Storytelling photography is a passion and a personal experience. When you commission us to be your artist, you get us. We love relationships and finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. Beautiful Mess Photography documents weddings throughout the U.S. specializing in a story that will capture the true emotion and the beauty of real life. … Read more
5 recommendations
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Kirsten McKeown
I can't say enough good things about Bailey and Beautiful Mess Photography. Bailey has photographed the most important moments of our family as we've formed and grown over the years - our engagement, wedding, maternity portraits, newborn portraits, and family portraits. We've never considered hiring anyone else. We love working with Bailey and are always thrilled with the pictures she takes. Even now nine years later, my family still talks about how pleasant she was to work with at our wedding. She strikes the perfect balance between being a prepared, skilled professional while still being kind, personable, and just fun to be around. My young, squirmy children even look forward to photo shoots with her and ask when we will see her again.
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Brian Patneau
Bailey has done our family portraits for many years now. I can't say enough about what a great photographer she is. She is great with kids, and always makes her shoots a special experience.
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Kathleen Wiley
Bailey is an artist in every sense of the word. She brings so much to a photo session that is intangible and priceless. Her personal experience with children, (ease with clients in general) her professionalism/dedication to her craft, and her whimsical and captivating personality combine to allow the subject the optimal level of comfort and confidence in their photographer. My seven year old daughter opened up and Bailey captured pieces of Anne's personality on film few if any other photographers could dream of saving to film! Thank you so much, Bailey and Beautiful Mess Photography
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Rebecca Harness
I can’t even begin to express my gratitude to Bailey. So much so in fact that it has taken me over a month to write this review. Every time I’ve tried I just start tearing up. She is so much more than a photographer. Really someone that was as committed to making our special day perfect as we were. When you meet her that shows right away… she wanted to know everything about us, and what we wanted our wedding to be. She focused not just on me, but also my husband… to make sure she understood what he wanted as well.
Original recommendation
With Bailey you’re also getting a window in to what makes a great wedding great. If you need a recommendation, she probably knows the very best person to call. She recommended the wedding coordinator, florist, entertainment, makeup artist, and more. We hired everyone, and they were all wonderful choices. The people that surround her seem to be all positive, outgoing, and very professional people.
Every time I spoke to her or asked her a question, she was right there with a brilliant answer and a positive attitude.
I knew makeup for film is much different than what you’d do on a normal day. So, when I needed advice she not only sent me a referral but also sent me a long email with everything I needed to know and the questions I should ask the makeup artist. That’s the thing about her, time and again, she not only provide the “who” but also the why and the how. She seemed to be really committed to making sure I understood everything well.
She also repeatedly demonstrated how committed she was to us and our engagement/wedding. She showed up early to both our engagement photo session and our wedding to scout the location, and find the perfect spots for our photos. She spoke to the site coordinator well in advance to figure out everything she needed to know. She made everything brilliant.
…and brilliant it was. When I first saw the photos I teared up instantly. She just captured everything so well, and exactly the way we had talked about. I didn’t have, or want, a lot of staged photos. I wanted her to capture everything very impromptu…sort of “in the moment” so that we would never forget the day.
What she delivered wasn’t just our day captured in a series of still photos, but she also somehow managed to capture that raw, joyous emotion and I’ll be forever grateful to her. -
Becca Wolzenski
I can’t even begin to express my gratitude to Bailey. So much so in fact that it has taken me over a month to write this review. Every time I’ve tried I just start tearing up. She is so much more than a photographer. Really someone that was as committed to making our special day perfect as we were. When you meet her that shows right away… she wanted to know everything about us, and what we wanted our wedding to be. She focused not just on me, but also my husband… to make sure she understood what he wanted as well.
Original recommendation
With Bailey you’re also getting a window in to what makes a great wedding great. If you need a recommendation, she probably knows the very best person to call. She recommended the wedding coordinator, florist, entertainment, makeup artist, and more. We hired everyone, and they were all wonderful choices. The people that surround her seem to be all positive, outgoing, and very professional people.
Every time I spoke to her or asked her a question, she was right there with a brilliant answer and a positive attitude.
I knew makeup for film is much different than what you’d do on a normal day. So, when I needed advice she not only sent me a referral but also sent me a long email with everything I needed to know and the questions I should ask the makeup artist. That’s the thing about her, time and again, she not only provide the “who” but also the why and the how. She seemed to be really committed to making sure I understood everything well.
She also repeatedly demonstrated how committed she was to us and our engagement/wedding. She showed up early to both our engagement photo session and our wedding to scout the location, and find the perfect spots for our photos. She spoke to the site coordinator well in advance to figure out everything she needed to know. She made everything brilliant.
…and brilliant it was. When I first saw the photos I teared up instantly. She just captured everything so well, and exactly the way we had talked about. I didn’t have, or want, a lot of staged photos. I wanted her to capture everything very impromptu…sort of “in the moment” so that we would never forget the day.
What she delivered wasn’t just our day captured in a series of still photos, but she also somehow managed to capture that raw, joyous emotion and I’ll be forever grateful to her.