4.9 out of 5 stars and 146 reviews Best of Weddings (10x).
4.9
(146)Seattle, Tacoma, Snohomish & Destination Weddings
About this vendor
My passion is telling your love story through images - these images will be a lasting reminder of this moment in time, celebrating your love story with your family and friends! Let's connect - contact me for a consultation! My packages include an engagement session which will allow us to get to each other better and ensure your wedding day is perfectly captured!
Details
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
- Trash The Dress
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Film Photography
- Photo
- Printed Enlargements
- Printed Proofs
- Second Shooter Available
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Awards and Affiliations
10-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2023.2022.2021.+7 more.
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4.9
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We are so thankful we found Rachelle as we loved working with her. We started with the Engagement Session and she gave us so many tips and what to wear prior so we were ready to go...
when we met. We even brought our dog and Rachelle had tips for our puppy too! She was very down to earth, guided us around and posed us but we got so many natural shots too. We loved them and she even designed us an Engagement Album that everyone could sign at the wedding.
We loved our wedding photos too! Rachelle was great with all of family and friends and captured everything and even more than we could have wished for. We bought gorgeous wall prints after the wedding so we can relive our day forever along with a gorgeous wedding album that Rachelle designed. We can't say enough about Rachelle! We loved her and can't wait for her to capture more photos for us when we grow our family!!
We hired Rachelle for our engagement shoot in April and could not be happier with the result. She was very easy to work with and accomodating to our needs. She was responsive, fl...
exible with scheduling, and helped us to choose a great location for our engagement shoot based on the type of scenery we were looking for. And the shots came out wonderfully! She made us feel at ease during the shoot and suggested some really cute poses that we ended up loving. We hung a few of those prints in our house and guests love them as well! We would definitely work with her again in the future!
We hired Rachelle as our wedding photographer in July and she did an amazing job! She was responsive, helpful, and flexible to last minute changes in what we wanted on the big day...
(a huge plus with all the wedding day nerves!) She was well organized and kept a checklist of all the different photos we wanted to get so that no shot was missed. The photos turned out organic and wonderful! The ceremony shots were beautiful too! She captured a great mix of us, the guests, the bridal party, and all the smiles and laughs during the big moments. And finally during the reception, she blended in seamlessly with the guests, getting some excellent candid shots and pictures we didn't even know were happening at the time. It was so neat to go through them after the fact and get to see everything else that was going on while we were talking to other people! We would definitely work with Rachelle again in the future!
Very personable and caring for detail. Her communication is amazing and definitely helps make you more comfortable. The engagement session allowed us to share our likes and dislike...
s before the big day and gain an understanding of each other and how to get the best all around photos.
We used her for our wedding photos and we had a large party with lots of kids. She did a great job at capturing our big moment.
Great ideas for pictures. Chose a great location. This was for engagement photos
If I could rate her 10 stars I would! She picked the most perfect venue for my fiances and I engagement photos and couldn't be happier with how they turned out.
I loved working with Rachelle. She truly knew how to make my day special and made sure I looked like a princess in ever shot. Rachelle is patient, but talented and knows how to mov...
e you around to get the perfect picture. I know who to book for future events! Thank you Rachelle! (:
Rachelle was a great photographer. She captured moments with only my brother and I while we got ready which I will cherish forever because he was my best man. My wife was extremely...
happy on her day and each new location was fun to pose for. Thank you Rachelle.
Rachelle is perfect to work with because she knows exactly how to take perfect pictures that capture intimate and happy moments as a newly wed couple! The reception we had our wedd...
ing actually recommended Rachelle and we are grateful they did because she knew the perfect spots at the venue to take gorgeous photos. Rachelle is not shy to tell you how to pose for a picture and has your best interests! I also appreciated the reassurance Rachelle gave me through the whole process, as of course I was nervous. I truly recommend Rachelle to be part of your big day !(:
I cannot recommend Rachelle to future brides enough! The level of professionalism paired with her easy going and fun personality made for an amazing shoot! I am thankful to have hi...
red her to capture such an amazing moment. At the time, our 13 year old lab was slowly going down hill health wise and she allowed us to do some shots with her as well and now that our girl has since passed we couldn't be happier to have be able to have those pictures to look back at ❤
Rachelle is the sweetest! We met her at our venue's open house and she has been the most patient and easy person to work with despite my hectic schedule! Our engagement photos turn...
ed out absolutely wonderful!
