Sarah Dawson Photography

e photography! As much as we wanted guests to enjoy themselves (food, drinks, music, venue), I feel like the photography was my biggest priority because ultimately, aside from the memories, that's what you're left with after the day is over! Sarah is absolutely lovely. She met with us prior to the day to get a sense of who we were and our story. She also gave us some flexibility as we didn't need engagement photos so we were able to credit that part of the package towards our wedding day. Sarah is so kind and pleasant, and incredibly talented and professional. Our photos are just beautiful! She was really great working with us on the day of as it was a crazy downpour and i had my heart set on a particular outside photo location, and she ventured out to scout it and made it work for us! We feel so fortunate to have worked with Sarah and will cherish our wedding photos forever!

l photos before, but Sarah made us feel more than comfortable — we did add the engagement session to our package, which we highly recommend doing, and I think that was such a great way to get to know her and a for her to see a bit of our personalities before the big day. We really wanted to spend as much time enjoying our wedding as possible, and Sarah and her assistant photographer were awesome with getting gorgeous portraits before the ceremony and then quickly corralling our (crazy) family and snapping a few intimate post-ceremony pics of just the two of us so we could join the party. What really stood out when we got our photos back were all of the candid photos of our guests and the whole reception. They captured so many moments that my husband I and would have otherwise not seen and that was so nice to be able to look through and see how much fun everyone was having on our big day. We have received endless compliments on the photos and I would hire Sarah and her team again in a heartbeat! I have to stop myself from plastering our photos all over the walls of our house!

lived in San Francisco and although we live in Sacramento now we knew we wanted to get married in S.F. City Hall. He has a 1965 VW we call Nikita and we wanted to take some before pics in some of our favorite areas of the city before hand. Sarah was wonderful in consulting what we wanted our photos to look like. We wanted something untraditional, and that read more like a story of one of the many adventures we have and hope to continue to have together. Nothing cheesy, no cable cars, no Golden Gate bridge, just us in our element. She arrived promptly as we were getting ready at our hotel in the morning and was helpful in making me feel relaxed. Posing for pictures was more natural than awkward under her direction. We drove to Chinatown, North Beach and City Hall for the ceremony with Sarah in Nikita's backseat fully equipped taking initiative to stop and take pics, darting in and out of traffic by foot to get really cool and surprising shots. Once we arrived at City Hall the ceremonies were running behind. I told Sarah I wanted to keep our service limited to a few hours since to keep costs at a minimum and so she could go about her day. She offered to stay longer to capture the ceremony without charging extra because she really felt like her job wasn't complete without getting those important photos taken. She really made us feel like she was in no rush and was just professional as they come. When the ceremony ended she got some great candids of our families, then jumped on the Bart to head out. We got the images back from that day in a timely manner and were just knocked out by her work. Everyone we shared the photos with says they look like a magazine shoot and that they told a great story. When her blog posted I flat out cried. We feel so honored to have Sarah be a part of our day and if we could get married every year and recreate that day I would absolutely want Sarah there. I truly feel we chose the absolute right fit for our wedding photo needs. Sidenote, she sent us some cute little postcard sized prints from that day to us at Christmas and it just makes me smile even more.

k. I can not say enough good things about her and how fun yet professional she is. I would recommend her to anyone. I knew with her my day would be captured beautifully and I would not have to worry.