it is truly an unforgettable moment. thanks again!
Jessica was really awesome! She suggested a great location that really spoke to who we are as a couple and took beautiful pictures. We got a preview a day after the photo shoot and the whole gallery within the week! The pictures were so elegant and wonderfully edited that we’re going to have a hard time choosing which ones to use for the save the dates! With the price, you can’t beat the combination. I’d recommend her to anyone looking for photos for any occasion!
We loved our wedding pictures! Less than 2 weeks from our wedding and we already have our full gallery! The images are beautiful and Jessica was so easy to work with!
JVK photography was perfect for my engagement. She was willing to work with my time and traveled a bit to make sure we could hold onto our memories for years to come.
My fiancé and I did an engagement session with Jessica mid-January 2023 in downtown Winter Garden. From beginning to end, Jessica was impressively professional and detail-oriented. She communicated with us consistently throughout the process, offering suggestions when we weren't sure where to start and responding/updating us quickly. I appreciated her emphasis on getting the best shot, whether it was listening to our requests for backgrounds, changing angles for the best lighting, moving us around to make us look our best, waiting for passersby to clear the area to create a more intimate moment, or any of many things she did so well. I'm so happy with how quickly and how well all of the photos turned out, and I would gladly recommend her to friends and family for any moments they want captured on camera.
I highly recommend Jessica Hamby as a wedding photographer! She was very professional, timely, and friendly. She did a fabulous job photographing the wedding, even with the large wedding party and family. While taking photos, she had an amazing talent for noticing small details that needed to be corrected for the perfect photo. We had multiple guests and the wedding planner tell us that we had a great photographer with an eye for details. We were so impressed with the beautiful photos and are so thankful for Jessica Hamby! You won’t be disappointed!
She was amazing! My fiance hired her to take candid photos of our engagement and they came out so well! (not to mention I didn't know she was there to capture the moment so it was a true surprise!) She returned our photos to us quickly with tons of options!
Jessica was recommended to my wife Kelly and me by Bonnie Sanchez, our wedding coordinator. What an excellent choice. Jessica was incredibly professional and also very artistic with her photographic approach. The photos are amazing as well as how amazing it was to work with Jessica. I highly recommend her services.
Jessica was amazing!! She photographed our wedding and we loved the photos. She paid attention to what we wanted for photos and made sure to get all our special events for the night. She was on time and ready to go through the whole evening and was super accommodating to our last minute decision to have a first look! We were worried about lighting with having an inside ceremony but everything turned out beautifully and outside Jessica did a great job to make sure to work around the setting sun. We had our sneak peek provided to us by the time we made it to the hotel from the venue that same night and we had the full album faster than we thought!
Thank you Jessica for being apart of our beautiful engagement shoot! She was so laid back and also professional and made me feel like a princess! So excited for our wedding day! Thank you again😊
Jessica is so sweet and made us feel so comfortable in front of the camera! Our photos were amazing. I couldn’t have asked for a better photographer
Jessica, you are an incredible photographer! Thank you for making my proposal so special. The pictures turned out better than I could ever imagine. Magazine worthy!!!
If you were planning on getting a photographer for any event 10/10 would recommend Jessica.
Jessica was wonderful to work with and most definitely provided us with stunning photos capturing our day. She was on time, great with communication and easy to work with from afar! We took a gamble and won with her. We are forever grateful!
We found Jessica on The Knot to be our wedding photographer, and couldn’t have asked for anyone better! She was so patient with us during all of our big family shots (including kids), and captured some amazing memories from our big day! It was a quick turnaround for a sneak peek gallery, followed soon after by the full gallery of all of the beautiful moments she captured. Would definitely recommend JVK for your next event!!
I used Jessica for my proposal photoshoot. She was so wonderful from start to finish! Very responsive any time of day. She was early and coordinated with my picnic service to capture my secret proposal! Our proposal will be so memorable with these photos. Thank you for the great work and caring to make it a success! Highly recommend , she made the process easy and stress free. Now the hard part, picking from the 166 wonderful photos! A good problem to have.
JVK photography took beautiful wedding photos for my big day. Her communication was always prompt and she returned my images extremely quickly. I’m so grateful to have had her for my big day!
Jessica went above and beyond to make our day special. She captured all the great moments from our big day. We would highly recommend her for your wedding!
Jessica was amazing! She was so understanding when we had to take some family pictures earlier than anticipated AND in a different spot than planned due to some mobility issues. Although we knew we had a time limit on the sunset she never made us feel rushed and made sure to include any and everyone we wanted. The detail pictures she took are better than I could have even imagined. We got a sneak peek so quick! And the final pictures were amazing and there were so many of them! I cannot wait to have these printed and cherish them forever.
We had the best experience with Jessica for our 2022 wedding. She always goes above and beyond to make sure everyone is happy and she gets the best shot. Jessica made sure to give us a sneak peak of our photos the day after the wedding!
Jessica has always been a pleasure to work with and have done our photos, she is very friendly and super out going! I’m so blessed to not only have amazing photos by such a great photographer but that the knot has brought us together as friends, and someone we will forever reach out to when we are in the Sarasota area! So thankful for her and our friendship!
