Natalie over exceeded all of our expectations! Photos were beyond beautiful and really captured our personalities. During the engagement session, she was very patient with all of our clothing changes and settings to make sure we had the perfect shots. We are by no means models and Natalie worked well with us to bring out our inner model, so the photos looked very natural. At our wedding, she acted with the highest level of professionalism and made the photos run very smoothly. She is a very hard worker and puts her all into the entire day! We would recommend Natalie with the highest regards!

There are no words to describe how amazing Natalie Franke was! From the very first meeting with Natalie we felt so confident that she was the best photographer for our wedding after falling in love with her work and her warm personality. We booked her right after meeting her and she was so helpful planning our engagement session. We even got in a bad car accident on the way to our engagement shoot and Natalie was a total trooper! We all went through with the pictures anyways and ended up having the best time! We don't always feel comfortable getting our picture taken, but Natalie was amazing at making us feel comfortable, making the experience fun and our personalities and love showed in every photo. We received many little gifts from her through the process which was her way of letting us know she was excited for the big day and thinking of us during the holidays and as the wedding neared. When the wedding got closer, Natalie was amazing at helping put together our wedding day schedule and really narrow down the shots and moments that were important for her to capture on our day. During the wedding she played several roles including wedding photographer, coordinator, and bouncer and made all of us feel like total rockstars! She works flawlessly under pressure and kept us going the whole day while wrangling our family and bridal party. We gave her complete control of the shots and we were BLOWN away with the results. She finished them in record time and I still can't believe that those are OUR wedding photos! She managed to capture every beautiful moment, tear, laugh and tell the story of our whole day. We ended up with over 1k images and every one of them is as beautiful as the next. Our family and friends raved how beautiful they were and we were so natural around her which made for some awesome shots. Natalie was the BEST wedding decision we made and I would hire her 100 times over and over. You will fall in love with Natalie and her work!

Natalie Franke is amazing to work with and her photographs are just as fantastic. She knows what it's like to be a bride, and therefore understood what I needed to make my wedding day run smoothly and flawlessly. My family represented at the wedding was small (mother, father, sister), but my husband's family also included in-laws, children and cousins. Natalie did a wonderful job keeping them organized and also coordinating the family for photographs so that my husband and I could enjoy our wedding without the stress that often comes with large group pictures. Her work is wonderful and I couldn't be happier with hiring her to take our engagement and wedding photographs. We can't wait to hire her in the future for our family photos!

Natalie was the best decision we made for our wedding! She makes everyone feel so comfortable while taking pictures. She was there from start to finish with a smile on her face. My entire family wanted to take her home! I couldn't recommend a better photographer!!

I searched all over the place for a photographer that fit my budget and was located close to Annapolis. It wasn't until I visited the Bayside Bride blog that I discovered Natalie Frank Photography.

Natalie is VERY talented and I couldn't be happier with her work. Communication and responsiveness was quick and very professional. Her portrait session says she provides ~60 edited photos but to our surprise, we ended up with a lot more than that. We definitely got our money's worth and we are VERY pleased with our photos. The only problem I have is I can't decide which photos to print because I have too many favorites!

We were very nervous about taking pictures right in the heart of downtown annapolis because of all the people. Natalie made my Fiance and I feel very comfortable and at ease.

We wish we could afford to take her with us to Hawaii will we will be getting married next summer!

We will definitely keep her in mind for our next portrait session!

I cannot begin to describe how awesome it was to work with Natalie for our engagement session and wedding! She is so sweet and charasmatic and truly passionate about what she does. She worked so well with our families and entire bridal party to capture all of the special moments of the day. She is extremely professional and has the sweetest personality. She arrived early to both of our appointments and was extremely easy to get in contact with, even when she was swamped! I can't wait to use Natalie again in the future for our anniversary and family photos! She is so talented and I will certainly recommend her to all of my friends!

Natalie is the BEST photographer out there! Her work is exceptional and I completely recommend her! She is outstanding to work with and her turn-around time is better than anyone else I know! I could not be happier with my engagement and wedding photos!

One of the best decisions I made when it came to picking vendors was choosing Natalie Franke as our wedding photographer.

Her pictures are stunning and your guests will gush about how fantastic they are for weeks after your engagement shoot and wedding. She captures such warmth and love in every shot. She is prompt, courteous, professional, immensely talented, but most of all, she is genuinely sweet as can be and an absolute pleasure to work with!

