Erica Mendenhall Photography

Erica Mendenhall Photography (EMP) were incredible to work with! We originally heard about EMP after a recommendation from our venue. After scrolling through their dreamy portfolio of wedding photos and chatting through our wedding goals over the phone, we knew that they would be perfect for our big day. After one phone conversation we felt like we were friends with Erica, she was so genuine and kind and I couldn't wait to hang out with her for eight hours on my wedding day!

We were having a destination wedding, so we booked EMP as our photographers without meeting in person, but we were 100% confident that they would be amazing! Unfortunately, our wedding could not go ahead as planned due to Coronavirus, but we had an awesome engagement session with EMP at the Palm Springs windmills. Our engagement photos were beyond amazing!

My now-husband and I are in no way models and we couldn't believe how great we looked! Erica really got us to open up in front of the camera and the results were fantastic. We will treasure them forever! EMP also got the photos to us in a timely manner and even got us a few sneak peaks later that day! In addition to the amazing photos, EMP were always easy to get in contact with, were such a pleasure to work with and we plan to work with them again when we are able to have a wedding celebration in the future. We would give them six stars if possible!

I found Erica on wedding wire and she is AMAZING! I couldn't have picked a better photographer, she was so easy to talk to and so knowledgeable about everything. She was super responsive and so so helpful! The first time we talked over the phone I knew I had to have her capture our wedding day and I was so fortunate she was available for our wedding! She was such a huge help the entire day and our pictures turned out amazing. We couldn't be happier! Thank you so much, Erica!

Thank you Erica for our beautiful wedding photos! From the beginning of my planning process, Erica was so sweet, easy to work with, and organized. On the day of my wedding, I never stressed once about taking pictures. Erica and her husband are a fantastic team, their professional and kind demeanor helped me stay calm just before the wedding ceremony.

I felt so comfortable with Erica. She listened to what was important to my husband and I and she captured everything we requested and more! The picture gallery she created for me was perfect, her photos are of the highest quality and overall, I am grateful to have worked with Erica. I highly recommend Erica Mendenhall Photography!

We recently got married in September 2017 and I made sure to book Erica in a year in advance because I knew she needed to be my photographer since before I was engaged. She's a great person and nonetheless a fantastic photographer! She made sure to help and give me ideas every time I asked or saw her. If you want photos that will be romantic and breathtaking she is the one. Make sure you book her as soon as possible. Very professional and responsive!

I found Erica online because I was looking for a photographer local to Palm Springs, where we chose to get married, on very short notice. After leaving a message, I heard back from her right away and we ended up talking on the phone for almost an hour! It felt like I was making a plan with a friend who knew all the right questions to ask to get me organized and thinking creatively about images I wanted for my special day.

She was very easy to communicate with, organized and extremely considerate of my desires, timeline and needs. Not only are her prices very reasonable, she also provided all the photos in web and hi-res files with a quick turnover. She was also very flexible during the shoot and our photos turned out great! I am thrilled to have chosen her and fortunate she was available on my special day. I would highly recommend hiring her to anyone getting married. The day will come and go and what's left are the photos to remind us of the special moments of that day.

Erica took pictures for an alternate wedding reception we had in California. She did an absolutely incredible job. I don't enjoy getting my picture taken and was very worried I would not like how I looked in the picture (this was the case in many of the photographs from our actual wedding ceremony+reception in Ohio). But I was blown away when we got our pictures back!

They were all so beautiful and she did an amazing job of capturing both candid moments and staged ones. Since the reception, I have also had Erica take pictures of my mom and me for a Mother's Day gift. I would recommend her to anyone who needs any kind of pictures taken!

Erica is so lovely to work with and was very helpful from our first meeting all the way to the wedding! We are so happy we chose Erica as our photographer because she made great recommendations such as taking "first look" photos because she was worried we wouldn't have enough bride and groom photos given our timeline we sent her. She was fast on uploading our images (there were a ton!) and we loved every photo she took. Erica and her assistant took the time and made sure they captured the "Kodak" moments and can definitely re-live our special day when seeing her shots. Highly recommend Erica and would hire her in an instant for another party or event!

Erica was fantastic! We recommend her fully! We can't emphasize our satisfaction enough. We loved working with her and recommend her for any photography needs you may have. First of all, her photos came out beautiful; each and every one of them. They successfully highlight the joys of our day. Second of all, she went beyond just taking photos, and helped us with location recommendations for our engagement photos and helpful flexibility with our timelines.

The location we ended up choosing from her list of suggestions for the engagement photos was wonderful. Because I planned my engagement party so close to the photo shoot, she rush ordered one of those great engagement photos as a beautiful print for the party; it was perfect! The wedding timeline help she provided was such a surprise and a blessing!

A week before the big day some changes were made and we asked her to come in hours earlier. She was flexible and even helped to streamline the entire timeline! The day of, she was there to strategize when groomsmen were late and the hairdresser took an hour longer than expected. It took a lot of the worry off our shoulders. Third of all, the day of our wedding went so smoothly with photos.

We had provided her a list of the many, many family portraits to be taken that day (both of us have large families), and she made it all work! She wasn't afraid to take charge, place people, and rearrange them so that each photo was great, even despite all the wind. She kept the mood fun but got the job done. We wanted to enjoy our wedding day and not just have it all be about pictures; working with Erica meant that we were having fun the whole time, while still capturing moments we'll have in photographs forever. An added plus: we received our photos so soon!

We had friends who had to wait six months or more to get their wedding photos, but not us! And we were blown away by the quality! She used the PASS website, which allowed us to share the photos easily, download them, and choose photos to be printed (included in our awesome package from her).

What can we say.? Erica was AMAZING! With as stressful as weddings can be, it was definitely a relief to have someone as helpful, knowledgeable, and kind as Erica along the way with us. She made us feel so comfortable and was always in constant contact throughout the way. It really does make a difference having that kind of person working with you.

Not only did we love working with Erica every minute we were with her, but she captured our wedding so perfectly. She captured all the emotions and our pictures came out incredible! Erica is so professional and friendly. We couldn't have asked for a better photographer. We highly suggest Erica for any photography needs!

Our experience with Erica, from the start, was amazing. We used Erica to shoot our engagement photos, we were nervous since we were making the move from Michigan to California and we weren't really sure what to expect. We started our hunt for someone to shoot our photos and soon came across Erica. I sent her and email and within a day or so she gave me a call, and from there it was pretty much a wrap. Erica worked with us to set up the best day and time possible, as we concerned about taking our pictures in the heat.

We also had a time constraint, since we needed to get save the dates out. She called a few weeks before the shoot to go over poses and locations. She gave great advice to our questions and looked over everything we had sent her. The day of the shoot went so smoothly, she gave great direction, and recalled poses that we wanted, we couldn't have asked for a better day.

In order to get out save the dates out in time she had pictures edited and ready to go within the time frame that we asked for. She also did addition retouches when we asked. I'm so pleased with our experience and if we weren't doing an out of state wedding, (and already had our photographer) Erica would have been our first choice. You won't regret booking with her!