Enchanted Portraiture

Curtis is amazing. He shot 2 weddings for us here in California, and we were beyond happy. So much so, that when my other daughter got married in Omaha, we flew him out to shoot that wedding, too. He is professional, kind, personable, and captures shots that make you feel the emotions all over again. I can’t say enough about Curtis. He is the very best. Colleen

Curtis is the most professional, talented, and fun photographer my wife and I have ever worked with! Our wedding was made perfect by the quality of the photos and the organization of Curtis and his company. Curtis knew exactly what needed to be done and we didn’t have to give him any sort of direction. Weddings can be stressful but Curtis didn’t add to the stress at all, if anything he eliminated it with his fun, positive and professional personality. And there really are no words to describe just how beautiful the photos turned out. Weddings, engagement photos, family portraits, whatever the occasion may be, I would recommend this company over anyone.

This is months overdue but Curtis is wonderful! He shot our engagement photos and wedding photos back in March and I am so grateful he was there. Curtis is very easy to work with and had wonderful patients working with some staff from our venue that were not the easiest to work with. Curtis was a true professional and made our limited time work. Our photos were gorgeous! Now the trouble is narrowing down all the wonderful shots into one photobook! thank you Curtis!

Enchanted Portraiture (Curtis) did an amazing job for our wedding (Martha and I) at the mission inn. Very professional, very likable, takes control, well prepared, even had a safety pin on hand to fix the button on my jacket– HE IS THE BEST!!! Gave us the photos that same night on a disc. If it’s an event that matters, call Curtis. You will not be disappointed. Stand up guy and the best photographer I’ve ever met.

Curtis was amazing! He captured every moment of our wedding day! The pictures are absolutely beautiful! He was quick, professional, and a super nice guy. He provided the slideshow of pictures at our wedding for our guests to see, and not only gave my husband and I, and our parents a copy but my nana also who was visiting from Scotland, so she could show her friends back home! His timing was perfect and we never seemed rushed, long story short, I highly recommend Curtis and enchanted portraiture to be your go to photographer for every occasion, especially your wedding! Our pictures will last a life time and I’m so happy with them!

Curtis is wonderful, easy to work with, and knows his game! How he was able to take our entire set of bridal party photos in 30 minutes was amazing, and the quality was amazing! He’s fun to shoot photos with, and he is professional as ever. He knows Padua Hills forwards and backwards with his eyes closed. His work is 10 out of 10, and our entire set of wedding photos were edited and ready for pickup 11 days after our wedding. Even better, the night of our wedding, he provided us a slideshow of everything that happened up to and right after the ceremony. And, our slideshow was published on YouTube the next day. Nobody would ever do that like he did and he really cares about his clients and his work.

If you are looking for a professional, hardworking photographer look no further. Curtis is among the best in the industry, my wife and I hired him as our photographer for our wedding at the Padua Hills Theatre. We were so glad that we did because his work was amazing. The pictures he took captured every moment of our special day in stunning detail. His fun personality made him a joy to work with. He was very professional, courteous, patient, and is extremely skilled at setting us up for the shots. He was also very quick to respond to any questions we had through email. I am impressed by the fact that he was able to manage the 220 people we had in attendance at our wedding (some of our guest didn’t even speak English); despite this he was able to manage the crowd and get us some spectacular shots. Towards the end of the night he already had a slide show up on his laptop displaying some of his completed work. Just about all of our guests commented how amazing his pictures turned out and how polite our photographer was to work with.

No need to look any further — Enchanted Portraiture will blow you away. We used Curtis and Andrija 20 years ago for my family’s Bar and Bat Mitzvahs; we loved the photos and the personalities of Curtis and Andrija so much that when it came time for our 230-​person southern California wedding, the family was thrilled to use them again. Andrija was the photographer for my wedding and her eye, talent, technical proficiency, and energetic and adventurous personality made the day beyond words. The photos are unlike anything we have ever seen before — and the turn-​around to receive the photos was so fast! She is so fun to be around, and the photos we have are amazing. I had people coming up to me non-​stop telling me how much they loved Andrija and her assistants. Use Enchanted Portraiture for any event — like us you will be thrilled when you work with them and when you see your photos.

Point blank, Curtis from this company is GREAT! When I was planning my wedding, I went to a venue where you had to use pre-​approved vendors of the venues list. Enchanted Portraiture was one of those pre-​approved vendors. I was not happy about being forced to choose between a few people and not having the option to go and look for my own photographer.
Well that silly rule actually worked out for me this time. I can’t say it did with the cake I ordered, but that’s a different review. Curtis was our photographer and not only did we love his work, our guest loved him as well. He is fast, he knows what he is doing, he is friendly and cares about his work.
He went the extra mile to make sure we were happy and didn’t talk down to us at any time. I can truly say if I need to hire a photographer, Curtis is going to be my go to guy in the future and I highly recommend him. I can’t speak for the other photographers, but if they are even half as friendly, and professional as Curtis then you will still be in good shape.

