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Heidi was amazing to work with! Her attention to detail, calming nature and patient personality made our wedding photography stress free and effortless. Her artistic manner of capturing us from our engagement session on through our wedding day made for fantastic photographs. I see us working together with Heidi in the future for any of our photographic needs in life!

Awesome photographer! Heidi is easy-going, flexible, and professional. She even provided great tips for the day of. Photos were beautiful! The shots were natural and captured the details as well as the background scenes. Heidi is organized and responds quickly. Definitely recommend her!

My husband and I had such a great experience with Heidi-O-Photo. Heidi is the whole package: personable, professional, organized and does amazing work. She did both our engagement and wedding photos and they came out amazing and were delivered quickly. Many people at the wedding commented how wonderful Heidi was and non-intrusive. She comes prepared and knows the shots she needs to get and blends in during the wedding. I'm not always the most photogenic, but each picture came out wonderful! We are so happy to have these photos that will last a lifetime.

Thanks!
Jay and Heidi Pedersen

Heidi was awesome!! She made us feel so relaxed during our engagement session and helped us so much with the timing on everything during our ceremony and reception. Heidi does great work and has a great style which really came out in our pictures which we LOVE! You definately get what you pay for with Heidi, her quality and professionalism are top nothch.

We found Heidi at the Bridal Bazaar at the Convention Center downtown, we originally thought we wouldn't be able to find anything we were looking for at the bazaar because everything is so cookie cutter wedding. Heidi's booth drew us in right away. She has SO much more of an artistic outdoorsy aesthetic then most photographers out there. I was looking for someone that could capture the moment rather then organized people in a row smiling. She did such an amazing job on our engagement shoot that we couldn't wait to have her capture our wedding. She did not disappoint, the pictures were speechless! People keep commenting that it looks like our pictures are from a magazine. I would without a doubt recommend Heidiophoto for your wedding and engagement shoots.

Heidi O Photo was great with organization. She was awesome with communication to make our day easier. She gave us exactly what we wanted for our beautiful wedding. Heidi was on time for each meeting, she was able to provide photos for us to look at and made us less nervous about the entire planning. Heidi is the photographer I will continue to tell every bride I meet about, her talent is amazing, her style is creative and she delivers great photos! I again want to say what a great photographer she is and I hope she can think of some shots for future events, cause I will use her again and again and again. For all you new brides...she is awesome! Her website is just the beginning :)

Heidi was a great photographer. She captured our special day exactly the way we wanted. She was very easy to work with and would recommend her to anyone

Heidi did an AMAZING job and we are so thankful she photographed our wedding and engagement session. She is very professional and extremely easy to work with. She definitely has a knack for putting people at ease and it definitely comes through in the end result. By and far, we would recommend her to anyone in the market for a wedding or any other sort of photographer!

Without reservation, I recommend the services of heidi-o-photo to anyone.

Heidi was awesome!! She was a great photographer and did an excellent job. I'm so glad we chose her. Most of the time she made herself invisible snapping all the shots we wanted (I honestly don't know how she keeps all shots she needs to create in her head, but she does!!). My new husband and I didn't really know who to hire as our photographer-sure, we had recommendations and talked to a few who had been recommended. But I'm so glad we checked out WeddingWire and found Heidi. Heidi has such an artistic eye. Don't give a second thought to contacting her. She'll listen to you and do right by you, she'll even work with where you're at financially with respect to your wedding photography. Call Heidi today!!

Heidi was the best photographer I could have imagined. Working with Heidi was like hanging out with a friend, who provided me with the patience and support that every bride needs on her big day. In addition to taking beautiful photos, Heidi was there to fix my hair when it fell out. After my wedding I had several guests tell me that they really liked her and were impressed by her professionalism. I was extremely happy with both my engagement and wedding photos and am looking forward to working with Heidi again for a family portrait session. Thanks Heidi!

Heidi was the photographer for our wedding. She is so easy to work with and very flexible. She took great shots that captured so many precious moments throughout our wedding day! I would recommend her to any of my friends and family and will definitely use her again for future events!

Heidi,

You have been fantastic the entire time I've known you. There is a reason you have been the photographer for all my best friend's weddings. I love every picture. You caught moments I never knew about - moments that are both beautiful and priceless.

