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    Rachel Sent on 04/23/2018
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    Brian and his assistant truly made our Wedding day magical. The two did such an incredible job from beginning to end, from capturing our prep time, to photographing our first look, to portraits to the big events of the ceremony and reception and all the shenanigans in between. The photos they were able to capture not only fully tell the story of our big day, but create true works of art. And, they meshed with our group and guests so well, it was like they were as much a part of the party as anyone else. They were flexible, positive and just so much fun to work with. I would recommend Brian wholeheartedly to any couple looking for a fantastic Wedding Photographer, especially if you are planning on getting married in NYC. I truly just adore him and can't begin to thank him enough for the beautiful work.
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    Micheala Sent on 06/12/2017
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    My partner and I recently eloped in NYC and based on previous positive reviews, we decided to use B-Freed photography to capture our day. Brian was amazing, he contacted us before the day in order to make sure he had a good understanding of what we wanted. Booking and payment was very easy. I had viewed Brian's work online and it was clear that he was a very talented photographer, but I was a little worried about spending 3 hours with a stranger. However Brian is such a great guy from the moment we met him it was like meeting up with an old friend. He took the time to get to know us and he did not intrude on our space at all. We wanted the photos to look really natural so most of the time he just hung back and photographed our genuine moments, capturing all our emotions. All of our friends and family love our photos and commented on what an excellent job he did. Brian even bought us a drink at the end of the shoot to celebrate. I was so happy that we booked Brian (B-freed) and I would most definitely use his services again for any future events. We got amazing photos that we can cherish and I feel like we gained a friend in the process.
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    Alyson Sent on 06/14/2013
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    Amazing photography! We love our pictures and have received so many compliments about our photo highlights from the wedding! I can't wait to see all of the pictures! Brian was so easy to work with and made sure we got all of the photos we wanted in. I would definitely recommend Brian!
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    Polly Sent on 11/26/2012
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    Brian is not only an outstanding photographer, but was an absolute pleasure to spend time with on our wedding day. Friendly, extremely easy to communicate with both in the run up to the trip and during the day itself. Highly recommended.
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    Stephen Sent on 10/02/2012
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    The photographs (all 209 of them) Brian took were fantastic; crystal clear, with vibrant colours. My wife and I got married in Central Park and the combination of the blue sky, colours from the flowers (both in the park and in the bouquet), the surrounding buildings and of course us were captured in the photographs, together with the essence and the special moment of the day.

    As we both eloped to New York on our own, it was important that we had the best record of the wedding to share with our family. The photographs tell a story, perfectly reliving our ceremony and the locations we chose afterwards (around Central Park, Grand Central and near the Central Library). The one comment that people keep giving us about our wedding is that the photographs are amazing.

    The approach that Brian takes is one where he would take photographs of us whilst walking, laughing and talking and of course during the ceremony. This results in more natural looking photographs.

    From start to finish Brian was very helpful and friendly, quick to respond to emails, a professional approach to his work and to assist us we held a video conference beforehand to discuss locations and details for the day.

    We would highly recommend Brian and in fact have done so already to a colleague that is due to get married in New York next year.

