{"id":428942,"date":"2026-02-16T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428942\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:51:10","slug":"6-of-the-10-highest-rated-women-owned-small-businesses-are-photography-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428942\/","title":{"rendered":"6 of the 10 highest-rated women-owned small businesses are photography companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A study has shown that six of the ten highest-rated women-owned small businesses (SMBs) across the US are wedding photographers.<\/p>\n

The study<\/a>, carried out by fintech company OnDeck, analyzed the Yelp reviews of 12,789 SMBs owned by women in 431 of the largest American cities, highlighting that wedding photography<\/a> companies lead the way in customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n

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Getting a perfect 5-star Yelp rating as a wedding photographer is no mean feat considering the pressure to capture the ‘perfect moment’ (Image credit: Future)<\/p>\n

A Tale Ahead<\/a>, a Pacifica-based wedding photography business owned by couple Annie and David Zou, topped the survey with a stellar 100% five-star rating from 391 Yelp reviews.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to OnDeck, Annie said: \u201cAs a young woman, I had to learn to lead with clarity. I reminded myself to project an image of a confident, experienced photographer so that I could earn that level of trust in my clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hard work paid off for Annie and nowadays she\u2019s \u201ca lot more relaxed and casual\u201d as word-of-mouth and reviews do a lot of the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n

Other wedding photographers securing a top ten spot in OnDeck\u2019s survey included Virginia-based Genevieve Elaine<\/a> (second) and New Jersey-based Vitalia Kotik <\/a>(third).<\/p>\n

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It wasn\u2019t a clean sweep for wedding photography, though, as four of the top ten positions were snatched up by alternative women-owned SMBs.<\/p>\n

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Fourth place went to a florist in Austin, TX, a gym equipment installation company in Oakland, CA got seventh, a notarial practice in Belmont, CA came in eighth and a Springfield, OR wedding venue squeezed in at tenth \u2013 with all of the top ten boasting five-star ratings.<\/p>\n

OnDeck scoured Yelp for all women-owned SMBs in 431 US cities with at least a 4-star rating from 50 reviews.<\/p>\n

The fintech company then manually researched each SMB website to confirm that only small businesses had been included.<\/p>\n

OnDeck didn\u2019t define what it considers to be an SMB. However, the Small Business Administration, a US federal agency, defines them as companies with 500 employees or less.<\/p>\n

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Read our take on the best cameras for wedding photography<\/a> and the best lenses for wedding photography<\/a>, and my colleague Wendy\u2019s wedding photography crash course<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A study has shown that six of the ten highest-rated women-owned small businesses (SMBs) across the US are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-428942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}