Lori Makabe Photography

Lori is a beautiful and talented photographer. Not only do her wedding photos turn out marvelous, but she takes the best senior portraits. I’m really happy with the senior portraits she took of me. She’s really fun, has cool ideas, and makes you really comfortable in front of the camera. I give her a ¹¹⁄₁₀.

Lori and Rich are the best photographers! They are super friendly, very professional and super awesome!!! My husband and I couldn’t have found better photographers.
Lori is reasonable, easy and great to work with. They respond to email and calls fast.
Our wedding photo album is so beautiful. I can’t even put words how absolutely amazing how the pictures turned out! I had a perfect wedding and a perfect photographer! Thank you so much Lori!!! We are 101% satisfied!!! You get 6 stars out of 5!

When planning a wedding, there are so many decisions to be made, and making these decisions can be stressful. Luckily for us, choosing our photographer was not one of these stressful decisions.
Lori Makabe (along with her assistant Rich) photographed our wedding last April at Oak Farm Vineyards in Lodi, CA. When we first met with Lori, we immediately connected with her personality. She was clearly very fun AND professional. Looking through her photo albums and spending some time asking questions sealed the deal — we wanted to work with her!
We coordinated all the group pictures we wanted beforehand and gave the list to Lori. When the day came, she was very patient with us as it was often difficult to get together different groups of people for pictures. This was just one example of her flexibility and willingness to work with us to ensure all our needs were met.
To call Lori and Rich amazing photographers would be a vast understatement. They are picture-​taking machines (they stayed the ENTIRE DAY) with great attention to detail and an unmatched ability to capture authentic moments in beautiful clarity.
While we were very impressed with their stamina to stick out the entire wedding day taking pictures, the real test came when all the pictures were developed and ready for us. We were once again AMAZED at the quality. An example of this is the sunset pictures we took in front of the vineyard. We were wondering at the time if the images would capture the beauty of the moment. Sure enough, Lori and Rich nailed it — the mood, the coloring, it was all PERFECT!
If you are in the central valley and looking for a photographer for engagement, wedding, or any other professional pictures, we HIGHLY recommend Lori Makabe. You will NOT be disappointed!

Lori worked with Katherine on our Viaggio wedding and it was really nice to have 2 photographers on site. Katherine was able to shoot pics of the guys getting ready while Lori shot the girls. They spent almost 9 hours with us and were incredible. Lori has tons of energy and was always intent on getting the best shot. She took multiple pictures of each pose to be sure we liked it, and she was accommodating, flexible and prompt with email replies. Katherine was very professional too. The two of them worked well together. Lori was patient with the wedding party while still keeping things moving. The shots turned out great & we were both very happy with how it all turned out. Lori also knew the venue well so already knew great shots to suggest.
If you’re going to do sunset photos, I would talk with her about a time limit for them ahead of time because you’re taking away from time spent at your reception.

Lori is a fabulous photographer. She did my family portraits and my wedding at Viaggio winery. She is so patient and very accommodating. If you want professional photos for your big day, Lori is awesome! We also invested in her photobooks. She’s very creative. She is worth every penny spent.

Lori is not only the most awesome photographer but she has become a great friend. She shot my wedding 2 years ago and just did my maternity photos last week. I could not be more happy with the results! I am looking forward to her doing newborn shots next month. She is so easy to be around she makes it easy for you to relax and show your best to the camera. I plan to have Lori capture all the precious moments in my life and would reccommend her to everyone.

Words cannot describe how awesome Lori and Katherine with Lori Makabe photography are! My husband and I just recently got married on June 18^th where Lori and Katherine shot our wedding. Not only were they extremely professional, they were FUN and an absolute pleasure to work with. It is refreshing to see 2 hard working people who truly love their jobs and our amazing at what they do. They made my husband and I (including our families and wedding party) so comfortable and not to mention were always open to new ides that we had. They received NOTHING but positive feedback from friends and family; awesome! We cannot wait to see our photos!!! I would recommend Lori Makabe to ANYONE!!! Great job, Lori and Katherine! You guys rock!!!

I can’t even put into words how absolutely amazing Lori is! She photographed our wedding this summer and I was completely thrilled with her work! On our wedding day she when above and beyond what I would have expected from a photographer, arriving early and staying until the very end. She was highly professional and fun and easy to work with, with a great eye for detail. My husband and I are not very comfortable in front of a camera and she made it so fun and creative and got so many fabulous shots. She was super on top of things, answered emails and phone calls promptly and had our wedding pictures posted by the time we returned from our honeymoon! Future brides (or anyone else looking for a photographer) look no further!

OMG! I can’t even begin to express how AWESOME Lori Makabe is!!! My hubby and I are incredibly picky about photos because we both dabble in photography a bit ourselves, so we did quite a bit of shopping for photographers until we came upon Lori at the Suisun City Bridal Show. Her style of photos were exactly what we had been looking for, the package options were super reasonably priced, and included so much! What really solidified the decision for us though was her super down to earth personality!!! Lori was so incredibly flexible and open to our ideas… particularly around our engagement shoot as we opted for the non-​traditional route. On the day of the wedding, she and her assistant Katherine, were great with our guests and really did a PERFECT job of capturing really key moments and details of the day. They blended in so well with our guests and really created a fun atmosphere to capture some amazing memories. When it was all said and done… it was an incredibly difficult task to narrow down the photos that we wanted for our album because there were HUNDREDS of GORGEOUS ones to choose from! All in all, I could not be happier with our choice… FABULOUS PHOTOS, FABULOUS HUMAN BEING!!! THANK YOU LORI!

Lori is the most amazing photographer ever! She did our engagement and wedding photos. She had such an amazing sense of style and she is very enthusiastic about your ideas. We had some very unique ideas for our engagement session and she was totally into them and helped us expand them. She spent plenty of time with us and we had a great time with her.
On our wedding day, she went over what we would have ever expected from a photographer. And her work was amazing. We plan on using her for our photography when we decide to have babies and we do pregnancy shots.
I want to tell all our friends that eventually get married that she is the photographer to go with. We emailed to tell her, and we will express the thought here too, besides deciding to get married to each other, choosing Lori Makabe as our wedding photographer was our best decision in the whole wedding process.