Amanda Iris Photography Reviews
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Ian W. Sent on 02/07/2024Stunning Photographer & Photos
From the moment we met Amanda, her passion and talents were evident. On our intro call we decided to hire Amanda. We felt a sense of kinship with her and admiration for her art. Truly, we never had a moment of pause or question if she was the right choice. Early on, she set the stage for the day helping us to outline a rought timeline and holding our hand as we had questions (AND DID WE HAVE QUESTIONS: locations, transportation, permits…).
Working with her leading up to the big day was super easy. She kept impecable notes, and had easy to fill out questionaires that helped ensure we got all of the portraits and photos we wanted.
You only get one chance to document your special day and the photos Amanda took are our passport back to the emotional highs, the laughs, the love, and the memories. Every detail that we spent two years scrutinizing over were forever captured in a stunning way.
Amanda embodies a balance that is not easy to find. She was easy going as changes to the timeline happened, but she was firm in keeping us moving on our big day to not miss a beat. She masterfully handled family dynamics. And still had time for the personal moments to check in with us—which as the day was rushing by—was needed.
We are forever greatful for the beautiful shots of our loved ones and of us. We cannot recommend Amanda enough if you are considering her to shoot your special day. -
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Rachael S. Sent on 08/13/2023Thank yourself later
Amanda made our wedding day incredible. She was flexible, she gave direction, she checked in with me often to make sure I was feeling well with the heat and long pictures. She was everything I needed to get through the day. She is the type of person that instantly makes you feel comfortable. Both of our families commented on how wonderful and organized she was. Communication through the planning process was also incredible. This is one of the most important vendors you hire, make it Amanda and thank yourself later. -
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Nihel Sent on 08/04/2023
Amanda was the perfect wedding photographer!
Amanda was the perfect wedding photographer! From our engagement shoot, she made us feel at ease, capturing our genuine smiles and laughter. She worked around our budget without compromising on service or quality. Throughout the planning process, her communication and professionalism were top-notch. On the big day, Amanda seamlessly captured every precious moment, blending into the background. Her warm personality brought calm and joy, making us feel like she was a friend. The stunning images she captured tell a unique story of love and happiness. Our wedding album is a cherished treasure, all thanks to Amanda. She's a talented, thoughtful, and caring photographer who left an indelible mark on our hearts. We're forever grateful for her incredible work and being a part of our journey. Thank you, Amanda, for being the sweetest and most wonderful photographer we could have ever hoped for!🥰🥰 -
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Angela M. Sent on 10/25/2022
Perfect!!!
Amanda was the PERFECT photographer. From the initial video chat, to our engagement pictures, to our actual wedding day, Amanda was everything we could have hoped for in a photographer and more. She was personable, friendly, caring, professional, and extremely quick with responses.We had never had professional pictures taken before so we were a little nervous, but Amanda immediately melted away those nerves and made us feel so comfortable while taking pictures and we had so much fun while doing it! She kept in touch leading up to the wedding day and picked a great second shooter for the day. For both the engagement shoot and the wedding day, she got us our sneak peek pictures way quicker than we expected, and then got us the full gallery of pictures very soon after. We are so happy that we picked Amanda to capture our special day because she was absolutely perfect. -
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Connie Sent on 04/26/2021The best engagement photographer
Amanda was incredible! My fiancé and I were looking for an engagement photographer to capture some candid, natural shots in the city where we met. We came across her lovely portfolio which featured just what we were looking for - relaxed, intimate and absolutely gorgeous photos that just draw you in, featuring the couples front and center while highlighting Philly's hidden beauty in the backdrop.
I reached out to Amanda and was immediately impressed by her professionalism, thoroughness, and kindhearted nature that just puts people at ease. We had to reschedule our shoot not once, but twice (the first time was pre-spring blossoms and the bare branches left much to be desired, and the second time we were thwarted by a rainstorm!). Each time she was promptly reachable via email/text, gracious, and accommodating.
We finally lucked out and caught the golden hour, and she captured some stunning photos of us just chilling, yet looking 10 times more awesome than we do in real life. Let's be honest, having someone you just met take photos of you and your significant other hugging/kissing/etc can be pretty awkward but Amanda found just the right balance between letting us be ourselves and giving us some artistic guidance with cute poses that still felt natural. We were also pleasantly surprised by her super quick turnaround time - we expected around a month as most photographers promise, but she delivered a fabulous collection of photos we will cherish forever in under a week! We recommend Amanda without hesitation to anyone looking for engagement photos in the Philly area. -
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Liane T. Sent on 05/31/2022Amanda is awesome!
I can't say enough good things about our experience with Amanda. Neither of us are particularly comfortable being photographed, but Amanda has such a warm and friendly personality that she made the whole thing easy. She has an incredible eye and all of our wedding photos are beautiful! She and her second shooter captured excellent candids from our reception, and we will have a collection of photos to remember our wedding that we'll cherish for a long time. -
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Jen P. Sent on 09/14/2022
Highly recommended!
