First Coast Pros

Full wedding (ceremony and reception) pricing

Prices start at $895

Elopement pricing

Prices start at $300

Packages

Prices start at $1,195

About First Coast Pros

John Fountain

Owner

Well over 20 years and 750 + weddings later and still a passion for perfection with fair pricing. Award winning, featured in top rated wedding sites, and main search engines. Covering the SE US and abroad. The Google reviews say it all.

I'm in it for the passion and not the money. I actually care about each and every frame. At many weddings I'll have a guest or two pull me aside and tell me they've been to numerous weddings and have never seen a photographer hustle like I do. I'm very experienced but will make everyone feel relaxed and comfortable on wedding day.

Services

Services

  • Bride-only session
  • Engagement session
  • Extra hours
  • Image editing
  • Online proofing
  • Printing rights
  • Same-day edits
  • Second photographer

Photo formats

  • Digital

Deliverables

  • Digital files
  • Digital rights
  • Online gallery
  • Same/next-day sneak-peek images
  • Slideshow
  • Video

First Coast Pros packages

Gold Package

6 hours

Peak pricing $1,295-1,695

Off-peak pricing $1,195-1,295

Description

Up to 6 hours of professional classic yet creative photography. At least 800 fully edited images. Discounted video options.

What’s included
  • Web gallery, SD card, Copyright Release.

Reviews

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2 reviews

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  • Brides beware

    •Verified review
    •Rachel C.•Jan 18, 2026

    John Fountain photographed our wedding and had a deeply negative impact on the night for ourselves and many of our guests. We are writing this review to warn other couples about his lack of professionalism and inappropriate behavior with female guests. First, early in the night, he entered the bridal suite (where the bride and bridesmaids were getting dressed, putting on makeup, etc.) to take pictures of the bridal party and made the comment, “Look at all this game for me to hunt.” We laughed it off, but should have taken this comment more seriously. Later in the night, several guests reported that, during the reception, he was seen holding his camera down by women’s legs on the dance floor to take pictures. Upon noticing this, a guest asked what he was doing and he replied, “Women shouldn’t wear dresses if they don’t want their legs photographed.” We were also told that he made several women feel very uncomfortable (e.g., by being too physically close to them on the dance floor; hitting on them; asking an employee to take her name tag off for a photo; and pulling them aside for specific photos). He took very few photos of our maid of honor but took many photos of one specific bridesmaid. His actions and inappropriate behavior left the latter bridesmaid in tears. When we were alerted to his behavior, we asked him to leave the wedding, at around 9pm. Prior to this, and unbeknownst to us, he was confronted about pulling women aside for individual photo shoots by our wedding coordinator at around. Immediately afterwards, he pulled us (the bride and groom) aside and asked for the remainder of his payment by check (yes, in the middle of our wedding). In addition to Mr. Fountain’s inappropriate behavior with our female guests, he also conducted himself unprofessionally throughout the wedding. Examples include: a) one of the staff informed us that he was serving himself alcohol throughout the night and appeared intoxicated; b) during the pre-wedding photos, he repeatedly stopped to show off the photos he took (instead of simply moving on to the next photo). This required us (the bride and groom) to keep him on track so we were on time for the ceremony; c) and finally, his style of posing was very intense and made taking photos generally unpleasant. In hiring Mr. Fountain, we relied on the many glowing reviews we found on Google and The Knot. Thus, we were shocked by his inappropriate and unprofessional behavior. As stated earlier, his actions significantly negatively affected our wedding night, our guests’ experiences, and our memories of what was otherwise a wonderful evening. We cannot recommend not hiring Mr. Fountain strongly enough to future couples considering his services.

    Response from vendor•Jan 19, 2026
    Wow where do I start? I apologized on another site. I would apologize to the bride here, but since she's making it a point to post this all over the net in a smear campaign I'll refrain for now. Most of this is simply not true, assumptions, and hearsay. In no way was I intoxicated at this wedding. At the end of the night "we stayed 45 min extra for free". I had 2 drinks on a full stomach. And I earned them. I 100% didn't say anything about hunting girls? Really like I'm going to walk into a dressing room full of bridesmaids and say that. Now I have been known to say when I'm at an event I'm constantly hunting for something to photograph". So however they got that twisted around is beyond me. Maybe, I should not have had to ask for the payment at the end of my shift? Should have been given to me in an envelope without asking for it. As far as hitting on the girls there? I guess taking portraits of all of the guest is now hitting on girls? If it was perceived that way, then it's a first for me. I took pics of all, young, old, male, female. It's what I do. The shot where I angle the camera up is called a low hat shot and I do this all the time. If you look at just about all of my galleries you'll see that I like to get creative angles. When I work, I think I'm allowed to take a portrait of anyone there "takes just 1 min." This bride apparently got the wrong impression or didn't care for my personality "I do like to have fun and joke around on wedding day" because it's supposed to be fun. Apparently, there were a lot of assumptions, hearsay, and looks like accusations that simply aren't true. I will be happy to show the entire gallery to anyone that wants to see if they think there are any inappropriate images in there. People should not assume and put things like this out there because hearsay and assumptions to defame character can create legal issues. People, don't read too far into this. I invite you to read all of my reviews and see that for whatever reason Karen, I mean Rachel who waited 70 days to post this has gone overboard. 750+ weddings and you won't find anything like this with any of them. Enjoy your pictures and be happy.

  • Great photographer!

    •Verified review
    •Jessica S.•May 6, 2024

    John was a great photographer and was very attentive. We spoke a few times prior to booking, he shared plenty of samples of similar venues which only aided more into booking with him. He was amazing during our entire event and captured everything and more!

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