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About

Cynthia Viola is a creative wedding photographer located in North Carolina. She takes the time to connect with each and every couple to capture their personality and unique love story. You can appreciate the relaxed, fun, and professional atmosphere she provides as she works, making your wedding event all the better for it.

Experience

Cynthia’s background includes psychology and counseling, which is useful when interacting with couples and grasping genuine emotion in each and every photograph. Her expertise spans both wedding and family photography, with experience shooting in a variety of locations.

Services Offered

She offers natural and photojournalistic photography styles. She adapts to location characteristics and compositional elements for the ideal images. Cynthia can offer the following services:

  • Additional hours
  • Destination and travel
  • Engagement Session
  • Hand-coloring
  • High-resolution images
  • Liability insurance
  • Multiple locations
  • One event/day
  • Second shooter
  • Slideshow
  • Toning
  • Bridal Session
  • Trash-the-dress photo sessions
  • Boudoir
  • Woman-owned
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Frequently asked questions

Which of the following are included in the starting price?

High-Res Images
Multi. Locations
One Event / Day
Slideshow
Canvas
Digital Files

Which of the following are included in the price of your most popular wedding package?

2nd Shooter
Add'l Hours
Engagement Shoot
High-Res Images
Multi. Locations
One Event / Day
Slideshow
Canvas
Digital Files
Prints

What primary photographic style do you identify with?

Natural
Photojournalism

What photography services do you offer?

Additional Hours
Boudoir Shoot
Destination / Travel
Engagement Shoot
High-Res Images
One Event / Day
Second Shooter
Wedding Portraits

What photography items do you offer?

Albums
Canvas
Digital Files
Prints

Reviews of Cynthia Viola Photography

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The photographer is praised for stunning, vibrant photos that capture candid moments, details, and multicultural ceremonies. Reviewers say she’s professional, fun, calming, and great with pets and large groups. Fast turnaround, organized, adaptable, and highly recommended.

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The photographer is praised for stunning, vibrant photos that capture candid moments, details, and multicultural ceremonies. Reviewers say she’s professional, fun, calming, and great with pets and large groups. Fast turnaround, organized, adaptable, and highly recommended.

Emma
Emma Sent on 04/01/2026
5 out of 5 rating

Wedding Photography by Cynthia

We could not recommend Cynthia enough. She is professional, kind, quick to upload the photos, and most importantly - an excellent photographer! All of our guests are absolutely astounded by the quality of Cynthia’s photos. She captured the best day of our lives perfectly.
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Brooke Sent on 09/26/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Best photographer!

Cynthia shot our proposal so we knew we had no other choice when we choosing a photographer for our wedding. Cynthia and team shot amazing pictures. Communication was seamless and we received our beautiful pictures very quickly. Our family and friends were so impressed with our pictures. Would recommend Cynthia Viola Photography to anyone!
Elaine
Elaine Sent on 07/20/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Cynthia is incredible!!

We had such a wonderful portrait shoot with Cynthia. She had the most fun prompts to get us (non-models) comfortable with getting our pictures taken. We had teaser images back to us that day, and the whole album a few days later! Beyond her impressive speed and talent, she's also just a fun person to spend time with. Definitely recommend :)
Lindsay
Lindsay Sent on 07/07/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Greatest Photographer on Earth

We LOVED having Cynthia for our wedding photographer!!!!! I cannot recommend her enough, she is truly amazing. She is always responsive, down-to-earth, easy to talk to, and fun to work with.

Her work is absolutely stunning, and she captures candid moments as well as beautiful portraits. Our photos are vibrant and colorful and we are endlessly happy with them! Also, we had our dogs with us (because of course!), and she was amazing with them. She managed to capture their personalities and their "jobs" in our ceremony so perfectly, which made the photos even more special to us.

She makes the experience feel natural and comfortable, taking care of the tiny details for you so you can enjoy your day. She is so experienced with wedding photography, so having her confidence around helped to ground me and my "pre-wedding" jitters. I was very thankful I had her around!