Rachelle is friendly, kind and professional! She took beautiful pictures which captured our daughters day just as we had hoped! We highly recommend her and her pricing is very reas...
onable.
We would definitely recommend Rachelle. She listened to what we wanted for our wedding pictures. She came with a plan and had a great eye for finding the perfect backgrounds. We al...
so loved that she made our wedding party and guests feel comfortable and they had fun with the pictures also. She helped make our day special!!
Rachelle was fabulous! She arrived early, was professional and made us and our wedding party feel comfortable. She also had a great eye for detail and captured our special day just...
as we had hoped! We would definitely recommend her for your big day!!
Rachelle did a fabulous job with our engagement photos. She was extremely flexible since we had to re-schedule so many times, due to COVID-19! She had a great eye with background...
selections and made us feel extremely comfortable throughout the entire process!
Rachelle did an amazing job with our engagement photoshoot. She was great at listening to what we wanted and selected great poses and settings that capture our family. Her recomme...
ndations of what to wear fit perfectly with our setting. She was very responsive to all our questions and emails. The pictures she chose for the collage she made was arranged in a beautiful compilation of our family. She is extremely easy to work with and was particularly good with our young daughter. We would recommend her for any photo occasion. So much so we have hired her for our wedding and reception.
I will qualify this as we did not have wedding photos done. However, I would have loved to have Rachelle do our wedding photos - if we just would have known each other in 1997 as ...
I am very impressed with the wedding photos in her gallery.
We had a great time doing our fall shoot at the Red Barn. I highly recommend Rachelle as not only is she the nicest person ever, she is also very professional and highly talented! Just check out a couple of the photos she took of my pack! And we are so fortunate to be doing a family group photo later this year when our gardens are in bloom.
Rachelle is Amazing ! I booked her days before the wedding and she was able to fit me in for a last minute engagement shoot! I wanted a urban feel for the engagement shoot so she s...
coped out the Sodo district in Seattle, arrived early and guided us through the photography process! She also emailed in advance some suggestions on what to wear!!! She was able to get our photos back in less than 2 days and even overnighted a collage so we had something to display on wedding day! She is super flexible and makes a stressful process seem easy! On wedding day we were running behind and she worked almost like a day of coordinator guiding us through the process to ensure we got all the pics we needed and wanted ! I highly recommend her !!!!
Thanks to Rachelle We were provided with some beautiful engagement photos as well as wonderful wedding photos. She was a dream to work with. She was pleasant and flexible with our ...
schedule and we are so grateful for all she did for us on our special day. Thank you and god bless.
We had worked with Rachelle once before for our engagement photos and were so happy with how they turned out, we hired her again for our wedding photos. At the last minute, our wed...
ding plans completely changed, and Rachelle was willing to adjust the timing, location, and the duration from our original plan. With everything already so stressful, this was a blessing. She listened to what was important to us and made sure to capture all the moments we wanted – and more. She was very professional and was a pleasure to have around our friends and family. Her photos came out amazing. We highly recommend Rachelle.
Rachelle was referred to us by a friend for our engagement photos and we are so happy we worked with her. We have not had many professional photos taken so it was great to have som...
eone with lots of experience help with location selection, poses, and wardrobe. We ordered all the digitals and had several large prints made for framing. We really enjoyed our experience working with Rachelle.
Rachelle has been wonderful every step of the way! We had a random hail storm that made us reschedule our engagement shoot, with COVID we had to reschedule our wedding, 2021 is boo...
king quickly, we changed our wedding venue and she has been flexible through all of this!
Rachelle is amazing! She has such a great personality and made my fiance who is shy and not outgoing comfortable. I love the engagement pictures, there's so many options and her pr...
ices and packages are a great value. We have minimal pictures of the 2 of us, I'm excited to finally put some up.
Rachelle took awesome engagement photos for us. We don’t have very many pictures together. Now the ones we have are so great I want to decorate the house with them. She was great a...
t instructing us what do and how to pose during the photo shoot. She also makes you feel comfortable working with her. She is very friendly and easy to talk to. She worked extra hard to get good photos of our dogs when we forgot the treats. I would recommend her to anyone for engagement photos. Now we get to work with her for our wedding and I couldn’t be happier!
