Skip to main content
Weddings

Lauren Dieckhaus Photography Reviews

Lauren Dieckhaus Photography

Lauren Dieckhaus Photography

Alexandria, VA
4.7 out of 5 rating, 15 Reviews
View more information

Reviews

4.7 out of 5 rating
4.7 out of 5 rating
15 Reviews
94% recommend it
  • Quality of service
    4.7 out of 5 rating
  • Average response time
    4.6 out of 5 rating
  • Professionalism
    4.7 out of 5 rating
  • Value
    4.7 out of 5 rating
  • Flexibility
    4.7 out of 5 rating

Awards

15
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2020 Winner
  • Ro Family
    Ro Family Sent on 11/05/2023
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Worth every penny!

    In our top 3 decisions for our wedding! Lauren was very organized yet flexible for last minute changes to our shot preferences. Trust her recommendations! Some of our best photos were a result of trusting Lauren and her process!
  • Tyler
    Tyler H. Sent on 11/26/2023
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    We LOVED working with Lauren!

    What we loved most about Lauren was her remarkable ability to not only capture images but to encapsulate emotions. Every photograph felt like a chapter in our love story, beautifully told through her lens. Lauren's genuine and calming presence made every moment she captured feel natural and unforced. She wasn't just a photographer; she became an integral part of our day, seamlessly blending in while ensuring that every nuance, every smile, and every tear was preserved with an artist's touch. Her dedication to understanding our vision and her passion for creating something truly unique set her apart. The end result was a collection of memories that exceeded our expectations – a visual narrative of our love, expertly crafted by a true artist. Choosing Lauren was not just choosing a photographer; it was selecting someone to artistically narrate one of the most significant chapters of our lives.
  • Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Sent on 09/21/2022
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Above and beyond!

    Lauren really goes above and beyond! Whether it was scoping out off-site locations for our first look, or getting on the ground to scrub sand out of my wedding dress, she really took care of us. Her photos are fresh, romantic, and timeless. Several of my guests commented that Lauren was the most subtle wedding photographer they'd seen, never getting in the way of the events. I'm so thrilled we hired her, and would do it again!
  • illustration stars

    Are you interested?

    Send a message
  • Margaret
    Margaret C. Sent on 07/19/2022
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Stunning photos & like working with a friend

    My husband and I worked with Lauren for Cherry blossom portraits this spring and then at our wedding a few months ago. Lauren is not only an outstanding photographer but is also a truly warm and generous person- the kind of person you want with you on your wedding day.

    For our engagement photos, Lauren spent a full morning with us so that we could get in sunrise Cherry blossom shots and photos inside the National Gallery of Art (a favorite DC spot of ours). She dedicated far more time and effort on this than just a hourlong portrait session, which had been my baseline expectation for an engagement shoot.

    We appreciated Lauren’s thorough questionnaire and series of check-in calls in the weeks leading up to the wedding, which helped us understand our own photo priorities a bit better and made us feel like we were in very good hands leading up to the day.

    Lauren was a joy to have with us on the wedding day. She kept us on time while at the same time making sure we were at ease and not rushed. She captured a perfect mix of candid shots of the party, our guests, little details we could have otherwise missed, and of course the stunning family, wedding party, and couples shots. She did a fantastic job of making sure all corners of our gorgeous venue were utilized and captured, and the way she framed the more posed shots is stunning.

    We are so thrilled to have found Lauren, and can’t wait to work with her again for future milestones!
  • Anne
    Anne D. Sent on 01/07/2022
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Absolutely the best decision we made! truly incredible photography!

    It’s almost impossible to capture in words what Lauren did for us on our wedding day but she truly captured magic. If I could give her more than 5 stars i would. Every special moment, all the little things, from the small but significant details, to my grandfather‘s conversations with my grandmother, to every reaction to the special moments— every little moment is captured forever in it’s most honest and true form and the results are unreal. Truly the best gift I could ever imagine. Hiring Lauren was the single best decision I made in my wedding planning process. The value, the artistic talent , and the service for your cost of doing business with her are unparalleled, I would pay 10x over for the work that she did for us. Her eye, her vision, and just her general demeanor were incredible— we absolutely LOVED working with Lauren and the compliments on our photos have been overwhelming. I can’t wait for Lauren to capture my families memories forever!
  • Kathleen
    Kathleen J. Sent on 07/02/2020
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    10/10 would recommend to everybody!

