Stephen Taylor Photography, Inc

Your Name:Rev. John Graf, Jr.Date of event:Many weddingsComments about Stephen Taylor Photography:From Rev. John Graf, Jr.I am so happy when I arrive at one of my weddings and find either you or a member of Stephen Taylor Photography on site to shoot the ceremony. You and your family of professional photographers are the best in the business and certainly make my brides and grooms very happy!Reverend j. Grf Jr.

We loved Stephen Taylor. They had the most affordable prices around and offered great service. We had two photographers at our wedding and they captured every moment! We had a difficult time selecting our proofs for our album because all of the pictures were beautiful. They had our proofs to us in less than a week after our wedding and once we submitted our request, our album was back in less than 3 months! I would totally recommend them to anyone!!!!

Overall, we are happy with their work.Slightly disappointed that it didnt seem like we got the extra bang for the buck for getting the second photographer.

WOW! What can I say. Our images are Stunning and Magnificent . So easy to work with. I'm a tough client and demand a lot of attention. Stephen gave it to me. Everything I asked they found a way to work out. I have been at so many weddings where the photography staff was not professional either bad attitude or not dressed well. Stephen Taylor studios was so professional and knew how to make us all feel comfortable. I met my photographer before my wedding and we had so much fun discussing my day. Not expensive and worth every dollar.

Stephen Taylor Photography came highly recommended to us. We thought we hit the jackpot with securing them for our wedding day however we are extremely disappointed with their service and results. Arthur was phenomenal to work with but afterwards (when it was too late) we realized we should have written down EVERY shot we wanted and not left it to his judgement. MANY pictures were not captured that we wanted. For example, there are no pictures of our wedding bands together. On a day a crazy as your wedding day you hope you rely on someone who has done it before to remind you that they need the wedding bands for a second to take a picture. The assistant photographer was wandering around, following Arthur when he should have been capturing other things. He needed to be explicitly directed on what pictures to take. There was no creativity behind their work. Most of the shots that are "okay" and somewhat acceptable have the videographer in it, blocking people or blocking the action. There are at least 10 pictures that were taken by the professional that were captured better by guests at the wedding. It has been extremely difficult to put the wedding album together due to the amount of disappointment we have with their service. I would ONLY use them again if I had detailed instructions to give the photographer because if you trust their judgement, you will come up empty-handed after having spent a large amount of money. You can never get that day back....When we expressed to Stephen our disappointment he barely listened and said he disagreed. He has done nothing else to help us create an album that we will like. He just keeps saying "the pictures are beautiful, do the album"... Not what you want to hear from the person you trusted to capture the most important day of your life through pictures.

I used Joe Church for my Oct 2010 wedding after literally falling in love with some of the pictures we saw that he took. He was awesome. Really great to work with, extremely professional and did a great job both with the posed pictures (we had 5 kids in our wedding under 10 years old) and with the candids. The album was done with Stephen. Although sometimes it took a few phone calls to get things worked out we could not be happier with the way that it came out. It is beautiful and I am so happy with our choice. It is expensive but then again most things with weddings are.... and I think it was worth the money.

TBD - still working on our album.

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Our photographer, Joe Church, was fantastic, very detail-oriented and our photographs are absolutely lovely. The communication was a little tricky for me as I live abroad and couldn't speak with the office in person, but I'm very happy with the decision to use them and would recommend them to anyone.

I am a repeat customer of Stephen Taylor. He was the photographer at my first wedding 15 years ago and by chance I was able to find him again to do my second wedding. He does a magnificent job and is so personable. Joe Church was our photographer and he had such a great personality and made us laugh so much! He made everyone feel so comfortable. He took amazing pictures, and some of which we had no idea of! It was so awesome to see these artistic shots and such candid pics of our family and friends. I highly recommend Stephen Taylor Photography for any event you have that you want excellent pictures or video from!

I am a repeat customer of Stephen Taylor. He was the photographer at my first wedding 15 years ago and by chance I was able to find him again to do my second wedding. He does a magnificent job and is so personable. Joe Church was our photographer and he had such a great personality and made us laugh so much! He made everyone feel so comfortable. He took amazing pictures, and some of which we had no idea of! It was so awesome to see these artistic shots and such candid pics of our family and friends. I highly recommend Stephen Taylor Photography for any event you have that you want excellent pictures or video from!

The moment I walked into the studio to meet with Stephen and Arthur (the photographer) I knew right away I wanted him for our wedding. I met with several photographers and there was no doubt that Arthur was the right choice! He did an amazing job the day of the wedding. Our family is huge and he very patiently and efficiently got as many family portraits as possible. After the formal pictures you truly did not even know Arthur was there. He was extremely nice, professional, patient, and courteous. I have seen the photos online and they came out really beautiful. It is still early for receiving our album so I cannot comment on that yet but I can tell you so far we're thrilled with the services we received from Stephen Taylor Photography. Thank you!!