Andrija was AMAZING!!! I’m so happy we got her! I don’t know why there aren’t more reviews about her on here because she does lots of weddings like Curtis. Anyways her service was as best as can be! She set up an appointment to get to know us and knew right away what kind of pictures she was going to take. She learned my husband was more into lighting and I was more into small detail– I didn’t even realize that! We had a location to take pictures but because of the lighting my husband wanted, she did her research and found a perfect place for us! The pictures came out amazingly beautiful!!! She sent us a sneak peak of our pictures through email during our honeymoon and I cried because they’re everything I wanted! She was so professional and ready for anything on the day of the wedding. SHE LOVES TAKING PICTURES! She said, «Your mom is crazy in love about pictures! I love it!!!» Haha Not once did I see her just hanging out and I had her since 9AM-​11PM! She took about 2,000 pictures! There were many things that went wrong on our wedding day but she captured the day as if it was perfect. I have no regrets on celebrating the way we did because I have the best wedding pictures I’ve always dreamed of!!! We also worked with Curtis and WOW he’s work is fantastic! They both take amazing pictures but add their touch. I think Andrija puts more of the romantic touch and Curtis puts more of the fun touch. You can’t go wrong with Andrija or Curtis!!! We defiantly had both of best worlds! THANK YOU ANDRIJA and Curtis!!!

Curtis is an exceptional photographer and a very nice guy. He was very professional and patient with us throughout our wedding and engagement photos and left us with an exceptional packet of wonderful photographs. His style and execution are top notch. One of the best things for me was how easy going and kind he was; it was a big relief while enduring the stressful schedule of our wedding day. I wish him all the best and encourage others to use him as your photographer for important events. You will not be disappointed.

If I could give Curtis a 6^th Star I would ask for a 7^th; from the minute we met him we knew he was the one for us. Not simply because he made us super comfortable but he treated us like family. Seriously he invited us over to his house we met his wife and his kids! When it came time to go to work it was more like fun time; we never felt rushed he worked with all my crazy idea’s plus more importantly made my Wife happier than a fat kid in a candy store… a married man at a strip joint… er I’m gonna get in trouble here aren’t I??! My entire family and guests loved his work, he set up his laptop in the reception area with a quick slideshow of the pictures. People who attended our wedding have asked me for his info and really commented on how well he was able to work with what limited time we had to take pictures between the wedding and reception, incorporating all our wants even my crazy superman obsession. Curtis you are the best, we thank you so very much, it was truly magical to have you with us on that special day.

Curtis did an awesome job for my new bride and I at The Mission Inn in Riverside. I didn’t get to see his work beforehand, but was absolutely flabbergasted at the DVD he had already put together before the reception was even over. My wife wanted some late-​evening shots and Curtis was happy to oblige, even letting her set up a shot she wanted in author’s row with the parapets lined up. Once he saw how it turned out, he said he’d never thought of shooting from that angle and wouldn’t hesitate to suggest it for future events there.
Due to the small group of guests and family, he also was able to take pictures of whole families at our request (minus the wedding party), given that it’s extremely rare that any of us get together in the first place.
I think we only had about 2−3% out of the hundreds of pictures that were unusable (blurry, mistimed, etc.) which was great. We asked for everything and we got it.
Soapbox: I will tell you that, even though it’s not Curtis’ fault, looking back through the other pictures of weddings at Mission Inn, there’s not a whole lot of variety due to only so many places to take pictures. Of course, being a man, I noticed this right off. So, ladies, save yourself the trouble of not looking through the other wedding pictures and thinking it’s not going to be special and JUST CONCENTRATE ON YOUR OWN HAPPINESS — starting with hiring Enchanted Portraiture to take your pictures. You’ll be happy with them just as everyone else seems to be!

For my wedding I spoke with a LOT of photographers. A LOT (I can’t emphasize that enough), but from the moment I spoke with Curtis I knew he would be the one to do our wedding. He is super professional and he was willing to answer any questions I had throughout the planning process. I was a bit of an anxious bride since I was getting married in CA, but living and planning my wedding in VA, and I only made it out to CA once in the middle of the planning to meet with him, but he was super accessible through both email and phone from the day we first spoke until the wedding. For the wedding, he arrived very promptly and started taking pictures of the pre-​wedding stuff, and he knows how to capture those precious and candid moments. He caught priceless photos of my family and I, my husband and I seeing each other for the first time that day, the emotions shared between friends, family, etc. From the moment he arrived on the wedding day to the moment he left later that night when things were winding down at the reception, people kept remarking on how he was zipping around and taking tons of pictures and how impressed they were with everything he was doing, especially the slide show he set up at the reception for people to see. All in all, we wound up with 1600 pictures at the end of the night, which he was able to move to an external hard drive for us before he left.
Overall, Curtis was amazing. He kept my wedding stress free because I knew I could trust him to photographically document one of the most important days of my life. I loved his work so much that I am even considering taking my dress back to CA to shoot a «trash the dress» thing with him. I highly recommend him for all of his work and for shooting the precious pictures that I will be able to reflect on for the rest of my life.

Curtis took the pictures for our wedding and they were absolutely breathtaking. Our wedding was at the Mission Inn in Riverside and he knew that place so well… He knew exactly where to place us to make the pictures look incredible. Everyone who has seen the pictures was absolutely stunned. He made our day so incredibly special and he also took our engagement pictures which were beautiful. We are so happy to have such beautiful memories to look back on from that day.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. but that wasn’t the case with these guys. The photos that they took literally made my wife and I speechless.
We used Enchanted Portraiture to photograph our wedding at Padua Hills Theatre, and they went above my expectations and did an outstanding job. I can’t even begin to say how grateful I am. The entire process went very smoothly for us, which was a big worry since we were planning our wedding from over 300 miles away. They kept in good communication with us, and were very responsive to our ideas and suggestions.
I highly recommend these guys for any event. Very professional and geniunely nice people that were fun to be around.
Note, that you’ll need to call to schedule an appointment to meet with them. No walk-​ins.