Joanna Monger Photography Reviews
Reviews
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Nina Sent on 08/31/2024High quality and a great experience!
Joanna has been amazing to work with during our wedding process. When we first met her to go over our vision, she took a lot of time to make sure we would get what we were looking for. The day of the wedding she made us feel very comfortable in front of the camera and did a great job at engaging our guests for photos. She is such an easy person to work with and a true master of her craft. And of course our photos turned out gorgeous! I would highly recommend Joanna! -
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Jacob Sent on 08/28/2024Great Pictures & Time Management
Joanna shot our wedding earlier this year, and the pictures are outstanding! Joanna is not only a great photographer; she is a great stage manager, too! Throughout the wedding day, she scheduled the proper amount of time for the photos we requested, including those with our wedding party and families. Joanna and her assistant were both efficient and personable. They kept things moving, while also keeping the mood light and helping us and our wedding party feel comfortable. We got all the photos we wanted and didn’t feel like we missed out on our reception at all. -
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Aisha Sent on 11/13/2023Wonderful Wedding Photographer!
Joanna was the photographer we hired to do both our engagement photos and our wedding photos. Our experience working with her was simply amazing! Joanna was hands down the easiest and most delightful vendor we worked with throughout the wedding planning process and during the event itself. She was great at putting us (not the most comfortable with photos) at ease. She regularly checked in and offered up help as the wedding date approached. And our pictures turned out amazingly well. Couldn't have asked for a better experience. Highly, highly recommend booking her for your wedding!!! -
Jiarui Sent on 11/11/2023
Highly Recommend
We booked Joanna for our wedding, and she has been nothing but wonderful!
We started by having a consultation session with her. We planned everything by ourselves, and had no idea where to start at the time. Talking with Joanna was extremely helpful, and she gave us many great recommendations for other vendors.
We felt very comfortable having her on the wedding day. We’ve never gotten couple’s photos taken professionally, and she made us feel at ease in front of the camera. She is great at giving posing suggestions and finding beautiful spots around our venue(Belle Chapel). Due to road closure, plenty of the guests were late. We are very grateful that she went out of her way and stayed behind for an additional half an hour to take all the group photos we’d like. She even helped setup tripod with our own camera for recording.
We received our photos three weeks after the wedding. We love every single one of them. They are so genuine and full of love and joy. Having Joanna is one of the best decisions we’ve made for our wedding, and we would recommend her to anyone looking for a wedding photographer! -
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Ashley Sent on 09/18/202310/10 would hire again
I highly recommend Joanna. She captured our wedding PERFECTLY, and in every way I envisioned. She asked us what we wanted, made us laugh and feel so comfortable throughout, it was like having a close friend helping us who I could joke with along the way. I asked her to take a ridiculous photo of my two best friends and I, which made no sense to her yet she did not hesitate and captured exactly what we wanted. Could not have asked for a better experience! -
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Tara Sent on 06/04/2023Cannot imagine a better wedding photography experience!
Joanna was an absolute delight to work with for our engagement shoot, our wedding day, and everything in between. She is so welcoming and positive and exactly the kind of person you want around on your big day. She is very thorough with preparation so you know you are in good hands but she's also very flexible and can adjust on the fly when things inevitably change on your big day. Joanna is super communicative and answered every one of our questions quickly and completely. Her second shooter, Christine, was fantastic as well. Our family and friends commented multiple times on how delightful and efficient Joanna and her team were to work with. We are seriously obsessed with how our images came out, Joanna did an amazing job of capturing the typical couples photos and family portraits as well as ample candids of us and our guests all throughout the day. She also did an amazing job using all areas of our venue so we ended with an incredible variety of shots that we cannot wait to cherish forever. The in studio reveal was also such a special moment for us! We cannot recommend working with Joanna highly enough! -
Michelle Sent on 04/15/2023
Morher of the bride
Joanna and her partner were amazing. They captured everything we wanted for our daughter’s wedding. The laughter the smiles the hugs and the unexpected. She was discreet and amazing. We could not fault her and her partner. Joanna had the proofs ready 2 weeks later and they were everything we wanted. -
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Nicole Sent on 10/19/2022Joanna brought the fun!