Stephen Taylor Photography, Great images , Great company, Great reputation and service.

quality of photos was excellent and photographers were unobtrusive during the wedding. There were several mix ups during processing and getting the final albums took an inordinately long period of time

My husband and I were put at ease as soon as we stepped into Stephen Taylor's office. Their level of professionalism is beyond anything we had seen from any other "wedding photography company". We were able to sit in a viewing room, and go through different photographers in our price range. They were never pushy, we were able to build our own wedding package for what we could afford and we were extremely happy with the end result! The photos are everything we could have hoped for!

Like many couples planning a wedding, my fiancee (now wife) and I spent a great deal of time researching vendors, evaluating cost, reputation, quality of work, deals, etc. After meeting with many photographers and/or studios, we finally settled in on Stephen Taylor, and we couldn't be happier with our decision. The process was simple, and in our experience the staff was very responsive to our requests. We opted for a two-photographer shoot, and when one of the photographers moved out of state prior to our wedding, stephen himself stepped up and covered our event. Both he and his counterpart, Arthur, were professional, knowledgeable, courteous, and engaging of our families and friends. After we completed the "official" pictures, they seemed to vanish and weren't noticeable for the rest of the night, yet they produced so many wonderful shots that captured special moments my wife and I missed, since we were frantically running all over the place (you brides and grooms know what I mean). We had our proofs about 2-3 weeks after the wedding (which is FAR quicker than any of my friends or married siblings got theirs), and we're looking forward to enjoying these pictures in our album for many, many years.

Contrary to any negative reviews here, our experience with the studio was nothing but pleasant. I would whole-heartedly recommend the studio to anyone planning a wedding/event. Thanks, and I hope this helps!

Comments about Stephen Taylor Photography:
From Rev. John Graf, Jr.
I am so happy when I arrive at one of my weddings and find either you or a member of Stephen Taylor Photography on site to shoot the ceremony. You and your family of professional photographers are the best in the business and certainly make my brides and grooms very happy!
Reverend j. Grf Jr

This was from a client of ours.
Date of event:
October 3, 2009

Comments about Stephen Taylor Photography:
The team at Stephan Taylor Photography did an amazing job documenting the most special day of our lives. They were easy to work with and lived up to all of their promises. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for high quality photos that truely capture the spirit of your special day.

I completely disagree with the previous bad reviews! I had nothing but a pleasant experience working with Stephen Taylor Photography. My photographer was Joe Church who is just wonderful. I've spoken to Diane millions of times, particularly after the wedding when I was getting the album together, and she was so helpful and nice! As far as service goes, they are great! After the wedding, I had my proofs to look at less than a month later, and they got my thank you cards mailed out the day after I submitted the picture we wanted for them. While I was choosing pictures and designing the layout, I must have emailed Diane and Agnus so many times and they got right back to me each time and really helped me so much with designing my album. It was so convenient that I could do it online from home since I live so far from their studio. All said and done, we had our full album plus 2 family albums within 6 months of the wedding! All of the albums came out absolutely beautiful. It was worth every penny! I would definitely recommend them!

Great photography! Hard to choose who you want because they are all great! Very professional and the customer service is excellent!

I completely agree about the receptionist Diane. I feel that she is unorganized, rude, and gives the company a bad name. Prior to our wedding she sent me the pre-wedding form twice in one day and followed up with two calls. This was after the fact I already sent in the requested information and spoke to her on the phone. I hate dealing with her because I know she very very very unorganized.

I've had many unpleasant experiences with her this was just one example.

they were okay. We had to basically design our album

While we LOVED the photographer we picked from their selection, we had a difficult time working with this place. They double booked our photographer for a late night wedding the night before ours, when we had booked her for an early morning start time months before. Then they gave me a hard time about wanting the photogropher to be there at 7 am to capture me getting dressed at my parents house. I found them to be a little expensive and we just received a proof "journal" - no actual proofs, which was disappointing. Although they do make you a DVD with some of what they feel are the best pictures of the day - which is a nice keepsake to have, especially since we didn't have a videographer. They were a little inflexible - though our pictures came out fantastic, again thanks to the wonderfully talented photographer we selected. I have mixed feelings about working with them.

We used Paul Mecca from the Stephen Taylor studio and he was just phenomenal. We saw work he did from another wedding and new we had to have him. He called us a few days before our wedding to go over all the details again, ask what he should wear, and just to put us at ease. The day of the wedding he showed up on time and came up with the greatest shots. The greatest compliment I can give is that we loved EVERY SINGLE photo he took - there was not one picture that we thought was 'just okay' let alone bad. You will not regret choosing him!

Pictures came out beautiful!! We had two excellent photographers...Pam and Bill...Never were in guests faces...captured our wedding day wonderfully!!! Worth every penny!!

While Stephen Taylor is extrmely professional, I cannot say the same for Joe. Joe was my photographer and he did not get family photos that he was suppose to get, he skipped table shots, and even worse, he didn't take portrait shots of the bride and groom! He did excellent editorial style/action shots but really missed the traditional portraits that make an album. I had to have my wedding portrait photo-shopped by their graphic artist. This is something that is truly unacceptable and doesn't make for happy clients. It's not like you can go backwards to fix the day but obviously something was lacking.

Excellent. I will recommend to anybody.

We were very happy with Stephen Taylor Photography. They were not obtrusive at all..we never knew they were at reception and they got amazing candid shots.