We recently used Natalie to photograph our April 2012 wedding. She is great to work with and her pictures are beautiful. Her bubbly & friendly personality really makes it feel like you are working with a close friend. She goes above and beyond to make your wedding day feel special. She arrived almost two hours early with her second photographer, Krista (super sweet), to start taking pictures of the bridal party getting ready - something she definitely did not have to do. A few weeks leading up to the wedding, she even sent us a postcard saying how much she was looking forward to working with us. When I was searching for a photographer, I wanted someone who could capture the fun and candid moments (as well as the formal pics) of our wedding and us as a couple, and she did just that. I highly recommend using Natalie as your wedding photographer.

You will NOT be disappointed if you choose Natalie as your wedding photographer. She is one of the most talented young women I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and throughout our engagement session, wedding planning and wedding I have come to consider her a friend.
She is kind, compassionate, organized, accommodating and above all phenomenally TALENTED!!
Her passion for photography comes through in every photo and she is able to capture every detail and emotion of what was the best day of my life. Somehow even the detail pictures of centerpieces and table numbers seem infused with the emotion and happiness of the day. Who knew lemons and limes had feelings!? But Natalie made it look that way.

She is quick and efficient when it comes to the large group and family photos, but is incredibly thorough and makes sure you have all the different pics you need.

The other amazing thing abou Natalie is the calming presence she brings to the day. She has a soothing voice, is never flustered and is able to help the occaissionally anxious bride stay calm. She captured every moment, but was never intrusive and was able to make private, intimate moments feel like exactly that while still catching them on film.

Not sure I can say enough about how happy I was to have found Natalie and have her there to capture our wedding day. I will treasure the pictures she took for years to come and I cannot wait to watch her star grow and grow. I know she is bound for greatness and I can't wait to see it. Our pictures are phenomenal and Natalie is a tremendous photographer and person. I promise you will be glad you chose her.

PS You also get a lot for your money with Natalie - great value and great service!!

I found Natalie through a friend and instantly fell in love with her work upon viewing her website and blog. Upon comparing prices and different portfolios of various photographers, I knew Natalie was the best choice for quality and reasonably priced. Always timely in her responses, we conversed through email to set dates for the session.My fiance and I booked Natalie for our engagement session, bridal portraits, wedding day, and boudoir photos. Natalie is not only a talented photographer but an incredible person. She made me feel like the most beautiful bride and the time we spent at each shoot, she was so attentive to us, like we were her number one priority at that moment. I did not have to wait long for my photos; the turn around time for the finished pictures was a whole lot sooner than I had expected. Needless to say, the pictures are incredible. I constantly get compliments about my photographer. She was able to capture the love and excitement that my whole family had on our special day!
They say "a picture is worth 1,000 words", well, Natalie was magically able to capture 1,001.

Natalie is an incredibly versatile artist. Our winter wedding in Philadelphia promised (and delivered) cold weather and gray skies (at the best point of the day), but when looking at the pictures, you’d probably have to have the terrible weather pointed out to you. Her abilities to manipulate light, capture the most candid moments, and turn the ordinary into art command all of your attention…and the result is a series of the most incredibly personal and beautiful shots of the best day of our lives. Seeing our wedding day through Natalie’s lens not only helped us relive the day but also really let us experience how everyone else enjoyed the ceremony/party in a way we ourselves were not able to do on the actual day. Sure, she got the essential group photos of all our guests, but even more importantly, she managed to capture the personal interactions that make a wedding special. And now we have them forever.

After her creativity, by far Natalie’s best quality as a photographer is her self-awareness. She knows what role she has to play at the appropriate time. What you don’t want (or at least what I think nobody wants) is a photographer who is going to dominate your wedding day, constantly telling you where to go and when to smile. Of course there are times when you want your photographer to step in, take control and make sure you don’t miss “the perfect shot,” which she did, but these shots can never take away from the most intimate moments. Natalie understood this perfectly. Best of all, even though she is a very hands-off photographer, whenever we wanted a picture, she always seemed to be one step ahead of us, ready to snap away. The only time Natalie really ran the show was after the mass, at the church, when we needed to get the many permutations of family portraits, which is what we wanted her to do anyway. And she was a model of efficiency as she made that potentially taxing experience go quickly and smoothly.

