After my then-fiancé setup an appointment with Sherry for us to sit down and discuss our wedding…read moreday, I admit, I was relieved. Our first several encounters with a variety of photographers and left me, more or less, ripe with frustration. The prospective cost, the costs on top of that costs and the feeling of being nickel and dime'd into oblivion were starting to pile on. So, when the discussion started pertaining to what exactly was offered by Allusion with Sherry, my apprehension quickly melted away.
She knows what she's doing.
After looking over the amazing pictures her and the photographers in her employ had taken in the past in conjunction with the packages they offered, I quietly nodded to my fiancé and smiled. Everything was shaping up perfectly to the point that when she offered us the bridal expo discount on her top tier package, all of which is comprehensive with a ton rolled in, we accepted and put down our deposit.
The exact details of the package are staggering, we just got so much for the money we put down, but even the lower tier packages struck me as significantly better than what any other photographers had offered us in the process of searching for someone to capture the special moments on our wedding day. On our wedding day, we had two photographers to capture both the bridal party as well as my groomsmen and I. Sherry herself was one of the photographers that day, given her familiarity with our venue, Stan Mansion.
They followed us both throughout the day and into the evening capturing such an incredibly amount of pictures, that I couldn't help but be further impressed when we started going through them all on the website about a week after returning from our honeymoon. Besides the posed pictures, they never once became obtrusive or got in the way of myself, my bride, the fellow vendors or really anyone. They were the photographer equivalents of Batman, visible when they needed to be, but otherwise unnoticeable unless absolutely necessary. It was positively perfect.
Speaking of perfect, the pictures they took were leagues beyond what my now-wife and I had hoped for. We've poured over them since receiving our proofs to finalize our wedding album and can't help but laugh and smile over the incredible skill displayed in the photographs. Well beyond putting disposable cameras on the table and well worth the quality any amateurs could have hoped to deliver upon. When my wife and I look back on our wedding pictures and the album therein ten, twenty or fifty years from now, we'll be thankful that we opted to go with Allusion Photography.
On a personal level, Sherry could not have been more warm and professional to work with to capture our wedding and thereafter. She brings an outstanding class to her profession that easily trounces the casually maverick attitudes of many other photographers we'd discussed wedding details with. As I said, she knows what she's doing. Even during the meeting after the wedding to pick up proofs and discuss any outstanding details, she was more than receptive to deliver exactly what we wanted and to do so remarkably well, continuously ensuring that we were ultimately satisfied.
Looking back, after everything we went through trying to find a photographer, I'm grateful to my wife for having stumbled upon Allusion. Every interaction we had with Sherry was pleasant and every dollar we spent was well worth it, and when planning a wedding, there's nothing quite like piece of mind knowing the people who will be working with you on that big day are friendly professionals. Sherry was both and we can't say thank you enough.