We absolutely loved working with Joanna. From our first phone call, we felt instantly at ease with her - a 30 minute call turned into 90 minutes because we were having a great time chatting! We didn't have the opportunity to do an engagement shoot because we were living outside of Seattle, but when she arrived at the venue on our wedding day she made us feel comfortable and familiar right off the bat. She did a wonderful job wrangling large families and small children for our (long) list of family photos and did it all with a smile and laughter. Throughout the planning process, she was responsive, helpful, and willing to go above and beyond to help us make our big day extra special. We couldn't have asked for a better addition to our wedding day and the photos she captured perfectly encapsulate the day! -
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Kenneth Sent on 07/01/2021Photographer & family friend for life
We started working with Joanna for a May '21 wedding about a year ahead. Of a ~dozen photographers recommended to us, she was the only one we reached out to - we loved the diversity of identities and body shapes of people she's worked with in the past. Our first conversation made it clear that she shared our priorities around inclusivity.
She and her team member Christine supported us through all the uncertainty and anxiety of trying to plan a wedding not knowing what things would be like in a year. She took the time to get to know us better, both in conversation and a quite thorough questionnaire, to better understand what we were looking for, what we were comfortable with, and how best to capture our event. While my partner and I have experience planning events, weddings are a whole other thing. Joanna encouraged and accommodated us where we had preferences and provided confident suggestions where we didn't. She was even able to provide recommendations for other vendors as needed. She kept us updated as event & wedding guidance in the county changed. When we changed plans and switched from a 100-guest wedding to a much smaller, socially distanced ceremony, she offered some creative ideas on how we could use the extra time, and made sure we got a bunch of amazing shots that we might have missed with a larger wedding.
Most importantly, throughout the whole process, Joanna and Christine helped us feel safe and accepted. My partner and I have a lot of anxiety around having our picture taken. Through our engagement photos and the wedding day itself, they were patient with us, related to our various quirks, and helped us feel more comfortable as we worked through our initial awkwardness with the posed shots. Their excitement about our sillier ideas helped us feel like we could be ourselves. When we met to go over the (massive trove of) photos afterward, we spent more time talking about raising kids, education, and other shared interests than about the photos! It's probably worth noting that the photos themselves came out better than we ever could have imagined.
We feel so lucky to have found Joanna, and we're already excited about working with her again to capture the next big moments in our lives. She has our highest recommendation. -
Delaney Sent on 12/18/2020
Amazing wedding photos!
Thanks to Joanna, we have beautiful memories from our COVID wedding! From the very first meeting, Joanna went above and beyond to make sure our special day was everything we wanted to be and more. She created and managed our wedding website which took a lot of stress off our backs. She also did our engagement shoot which allowed us time to get to know her better and get comfortable in front of the camera. Joanna was so flexible when we had to change our venue at the semi-last minute due to COVID and did everything she could to make the day easier for us. The photos turned out amazing and I love looking back at all the special moments she captured throughout the day! -
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Dominique Sent on 10/24/2020A new friend and a photographer
Joanna was fabulous to work with! From the very beginning during our get to know you meeting, we hit it off right away and knew we needed her as our photographer. She is genuine, friendly, and a lovely person and her photography skills are just as wonderful! She did both our engagement and wedding photos and made us feel so at ease the whole time. It was stressful planning a wedding during Covid, but Joanna was incredibly supportive and flexible with dates and helped keep me sane. She is so personable and celebrates the wedding planning milestones with you, so you come out with a new friend and not just a photographer.
We are so in love with the photos we got! Joanna got amazing shots without making us feel posed. She could crack jokes to get us laughing and it was the most comfortable I’ve ever felt being photographed. Her editing turn around time and quality of prints are also amazing. We can’t wait to work with her again in the future! -
Jeffrey Sent on 10/14/2020
Great photography experience
Of all the vendors my wife and I worked with leading up to our wedding, Joanna was the best! Joanna did both my engagement and wedding - she was excellent! I have never taken professional photos before and was slightly apprehensive about the experience. Joanna is great at giving little instructions, encouragement and making you laugh during the shoot - all to bring out the best in the final product. I was thrilled with the quality of her photos after my engagement shoot and was relaxed and confident in her abilities on my wedding day!
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Kaitlyn Sent on 10/13/2020
Such a gem!
Joanna was an incredible addition to our wedding day! She made us both feel comfortable, and at ease! She fit right in as one of the guests- our family was raving about her and we had to agree! Our photos turned out beautifully. She really is a treasure to have and a natural at getting two awkward people to smile, relax, have fun, and feel great on their wedding day! Thanks Joanna! We loved working with you! -
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Kalie Sent on 10/13/2020
Joanna is the best choice you can make for your wedding!!!