Rachelle has been amazing to work with. We just got our engagement photos back and I love them. I’m so excited to be able to use them for all our invitations! She was awesome worki...
ng with my dogs and including them in the photos. Her prices are a great value for what she includes in her packages. She is also very flexible and allowed us to review the photos remotely so we wouldn’t have to drive so far. I’m very happy to have her as my photographer and can’t wait to work with her more for my wedding day!
Where do I begin? Working with Rachelle was an AMAZING experience! She is so professional and kind. She included an engagement session with our package and our pictures turned out ...
amazing!! She let us pick a place to take our photos that was special to us and was willing to travel wherever we wanted which made it that much more meaningful. She also made us a beautiful collage of our engagement pictures which turned out better than I ever could have imagined. On our wedding day she arrived on time and captured all of the wonderful moments of our beautiful day. She was responsive to email which, if your planning a wedding, you know is important for coordinating all of your vendors and making plans and it doesn’t always happen. Rachelle is amazing. I cannot say enough good things about her.
I cannot say enough wonderful things about working with Rachelle! She was a delight to work with day of--really making sure to help us stay on schedule and offering great photo opp...
ortunity suggestions. She was organized, professional, and really supportive for my few bridal moments (thanks Rachelle!). She got all the photos we wanted and more. When we got our photos back they were so great, I cried. . They are seriously so amazing and I am so thankful we went with Rachelle to document our big day.
Our experience with Rachelle has been great! We had our engagement photos taken at the Belleuve Botantical Garden on Rachelle's recommendations and the pictures turned out great. S...
he did a really good job at helping us to feel comfortable in front of the camera and was really easy to work with.
Engagement photo shoot was perfect! Rachelle was able to recommend a cool photo shoot option that reflected both my husband and I’s style. We did Franklin Falls in early spring. Sh...
e was such a trooper hiking out on a cool misty morning! Really went above and beyond! And of course, the photos were beautiful:)
Rachelle was great for our wedding! She was very professional, on time, and friendly to our guests. She has such a friendly bubbly personality and her sparkling personality just pu...
ts everyone around her in a happy mood! She did a great job of planning the timeline to make sure we would get all the important shots on the big day. She also both recommended, and asked for suggestions as to to who I’d like photos of/with. I felt very comfortable having her in the getting ready room with me and my wedding party. The photos themselves were great! Beautiful mix of black/white and colors. I have loved getting to frame them and scrapbook with them. My husband and I often re-look at them to re-live our day:)
Rachelle is sweet and professional. She gave us a complimentary engagement session when we bought the wedding package, so that she could be familiar with how we are in front of a c...
amera. The day that we had our engagement session was gloomy, very windy, and slightly drizzling. But Rachelle still spent about an hour and half walking around near the Woodmark hotel with us to photoshoot, and the photos came out beautiful. On our wedding day, she arrived on time with a smile, and she attended to all our needs as requested, which we really appreciated. Overall, it has been a pleasure working with Rachelle!
We were recommended to Rachelle by a peer-photographer of her at the Seattle Wedding Expo. Rachelle is such a fun and loving person, and she was generally fast-responsive and very ...
good at picking out nice backgrounds for both our engagement and wedding. She was very accommodating on our wedding day and attended to much of what we liked and needed. The photos come out very professional and very much captured our big day. It was a pleasant experience working with her.
Since day 1, working with Rachelle has been wonderful! She has been exactly what we needed in a photographer for our big day. She helped make the process so easy—her prompt respons...
es to my millions of questions, organization for both engagement photos and the big day, as well as her eye for the most wonderful photo ops really make her one of a kind. She also just really puts you at ease and does everything she can to make sure you are comfortable—this was much needed for my husband and I as neither of us are very comfortable in front of the camera. Our engagement photos were absolutely stunning, so I can’t even imagine how great the wedding photos will be! I have very much loved working with Rachelle, and would highly recommend her.
Rachelle was truly a pleasure to work with! She has such a fun and approachable personality. My husband and I are not very photogenic or comfortable in front of a camera but she ma...
de it so easy! She was able to capture both the "posey" photos as well as candid and creative angles for our engagement and wedding. As an added plus for us, she is incredible at working with our fur babies as well!