Thank you so much,

Sean Scaramella
(The Groom)

Heidi did an amazing job photographing our wedding! She was such a pleasure to work with. She provided excellent information and asked good questions before our wedding to prepare us for the day. Throughout our wedding day, she and her team did a great job getting the posed group shots, beautiful candids, and fun detail shots of our venue. The delivery of our digital images was timely and professionally done. Heidi stayed in touch with us after the wedding to guide us through the album process. It is very clear from the body of work displayed on her website that she takes great photographs. Our images were of an equally high caliber. She is natural, comfortable and unobtrusive during the event, able to move about discreetly and capture the day for us. Such a pro! I can confidently recommend heidi-o-photo.

Heidi was amazing. I did all the wedding planning myself...a bigger project than I expected. We did not having a wedding planner and I was a little worried about timing the day of. When day of came Heidi was great at helping keep us on time, getting all the pictures we wanted/requested and we ended up with some awesome pictures.

She was very flexible and professional to allow for changes that came about day of the wedding and was very open to all of our guests requests.

The picture are all organized on pictage and she had acquired the guests' email address at the reception. So she emailed all of them when the pictures were ready and up on the website.

We got all the regular wedding pictures of family, friends, and ceremony and all that, but Heidi also took some great artistic shots.

Heidi was very professional and made the planning process very easy. We are extremely happy with the photos she took and would recommend her to anyone.

Heidi was amazing! She responded to all of our questions really fast and was super helpful with any questions we had! Since we had a destination wedding in San Diego we had lots of questions about the area and she was able to help us with everything! Heidi was a lot of fun to work with and made us feel really comfortable! She is very professional and affordable and her pictures are beautiful! I definitely recommend her!

Heidi was amazing to work with! We had her take our engagement and wedding photos. She has a great vision of what the photos will look like and plays with light and location to get great shots! It was so easy to work with her and she helped plan out what we needed to make the whole process run smoothly. I highly recommend working with Heidi. We love all the photos we have and the day was captured beautifully!

My husband and I first met Heidi in person at a Bridal show, though we had been impressed with the photographs on display on her website. We were excited to hire her soon after our meeting because Heidi’s easy going personality and love for unique, outdoor photography were just what we were looking for. We had an awesome engagement photoshoot and Heidi created a gorgeous guestbook for our wedding using the photos. We got so many compliments from our guests who said our photos really captured our personality. Heidi came to our wedding so well prepared and we were really impressed with how quickly she was able to take our family portraits. We are very pleased with the previews we have seen of our wedding pictures, which show Heidi’s creative eye and her intuitive ability to capture our personalities. She was a calming force on our wedding day and it has been a joy to work with her.
-Heidi and Zachary

We highly recommend Heidi to anyone looking for a wedding photographer who is creative, flexible, encouraging, highly skilled, and calm on the day of your wedding! Working with Heidi was everything we expected and more! She sat down with us prior to our wedding date to review details that really helped our wedding day run smoothly. She shared tips and lessons learned from her experiences working with other couples, as well as from her own wedding experience. Heidi's reassuring personality helped put me at ease during a few high stress moments during the wedding planning process AND on the day of... and she does all of this while paying very close attention to the small, yet very important, details. Thank you Heidi for helping us to remember our special day!

Heidi was an excellent photographer to work with. She was very friendly, knowledgable about how to pose the wedding party, and easily contacted. I would definately ask for her services again or recommend her.

When we were searching for a photographer in San Diego, I knew that every photographer would have excellent technical skills. In a market like SD, you have to know your craft. I was looking for a person who had an ability to create comfort and calmness in a chaotic situation. I met Heidi at a huge wedding show. It was busy, her booth was in the middle of chaos and yet her display was peaceful. She was focused and kind. Later we met with a total of 3 photographers and chose Heidi because my silent-type husband talked with her like they were long, lost friends. We got the top tier option. The time and expertise that Heidi provided far exceeded the cost of her services. From engagement session to wedding/reception and now the album making and setting up the third session, Heidi has shaped our understanding of how to organize and enjoy the wedding experience. She fit our needs perfectly. I whole-heartedly recommend Heidi.