    If I could give Lauren more than 5 stars, I would! My husband and I chose May 1st as our wedding date, but as corona virus came and the stay-at-home orders were put into place, we were contemplating postponing our wedding. Our original photographer had canceled on us a month before our wedding, and we were struggling to find someone who was talented and available. By the grace of God, we were referred to Lauren we were able to book her less than a month before our wedding!

    A couple weeks before my wedding day, Lauren stopped by to drop off a box for us. Inside of it was her own bridal magazine with helpful information, a sweet letter congratulating us, and a custom watercolor she had made for us, with a frame. It was such a kind gesture for her to drop this box of goodies for us, considering that she lives about 45 minutes from us. While she was in my neighborhood, she went exploring around to find somewhere with good lighting for where we could have the ceremony. Because she is an expert, she quickly found a beautiful field with nice trees as a backdrop. Thanks to her, we were able to have a gorgeous ceremony with great pictures.

    While my elopement package was only about 3 hours total, Lauren took over 700 pictures during that time! She was so detail oriented and made all my homemade decorations look fancy. She delivered the entire package of edited photos exactly 1 week after we got married. Once we received them, it was so hard to chose our favorites. Lauren is SO talented, and is worth every penny. I could not have been more pleased with her as a person and her outstanding work. She made my day memorable and I am so happy to show my future kids our beautiful wedding pictures, all thanks to Lauren. Thank you so much!
  • Meghan
    Meghan H. Sent on 12/30/2019
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    The Absolute Best

    Lauren is absolutely the best photographer we could have found. She is so talented and knowledgable. She coached us very kindly in our engagement pictures and wedding photos to get perfect shots. Her style is beautiful and we continue to get compliments on our engagement and wedding photos. We could not thank her enough!
  • J
    Jocelyn Sent on 08/03/2019
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Talented photographer!

    Lauren is amazing! She is super fun to work with and helps you relax for the camera. She also really knows what she is doing and takes awesome pictures. The photos turned out so good that everyone has been asking me who took them. We could not have been happier with our experience.
  • Jennifer
    Jennifer Sent on 11/08/2019
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    The best vendor you will ever hire!

    THANK YOU LAUREN! I don’t even know where to begin when describing how amazing and great Lauren and her services are. From start to finish, Lauren was sweet, informative, flexible and professional. Her packages are very straight forward, and her amazing photos speak for themselves. I felt like I had known her for years when we met up for our included engagement shoot, which made wedding day even better because I felt like another friend was there. She made my husband and I feel like models, and her turnaround time is insanely fast! I’ve lost count of the compliments I have received on the quality of her photos, and I would HIGHLY recommend her as the photographer for your wedding, engagement/baby announcement, or literally anything you need a photographer for!
  • L
    Lucy B. Sent on 08/11/2019
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Great Photos!

    We loved working with Lauren and loved the pictures even more! She did an amazing job and was easy to work with and friendly. I loved that she gave us pictures in color and black and white!
  • Patty
    Patty Sent on 08/04/2019
    5 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Lauren made our day so relaxing!

    I hired Lauren to photograph my daughter's bridal shower that I hosted in Northern Virginia. I found Lauren on Instagram and immediately knew that I loved her style. Lucky for me, she was available, and once we connected on the phone, I felt even more confident about hiring her. Not only is she a talented photographer but also pleasant and polite, the kind of person you want around on your wedding day or other special events. She photographed all the details of the day and took pictures of all the guests during the cocktail hour. My daughters and I were able to relax and enjoy the day while Lauren took what turned out the be the most beautiful photos. I would hire Lauren again and can highly recommend her to others.
  • Ashley
    Ashley M. Sent on 11/05/2022
    4.8 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      4.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Amazing Photographer

    We hired Lauren at the beginning of 2021 for our Oct 2022 wedding. Throughout this whole process she has been more than helpful. I 100% recommend her to anyone that is planning a wedding. I just love how personable she is and not a cookie cutter photographer. She is willing to go the extra mile for you and your photos. At our wedding, orange juice was spilt all over my dress and she was researching how to get that out as soon as it happened. Luckily it came out. I am so glad we hired Lauren as our wedding photographer because she made this whole experience fun and exciting. Her photos are clean, timeless and romantic. I can’t recommend her enough and I would do it again.
  • L
    Lara M. Sent on 07/24/2022
    4.8 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      4.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Fantastic Wedding Photographer!