We did our engagement and wedding pictures with Amanda and are so happy we did! Amanda was so friendly, organized, and amazing to work with from our first meeting - throughout the entire process, she listened to our input, made helpful suggestions and made everything so much easier. I appreciated that she really took the time to get to know us. My husband and I are very camera-shy but Amanda was able to help us feel comfortable and take such great shots! Having her and her team (Rebecca and Josh) on our wedding day helped make everything go so smoothly. They were flexible but still kept us on schedule, making adjustments as needed so we didn’t have to worry about anything. Amanda had our engagement and wedding sneak peaks and full albums ready soon after and the pictures were beautiful with a great mix of formal and candid shots - we love them! The wedding pictures came in delivered in a beautifully packaged box and it was such a thoughtful touch. Working with Amanda and her team was such a wonderful experience, we can’t recommend her enough! -
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Megan F. Sent on 10/27/2022Amazing Experience!
Finding a photographer was one of the biggest concerns I had around wedding planning. After speaking to Amanda once I knew she would be perfect. Amanda was so patient with us and gave us great advice when it came to planning for the big day, recommending places to photograph and making sure we knew about any permits needed. I distinctly remember having one basic question about lighting to which she replied with a four paragraph email complete with photos and diagrams. Talk about going above and beyond! My husband and I aren't super comfortable in front of a camera and Amanda and her team put us at ease immediately. It was so nice getting to do an engagement session ahead of time so we got to know her before the big day. She even allowed us to incorporate our pit bull into our engagement session! On the day of Amanda was totally organized and efficient - directing everyone where they needed to go, even helping me get my dress on correctly! She managed family photos with ease and dealt with difficult lighting as our wedding was after dark. You would never know it was challenging based on the photos she created! We wanted a ton of candids since we did not have a wedding party and she did not disappoint! I would recommend Amanda for any special occasion! -
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Joanie C. Sent on 10/25/2022
Beautiful Wedding Photos
We got married in November of 2021. Our goal was to find a photographer who didn’t overly edit/brighten their photos (you know the ones where you can’t see the details in a bride’s white dress because it’s so brightened). Amanda delivered and then some. We found Amanda through our venue and she gave us the perfect wedding photos (and engagement photos) that are currently playing on the Google hub in our kitchen. Her work is stunning, of course, but she's also a wonderful person to work with.
A few days before our wedding, we were anxiously watching the weather forecast because we had planned to have our wedding photos taken at a local park. Amanda reached out to me to brainstorm a few places as a backup plan. She proactively contacted a few venues and even came out to look at them with me (and brought her adorable little daughter) to see how they’d work. Lo’ and behold, the heavens opened up and we had a torrential downpour on our hands the morning of our wedding. However, by the time we were ready for photos, the ground was dry, the sun was shining, and we had 60° of pure first look bliss. Amanda, her second and third shooters (Olga & Josh) were truly lovely and had no trouble pivoting back to our original plan. They then stayed with us all day and night and on the dance floor capturing every moment.
Amanda sent us sneak peaks online then within just a few weeks uploaded the nearly 1000 photos to an online portal for us so we could share with our family and friends. Every photo was beautifully taken and we could not be happier. Amanda was so caring and so easy to work with and we will have these gorgeous memories forever because of her. Thank you, Amanda! -
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Madison L. Sent on 09/13/2021Amazing experience with Amanda throughout our wedding!!!
I have nothing but great things to say about Amanda and her team!!
She was organized, on time and made sure us as the bride and groom were satisfied and happy during photos and after!
My favorite part about using her is the photos she takes aren’t forced or staged, everything is so real and candid!
Not only did she take the time before the wedding to find perfect places for first look options she even went out of her way to find photos before the ceremony that was safe, clean and quiet (our wedding was Labor Day which was made in America weekend)
I HIGHLY recommend her and her team for your wedding. -
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Amanda Sent on 10/28/2021Genuine and Candid Photography
Amanda was able to work safely and healthily with us throughout 2020 and 2021 with Covid, whether through phone call, email, zoom, or socially distanced outdoors, with mask :). She helped my fiancé at the time and I pick an engagement session location as she is very knowledgeable of the area. She perfectly managed our expectations of the entire process and planning as well as was flexible with timelines. She was a big help with making us feel comfortable posing. Amanda is so kind, professional, and thorough and we are so appreciative of her efforts. She surprised us with completing our edited photos in a week from the engagement session and maybe a month from our wedding, which was lovely! The photographs and overall work of Amanda Iris Photography are of tremendous quality and individuality and truly speak volumes for itself! My husband and I are so happy we had the opportunity to work with Amanda as she not only captured the celebration of our engagement, and along with her great team, our wedding, amazingly, but we also feel as though we got to build a special relationship with an awesome person. Our experience with Amanda was a priceless one, which we truly value, and hope the same for many other couples, families, and more to come! -
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Gena C. Sent on 10/19/2020
Amazing Photographer
Amanda simply put is... THE BEST! From our engagement pictures to our wedding day she was so responsive and accommodating. Our original wedding date was canceled due to COVID and she made adjustments so she could make our second date. During our wedding she made everyone feel so comfortable and relaxed. She listened to how/what we wanted to see in our wedding pictures and she nailed it. Thank you Amanda for all that you did and for the memories we will now have for a lifetime! -
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Elyse Sent on 06/30/2020
Amazing photographer - even through COVID-19 rescheduling!