I truly cannot recommend Joanna highly enough - she is the first vendor I booked back in 2018 for our 2020 wedding after seeing her site and knowing immediately that she would give us the best photos to commemorate our wedding. We had a wonderful first meeting where we drove up to Snoqualmie pass for some absolutely dreamy engagement photos in the fresh snow. We were immediately at ease with her, and it made our experience (the first time taking any type of professional photos together) so easy and something to look forward to at our wedding.
When 2020 threw curveballs, Joanna was always quick to respond and in complete support of our always changing plans - also helping to provide some much needed perspective and advice on how we should move forward. We kept our rescheduled day in 2020 for an elopement ceremony and moved our reception to 2021 - the first thing I wanted to make sure was that Joanna was available for both! On the day of our elopement it was soooo easy to work with Joanna in what should have been a jam packed two hours of photos and ceremony - instead it was easygoing, fun, and we enjoyed every minute of it. We got sneak peak photos back from her super quickly and the full gallery less than a week later, and we are in loveeeeeee with what she's given us! I seriously do not stop staring at them, and can't wait to plaster them anywhere I can. And it's worth noting - in only two hours Joanna was able to get us over 300 photos that are all amazing. I can't even imagine how much good content we will have from our 8 hours next year at the reception ;)
Joanna is the best choice you can make for your wedding (or other life event where you want photos, for that matter) - every penny is worth it!! -
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Ace K. Sent on 10/09/2019
Simply amazing!
Joanna photographed our engagement and wedding and she was fantastic to work with. She took time to get to know us and feel comfortable while she captured the most amazing moments! We had an outdoor wedding which ran into the night and she and Kendal really took some great shots playing off all of the different lighting going on. We cannot recommend her enough, truly wonderful to have her share our wedding!
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Elizabeth Sent on 08/12/2019You will not be disappointed working with Joanna
Joanna was such a dream to work with. I met her at the Snohomish Wedding Tour early in my wedding planning journey and I gravitated towards her immediately. She was warm and funny and we chatted together for a few minutes.
I was pretty overwhelmed getting my budget straight and all the details together and got a cheerful email from Joanna following up on our conversations from the wedding tour. We set up a time to meet at her studio.
No joke - when we arrived there was cold beer in the fridge (FIANCE IMMEDIATELY DIGGING IT), Adele playing softly in the background (SWOON) and Joanna set up a cute little welcome sign with our names on it.
I tell all these little details because this is how Joanna operates. She is the most thoughtful human and puts so much positive energy into her work - its all about the details. She put us at ease, made us smile when we felt awkward, and made us feel so confident we ended up looking like movie starts (Humble brag) and we couldn't be happier with the photos we have.
All jokes aside, if you are considering working with Joanna you will not be disappointed. She goes the extra mile for her clients and we feel very lucky to have worked with her for both our engagement shoot and our wedding day. We looking forward to whatever next journey we need captured - she will be the person we call! -
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Kate Sent on 01/16/2019Great Photographer!
We worked with Joanna for our wedding and had some pretty big asks of her (e.g. photos with our two cats!!) and she delivered some amazing and drool-worthy photos to us!!! -
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Hunter Sent on 10/31/2018Wonderful Photographer
It was a pleasure to have our endangerment and wedding photos done by Joanna. I usually don’t like having my picture taken but she made it fun and actually very enjoyable. All of our pictures from both days turned out amazing. I would highly recommend Joanna. -
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Carly Sent on 10/31/2018The best!
Joanna is the best! No seriously…she is. I was overwhelmed trying to select a wedding photographer, and I’m so grateful that our wedding planner introduced us to Joanna. She really took the time to get to know us, which I think is super important. I find getting pictures taken to be a little nerve-racking, but Joanna was able to make me feel comfortable and relaxed. Joanna is super easy to work with and just so much fun! Both our engagement and wedding pictures turned out amazing. She was able to capture such great candid moments (which are my favorite). I would hire Joanna again in a heartbeat. -
Julie Sent on 10/31/2018
Best all around EVER!!!