Rachelle is by far the best, most professional photographer that I have had the pleasure of working with. Her communication is top notch and she was extremely helpful in getting m...
y fiance and I ready for our engagement pictures. She inquired as to our likes and picked a location that fit the both of us perfectly. She welcomed us having our dog and captured the most beautiful pictures, so much so that we couldn't pick a favorite! Her reasonable pricing allowed us to purchase all of the pictures so we can have a snapshot of these memories for years to come. We reviewed our pictures within a few days of the photo shoot and she came to us so we could get photos lined up for our Save the Dates. As a photo shoot could be somewhat anxiety provoking, Rachelle's fun personality quickly put us at ease. We are looking forward seeing her talent capture our special day and are grateful to be customers for all of our future needs!
We could not be happier with the work Rachelle did for our Engagement photos! She is fantastic at making us feel comfortable and it felt like we've known her for years. Incredibly ...
easy to work with. That made all the difference to us and made the photo shoot enjoyable. We are very excited for her to be there for our big day!
Rachelle was amazing to work with! We did our engagement photoshoot at Volunteer Park in Seattle on a bright sunny day in March and it was a breeze. Rachelle made the entire proces...
s super easy for us. Plenty of pictures of us in beautiful locations, including shots of the architecture and wildlife. We can't wait to work with Rachelle again for the wedding!
My partner and I found Rachelle through searching the internet for photographers in the Seattle area. We could not have been more pleased with the location that she picked for us a...
nd how the photos came out! She is extremely professional and knows how to capture the perfect image of who she is shooting. Her work is so amazing and highly recommend her!
Rachelle has been so amazing to work with. We just did our engagement photos with her and they turned out great! She’s so easy going and made us feel comfortable and at ease from t...
he get go. I can’t wait to have her capture our wedding day and many other life events in the future. Finding a photographer was very daunting but I am so glad we picked Rachelle!
Rachelle was an absolute gem to work with! She was recommended to us by the Edgewater Hotel, our wedding venue. She was incredibly personable, and helped us through the entire we...
dding process. We had little SNAFU with a previous photographer, and when we met Rachelle, it was almost a godsend. We were very apprehensive about working with a photographer after this previous experience, but once we met with her, we were sold. She helped us feel confident moving forward, and we couldn’t have asked for more. Our pictures were amazing! We really wanted to highlight the reception of our special day, and Rachelle definitely delivered. Hands down, we would recommend Rachelle to anyone looking capture the magic of their special day. Thanks Rachelle for everything!
We just received our Engagement photos back that we did with Rachelle and could not be happier! She did a wonderful job at making us feel comfortable and was very professional. We ...
are very pleased and are excited for her to photograph our big day!
As a vendor working with Rachelle it is like having the best dream ever than waking up to breakfast in bed about to get a back massage- it’s relaxing, it’s easy and most of all, it...
’s enjoyable! As a wedding planner, Rachelle is a photographer you WANT to work with. She is accommodating, empathetic, sweet, patient and understands how to work a crowd for the millions of photos she snaps. She has one goal and that is to make the guest happy by capturing those unforgettable moments. Uncle Bob may not want to be caught sticking his finger in the cake but Rachelle will capture it and make it look cute. Rachelle’s professionalism and calm demeanor make her a unicorn in Washington! Finally, they exist and they are affordable! Her prices are extremely reasonable. What could be better than any of that? Nothing, that’s what.
We were 100% satisfied with Rachelle. She was very helpful from the day we booked her all the way through the day our pictures were delivered. She knew our venue well and set us up...
for some amazing pictures. And most importantly, her pictures came out fantastic. We have 100s of great photos to remember our big day. We would highly recommend using Rachelle for your wedding!
Rachelle was everything we could've asked for in a wedding photographer. She was very helpful in planning all the best picture opportunities for our big day and did a great job org...
anizing us and all of our wedding party the day of for pictures.
And, most importantly, the pictures she took were amazing. We have countless great pictures to remember our incredible wedding day.
We highly recommend Rachelle for your wedding!
I have been sitting on this review for too long because I have so many wonderful things to say about working with Rachelle and I'm not sure where to start!