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    Gemma Sent on 10/08/2012
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    If I could give Brian 10 stars I certainly would!!
    On the day of the wedding, Brian turned up exactly as arranged and just got on with the job. No fuss, no formalities - he instantly felt like one of the wedding party. He ran between us girls and the boys in the bar and really did his best to capture every little detail in the time we had before we left for the ceremony. He snapped continually for the whole 5 hours we had him, but never once did we feel like he was in the way, or that we were being pushed from pillar to post for 'poses'. We visited three locations in the city and Brian knew exactly which spots in each would get us the best shots. He was fantastic at managing our other over enthusiastic photographers (or guests as they are sometimes known)!!.
    While we were on Honeymoon Brian sent us through a couple of shots and we were literally blown away. Now a few weeks on and we just received all of our photos. I can’t tell you how delighted we are with them. I've just spend most of the weekend pouring over them, and re-living every moment of the day. I've started to show them around to our friends and family and every comment is the same - Amazing, magazine quality, so different and stylish. Every single person is so impressed by them!! My fiancé and I did not want posed photos, Brian has managed to capture the emotion of the whole day in a fantastic story style. I'm genuinely concerned that I'll never get anything done ever again as I'm spending so much time with those photos!
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    Jules Sent on 07/16/2012
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    Beautiful, artistic photos that captured our special day. Brian was punctual, professional and easy to work with. A very positive experience overall!
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    Jennifer Sent on 07/15/2012
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    Brian photographed our wedding at The River Cafe on June 22, 2012. He was such a pleasure to work with, extremely professional and his photographs were beautiful! The photography was one of the most important elements of our wedding to me and I searched for so long to find the right person. I couldnt have been happier with the results! I would highly recommend him!!
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    Alexandra Sent on 07/02/2012
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    Brian and his assistant made our busy and hectic day seem so much more calm. He is so warm and funny and made the day so special and fun. Brian is truly an artist and creative when it came to taking our pictures. He also listened to what I wanted which was great. Not only is he an amazing photographer but a wonderful person too! You must use him for your wedding!
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    Sarah Sent on 06/20/2012
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    If there was a 10 out of 5 option I would give this to Brian Friedman - he was more than excellent - he was magnificient. I received my photos yesterday and just know I will be the envy of all my British bride friends as the photos Brian took for Phil & I are out of this world - something I have never seen here in the UK. Original, classy, savvy, romantic - just everything.
    Such a fantastic guy too, made us feel relaxed and comfortable and his talent is second to none.
    Someone I feel very close to although only spent 4 hours with him - and definitely will stay in touch with him.
    Professional service you can trust from the booking process right up to the photos arriving ! Thanks Brian - you're a star !
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    Leon Sent on 06/20/2012
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    Brian was our photographer for our wedding on May 28th 2012. One word to describe Brian - amazing!!! He is so warm, friendly and funny and always responds to your queries very quickly. He listens to your ideas and makes you feel so relaxed. As we travelled over from the UK, we did not get to meet Brian until the morning of the wedding but I already felt that i was meeting a friend. He is very witty and the wedding party absolutely loved him. Brian took us to various locations in Manhattan for photos which was great and along the way we meet loads of well wishers. I was very sad when we had to say our good byes to Brian but i know that we have made a friend and look forward to seeing him again. oh i near forgot - most importantly - we have now received our photos which we love. The only problem now is picking our fav to go into our album. Thank you so much Brian. Lots of Love from Laurence & Leon.
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    Angela Sent on 07/06/2012
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    After clicking in and out of many a website looking for a NY photographer it was clear as soon as we saw Brian's amazing pictures that he was 'the one' for us! Unique, modern, relaxed, creative, stunning shots ... that is exactly what we got ... our wonderful day captured at every point in style ... we couldn't be happier with our photographs! Brian is so professional, helpful and fun so the experience couldn't have been better and we would recommend him 100%!
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    Melissa Sent on 06/20/2012
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    I had a dream wedding in mine and my husbands eyes. Brian was able to catch all the memories better than I could have even imagined. He poured his heart into my big day as if it was his own. I am over the moon with the pictures and was even more happy to have them turned around to me fast so I could share them with my loved ones. I will be thanking Brian for eternity!
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    Natalie Sent on 06/20/2012
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    We couldn't have asked for more from a wedding photographer. We organised our wedding from over in the UK but Brian responded to all our questions quickly and went above and beyond.
    We are so happy with our wedding photos - they are better than we could ever have imagined - everyone who sees them says it looks like we were on a film set or magazine shoot.

