PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!! not to mention it was for my daughters wedding - Memories that you want to look back on and now the only thing the pictures make my daughter do is cry because they are that bad!! So here is what happened:
I reached out looking for pricing to several companies, I will admit cheapshots was responsive and seems friendly and great. I decided based of that and the lack of replies I was getting else where that they would work. They are a photographer company so they should so good.
Well as soon as paid them, they disappeared! EXCEPT for their AUTO messaging system that they claimed was a real person. I continued to get DAILY text from this "person" saying you should use us, let us be your photographer and we will give you a special discount, you haven't decided to us us yet well we will give you an extra discount if you use us - remember I have ALREADY paid them and had this scheduled and yet here I am getting daily texts saying (basically we ripped you off, if you would of waited you could of gotten a better deal). Anyway, so I reach out for weeks and finally get a reply saying so sorry, I told them (I think they called the suto crap melissa or something to stop texting you and dont worry I gave you our best price). Well needless to say that never stopped until maybe 2 weeks before the wedding, so that was fun. Now, I understand that technology does not always work like it should so I looked past that. I was annoyed that she insisted that it was a real person, when I am sure that a real person is not so dumb that when I replay and say I already have scheduled and paid you guys, that they dont reply and continue to send. messages.Anyway, so this whole time they tell me you will have one of our best photographers, send us pinterest pics/boards to give us an idea of what you want, etc. Great so I am doing that with Amanda - the girl that is suppose to be our photographer and Wyatt the video guy. I gave them specific times that they needed to be there and send all sorts of things to give them an idea of what we wanted and I told them the 2 BIGGEST things I want on the video is when they come out of the temple and when they do the burn out when they leave the reception. Anything else is great, but I have to have those 2 things - TWO THINGS - well day of the well, they are ready to come out of the temple and NO VIDEOGRAPHER is around. The photographer is there and is not even sure if it is our wedding she is suppose to take pictures of. She said it was her FIRST day on the job and all they said was be at the temple at this time and reception at this time, NOTHING ELSE!!!!!! I called Wyatt the video guy and no answer, I Called again and no answer, I called a third time and NO ANSWER. I then called Amanda and the OWNER of the company tryingt o figure out what was going on and their cell phones went straight to VM - NO ONE WAS AVAILABLE TO HELP US!!!! THIS IS YOUR COMPANY AND YOUR JOB and NOTHING! Finally I asked every one to pull our phones and please record the video and 25 mins later had them come out of the temple. Then the photographer says ok what do you want, I say family pics, she said ok how? Im sorry what did you just say!!! You are the Expert, start directing and putting people together to get photos, she has NO IDEA what she is doing so luckily I had one of my best friends there who is a REAL photographer and I and we started directing the photos and putting groups together - ALL photos where taken int he same spot and it was a JOKE!! Well I say a guy wondering around about 30 to 35 mins later with a camera - I asked if he was Wyatt and he said yes so I tell him this is your group please start filming. Anyway, after a lot of time and us basically doing their job, they leave. Then at the reception - first off Wyatt did come dressed nice which was so nice, however the photographer looked like they just rolled out of bed. She sat on a chair in the same spot MOST of the night and took pictures. I figured well she knows what she is doing so I asked to make sure we got certain pictures, but this is a wedding and you should be able to figure this out all on your own - you are the expert NOT ME!!
I should have photos and video with in a week or 2. Needless to say it was 2 MONTHS later, after I called and texted, NO REPLY, that I finally got a text saying oh we sent those to your email a week ago. I open up the email and see it and it says to download the links and you have only 5 days, blah. I try to download the links and NOTHING - it just keeps giving me an error, so I tell them its not working - again NOTHING, I keep texting finally a week or so later they reply &resend the links - they did a week after that, I again could not open it - it keep giving me an error. I reached back out and said - still not working. So they said ok we will get you a usb drive but pay us $70 more, more but out of space!!! read more