I got married on May 12^th 2015 in Riviera Maya. I started researching my wedding in late 2013, so I have been waiting to write this review for almost two years! I am a highly analytical and research orientated person. Just to give you an idea, I went through 7 travel agents before I settled on one that I liked.  Picking photographers was no different. This will be a very, detailed and comprehensive review. I contacted close to 15 for quotes and studied reviews and photographs of each company. Sarani was one of the ones that I kept going back to. Sarani’s price was a bit higher than most photographers, however if you have looked at her portfolio you will understand why. It took a really long time for me to make this decision because I am a perfectionist and wanted to make sure that I hired the right company. In the end, I just kept going back to Sarani because I really loved how unique her photos were and I felt that I couldn’t find that style anywhere else and more importantly her photos didn’t look like anyone else’s.  I will say, she was well worth the money.

               Sarani is a fantastic communicator and in a period where I could barely get a response from wedding coordinators, it was very nice to have someone with quick response times. Sarani is generally very quick to respond to email which I greatly, greatly appreciated. Sarani was very patient with me, I can tend to be very demanding and annoying (I completely image Sarani laughing right now as she is reading this) but she took everything with a grain of salt and was very professional and helpful. I communicated with her constantly, I went down six months prior and I met her as well during a Karisma bride’s dress rehearsal so by the time we got to my wedding day, I felt I knew her very well.

               On my wedding day, I had five people total. Two photographers, two videographers and a lighting assistant I believe. They were very prompt and very professional. I really liked that they all wear a uniform which makes it easy to spot them. Throughout the entire wedding, I hardly noticed that they were there and I really appreciated that Sarani got all the shots I asked her to get like the group shot which was very important to me. Something small to note here, and this is by no fault Sarani’s, more of an FYI for future brides (I should have thought of this in advance). Make yourself a list of who you want to get formal portrait photo’s done with and send it to her. In the chaos and time crunch, I didn’t get any photos with a single one of my friends and most of my close family members which I really didn’t think about prior. It’s the one thing that I deeply regret as looking back; I literally don’t have a single one of any of those. Speaking of time crunch, make sure you have enough time. I didn’t do a first look and in hindsight maybe I should have, because we were really running behind schedule and only had a cocktail hour to do family photos and the couples photo shoot. As most weddings do, we were running behind schedule so I asked her team to stay another hour.

               We also did a trash the dress session in a private cenote two days after our wedding and this was absolutely amazing and I don’t regret it for a second. FYI brides, this is much harder than it looks! Between the up and down, and hold your breath and looking attractive, we were exhausted by the end of it.

               Now, onto after the wedding and receiving everything. I believe we were told a certain number of weeks to wait and it took exactly that much time. Don’t rush her to finish even though you really, really want too J The first thing we received was the sneak peak. It was a fantastic sneak peak, however I will say that there were some regular photographs that I received later that I thought were better than what was included in the sneak peak but it doesn’t matter in the end since you get them all anyway. After the sneak peak, I believe we got all the wedding photos on a very neatly and beautifully packaged USB Drive. Sarani and her team did a great job narrowing down the selections so I didn’t have thousands of photos to go through. Overall, I am incredibly happy with how all the photo’s turned out. She really knows how to capture the day. By the way, those couples’ photos that you see in her portfolio, you know the ones…the ones that make you want to hire her; They all look like that in case you are wondering, ours were no exception and were just as gorgeous!

               After the photos were received we got the trailer for our wedding movie. I was especially nervous about this because I had seen 0 video footage up until this point. I didn’t realize that I wouldn’t even be able to pick the song and I was super nervous for the song choice. However, I was so happy with the trailer. Honestly, this was probably one of the best things of the entire package. Sarani’s team picked a perfect song for me and they highlighted the best parts of the movie. Six months later I still watch this almost every day! A few weeks later we then received the Video DVD/Blu-Ray and a beautiful canvas Sarani had printed us with a signature pose. Now, I will say we did have some issues with the DVD but this was more from an editing point of view. Our wedding was not a typical wedding so I feel that we had a whole ton of footage to show, and we wanted to see everything. I didn’t want anything edited out so the first video that came wasn’t all that great. The quality was phenomenal but all the things I wanted to see weren’t in there and there were a bunch of things I didn’t want to see that were in there. However, I wrote a very detailed list as to what I wanted fix and for the most part they fixed and edited about 90% of it. At that point they sent us a new DVD and we were much happier.

               Then it came time to work on the photo album, we ended up going with the most expensive option which turned out to be a huge book (might have been able to pick the smaller book! J I spent weeks narrowing down the photo selections which was very difficult but finally sent Sarani our selections. I loved this part when she put them all in an editing website and I was able to see the exact book I was going to get. We had a few rounds of edits but nothing major. A few weeks later, our beautiful album arrived in an equally beautiful case cover. The case was a bit damaged en route however they replaced it no problem.

               Overall, we are super, super happy we choose Sarani. We get compliments constantly on how beautiful our wedding photos turned out. I am so glad that our wedding photos are as unique as can be and I don’t have typical cookie cutter wedding photos! Thank you again to Sarani and her marvelous team. I am sad that my wedding is over and I can’t do this again, however if I could do this again, I would hire them again in a second J