I have never worked wit...
h a professional photographer before other than for school pictures which obviously forsnt count for anything, and I had no idea what my experience would be like, but I'm so glad that I was referred to Rachelle. She was always kind, courteous, professional, and fun! One of my favorite things about her when we first starting communicating was that she was always quick with returning emails and phone calls. I loved that! I'm sure she's a very busy lady, yet she always made me feel like a priority. It is very appreciated.
Our first time meeting her face-to-face was at the Chihuly Glass Gardens per her suggestion and I'm so glad she thought of it! It was a beautiful location and she was familiar with it. We were nervous at first, but with Rachelle's help, she made us feel a bit more at ease even with a bunch of people watching us pose and kiss all over the place. The photos came out amazing -- she made a beautiful collage with the photos that came out crisp and clear. I got it framed and look at it everyday. She somehow made me like pictures of myself! Each image was sinply amazing!
My favorite part was the guest signing book using the engagement photos. It's made in a collage style with varying blank spaces put in for guests to sign and write in, and the special binding allowed the pages to lay flat for easy writing. Everyone at the wedding commented about the book and how much they loved it and what a cool idea it was! So awesome!! I'm so glad we decided to do this because all my family wrote something truly special in it and we have that to treasure forever.
At the wedding, Rachelle was just as amazing as the day we got the engagement photos taken. She's familiar with the venue and knows all the best spots. Her kindness and patience made the day a lot better. We didn't have a whole lot of people there but it was still a bit messy getting everyone together, especially with 4 little kids there who wanted to run everywhere, and she just smiled the whole time. I can't thank her enough for that.
To speak a bit on her professionalism: we had a terrible officiant. I completely regret ever asking him to perform the ceremony. As we were signing the paperwork, Rachelle asked for us to pose while doing it so she could get a great shot of the moment, but the officiant cut her off and was extremely rude. Rachelle was kind and tried to explain what she was asking for and he continued to be rude and shut her down. I was appalled and felt terrible. I had no idea he would act like that. It was awful, but I thank Rachelle for always remaining professional, not arguing with him at all. It was an awkward, terrible situation that she handled amazingly while I was just stunned. I can't get over her kindness and sincerity.
As soon as the officiant left, everything else went smoothly. Anything I asked to get a picture of, she would without hesitation, and I'm sure she caught moments that I had missed entirely. I'm anxious to see the prints of the wedding, but I already know they're amazing since I saw her work with the engagement photos.
I cannot recommend Rachelle Erickson more. I love her spirit, kindness, ingenuity, and her eye for detail.
Thank you so very much, Rachelle! You are are beyond appreciated, and I cannot wait to work with you again!
I would recommend Rachelle a hundred times over, she is SO genuine and her work is incredible. Honestly there are so many wonderful things we can say about Rachelle! She did our en...
gagement photos on top of Crsytal Mountain and we had the best experience with her! From the very beginning she was so helpful, friendly and professional. Offering suggestions to get us ready for day of shooting and being prompt in letting us see the album! My fiance and I have never had professional photos taken but she helped guide us through and caught some of the most beautiful and raw moments between us. I used to work with Rachelle when I was in wedding planning and I fell in love with her work right away! She made us this gorgeous collage of our engagement photos and we ordered several other larger prints for around our home. Cant wait for the next photoshoot! Thanks Rachelle!!
Rachelle truly helped make our wedding day amazing. She is a talented photographer with a great eye. The photos look very natural and they captured the spirit of our wedding and w...
ho we are as a couple perfectly. Rachelle is also so sweet, personable and easy to work with. I had several guests tell me after the wedding how nice our photographer was. For her price point, you really get a lot from choosing Rachelle. She works so hard to give you beautiful photos and will help make your wedding day a breeze.
Rachelle was amazing! She was able to capture beautiful pictures of me and my fiance for our engagement photo shoot. She helped us find a location to take our pictures that fit us ...
as a couple, gave us an idea of what to wear, and even sent us a Pinterest board with different props and poses for us to keep in mind. If you are looking for a photographer that will focus on your needs and make you feel special she is the obvious choice! On top of her wonderful pictures and personality she also is very reasonably priced! I highly recommend and look forward to using her again in the future!
Rachelle is a wonderful photographer and person. She is so kind and really gets to know her clients. She has awesome ideas and pricing. I would recommend her for any occasion.
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