J Stokka Design

Desiree · Married on 06/20/2014

With only 3 weeks to my wedding I had to find a new photographer. It proved very difficult. Then I called Josh. He was so kind and was willing to take my wedding, even though he had one the next day up in Fargo, ND. I was so thankful. He did an awesome job! I love every picture! He had 5 kids under 8 that he had to corral and somehow he did it! I was super impressed! We had kind of a hectic schedule that day, and he was able to keep it together! And we got all the pictures I wanted!

I would definitely recommend him to anyone getting married in the area!

Sent on 06/30/2014

Gretchen · Married on 09/30/2016

Do NOT use J Stokka. Josh did not follow through on his contract. He showed up to take the pictures (they turned out alright), but we had to hound him in order to get even half of what was in the contract. Communication was AWFUL. Josh would not respond to any contact for weeks on end and never gave us updates on what was going on with our photos. Find another photographer.

Sent on 04/29/2017

alexius · Married on 06/04/2016

My husband and I had our wedding June 2016. We to were required to pay upfront in full prior as well. Through our numerous email and phone conversations we were assured that it would be achievable to receive a few photos within a week of the wedding to use for thank you cards and to get a sneak peak. Sadly, that was the start of it all, the start of unfulfilled promises. Despite my husband and I's multiple and I mean MULTIPLE MULTIPLE attempts to communicate we barely were able to receive a digital copy of our photos via his website. Josh stated that he had to "honor" photo shoots taken prior to ours which was cause for concern. Not only that, but when my husband and I received a copy of his contract to review it said he has up to 6 months to give us our products; any decent and good photographer will not take longer than 3 months, most I have since talked to do it in a month. I should have said no right than and there. We were ignored for months on end with no communication as we were and are still waiting for our thumb drive with all our photos and the photo album we were promised per contract. The few times we were able to contact him he always said the same thing, "I will get it to you by the end of the week', or I am putting in a photo album order and will have it to you in a week.' He also said that he and his wife just had a baby and hadn't anticipated things being so busy "staying" at home to help his wife. While I myself am a teacher and love kids, he is running a business in which people are trusting him to photograph a very important event that does not happen everyday and that requires a level of professionalism and organization. Not only that, but due to the lack of, no correction no communication, some very simple edits that I would like to have had done to the photos will more likely than not never happen. While he can take good photos, I WOULD NOT hire him as a photographer. He will cause you more problems than what it is worth. His good pricing is n

Sent on 06/11/2017