I have started and stopped writing my review for Victoria about a dozen times now - no matter what I write, I don't think I will ever be able to capture just how amazing her work is.
Like many couples in 2020, we had to cancel our original pla...ns in favor of a smaller, safer and drastically different COVID-19 friendly wedding day. The one thing we knew we wanted to keep the same was our photographer, though - we didn't care if we were getting married in a living room in our pajamas, we wanted Victoria there to capture everything! After speaking with her, she was totally game for whatever our new day would end up being. Her encouragement, support and ability to make us laugh in even the most dreary of circumstances reaffirmed we made the right choice...and this was before a single picture was even taken!
As a photographer, Victoria really took the time getting to know us, our guests and what was important to us. We talked about must haves, must nots and also expressed how we wanted to feel both during our wedding day and when we looked back at the pictures she captured. She made us feel totally comfortable in front of her camera and was able to pivot so wonderfully if something wasn't working. She absolutely has her own artistic vision, but she is also able to change plans or try something new at the drop of the hat. She wasn't caught up in making us too 'posey', which is something we absolutely didn't want. Our guests loved working with her, too - even though we were the focus of the day, she made everyone feel beautiful, special and important.
Perhaps most importantly, Victoria herself loves love. You can feel it when you talk to her and you can see it in every photo she takes. She treated us like we were The Most Important Couple in the World on our wedding day and like our love story was one that would be told for ages. Even if that is so not the case, she made us believe it throughout the entire day.
Looking through the album she sent over (her turnaround time is ridiculous, by the way - we had our photos well before our one month anniversary!) makes us relive the day all over again. My now-husband, who once thought that we didn't need to invest in a photographer and that just anybody could take our photos, is a believer...he says that Victoria is the second best part of our wedding. (Marrying me is the obligatory best thing!)
I cannot express my thanks to Victoria or recommend her enough. We are already excited about booking her for every important life event to come...or maybe just keeping her contact info handy in case we're #FeelingCute one day!