Amanda is an absolute pleasure to work with! As a wedding vendor, she is responsive and professional. As a photographer, she is highly skilled and put us completely at ease during our wedding photo-shoot. And as a person, she is extremely kind, helpful, and supportive. We had multiple schedule changes due to COVID-19 and were so relieved at and grateful for Amanda’s responsiveness, support, and flexibility throughout our stressful wedding plan alterations. We highly recommend Amanda’s services for any type of photo shoot; she really goes out of her way to make her clients feel comfortable and to capture exactly what is desired. -
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Laura R. Sent on 04/02/2020Hands down best decision we made for our wedding!
Amanda was my favorite part of my February 21st, 2020 wedding day, other than marrying my husband of course! But our love for Amanda started the second we met her! My amazing husband had hired another photographer to capture his proposal, but when we got the photos, we had a really hard time finding a great shot of both of us to use for our Save the Dates. So we decided to shop around for photographers. A friend of mine told me that an old friend of hers was wedding photographer and directed me to Amanda. Amanda was super sweet and accommodating in setting up an in-person meeting to show us her style and talk through what we wanted for our wedding photos. We chatted for over an hour that first meeting and as soon as we were back home, we both looked at each other and said "I love her." We booked her and a few months later we had our engagement photo shoot with her right in our very own neighborhood. She so fun and friendly that we forgot that she had a camera in her hands capturing those little moments of pure joy and love. We were beyond thrilled with the photos from our engagement shoot with Amanda and couldn't wait for the wedding day. She arrived on our wedding day with her equally amazing photographer side-kick Meghan and the experience was exactly the same the whole day. She helped move the schedule along, especially trying since we had a large bridal party, including 2 under the age of 5! She was incredibly patient the entire day - she even helped me not have a total melt-down when wedding cake got dropped on my dress! We trusted her eye so much that we just told her a few spots where we wanted photos and let her and Meghan take the wheel staging shots. We were so excited when Amanda told us our photos were ready that we met her that very day to pick up them up. She packaged the UBS drive and a few prints so beautifully - an unexpected but very lovely touch! The final photos were stunning, I really can't describe how much I love them. Lots of great candid shots and the "formal" posed photos still feel relaxed and natural. It was truly an honor to have Amanda shoot our wedding, hands down best decision we made for our wedding! Thank, you Amanda! -
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Caroline Sent on 05/26/2020The absolute best!!!
Amanda is the absolute best!!! Her photographs are stunning! Artistic and candid, fun and beautiful all wrapped into one! But most importantly, Amanda is an absolute gem. She immediately put me and my husband at ease so that she could capture the love we share. Beginning with our engagement photos and then again as soon as she and her team arrived on wedding day, I was instantly put at ease. She is calm and in control (even when things out of her control didn't go 100% according to plan -- she rolled with it and made it work). I put my trust in Amanda and she exceeded my expectations! She even went so far as to scout out the first tree to turn red in October so that the background for photos would match my color scheme! I can't thank her enough for capturing so many special moments on our wedding day in photos that I will cherish forever. Looking forward to having Amanda shoot all of our special moments in the months and years to come. Thank you Amanda! -
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Caroline Sent on 12/03/2019Book her! Now!
I can’t begin to describe how amazing Amanda and her team is to work with. She made us feel so comfortable all day while taking some of the best photos of us, family and friends. My family surprised me and had Amanda at my bridal shower which was absolutely incredible. I’ve been looking at our wedding photos non stop since I got them. I can’t decide what to print or put in a album. They are that good. I also sent the link to family and friends and everyone I knew who had recently been married told me that they were jealous at the amount of guest photos the team got. I highly recommend you book her in advanced. She was very flexible with plans and inserted her professional opinion in a very respectful way. We will be hiring her for any family events in the future. You will not be disappointed. -
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Katie L. Sent on 09/11/2019Amazing photographer
Being photographed can be awkward, but not with Amanda. From the initial one on one meeting to getting our prints back everything about working with Amanda and her crew was fun and effortless. I felt like I was being photographed by a friend and one of the most awesome things is that Amanda doesn't stop the party to take posed pictures, she captures authentic, genuine moments without interrupting. I was surprised to see things that I had missed on the day and was so glad she captured them. Weddings can be stressful, working with Amanda is not.
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