Heidi couldn't have been more perfect. Not only is her work beautiful and outstanding, she is professional, warm, and blends into the background so well, I forgot she was even at our wedding for awhile! What's more, her services are not over-priced, and her demeanor is relaxed and calm, REALLY helpful to a bride and groom when everything is chaos! Even our guests commented how wonderful Heidi was at our wedding. The best day of our lives was captured so well by Heidi, that we will be able to remember those feelings for years to come as we look at our photos. Thank you so much, Heidi!

I think when you get married you always have the worry about what your going to get,all I can say I got everything I wanted and more my pictures were beautiful and perfect and I say perfect because the pictures I got back were pictures of people I knew I wanted but when your all over place don't know if your going to get well I put pretty much ended up with all those pictures!!!!!!!!!!!! Heidi did an awesome job of moving around the wedding and taking pictures of everyone !

Heidi was amazing, she was very well organized, and we had everything planned months in advance. She was a great timekeeper, making sure we got all of our "must" photos on our wedding day, but without taking hours of our time. It was perfect, she really captured the best of our wedding and her service was unmatched. On the day of the wedding, she arrived at the venue early and figured out the best spots to take pictures. She helped with everything - even fixing hair. She did such a great job and was so attentive that we got compliments from our guests about how nice our photographer was! She did exactly what we wanted, taking a perfect balance of staged and impromptu photos. My husband and I would recommend her to anyone who is getting married. If you want a professional who really cares about your wedding and will provide exactly what they say they will, AND offers an excellent price in as well, book Heidi for your wedding!

We were referred to heidiophoto by a coworker for our wedding and she was wonderful from the first meeting. We felt she fit well with our demeanors and was a great addition to our wedding. She is a very cool girl and having gone through her own wedding recently she knew exactly how I (the bride) was feeling. She was very attentive during the wedding planning, provided wonderful advice, professional and talented. We just recieved our wedding pictures and are so impressed with her variety and technique. All of our guests have been very complimentary on how great the photos came out. If you are looking for an unobtrustive photographer that is professional she is the choice for you!

We're very happy to choose heidiophoto at our wedding. The moment I met Heidi at a bridal bazaar, she was the kind of person I was envisioning to help me at our wedding. She is kind, sweet and very professional. She has a pleasant personality which is very important not only to project to a bride and groom but to the guests as well. Heidi listens to your ideas, but is also willing to make suggestions. She's not like other photographers I hear that are too dominant-type in a wedding. My husband is into photography and he knows when photos are of good quality...heidi's is one of them! She is also very willing to work with you even on a tight budget! So we strongly recommend heidiophoto to those looking for a wedding photographer! Thank you Heidi and keep up the good work!

It was a pleasure working with Heidi during our engagement photos and wedding. Heidi is personable, professional, and her photography is amazing! Heidi's photos are simple, creative, classy, and beautiful. It was enjoyable working w/ her because of her friendly demeanor - excellent customer service! We love our photos and we will definitely use her services again, perhaps a family photo? We'll see... Thank you Heidi for everything!

Heidi is fantastic! Not only is she completely professional and produce amazing images, but she's very friendly and has a knack for putting people at ease (even my camera-shy husband). Heidi is quick to respond to any request and I couldn't be happier with the photos from our wedding. Her style is a bit more artistic than a lot of wedding photographers, and that's what we loved about her. She provides a variety of styles of photos to choose from and I had a tough time narrowing it down to my top 200 pictures!! :-) Not only was she worth the $, but she helped hook us up with our (totally amazing) videographer, Tom O'Hara! Thanks!

Heidi was an amazing wedding photographer! She was super easy to work with and my wedding pictures came out more beautiful than I ever imagined. She was always on time and very professional. Thanks again Heidi!!!

Heidi is an amazing photographer, we were so blessed to have her photograph our wedding. We were at ease and comfortable with her from Day 1. Now that the wedding is over all our friends and family are raving about our gorgeous pictures.

Heidi was so wonderful to work with. She made sure she knew exactly what we wanted and followed through to the prints. Her work is amazing and her style is one of a kind. The quality of her work is remarkable! I would recommend her to anyone who wants a creative photo journalistic style to their wedding photos. She makes sure every little detail is captured in pictures...amazing!