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    Naomi Sent on 06/20/2012
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    We were so thrilled with the pictures we got from Brian! He created such a lovely coverage of our wedding, and we would certainly recommend him to anyone who is interested in a little story telling approach to their wedding. Initially we were drawn to Brian's way of conveying feelings so beautifully with his pictures, his warm lighting and colors and the way he seems to sympathetically portray and complement his subjects. We are both New Yorkers but I had a lot of family arriving to the wedding from overseas, and we wanted to document the story of our families getting together, as well as of course some great portraits of everyone to commemorate our special day. Brian was a pleasure to work with from beginning to end. Super professional, fun, creative, courteous, and punctual. In just two hours, Brian got a huge and wonderful group of amazing portraits of us as a couple, terrific family pictures, documented our ceremony, the cake, different details of the venue and decoration, and candid shots of everyone interacting. It's amazing how much he got done in such a short time, and the quality of the photos really testifies to his wonderful professionalism. We are extremely happy with the results - the photos are simply gorgeous! I should add that I'm a photographer and a photo editor myself by profession, so I look at a lot of photographs, and Brian's are really top rate.
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    Caroline Sent on 11/16/2011
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    We came from the UK to get married in Central Park and Brian's website was the first one I found when I googled 'reasonably priced photographer in New York'. That search might seem like a tall order but Brian fitted the bill exactly.

    The pictures on his website weren't the stuffy photographs you get so use to at wedding, they captured something so special that I knew as soon as I saw the first photograph on his website that he was the right man for the job.

    I sent my first enquiry and he got back to us almost immediately and I felt like we were friends straight away. He listens to what you want, he throws in his own great ideas and he was extremely accommodating with the timings of the day. Paying a deposit to secure his services was a piece of (wedding) cake We exchanged several emails prior to the big day and I think at one point Brian was more excited than us! His enthusiasm both before and on the day was infectious.

    We arranged to meet at Central Park and there he was right on time and snapping away. We gave him the nickname Snappy during the day as he is constantly there but never intrusive. Sometimes you would actually forget he was beside you. Brian fitted into our small group effortlessly and he was a joy to have with us.

    After the ceremony and photos in Central Park (including hot dogs!) we got in the limo, all drank champagne and took the party to Times Square! I was nervous about this bit - walking in Times Square in a wedding dress, but it was a blast with so many people congratulating us and Brian just getting some fabulous natural shots of us and our friends. I wanted the 'crossing' shot that was the photo I saw of another couple on his website and we got it. Everyone who sees it is blown away by it.

    Brian suggested taking it to Bar 45 and these are some of my favourite shots with some of them looking like an editorial in a glossy magazine.

    By the time we landed back in the UK Brian had sent us some preview shots that I could not stop looking at. I showed them off at every available opportunity and everyone was absolutely amazed at the uniqueness of them with many commenting that they wished they had had a photographer like that at their wedding.

    Brian made all of us look so glamorous and I waited with baited breath for the remaining photographs and two weeks later, as promised, I got the email with the download. I've just put my wedding photo book together and I don't think I've missed a single one of the photos out (and there was over 200 to choose from!)

    Deciding to get married in New York City, great decision. Deciding to use Brian as our photographer, best decision ever!
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    Kay Sent on 11/19/2011
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    I found Brian on the internet and fell in love with his images. From Scotland and getting married in NYC i wanted my photos to reflect the charm of New york and Brian knew exactly where to take us to capture this.

    He was so easy to talk to and put us at ease straight away. With all the communication id had with him before our big day he already felt like a friend and I was excited to finally meet with him.

    We had a truely perfect wedding day in New York and I really feel Brian made a huge contribution to making this happen! Great guy and we love love love our wedding images they make wonderful visual memories of our Wedding day.

    Thanks Again Brian
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    Larissa Sent on 10/11/2011
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    Brian photographed our intimate New York City wedding. We just got our photos back, and I could not be happier! He knows how to really highlight the city, as well as his subjects, and he captured every last little detail of our ceremony & reception.

