All,

First of all, we HIGHLY RECOMMEND Claudia to anybody thinking about doing a destination wedding. Best decision ever!!!

Second of all, we strongly recommend a destination wedding. Our family and friends live across Canada, in USA and Hong Kong, so a destination wedding was ideal for our unique situation. We were apprehensive about the language barriers that our French and Chinese family and English friends may experience. It turns out that a 5 star Palace, a gorgeous beach, and margaritas were the perfect solutions! We had a blast, so as our friends and family! Do it, you won't regret it!

Two weeks prior, she advised us that we may run out of daylight with our wedding at 4pm, so we moved it a 3pm, and the timing with the sunset was perfect. Thanks again Claudia!

We met Claudia the day before the wedding and we loved to be able to meet her after all the e-mails we exchanged! She put us at ease and were able to discuss our schedule together. We picked the 3 hours package to have ceremony shots and couple portraits. She advised us that after the wedding, we will be taking group pics and pics with our parents, brother and sisters only, if we wanted to catch the sunset for our couple portraits. I told her I would like pictures standing on the rocks, sitting in a hammock, and with the veil flowing in the wind, as well as using the fish lens a lot. She respected these choices, did way way more very artistic shots! Superb!

We receive our pictures 6 weeks later, which I think is very quick due to the amount of work that has been done in each of them. We still can't believe how gorgeous they are! We love the candid shots during the ceremony, and the artistic couple portrait. Claudia was able to capture all the emotions that everybody had during the ceremony from tears, to stress, to laugh out loud. I love the black & white pic of the 3 girls laughing at the wedding.  I didn't know my father cried until i saw the picture Claudia took... During the ceremony, her brother and her were able to capture many angles, effects, without never be obstructive.  After the ceremony, she was very professional at giving us a moment for our guests to congratulate us before taking over to photograph a 38 people group. We didn't see the time go by, and all the aunts wanted to be photographed with us, instead we took picture at the supper as Claudia suggested to maximize the time with her on the beach. The fish lens pictures turned out beautiful. The pictures in the hammock, with the rocks, and with the veil are exactly what I wanted. I think my favorite pic right now is the sunset one, we are standing on the rock, and the water is reflecting on the pound of water, and the sky is purple and gray. WOW! It looks surreal like coming out from a fairy world! 

I looked a LOT on line at wedding pictures. First I wanted to go with the hotel photographer from the Barcelo, but the bride and groom looked uncomfortable doing cheesy pics, shadow in the face, and we could barely see them sometimes as they were so far away in the background or lighting was brutal. He charged the same price than Claudia, but has the exclusivity contract. So we had to give him 300$ because we were going with an outside photographer. Best 300$ spend ever! It's a good deal for the Barcelo photographer, as he does not need to be good to make money!
 
Our friends have been extremely amazed by our pictures. The comments we had was it was the most beautiful wedding pictures they have ever seen! How much fun the wedding ceremony looked! How beautiful the color of the sky and the ocean is! How much in love we look! How artistic the pictures are! All these things were exactly what we were looking for!
 

The older couples are even saying they now want to renew their vow in Mexico because it was so beautiful and fun it looks! The younger couples are winking at each other thinking they should do the same.

We can't express enough how much we appreciated her exceptional photographer talent, attention to our requests, and professionalism. We were expecting wedding pictures, we received work of art that could be in any bridal magazine. We thanked her so much to have made our big day so unique.

Please don't hesitate to ask me questions regarding Destination Wedding or Claudia.
 
Marie-Michele