Love Notes From Past Clients
"They're wonderfully funny and wholesome people, and they made both events more fun and helped everything to go smoothly."
Jason & Elly
The Mellases did such an amazing job photographing both our wedding and our engagement photo session! They're wonderfully funny and wholesome people, and they made both events more fun and helped everything to go smoothly. For our engagement photos, they helped us choose a beautiful location and took some great photos in spite of unexpectedly foggy and windy conditions (gotta love the Bay Area). Leading up to the wedding day, they helped us plan out our shot list and worked on our schedule with us, helping us to think of good photo opportunities around what we already had planned. They also are experienced with Orthodox Christian wedding services, so they knew all of the important moments to capture. They were professional, artistic, and a joy to work with.
"[T]hey are very good at putting you at ease while they pose you for beautiful and natural-looking shots."
Dan & Catie
John and Mary are highly professional, warm, friendly and easy to work with, and very skilled! We're so happy we hired them for our engagement shoot and wedding. We got hundreds of high-quality, artistic pictures of our wedding and reception, all in a timely manner. For the engagement shoot and wedding portraits, they are very good at putting you at ease while they pose you for beautiful and natural-looking shots. They are especially skilled at photographing Orthodox weddings, which most American photographers are not familiar with - back in the day, my parents had to go back and stage the most important part of their wedding afterwards, since their photographer missed it! No such worries with the Mellases. We highly recommend them! Thank you John and Mary!
"As an Orthodox Christian, John knew exactly how to navigate the parts of the service, and comfortably moved around the church."
Zach & Sophia
We were the first among our peers to get married. We jumped right into the wedding day and last minute asked John Mellas to be our wedding photographer. He was so easy to communicate with (he responded right away to all our messages and phone calls) and jumped right in with his characteristic smile and encouraging words on the wedding weekend. He was always right there when we needed him, and incredibly professional when organizing the wedding party, family, and friends for the formal photo sessions. As an Orthodox Christian, John knew exactly how to navigate the parts of the service, and comfortably moved around the church. Best of all, after all the excitement, John had our wedding photos ready for us so quickly, I remember it took him just a few weeks to process thousands of photos even while shooting other weddings. And the photos were amazing. He captured the moments with all the bright and crips clarity of a true professional. As I write this, I have a book of our wedding photos by John Mellas sitting right next to me. Glory to God.
"We not only highly recommend him but would recommend no one else."
Seraphim & Olenka
John was a joy not only to work with but to have at the wedding. His presence helped to make so many authentic smiles in the lovely pictures he took, which have allowed us to relive our wedding day through the big and little details captured so beautifully by Mr. Mellas. We not only highly recommend him but would recommend no one else.