    Lauren is a wonderful person and has excellent skills and lots of experience with wedding photography. Lauren and I got along so well during our phone interview, and had fun on our shoots, starting with the engagement shoot included in our package, and during our wedding day formals etc - she did an amazing job at the wedding capturing moments as they happened as well. She was very busy managing rescheduled weddings from 2020, but was always 100% present with us in the moment and was easy to work with. She was very professional and it was obvious she knew what she was doing - we had forgotten to include a few extended family members in a formal shot list, and she pivoted real-time like a pro, without letting on that we had forgotten these people! I highly recommend Lauren if you are searching for a professional, excellent photographer who has an "editorial" style and is a down-to-earth, lovely person. Thank you, Lauren, for capturing our day!
  • Alyssa
    Alyssa H. Sent on 05/04/2022
    4.8 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      4.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      5.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      5.0 out of 5 rating

    Highly recommend Lauren!

    Lauren did a wonderful job on our engagement photos, welcome party, and wedding! We very much enjoyed working with her. She was responsive and incorporated all our requests. We are grateful to her for capturing such quality images that we will cherish forever.
  • A
    Amber Sent on 06/15/2022
    1 out of 5 rating
    • Quality of service
      1.0 out of 5 rating
    • Average response time
      1.0 out of 5 rating
    • Professionalism
      1.0 out of 5 rating
    • Value
      1.0 out of 5 rating
    • Flexibility
      1.0 out of 5 rating

    Extremely unprofessional and unreliable

    I am writing this review to try to help prevent someone else from going through what I went through after hiring Lauren as my wedding photographer-- scrambling for a new photographer 3 months before the wedding and then being harassed by the photographer that you had to fire for weeks after cancelling the contract.

    As soon as Lauren received the deposit she became extremely unreliable, unresponsive and unprofessional. So much so that after the engagement session, I had to make the very difficult decision of parting ways with her and finding another photographer. I only say difficult decision because it added extra challenges to the wedding planning process. It was 10000% clear that I no longer wanted to work with Lauren. She was so unreliable that my fiance and I were concerned that she would not show up to the wedding or we would not be able to get in touch with her before the wedding. We discussed this on multiple occasions and were even considering having a list of photographers to call the week before the wedding in case we couldn't get in touch with her.

    After cancelling our first scheduled engagement session because "something came up", Lauren promised the full engagement album on a specific date (in writing) and then blew by that date by almost a week, ignored my emails for 10 days and left a text unread for 2 days. When she finally responded she said she'd have the album by the end of that day (which she did not), never acknowledged that she missed the deadline and never apologized.

    After this experience with the engagement session I knew I could not handle the stress of worrying about her not showing up to the wedding or responding to my emails so I called her and explained all of this to her. Note that she was only under contract for 3 weeks and admitted verbally that she did not turn down any business during that time for our wedding date.

    Lauren's own contract states that she will respond to clients within 5 days. She did not respond to me for 10 full days. Her contract also states that her office hours are Tues-Thurs 10-6 so Lauren has tirelessly defended ignoring me for 10 days during a time of which photos were due. It should be noted that Lauren truly believes that ignoring clients when she promised them photos a week ago for 10 full days is completely acceptable.

    As Lauren's contract says she will respond within 5 days (does not specify business days) and she ignored me for 10 days, I cancelled the contract per her agreement and suggested that we pay her for the engagement session and she she would refund the difference of the non refundable deposit. Lauren refused to do so. She believed that she was in the right ignoring me for 10 days and blowing past her promise of photos by 6 days. She believed that she deserved to keep our $1,749 deposit that she did not earn. All she could say was that the deposit was non refundable. She had zero interest in making things right or the fact that she did not earn that money.

    I cancelled the agreement per the exact specifications in Lauren's contract -- I emailed her in writing and she acknowledged receipt and cancellation, making the agreement completely cancelled at that time. However, Lauren decided she wanted me to sign another document after that and has been harassing me ever since, threatening to "tell her lawyer" and going as far as to send me another bill for a contract that has been undeniably cancelled. The harassment has been absurd. Save yourself the trouble and find another photographer.

    I am also happy to provide any further details to anyone that would like them before making a decision. There are so many better photographers that are so much more professional and reliable.