Jessica provided an exceptional experience for our small family wedding venue on the beach! I absolutely loved every photo and feel like I've made a friend for life.
I highly recommend Jessica! The photography packages are very reasonable.
Thank you Jessica!
Be well & Hugs,
The Geraci's
We hired Jessica Kurant, JVK Photography, for our destination wedding in Bradenton Beach, Fl. based on a recommendation from our reception vendor. She was prompt, reasonable and easy to work with. She is very creative and did a wonderful job on our photographs. We are so happy with the lasting memories provided by Jessica. Highly recommend!
Jessica is wonderful! She’s done our maternity and engagement photos now and will always go back to her for special occasions! She doesn’t waste any time and really makes the most out of your hour. She gives you tons of pictures in a timely matter. I think her prices are very reasonable, especially given how many great pictures you get back. Jessica is very professional & you can tell she really enjoys what she does!
Jessica, responded immediately. Was very easy to talk too & was so sweet. She made it so fun. The pictures turned out beautiful.
My boyfriend (fiancé now!!!) and I booked a couples photo shoot with JVK while we were on vacation and Jess was fantastic! She worked with us and the weather during hurricane Elsa to get our shoot in and turns out she knew all along that is was actually a proposal shoot! She captured the most special moments that we will cherish forever. The lighting was perfect, the timing was perfect, the angles were perfect. She is punctual, very very sweet, and she had our sneak peek pictures back to us within a couple of hours and the rest of them by the end of the week! I 10/10 recommend booking with JVK for all of your photography needs! Thank you so much Jess!
I would absolutely recommend JVK Photography to anyone looking for a fantastic photographer! Jessica photographed my husband and my private beachside wedding ceremony just last month, and she was a pleasure to work with. She is incredibly talented, very sweet, and she was flexible when we had to delay our wedding from 2020. She was so helpful in giving us direction on what looked nice in terms of poses and best angles for lighting (it was very bright on the beach that day). When we received our photos, we were absolutely ecstatic! We could not get over how stunning the photos were - every photo looked so natural (none of our poses came off looking forced or awkward - she knew exactly what looked perfect!), the backdrop in every photo was absolutely gorgeous, and we just could not be happier with our entire experience. In fact, we were so happy that we have already set up a future photo session with JVK Photography for family photos this fall. 100% recommend, and thank you so much, JVK!! :-)
While looking online for photographers in the Sarasota area for an upcoming vacation family photo shoot/surprise engagement, I found JVK Photography and was not disappointed! Jessica was helpful throughout the entire setup process and was quick to respond to any questions/emails that I sent her way. She made the entire process from beginning to end so seamless and stress free. Jessica captured our moment perfectly and we couldn’t be happier with how our photos turned out!
Jessica was amazing and our pictures turned out incredible!! My fiancé and I had never taken professional photos together before and were both a little nervous about knowing how to pose and what to do. Jessica was so sweet and eased our nerves and helped us pose so that our pictures turned out super natural and beautiful. Her turn around time was super quick and we were so impressed with our photos! Highly recommend Jessica!!
JVK Photography was great and they took great pictures. I would recommend them to other people.
Jessica was so professional and easy to work with! She suggested great poses and our pictures turned out wonderful. She is very reasonably priced. She did an awesome job on our engagement photos while we were on vacation in Florida!
Jessica did an absolute BEAUTIFUL job on our wedding photos. I am so highly impressed! She was very personable & kind. She directed us through the whole thing & had great ideas. She definitely knows her way around a camera & made she the lighting was perfect for every angle! Her pricing is perfect! We had a very small & very quickly planned elopement & she accommodated us well! Any ideas I had, she brought to life! She couldn’t have given us or our families a better gift. After looking at our album they felt as if they were all there as well! Thank you so very much Jessica! I will forever recommend you & I can not wait for family pictures in the near future! 💛
Jessica was amazing! She checked in with us multiple times before the wedding to see what pictures we wanted. She was sure to get everything I asked for and more. We got so many great pictures. She also gave us a huge album to choose from! I would highly recommend.
Julie G.
Jessica was outstanding! She was always readily available to answer any questions I had and she was completely professional the entire time. In the area, there are so many photographers who charge and arm and a leg and when you’re paying for a wedding on a budget, the last thing you want to do is pay $3,000! Her prices were beyond reasonable! She took gorgeous pictures and had enough for us to choose from! She was the best! Thank you, Jessica
Jessica was wonderful to work with. She was patient, kind and great at organizing people. Our allotted time with Jessica was an hour. She offered to stay later so that we could catch the sunset perfectly. Her photos are clear, crisp and beautiful. I cannot wait to book another session with her.
So when I decided to hire a photographer it was a week before I planned on proposing... Which in my opinion, is pretty last minute! However, Jessica was able to take care of me with all my short notice and the proposal and pictures turned out beautifully! I know how we all want proposals and weddings to be PERFECT and you only get one shot at it, so you obviously want to be confident in your photographer to capture the special moment. Jessica was so nice and accommodating and I would definitely highly recommend her as a photographer to anyone that's looking! 👍😁👌
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Sarasota, Bradenton, Venice, Orlando, West Coast FL
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