Another one of Natalie’s best traits is her energy and her clear passion for what she does. Since extenuating circumstances prevented us from being able to have an engagement session, we did a “day-after” shoot and basically let Natalie run the show because we trusted her creative abilities - and that was the best decision we could have made. We were blown away by what she was able to capture! This particular shoot took place on our university campus (where we first met and later got married) and, despite the on and off rain, Natalie did wonders with the campus’ architecture and snagged a whole series of amazing shots that ranged from funny to artsy to very romantic.

Not to be too redundant, but aside from her creative eye, self-awareness and enthusiasm, the photos themselves look damn good. Natalie gives them to you on a disc (along with the copyrights), which is a huge plus, and also includes black and white versions of most shots in addition to color. What she did for us is above and beyond anything we could have hoped for. You know you picked a good photographer when the photographer herself garners as many compliments as the photos themselves. She is a real professional. The only reason not to hire her is if you want a sub-par wedding.

All you need to do is sample some of her work, take my word for it (come on, everything you read on the internet is true!) and decide to let Natalie do her thing. It’s impossible not to be perfectly happy with the results.

We were lucky enough to have several friends getting married in the Baltimore metro area the same year as us, so were able to review the work and our friends' thoughts on a wide range of photographers without interviewing them all. Based on our friends' feedback, Natalie was one of the first photographers that I researched when we had set a wedding date, and I immediately fell in love with her style. No matter how many other photographers I found in our budget, Natalie's work (based on collections/galleries from individual weddings) consistently blew her competition out of the water. Five minutes after our first meeting with Natalie, we knew we had our wedding photographer!

Not only is Natalie extremely talented, but she also is nice, outgoing, smart, detailed, professional, responsive, very in tune with her clients, and makes the photography process effortless and fun. After our engagement session, I knew that photography was one thing that I would not have to worry about at our wedding!

Natalie went above and beyond, offering to be a last-minute resource if anything came up on our wedding day. Natalie was also flexible with the timing of our contract, which was greatly appreciated as we were married the same weekend as the local boat show. Since we ended up getting ready at a hotel 45 min away, logistics and timing were tricky to nail down early on, but Natalie accommodated us without hesitation. Since she lived close by to our venue, Natalie decided to show up even a little earlier than we had agreed upon, and was there scoping out locations even before the bridal party arrived ready to get dressed!

Instead of worrying about getting specific shots all through the night, we trusted Natalie's artistry and style, and left most of the evening up to Natalie to find and photograph the best shots. Since we had so much fun during our engagement session with Natalie, and figured we'd only be "dressed up like this" once, we wanted to get some portraits as a married couple. Natalie worked in a half hour after our first dance for portraits on the beach during sunset. While we had already gotten all the traditional family and bridal party portraits earlier, this extra little session gave us some time to have fun together as a couple, really take advantage of the natural beauty of our venue, and resulted in some of our favorite pictures from the day.

Our goal for our wedding was to have a photographer capture the day in a memorable and beautiful way, and from perspectives that we didn't have time ourselves to see and appreciate in the moment. Judging by the photos Natalie blogged the following week, she did exactly that, and we can't wait to see the entire gallery! We couldn't be happier with our decision to have Natalie photograph our wedding. Her professionalism made it easy to trust her to handle an important job flawlessly, and Natalie's contribution to our wedding will continue to make every other element of the wedding that much more special as we'll get to remember it captured in her beautiful style for the rest of our lives!

Natalie has an amazing eye and is able to capture some incredible moments. My husband, family, friends, and I were thrilled with the service she provided throughout the wedding day. We are even more excited about the photos, we love them all. The amount of photos taken and from various angles, you'd think that there was at least 2 photographers! I've already received numerous compliments on the photos and people asking who the photographer was -- I am always happy to say, Natalie Franke, she's a true pro!

It was an absolute pleasure working with Natalie, and we were thrilled with our wedding pictures! Despite not meeting Natalie in-person until only a few days before our wedding, she immediately put us at ease about our wedding day and didn't leave a doubt in our minds that we chose not only a wonderful photographer, but also a wonderful person, to be a part of our special day. We very much appreciated Natalie's cheerful approach, attention to detail, fresh perspective and flexibility. Her talent and professionalism are truly second-to-none, and we would surely recommend Natalie to anyone looking for a wedding photographer.

Natalie is great to work with, she is very flexible and always responds to e-mails quickly. She was very unobstrusive on the day of the wedding, and she got lots of beautiful pictures.