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Caroline + Ben Photography

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Austin Based Wedding Photojournalists
Phone: (281) 610-5691 
Austin, TX 78704
 
Overall Rating
4.9 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
4.9/5.0
Responsiveness:
4.9/5.0
Professionalism:
4.9/5.0
Value for Cost:
4.9/5.0
Flexibility:
4.9/5.0
 
38 Total Reviews
 
Rachael
Wedding: 10/9/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
You can look through Caroline's portfolio and see that she is an awesome photographer. But what you won't know until you book her is that she is truely a gem! Caroline truely made our engagement session so much fun! She picked an orginal area for us to shoot. She utilized the area so well that we didn't need to go to several locations to get shots that looked miles from each other! We couldn't be happier with out engagement photos, we have gotten endless compliments on them! We got a sneak peek of our wedding day photos and they are amazing! I can't wait to see all of them. I know they will be even more gorgeous then the engagement! Thank you Caroline for capturing everything so beautifully!
Andrea
Wedding: 9/17/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
I can't say enough great things about Caroline. She is amazing. I continue to get compliments about my engagement session, and so many compliments about how wonderfully she captured the true emotion of my wedding day. She goes above and beyond to make sure the bride is happy, and doesn't mind literally getting in the dirt for a great shot. Even better, when there was a threat of rain, she told me how great that lighting made photos. She made a nervous bride a bit more calm about the weather. She was open to my every thought an suggestion and had some great ones herself. She is amazing, I am so happy/pleased/elated with what she and her 2nd photog did for our wedding day.
AlexandraMcMyler
Wedding: 9/10/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Caroline is the absolute best in the business- she came recommended to me by a professional photographer- what more can you ask for? From the moment we met she was completely professional, and by the end I want to count her as one of my friends. The photographer was the most important vendor to me, and as such Caroline was my first choice and the first vendor I booked. I could not be happier with her work!! All my friends and relatives are STILL calling and asking "who was your photographer?!" and "where do I get copies of these fantastic photos?!" Of all the stresses I had on the wedding day, worrying about the photography turning out well was not one of them, and that was worth way more than we paid for Caroline's beautiful work. Thank you Caroline!!
cuatariojas
Wedding: 5/28/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
I knew she took great fotos but Oh my God!!! I loved the pictures so gorgeous. I tell you one thing we drove from Mexico to Austin to take these and it was soooooo worth the drive and all. I am more than 100% please with the pictures she took !! It is a shame she is booked on the my wedding day I would have loved for her to be there and taking our pictures that day. I dont have enough words to thank you Caroline !!! keep up the good job !!!
Chuzenny
Wedding: 5/28/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Like her business name implies, Caroline is an extremely sweet person to work with. She will not hesitate to get down and dirty to capture an amazing shot. She was always punctual and answered all of my emails right away. It was easy to schedule a engagement shoot day with her. After each shoot, she was super quick to have a few teaser photos posted on her blog within a week, and had the rest of the images available within the time frame she promised. I have no regrets having her do my engagement and wedding photography. Every image is bright and breathtaking and has her own special touch. She captured all the small details and moments that we were unable to see come to life at our wedding. We cannot stop looking through them again and again. The photographs she took have become one of our most valued possessions. You will not regret having Sweet Caroline photograph your wedding or any special occasion!
Erin
Wedding: 4/23/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
She was always very quick to respond while we were communicating. She was very pleasant, helpful and always made us feel comfortable. Her photos turned out beautifully. Everyone tells me that she did an amazing job and that she was the perfect pick! I would choose her again a million times over. You should too!
AmandaE
Wedding: 4/16/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Amazing! Her work is priceless! She is so creative and has flawless work. She is so prompt to get pictures back to you. I would use her again in a heartbeat and would recommend her to any future brides.
j19191
Wedding: 4/2/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Caroline was both warm and professional. In working with her, she was very responsive and was one of the easiest contracts to set up. She made us feel comfortable, and the photos are amazing!!! We are very happy we chose Caroline to capture the most important day of our lives, and highly recommend her!
r
Wedding: 3/25/11
4.7 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
4.5/5.0
Responsiveness:
4.5/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
4.5/5.0
Caroline was a breeze to work with. I loved the photos from our engagement and wedding. Everyone had nothing but great things to say about them. Truly captured the night!
saramac81
Wedding: 1/29/11
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Caroline is simply amazing. Not only are her photographs so perfect, she has an amazing personality and it feels like you are walking around with your friend taking photos.
cstearns10
Wedding: 10/2/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Caroline was awesome to work with! She has such a creative eye and has a way of capturing the most beautiful shots of meaningful and special moments.
judithdancer
Wedding: 9/25/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Sweet Caroline Photo did a perfect job of capturing our wedding. Our photos really allowed us to relive our wedding day and looked simply amazing. Our guests were really excited about the quality of our photos and we received many compliments. We are very happy with having chosen Sweet Caroline Photo as our photographer!
Andrea
Wedding: 9/11/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
I can't say how happy I am with the work that Caroline did for us. Our engagement photos and wedding photos are phenomenal and we've had more compliments on our wedding photographer than on any other aspect of the whole event. Caroline was extremely professional and easy to deal with. I'm amazed by how talented she is and will heartily recommend her services to any future brides to be!
alyson03
Wedding: 9/4/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Besides Caroline's obvious talent for taking breathtaking photos, she does an amazing job making everything flow very smoothly. Our wedding day was hectic (as is everyone else's), she turned out to be a perfect wedding gift to ourselves. We recommend her to everyone, but usually we don't have to. Guests that couldn't make it to the wedding ask us, "WHO WAS YOUR PHOTOG, SHE WAS AMAZING, THE PICTURES MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS ACTUALLY AT THE WEDDING."
PaytonHeilman