Heidi has an amazing eye for details yet is able to make her photos look relaxed and casual. We had a great time with her and the photos show it! She has a relaxed personality yet is able to express herself in a way that makes the people she is working with listen and follow her instructions. She brings a sense of calm and trust to a rather crazy day! We were very thankful to have her there with us!

Heidi Photo's is a work of art. Wonderful candid pictures that makes any event memorable. Heidi is very professional and yet warm, making you feel comfortable taking pictures. The prices are very reasonable and she can work with making your wedding affordable. We'll definitely use her again, won't hesitate to recommend her to anyone.

Heidi was not only a photographer, but a friend, advisor, confidant, tamer-of-groomsmen, and a coordinator. She gave us excellent feedback on where and when to photograph both our engagement photos and our wedding photos, which provided us valuable information on scheduling the ceremony as a whole. Her finished product is amazing, and we have received nothing but compliments on her quality, style, and gift for finding beauty in every part of our special day.

Awesome photographer and extremely helpful in relaxing everyone. Very organized and on track with everything. We were extremely pleased and grateful for the wonderful pictures she captured for us. She's just great!!!!

Heidi was wonderful to work with! She was in contact with me consistently leading up to the wedding and helped me work out a lot of the timing and "day of" details. She is very down to earth and did a great job of keeping everyone calm and on track at the wedding. All of the photos turned out beautifully and we can't thank her enough. We definitely recommend her!

Heidi is an absolute doll. Extremely flexible to your needs, very knowledgeable and helpful in coordinating day-of activities. Excellent visual taste, all of the products we ordered through her came out stunning. Would absolutely recommend!

Heidi was great!!! her knowledge and skills as a photographer were outstanding. she came up with some great shots for us both before and during our wedding. she was even willing to get dirty to get pictures that we wanted. Heidi is a trooper and her skills were put to the test on our day. its not everyday that a person hired to do one thing helps out with the finial touches just before walking down the aisle. her great personality not only made it easy for us to work with her but it also brought down our stress level knowing that we didn't have to worry about her getting the photos that we wanted. we thank her from the bottom of our heart for not only giving us pictures of our wedding but supplying us with memories for the rest of our days. would we recommend Heidi for your wedding, HELL YEAH we would.

Heidi is the best wedding photographer out there! She's organized, always has helpful suggestions, and she takes awesome pictures! She was exactly who we had in mind when we were in search of the style we wanted our pictures to turn out: timeless, modern, dynamic, classy, and fun. Very laid back and made us feel very comfortable while she took our pictures. We highly recommend Heidi!

I wanted something a little different and fun for our engagement pictures and Heidi was a great choice. So often pictures of couples look posed and boring and they don’t look like they are having any fun. With Heidi not only did we look like we were having a blast together- we actually were! We booked her super short notice (like 2 days in advance) and she was a pleasure to work with!
We had our engagement session in downtown San Diego and the pictures turned out beautifully. Heidi is very creative and her use of unexpected angles makes the pictures very unique. Neither of us had been professionally photographed in years but Heidi was very patient and helped us get the shots we wanted Some of the pictures were a little too washed out for us and too many were from a distance (awesome pictures but not really frameable for grandma) but as far as engagement pictures go they are great! Heidi was very professional and accommodating and I love the final result! Thanks so much!

Heidi was great! Just by looking at her website it gave me an idea of how artistic and creative she was, and after working with her, not only is she a great photographer but very professional. My family and friends loved her, and look forward on working with her again. Thanks for the amazing pictures Heidi!

Photography was the most important vendor my husband and I booked for our wedding. We didn't have a large budget, but since our family was traveling from the east to west coast to share in our special day, it was extremely important to us to have a professional photographer. We interviewed multiple people, and found Heidi not only a match in her style and experience, but also in her personality. She made us comfortable and captured our most precious memories. She is easy-going and fit right in with our wedding party. We plan to work with her in the future and have already recommended her to our loved ones.

