Hudson Valley Wedding Photography Packages

I think I’m supposed to use this part of the website to tell you how I started. What my education is. How many years of experience I have, and why my prices are what they are. Buttttttt I’m not going to, because (1) that’s boring, and (2) truthfully, what I’m most interested in is you:

The stories you hold within you, and that you want expressed on your wedding day. The love you share with each other that gets to be shared with your family and friends. The home you’ve made within each others’ hearts. The security you provide to each other. The joy you find in one another that I get to document. << Wow. It’s a gift to share in this with you. It took my breath away just writing that.

My biggest priority when working with you is that you feel safe, seen, and supported. That you feel comfortable and protected in my presence; cheerled and held space for. Good photos should recall good memories when you see them. When looking through your wedding photos, I want you to remember the exact beautiful and exciting moment that your images were taken - the warmth that you felt with each other, and the encouragement my team and I offered to you in that moment, as well.

I’m an affirming person by nature, a nurturer, an excited cheerleader, a helper. It brings me no greater joy than to see you flourish in front of my lens. When we get to work together, I just want you to feel good, and I can’t tell you how delighted I feel when I hear my clients say, “I wish I had your voice playing as my alarm clock or ringtone every morning - you make us feel so amazing!”

If I’m to be vulnerable, honest, and a little bit wistful, I want you to know that my mom died 2 years before I had my own wedding day. She was my best friend, and it was the most heartbreaking thing to lose her, but her passing still deeply informs how I move through wedding days - even now, over a decade later. Losing her gave me perspective - that the little things are really the big things, and that everyone blossoms when they are affirmed and loved well.

For me, the art of wedding photography is the heart. Love is the mission; wedding photography is the vehicle.

“Hiring Erica as your wedding photographer is not simply hiring someone to take photos at your wedding.

Instead, when you welcome Erica into your wedding journey, it feels like befriending an incredibly kind and thoughtful soul who will gently, lovingly and enthusiastically usher you through one of the most special chapters of your life. At the end of it all, you are not only left with the most beautiful photos of you, your person and your loved ones that you could ever possibly imagine, but also, you are left with a life-long friend. We don’t need to tell you how gorgeous her work is…the beauty of her work speaks for itself in every photo you’ll see; Erica’s gift of capturing a love story beautifully from engagement session to wedding day is unquestionably extremely impressive. But what’s even more impressive is the way she serves her clients. We’ve seen others use this phrase when describing her, and we will use it here too because it is so true: she took such good care of us. We fell in love with her from the very start in our first conversation and that was solidified at our engagement session. She made us laugh, feel so at ease in front of the camera with her positive and encouraging energy, and she genuinely took the time to get to know us as we talked and walked together during that hour. When we left our engagement session, we were on such a high and knew we would be in the very best hands with her on our wedding day. In the months and weeks leading up to the wedding, Erica checked in several times, shared in our excitement, and made sure every detail was in place so that the day could run smoothly and how we wanted it to run. On our wedding day, we were overwhelmed with so many different emotions, and Erica’s presence struck the perfect balance of being calming, reassuring, cheerful and celebratory. We truly believe that her showing up in that way and with that energy was what set the tone and allowed all of our wedding party and family members to feel just as at-ease, excited, joyous and present. Our people raved about her; how she made them laugh and feel comfortable posing for portraits and how incredibly friendly, warm and professional she was. As she guided us through our couple portraits in our first moments of marriage, she allowed us to really soak in the pure joy of that time, making it feel so magical, sacred and, again, easy. We simply can’t imagine our wedding day with anyone but Erica and her team there with us. We could honestly go on and on about how genuinely wonderful she is, but we’ll end by saying that she is a gift and a light and was, without a doubt, the absolute best decision we made when planning our wedding. We were sad to hug her goodbye at the end of the night, knowing our time together in this chapter was coming to a close. But she has gained friends and fans for life in us, and every time we see our gorgeous wedding photos hanging on our walls and in the homes of those we love, we’ll always feel so grateful for who she is and all of the beauty she has brought to this world through her work and especially through her care and love for those she serves.”