Choose Cynthia! She is wildly talented with the camera and will make your experience easy, breezy, and wonderful and you will have ~*amazing*~ photos to cherish forever!
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Caylee Sent on 07/07/2025
5 out of 5 rating

The BEST photographer

Cynthia is everything you could ever need or want! We had the best time with her celebrating and she does such an amazing job capturing every moment. We are 2 people who don’t feel super comfortable in front of a camera and she really made us feel comfortable and have so much fun! The pictures are breathtaking and we could not be more thankful for having the BEST photographer and human be apart of our special days!
Southern
Southern Sent on 12/26/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Extremely Talented & Calm Demeanor

Cynthia is an incredible photographer and as a planner, one of our favorites to recommend! Not only does she respond quickly, come with tons of energy on wedding day, but she's so chill. With all the emotions on a wedding day, it's extremely important to have vendors who help keep you calm so you can fully enjoy your day and Cynthia is that vendor!

Added bonus: she gets photos edited quickly and they blow us away every time! :)
Arianna
Arianna Sent on 12/08/2024
5 out of 5 rating

She is absolutely amazing!!!!

I cannot say enough amazing things about Cynthia! She has truly become a part of our family with how many photoshoots she has done for us (4 so far) and her overall personality. She has an amazing talent and is so fun to be around. She had previews for us within 10 minutes of our reception and had our full album ready a week later!!! I will forever recommend Cynthia to anyone and we will continue to use her in the future!
Lisa
Lisa Sent on 12/01/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Such an amazing team!!!

We had to move our wedding to from Banner Elk to Chapel Hill due to Helene and Cynthia made it all happen at a new venue without missing a beat! She kept everything upbeat, fun, and special. Everyone felt at ease (even with our long list of family shots) and the pictures were unbelievably gorgeous!! And the turn around on our photos was so quick - seriously 10+/10 would definitely recommend!
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Shannon Sent on 11/24/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Highly Recommend

Repeat customer here. Cynthia is wonderful to work with. Her pictures are stunning!! Her pricing is up front and easy to understand. The timeliness of the pictures showing up was faster than promised. Her manner is wonderful to be around. If she's available, book her now. We will absolutely be using her again.
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Regan Sent on 11/22/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Ahhh-mazing.

We found Cynthia through friends of ours who had gotten married in 2021. She was so much fun during their wedding, we knew we had to have her for ours! Cynthia is nothing short of professional, kind, and courteous. She is so easy-going, and has the absolute best prompts for getting you to relax and come into easy poses that make for fabulous photos. She is also incredibly speedy! We had "teaser" photos by the end of our wedding night, and by the following week, our entire album was ready and available for viewing & purchasing. We are *obsessed* over our entire album from our November 2nd, 2024 wedding. 100% recommend Cynthia for any of your photography needs.
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Awards

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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2025 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2022 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2020 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2019 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2018 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2017 Winner

Professional Network & Endorsements

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Cynthia Viola Photography frequently asked questions

Cynthia Viola Photography includes the following photography services in the starting price:
  • High-Res Images
  • Multi. Locations
  • One Event / Day
  • Slideshow
  • Canvas
  • Digital Files
Cynthia Viola Photography includes the following photography services in their most popular wedding package:
  • 2nd Shooter
  • Add'l Hours
  • Engagement Shoot
  • High-Res Images
  • Multi. Locations
  • One Event / Day
  • Slideshow
  • Canvas
  • Digital Files
  • Prints
Cynthia Viola Photography offers the following photography styles:
  • Natural
  • Photojournalism
Cynthia Viola Photography offers the following photography services for weddings:
  • Additional Hours
  • Boudoir Shoot
  • Destination / Travel
  • Engagement Shoot
  • High-Res Images
  • One Event / Day
  • Second Shooter
  • Wedding Portraits
Cynthia Viola Photography offers the following photography materials for weddings:
  • Albums
  • Canvas
  • Digital Files
  • Prints
Cynthia Viola Photography is recommended by 100% of couples who have used their services. Their overall rating is 5.0, with the same score awarded for quality of service, flexibility, value, professionalism and average response time.

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