Heidi was wonderful to work with and we are very pleased with our engagement and wedding pictures. She is very organized and gave us great suggestions through our wedding planning, and was even happy to help us work through being horribly camera shy! When I stepped on my dress during our pictures before the ceremony, Heidi helped mend it for me. We have gottten many compliments on our wedding pictures from friends and family. We would both like to whole-heartedly recommend Heidi, and we hope you enjoy working with her as much as we did!

Heidi was a pleasure to work with. She made sure to take all the photographs that we requested. She did a great job of capturing the our ceremony by taking many, many pictures. Our wedding was outside, so she was creative and found several different backgrounds for our photos. She also had a lot of great ideas for setting up the shots and we ended up with many unique and fun photos. She was very professional and our photos turned out great. Our ceremony was only 20 minutes long and we did not have a reception, but she took over 600 photos! We especially like that she gave us all the high-quality digital photos on CDs and her package included 50+ prints.

It was a pleasure to work with Heidi. She really cares about any specifics that the bride and groom want for their special day. She also worked well with friends and family during the wedding--very organized and calm. Her pictures were wonderful! There were so many great pictures, I had a difficult time choosing which ones to put in frames and albums. The prices are very competitive compared to most vendors.

Heidi is a great photographer. She was fun and easy to work with. My photos turned out beutifully. I highly recommend heidiophoto.

Heidi was amazing. She was very professional from our first meeting to the actual wedding day. She was very organized and had done her homework, she knew all my family members by name and made sure all the photos on my list were taken. She documented our day so well, and has a great eye! We were very happy with the group and ceremony shots.

My husband is not much for having his photo taken, so I needed to find a photographer that would be calming to him and not overbearing...Heidi was it! She took command when needed, even had a great sense of humor. Heidi took some fabulous photos of us and our guests and we are very happy with them. One of my favorite photos is a group photo of us with our 200 guests...everyone says "that's such a great picture".

We would definitely recommend Heidi. Picking a photographer can be stressful, but once I met Heidi I knew that she was just what we were looking for. Cheers- Cass

We really love our photos from HeidiOphoto! She did our engagement photos and wedding. It was great getting to know her prior to the wedding and we were so happy with the result. Within her package she included a guest book and wedding album that we LOVE! She is very attentive to details and organized on the wedding day. We definately recommend her.

“Thanks so much for being such a great coordinator and for being so calm and collected during the wedding! We'll definitely recommend you to everyone we know!”

"I was very fortunate to have found Heidiophoto for my wedding. Heidi was pleasant to work with and captured all of the important moments. The quality of the photos provided were excellent and it was great to have so many to choose from. I know all my friends and family thought the photos were excellent as well.”

“I couldn't have been more happy with my photos. I got married at the La Valencia in La Jolla.
I chose Heidi as my photographer and she worked very well with my videographer, my family, my nerves, etc. She was not at all intrusive at the wedding. In fact there is not one glimpse of her in the wedding video, but somehow she managed to capture everything and more.
The best thing about Heidi is that she is so calm. When everyone else is spazing. Heidi was the person that calmed my family and me the most. That is what you need on your special day, not someone barking orders. And you don't feel weird about having her in the room when you are getting ready. She is completely respectful of your privacy. She was not invasive and she stayed in the room with me when everyone else left to go await my arrival at the wedding and she was so calm and comforting. She even helped me put on my veil!
I highly recommend her to anyone that is getting married in San Diego area or Orange County, especially anyone on a budget. Her photos were better than any I have seen, even people who paid over $5,000. So if you would like a nice Zen-like photographer who will not stress anyone out, contact Heidi.”

“Thank you so much for everything and meticulous work...Thank you for your patience and creativity.”

“Your style is exactly what Kelly wanted, and your personal service and touch has only enhanced Kelly’s
experience with you. She’s told me so much how she loved your true interest in what Kelly & Jake wanted, their
personalities, and style, as well as your thoughtful suggestions on how to help ensure not only a wonderful
wedding day, but to enhance their future memories through your photos. You have truly been a blessing.
Thank you!”