My husband and I used Joanna for our engagement photos as well as for our wedding. She was actually the first vendor we picked for our team because I happened to come across a photo she had taken of another couple's wedding that had the most amazing light coming through some trees. We are big outdoor lovers and knew we wanted an outdoor wedding that used the beauty of the scenery rather than decorations, so we loved the idea of a photographer who would capture the natural beauty as much as the people and things at our wedding. The end results were PERFECT. For our engagement shots Joanna trekked with us through feet of snow to just the right location and made them look amazing. My husband and I are both seriously unphotogenic and usually hate the way we look in photos, but Joanna was super easy to work with and made us laugh so that the photos all look very natural. I emailed her frequently asking for suggestions for other vendors and ideas and she always had input to provide, much of which I ended up incorporating into our wedding plan. For the wedding itself she and her second shooter were AWESOME. We looooved who she brought along and were super happy to have them there for our day. And needless to say, the pictures were PERFECT. We had the most beautiful outdoor venue in Port Orchard, WA, and she captured its beauty perfectly, while also getting all the usual photos you want to have like the family shots, pictures of your decor, rings, guests, etc. We got a HUGE album back from her within just a couple of weeks because she doesn't like to do a lot of editing to her photos, and that was a big bonus for us.
Bottom line is that I would recommend Joanna to anyone on any day for any kind of photo shoot. Easy to work with, flexible, fun, reliable, and an amazing photographer. I hope to use her again in the future for other photography needs - like a maternity photo shoot! :) -
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Erik Sent on 10/26/2018
Really Good
Joanna was very easy and fun to work with. My wife and I met her while she was shooting the wedding of some close friends of ours. We saw how she worked the party and interacted with all of the guests. After seeing her work, we decided we would like to meet with her prior to our own wedding. We were convinced that we had found the right person for our wedding – all it took was a brief conversation in her office talking about expectations and photography styles.
Joanna pretty much was our wedding planner. She helped us form our day of timetable and provided reasons as to why some areas should require more or less time. Her experience with weddings was very apparent.
During the wedding she was a blast to work with. She worked with my wife during the early stages of getting ready, and from what I gathered she was very fun and friendly, helping the sooth the nerves. When everyone got to the venue, she had already scouted out all of the prime locations for where she would be photographing from. She also scouted out perfect areas for me and my wife to have our personal portraits taken.
Perhaps the most impressive part was how she was able to deal with my crazy family during family picture time. I have a massive family and nearly all of them were to be photographed with the bride and groom. Joanna was able to calmly but efficiently complete this part of the wedding. A disaster avoided.
At the reception, outside of doing a “golden hour” (my favorite photos of the wedding) photoshoot, I did not really see her. Joanna let people be themselves while still being able to capture the moment. The candid photos of our party are some of my favorites. When she was done shooting the wedding, she socialized and became part of the function.
Overall, I would give her a 5-star rating. She took so many amazing pictures it was almost overwhelming to choose which ones were my favorite.
Thank you Joanna, our wedding was literally perfect, and looking back at those pictures puts a smile on my face. My wife and I could not have chosen a more personable, hilarious, and professional wedding photographer.
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Kimberlee Sent on 01/27/2018What isn’t there to love about working with Joanna?!
To start, I have to say that when we first met Joanna to see if we even clicked —our one hour consult ended up being two hours! We just talked, laughed and enjoyed getting to know one another!
Joanna is as involved in your wedding as you need her to be. If you need referrrals or want her input she is happy to help, if you have planners she knows she can coordinate with them.
Joanna makes you feel comfortable and confident in front of the camera. She did our engagement shoot, my boudoir and our wedding and each occasion was fun, relaxing and we were thrilled with how all the photos turned out!!
Not only did we gain a great photographer we gained a friend and that is pretty damn special if you ask me!
-Kimberlee
Ps- did I mention that Joanna is hilarious and has you laughing all the time?! I swear that’s one of her secrets to making her photos come out so natural! -
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Jake Sent on 10/14/2019Great, fun, talented photographer
Joanna was wonderful to work with. Our very first meeting was a free consultation in which she provided tea, beer, and lovely conversation for HOURS. This was in the middle of seeing tons of different wedding vendors, and having just a relaxed, wide-ranging conversation was a breathe of fresh air. She even helped us formulate a better idea of what our day would look like.
At our engagement shoot, she was simply a blast! She put us so at ease and had us laughing and enjoying ourselves for the entire shoot, even though we had felt a little awkward at first.
Finally, at our wedding she was simply amazing. She made me laugh as I felt anxious waiting for my bride to arrive, and she handled the myriad emotions and personalities with ease. Just a delight throughout the whole event.
We had hoped to get a quick turnaround on a few photos so we could use them to make thank-you cards, but we weren't up front about that, so it took a bit to get photos. Just as we were asking her for a few "sneak peeks" so we could make our thank you's, she sent us the WHOLE collection - over 1000 photos! Crazy fast to edit them all in the heat of wedding season and a personal holiday. Plus they are just gorgeous and help us remember our big day fondly.
If you want a fun, talented, professional photographer - look no further.
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