We hired Taryn as our wedding photographer in August 2023, and she is TRULY one of the best. After going to multiple weddings and being in others' weddings, what I found to appreciate the most from Taryn was her quiet confident and professionalism. Hire her!

I found out about Taryn through another vendor, as I always liked to ask vendors for recommendations of other vendors. I am so glad she did!

My initial call with Taryn showed me how knowledgeable she is. She gave me some tips right off the bat, and I got a really positive, casual yet professional feeling about Taryn. She was able to also find me a make up artist.

A photographer is one of the vendors that you will spend a lot of time planning with and on day of. We exchanged emails every couple of months (and then weeks / days leading into the big day) to figure out everything from recommended locations for our engagement shoot to locking in last-minute schedule changes based on what I wanted. She was super flexible, responsive, and communicative throughout.

Taryn recommends an engagement shoot, and I'm sure glad we did one. I felt like my husband and I were more giggly and awkward, but we got that out of our system so our day of photos were wonderful and we felt confident day of - a super important detail!

She also met up with me to walk our venue a few weeks before our day. We were getting married at UCSD, and since neither me nor my husband went to UCSD we were a little nervous about making the photos look great. During the walk-through, Taryn and I collaborated on ideas.

On the day of our wedding, Taryn arrived and was incredibly helpful. For example, when something minorly went wrong with a vendor, Taryn helped go speak with the vendor directly to see what the situation was. I felt like she was #teambride (or #teamcouple hah!) all the way through. Taryn made sure that we hit the locations we wanted to, and balanced that with some desires of ours like making sure we were able to take photos with each table.

She delivered our photos a few weeks after our wedding, and they're spectacular. The photos look natural and very representative of what our day looked like. I'm so pleased!!!

I'm really happy with our decision, and highly encourage you to speak with the lovely Taryn to hire her for your event. Best of luck!

Taryn, from Great Woodland Photography, is truly incredible! We were referred her from photographing my brothers wedding and my husband and I had a 5 start experience working with Taryn and her assistants. In our engagement shoot, Taryn did an excellent job warming my husband and I up to getting our photos taken and being comfortable in front of the camera. Come wedding day, Taryn and her crew flew out to Cabo San Lucas for our wedding weekend. Needless to say, Taryn also served as my therapist and part time wedding coordinator on top of getting fabulous photos. Lastly, shortly after our wedding she sent us a beautiful blog post with all of our sneak peeks. Looking forward to future shoots!

We had Taryn as a photographer for our wedding. The quality and professionalism was well worth the price. She made our photos so much more personal then we thought possible with it's own story that she spend time finding out from us and everything. If you want not just photos, but a story for your wedding through they way she presents them, then we would highly recommend Taryn. We thought the price was above average at first but after comparing reviews and looking at most of our local photographer's work, we knew and indeed it was, worth every penny.