Botched photography, and unprofessional!
If I could go back and do my wedding all over again, i would have never hired this photographer. Hindsight is always 20/20. Andre, claims to be good at what he dose and he is mediocre at best.
He completely ruined the majority of my wedding photos, took photos with our feet cut off, my beautiful gown cut off, he missed the big moments like my husbands mom placing a rose on a chair in honor of her late husband. (Things he knew about ahead of time so he should have been prepared for especially since we hired a 2nd shooter for this reason! 95% of our ceremony photos by Andre are taken from behind our alter(so of our backs or backs of our heads if we wouldn't have had a 2nd shooter we wouldn't have any photos from the front)
I have zero bridal photos that show my entire dress unless you count the one he took from the ground! (Bridal photos are of the bride alone in her dress) he claims: "Most pictures I take don't have the whole dress because wedding dresses are big. What I mean is it can ruin the composition. For example, where the faces are. Getting the whole dress can put someone's face in the corner of the frame which would make an awkward looking picture." However after hiring another photographer and doing a bridal reshoot I have learned that this is completely untrue. My new photos show my full body, and full gown and are OUTSTANDING.
Andre sent us a galley that had our heads cut off, feet cut off, dress cut off, extremely dark photos, close up photos of my food, but kept claiming the album was "SOLID." We requested to see all of our photos, and found the same photos that didn't have our heads cut off, or were a better angle, etc.
Im still unsure why he put photos with our heads cut off when there where images of the same shot that didn't. Or photos of our parents wedding pictures laying down on the chair when there were photos of them sitting up like they should have been....After asking him too He did edit our request from our unedited photos, but still from the thousands we could only find 50-60 that were worth keeping.
Our formal pictures are completely lacking, we dont have any verity the choose from when it comes to family photos, or full wedding party photos. For example I have one photo of my husband with my brides maids, and 1-2 photos of him with our entire wedding party. I have no formal photos of us with anyone in our family except our moms(together not individually), and one with my grandparents.(who were out FG &RB) None with anyone else. Aunts, uncles, individuals with our families, Even though these were previously discussed with Andre before the wedding.
I could go on and on about everything he failed to photograph!
At the end of the day Andre failed to meet our expectations over and over again! However, when we expressed our disappointment, he verbally assaulted me, via text, attacking my faith and Christianity.
Andre, admitted that he missed photos, and after getting on a Facebook group for Kentucky photographers, asking what THEY charge for a bridal session (because clearly he saw the need for one) He offered us a $500.00 refund, compared to the 3,499.00 we paid him for Poor images. After doing some in depth research I discovered that $500.00 would not cover the cost of another bridal session because it required more than just standing in front of a camera. Andre REFUSED to accept the facts and discuss the details of such. His way or the high way. And after a few emails, he recanted his offer and then refused to offer any type of refund to us anymore.
He is taking advantage of and robbing brides and their families of money. DO NOT HIRE this man, I wouldn't even send my worse enemy to him.
My bridal reshoot was extremely successful, and is why I waited as long as I did to post my review, I wanted to see if wedding gowns are as impossible to photograph as Andre claims, or not. I only had 2 hours with my new photographer(10 hours with Andre, his 2nd shooter and a videographer) and I got over 90 pictures and loved every single one of them.
AGAIN I would recommend that you not hire this photographer, for your wedding. I've learned my lesson and I'll use my voice to try and prevent another couple from the pain of what it was like getting my poor quality wedding photos back and trying to work though the issues with Andre. read more