“Thanks so much Heidi for the work you did on our wedding. You were extremely professional, organized and easy to work with. You were great at wrangling everyone for the formal shots, but you also worked very discreetly which resulted in really wonderful, spontaneous candids. And perhaps most importantly, we LOVED our photographs...they were exactly what we wanted- natural, photojournalistic, simple but elegant. (Oh-- and your prices were amazingly reasonable for the quality of your work.) THANK YOU!”

“I got the photos and all I can say is WOW! Seriously, I am going to refer you to everyone I know. You did an outstanding job and you made us feel so comfortable. We would like to thank you for all of your hard work and the wonderful pictures you captured on our wedding day. Both Aracely and I loved working with you, in fact, we saw you more as a friend and guest to our wedding. Thank you for putting our “picture-phobia” to rest. Your great personality and attitude really helped us relax during the engagement photo session and during the wedding day. Speaking of which, we both had a great time and appreciated the engagement session that was included in the package we selected. We can’t say enough about the great photographs captured, only that it exceeded our expectations and tells our wedding story wonderfully. Rest assured that we will highly recommend you to all my colleges, family and friends as THE photographer to contract. Thank you again!”

"Working with you was a wonderful experience. From the moment we started shooting the engagement photos, until the last shot was taken at the wedding, you made us feel relaxed and comfortable and made what could have been a trying day enjoyable. All of our guests commented about how kind and unobtrusive you were during the ceremony and reception. The photos you took captured the beauty of the setting and the happiness and pure joy of the event. Mary and I are still blown away with our photos and album. That would not have been possible without your great sense of style an eye for the right location. We will cherish the memories you have provided us throughout our life together."

“I'm working with an absolutely fabulous photographer named Heidi Schawel in San Diego for our November wedding, and she's a real find. If you're having any kind of event, book this woman now. I found her after I'd fired one photographer, and she was a dream to work with.”

“The pictures from the wedding are wonderful! You were discreet the whole time and there are so many nice pictures that I did not realize you had gotten. Thank you for doing such a beautiful job.”

Heidi is a great photographer to work with. She was the photographer for a recent wedding held at the country club and when we saw the photographs from the wedding, it was amazing. We definitely posted some of her pictures on our blog and as well as used some of her photos to show clients our wedding venue.

Heidi is fantastic! She has a real gift for capturing the mood of the moment.

Heidi, of heidi-o-photo, has the ability to creatively capture memories that you will cherish for years to come. The detail and care that she puts into each wedding is simply amazing. She takes the time to ensure that through out the day you are comfortable and relaxed. It was an honor having the chance to work with Heidi and her associates.

I recently officiated a wedding where Heidi was the photographer, and I was really impressed with her! Not only was she easy to work with, as well as very flexible and easygoing (necessary since this ceremony started later than planned due to late family members), but she created some gorgeous pictures! She really captured their relationship, and how much this couple really enjoys each other - it comes through clearly in her photos. Heidi was also wonderful about sharing her finished photos with me, a fellow vendor, which is more rare than you'd imagine.

I look forward to working with her again, and hope that more of my fun couples choose her as their photographer!

Heidi is a marvelous photographer. Her professionalism, enthusiasm, and eye for detail is unparalleled. Her work is exquisite and most importantly she always leaves us with happy clients. We look to having her shoot at either of our venues again very soon :-)

Heidi is super fun to work with and has a great eye for pictures. She's always smiling so its hard not to have fun in front of the camera with her. Pleasure to recommend her to anyone!

Heidi is an amazing photographer and equally amazing person! She photographed a few of our clients and we couldn't recommend her more. She truly captures the look and feel of the weddings and events as well as the essence of her clients' spirits on photos. Book heidi-o-photo for your photography needs!

We wish we got to work with Heidi-O-Photo more often, because she makes our cakes look so great!

I've worked with Heidi twice and she is very talented!! :) She works hard for her clients and produce beautiful images! Definitely check out her work! :)

I've worked with Heidi twice and she is very talented!! :) She works hard for her clients and produce beautiful images! Definitely check out her work! :)

I have had the pleasure of working with Heidi and she is very professional as well as creative and artistic.
She made everyone especially the bride and groom feel comfortable. She artistically captured the wedding day perfectly and beautifully. Her work is so wonderfully visually pleasing!
I highly recommend Heidi to anyone for their wedding or engagement.