Wedding: 8/14/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Very personable, very professional. Vibrant pictures really captured the day. She really listened to what we desired in our wedding photography.
EPhelps
Wedding: 8/7/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
I can not say enough good things about sweet caroline photography!! The quality of her pictures are AMAZING!! She is so great at capturing the moments..All of the little things that make your day so special. I have gotten so many compliments on our wedding photos. She has always been very responsive. If I had a question, I emailed her and recieved a response the same day. She was very professional and at the same time very laid back and FUN to work with! I would recommend sweet caroline photo to ANYONE who wants great pictures!! You won't be dissappointed!
Emily S
Wedding: 5/22/10
3.2 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
3.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
4.0/5.0
Professionalism:
3.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
3.0/5.0
Flexibility:
3.0/5.0
Caroline certainly makes beautiful pictures, no doubt about that, but I was really disappointed in our wedding photos. We didn't view our wedding as a photo shoot or an opportunity to make art, which I think is how Caroline viewed it. For us, our wedding was a celebration of life with all our most loved family and friends... and very few of them wound up in the photographs of our wedding. Five months later, that still makes me really sad.Disappointments:- Even though Caroline asked ahead of time for a list of the group photos I wanted taken in the church following the ceremony, she did not take all those photos and in the busy-ness of the day, I didn't remember all of them. As a result there is not a single picture of me and my niece. (I only have one neice and one nephew.) - During the posed group photos in the church, Caroline had everyone who wore glasses take their glasses off so that there wasn't a glare from her flash. Well, this is just silly - someone who has worn glasses every day of his adult life (e.g. my dad) does not look like himself if he isn't wearing them. I feel this is a fairly standard photographic challenge that she should have been able to handle. And then my absent-minded bro-in-law left his glasses dangling from his suit pocket, which doesn't look right in a formal picture. This is a little nit-picky, but taken as a whole, seemed to me to be another example of Caroline not being on top of her game.- At Caroline's suggestion, we took a break in the middle of our reception to take photos of my hubby and me outside. Our reception venue was beautiful and we wanted to be sure it was included in photos, so we were happy to do this, but clarified ahead of time how long we should budget for these photos, because celebrating with our family and friends was really our focus and we didn't want to spend the whole afternoon alone posing for the camera. Caroline told us 20 minutes. Unfortunately, 30 minutes later Caroline was absorbed in getting just the right angle - we were visibly anxious and finally told her that we needed to get back. Even then, she wanted to take photos at another spot on-site.- There are less than 10 photos of my very large extended family (other than those that were specifically posed in the church). Out of literally hundreds of photos. The reason is that they didn't spend much time on the dance floor. And looking at our photos, that is where Caroline and her assistant camped out. I didn't spend much time on the dance floor either, but I guess that's where the "fun" photo-taking opportunities were. I know photos of people you don't know sitting around talking is probably not interesting to a stranger, but these are people we love who came to share this day with us. I would love to see pictures of them celebrating with us - even if they aren't dancing. As our photographer, Caroline should have wanted to take those photos too - even if they won't be good material for her portfolio. I just can't believe that this is something I needed to tell a wedding photographer.- Caroline works with an assistant. I got the impression that we would have two photographers that day, which was a big bonus, considering the price. Caroline did not present it that way - that we would have two photographers - but neither did she correct my obvious misunderstanding. When I asked if one of them could photograph me and my bridesmaids getting ready while the other was photographing my husband and his groomsmen, she hesitantly agreed. When the photos came back, however, there were very few of the photos that the assistant took of my bridesmaids and me. I guess this is why she doesn't have him work as an independent second photographer, but as her assistant. (He mostly took all the same photos she did, at the same time she did, just at a slightly different angle.) I would have appreciated it if she had clarified this when it was obvious that I had misunderstood his capabilities/role.- Caroline seems a little distracted and in retrospect did not have a good handle on the wedding details.Successes:- beautiful portraits- dvd with all images and full permission to use themIn summary, I would be hesitant to recommend Caroline. The photos she does take are beautiful, but there were a LOT of photos that she didn't take, but should have.
Kayla and Brien
Wedding: 5/15/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
This photographer was one of the best vendors that I have ever delt with and would deal with during my wedding planning process. Not only did she make you feel comfortable and help guide you in your ideas for the photographs that you were wanting to create, but she went beyond expectations to deliver a final product that will be cherished by our entire family and for generations to come. I would recomment this vendor to any bride or family seeking someone as caring as Caroline to help you create memories that will last a life time. She is not just a photographer, but an artist!
nikiaguirre
Wedding: 5/8/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Sweet Caroline - is simply the BEST in wedding photography. Our pictures are not only amazing but wow, she took so many! She makes you feel so comfortable. You feel like your uber talented best friend is doing the work. She's down to earth and is really kind and so approachable. We loved her style so much that we would have moved our wedding date in order to book her. I completely recommend her.
Cacey
Wedding: 4/18/10
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service:
5.0/5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0/5.0
Professionalism:
5.0/5.0
Value for Cost:
5.0/5.0
Flexibility:
5.0/5.0
Sweet Caroline Photo was my wedding photographer. And I'm SO GLAD that she was! She is a true artist and a real master of her craft. That combined with her amazing equipment makes for truly artistic, amazing, & unforgettable photographs! She shot a wedding that my then-fiance-now-husband was in, and he knew then that he wanted her to do ours as well. I'm so glad he has such good taste!She's also super cool and sooo nice, AND very good at making you feel comfortable in front of the camera, even if you're famously not-so. (like me.)I love my wedding (and engagement) photos so much, I can't stop looking at them. And I'm so grateful to her and glad that I will have them to look at for the rest of my life. She's the best and totally worth it. Trust me, if you do decide to go with her, you won't regret it!
 
 
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