Anna Marks Photography

unning pictures of our wedding day and our engagement shoot a few months prior. She has such a joyful and calming presence and made us feel so comfortable in front of the camera. Anna managed to capture exactly what we were feeling in each special moment. My friends and family also cannot stop singing her praises which is a testament to her personality and her professionalism. Anna is incredibly positive, talented, and all around wonderful to have the opportunity to shoot with. She was pure joy to work with and I cannot recommend her highly enough.You will not regret including her on your special day!

ll day seemed a bit daunting. But Anna is a natural! Anna's fun and friendly personality and warm approach made us comfortable during our engagement shoot - so when the wedding day came, being photographed was no big deal to us! She does a wonderful job capturing special moments and emotions, which is what we were looking for in a wedding photographer. As we look back on our wedding day, Anna was able to notice and shoot many details that were important to us and also allowed us to see (and felt like we were present for) other parts of the day we missed. Finding a great photographer is a must to help remember your special day and we are grateful for the memories that Anna captured for us.

a is extremely talented and has an artistic eye for photo composition and how to capture foreground and background perfectly. She also has amazing Creative Suite, post-production editing and uses filters to provide beautiful tone and color. There were countless photos that we instantly wanted to print and hang as they were so visually pleasing. Besides her photography talent and skills, Anna's positive, always-smiling energy is exactly what we needed to calm our nerves on our big day. My wife and I think we're quite awkward in front of the camera but Anna made us feel completely comfortable and natural. She also interacted with our family members beautifully during family portraits which can be tough to deal with all the different personalities. She was extremely patient with everyone and there was never an uncomfortable or tenuous moment, which I think is very rare during the family portrait part of the wedding. Anna also shot our engagement shoot with beautiful results and captured the colors of the sunset amazingly. Everyone that got our Save the Date's commented on how it looked like it was a movie poster. On top of this, Anna is extremely organized, communicative, and hard working- Before our big day we knew exactly what her plans were down to the smallest details. She asked us exactly what combination of people we wanted photographed for each side so that when it came time for this she just read down the list we had. Communication leading up to the day was extremely prompt and detailed, leaving no room for questions or confusion. She's extremely efficient in all interactions and as a couple planning a wedding and balancing so many other tasks/logistics we greatly appreciated that. Anna's extremely passionate about capturing your special day and cares tremendously about the couple she's working with and was genuinely interested in making sure we have beautiful images that chronicle all the events of the day. We can't thank Anna enough for all her hard work and wish we could continue working with her. We recommend her 10x over. Working with Anna was one of our best decisions during our vendor selection process! We now forever have an amazing way to remember the best day of our lives!

y said, she is magical. Not only do we consider her our friend, but she is also a personal hypewoman, calming presence, and incredibly talented photographer. Her unique ability to capture a balance between nature and her couples is unparalleled. There are several photos where the ocean or redwood trees seem to be the star, until you look at us and notice that she simultaneously captured a secret moment between us. To be honest, we were so nervous for our engagement photos (and thought we would be awkward), but Anna made the entire process fun, comfortable, and a total adventure. She completely understood us as a couple, and was always looking for an adventure to bring us on, thus making her shoots comfortable, fun, and unique. On our wedding day, I actually cried when she showed up to the venue, because I was so excited to see her and knew that as our friend, she would be able to comfort us during our first look and photos. All of our guests also fell in love with her personality immediately. She was there with a hair clip, applied bandaids to my blisters, laughed/smiled with us, and was always somehow sneakily there when I turned around. Our guests (even those outside of the bridal party) commented on how amazing our photographer was at being present and in the moments with all of us. She is the best investment in your forever memories that you can make. We are sad for many reasons that our wedding is over, and one of them is that our time with her (until our next life event) has finished!

rm and bubbly it really made us feel like we could be ourselves, which translated to beautiful photos! Would highly recommend her!

till remember having to pose for our engagement session on one of the coldest and windy days in San Francisco, yet, as passers by commented that we made it look like we were not cold at all as I was covered in goose bumps, we knew that was all because of Anna. As she is snapping away, her ability to coach and encourage you and make you smile naturally in the most unnatural of settings, always seizes to amaze me. It’s not easy to have the camera stuck on you like glue, but with Anna’s creative games and comments, you quickly forget the camera is there and immediately relax. Most brides and grooms leave their cell phones behind on the big day, so you are left crossing your fingers and hoping others capture the memories for you. With Anna, there is no need to worry. Every time we would have normally pulled out our phones for a shot, she was right there ready as if she had a crystal ball. She has a great eye and the end results of her work are absolutely stunning. The details, expressions, and settings that Anna manages to capture so impeccably are breathtaking. Our wedding party is still talking about Anna and how they loved working with her. She is the best!

e was--it was almost like she was part of the guest list! She arrived on time and helped us all relax a bit with how easy going and professional she was. She was somehow everywhere at once capturing all the important moments. Even the crazy # of family shots and wedding party shots went quickly and smoothly with lots of laughs. I loved that from the get-go Anna had great advise to offer and shared lovely details about her own wedding and experiences. She took time to really try to understand the feelings/emotions we were looking for on the day and she captured it better than we could have imagined. She returned the photos in record time and even sent a perfectly timed sneak peak just a few days after the wedding! I cannot recommend her highly enough ❤️

d! She was actually the one WHO FOUND MY NEW VENUE! What normal photographer would do that??? We never did an engagement photo-shoot with Anna since we are from CT, but right away we felt so comfortable with her! Doing our first look, and all other photos, we felt as if we have been shooting with her for years! Our photos are also AMAZING!!! She captured every single moment so perfectly! I was worried at first about not having a photo booth, but it definitely wasn't needed! All of the crazy dancing and laughs that happened all night were captured perfectly by Anna! I couldn't have asked for a better photographer! I also can't thank her enough for helping me have the wedding of my dreams! =)

and so generous with her time. Not to mention her photos are incredible. My husband and I didn't want too many posed shots - we wanted a photographer we could trust to get in there and capture moments that we wouldn't remember as clearly without a camera. Anna "got us" and captured that so well. When we got a sneak peek the DAY AFTER our wedding, we were giddy. The woman is so fun - she chased people around all day; encouraged us to smile when we felt awkward; wrangled family members and the bridal party; and even danced with us (with camera, of course). I can't imagine anyone else being there with us on our day! Not to mention the travel involved, from SF to suburban Ohio - she's got an eye for a Midwest sunset! :)