    Now the hard part will be narrowing the photos down for our album!
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    Eileen Sent on 10/11/2011
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    Brian is very friendly and very accomadating he is very good at his job.
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    Kirsty Sent on 02/20/2012
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    Brian is fantastic
    A lot of brides on various wedding forums had said good things about Brian. I checked his website and fell in love with his images, so my husband and I met up with him on a visit to New York before the wedding. Brian was so friendly, he immediately put us both at ease and we knew that he was the person that we wanted to book.
    He introduced me to Lisa, who is his UK support. It was left entirely up to me whether I would like to speak to her and I am glad I did – she had loads of contacts and suggestions and was an invaluable help when my venue and restaurant closed shortly before the date!
    On the day of the wedding, we had planned to go to the various landmarks for pictures, but it was absolutely hammering down with rain all day. Brian was on it straight away, suggesting locations that were indoors, or had shelter, but still were still unmistakably New York . The pictures were stunning - unlike any others I had seen before. Brian really seemed to capture our personalities and recorded the day perfectly. We have had so many compliments about the pictures, many people have said that they would like to get married or renew their vows in New York just so they can have similar photos taken by Brian!
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    Nicola Sent on 10/05/2011
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    We travelled from Scotland to get married in Central Park on 1st September and we are very happy we picked Brian Friedman to capture our day. He took amazing, beautiful and natural photographs that bring back great memories every time we look at them, which is a lot! We had read some great reviews and liked the photos on Brians website and we certainly were not disappointed with our own photos. Brian was very friendly and always responded to emails promptly. We booked Brian for two hours and on the day of the wedding he put us at ease and made the experience of getting our photos taken really enjoyable. Two hours probably wasnt long enough with Brian. We had so much fun it would have been good to have had more time. We would definately reccommend him for your wedding photographer.
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    Kim Sent on 09/13/2011
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    We would highly recommend Brian as THE New York Wedding Photographer of choice! After seeing his photos of other UK couples, we knew he was the man for the job, he was the first part of our wedding that we booked. Also, Paul being a wedding photographer here in the UK meant that it was one of the most important choices for us. Our only regret is that we didn't book him for long enough, three hours went so quickly and we were really getting into the swing of things when we ran out of time!! Be warned, book Brian for as much time as you can manage, you won't be disappointed.........We now have our wonderful images and are having trouble chosing which ones to put in our album!!
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    Claire Sent on 08/08/2011
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    We got married in new york in July 2011 and brian shot our wedding. From the moment that we met he put us at ease and made our day really enjoyable!!! My husband was not looking forward to getting photos taken but at the end of the photos he said that he really enjoyed every minute because brian did not have us posing but took natural, fun, hip and fantastic shots. Everyone said that our photographs are unique, special, really artistic and the best wedding photos they have ever seen.....i could not agree more!!! Brian really does go above and beyond - you will not get a better wedding photographer or a nicer guy. professional all the way.....big thanks and we have no doubt that you will continue to be the best wedding photographer in new york!!!
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    Nicola Sent on 07/18/2011
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    Seriously dont even concider another photographer, everyone who has seen our photos (and thats a lot) has said that our photos look like they are from a bridal magazine, or that they are that amazing we look like models! Brian is such a lovely man, he is so helpful, exciteable, warm and funny he made our wedding day even more perfect, our guests are still taking about bri-dog, b-dizzle, briyannn as they all knicknamed him. SO much fun. Thank you Brian :-) xxxx
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    K Sent on 08/19/2011
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    We got married in New York and live in France. From the moment we contacted Brian by email, I knew he was the one for us, as he was responsive and made us feel at ease from the moment we contacted him. We love his work - natural and artistic photos, he really knows how to capture those special moments. We loved his work so much we met again on our anniversary to do another photo shoot and he amazed yet again. We would recommend Brian to anyone and look no further. You will not be disappointed. Not to mention Brian sent us a few snapshots of our wedding on the night of our wedding - so we could send our photos to our families back home. Brian also chose all the photos for our album and thanks to him we have a memorable day to look back on.
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