While I hate leaving sub par reviews I just felt I needed to share. We got our wedding photos back and while we have some really great shots, there's a lot left to be desired.
I was emailed saying that our edited photo prints were ready. 1. how you get those is not super easy (there's some app required, and while I may be tech challenged, I don't think you should have issues downloading something you get a link to. No it wasn't my storage, it's just a weird app.) I ended up just borrowing a computer and downloading them onto a thumb drive. 2. while I do LOVE my new husband's shoulders, and everyone who attended our wedding, I would have loved even more to clearly see the emotion on mine and my Dad's face when we were walking down the aisle. We didn't do a first look, and the shots Max got were something to be desired. I'm going to post them (and I'll include some of the ones I love so I can present a cohesive picture. I realize you won't love every shot but some of this is just ridiculous), so hopefully they can be reviewed and this doesn't happen to another bride. The ones of my husband seeing me are fantastic though, so that's a positive I guess?
It's just a huge bummer that a lot of the shots are blurry/not in focus as well as they could have been, and we can't ever get that day back. For the ones we did get that I love I am super grateful, I just couldn't believe that so many I did want were missed, and that ones I really didn't want wasted so much time even after I created a google docs sheet I shared with both the company and photographer that clearly outlined priority photos. I'm not sure why there are so many shots of the guys smoking and on their phones outside of the venue, and I feel like the photographer could have given higher directives because I couldn't be there to do it. Some of the shots were just bizarre and I feel that time could have been better spent. Like why did we take photos of my flowers on ugly brown patio furniture, when there was so much space (we were literally in a green house filled with beautiful options, there was a cactus room, one with a jungle theme, one large and mostly empty room where our ceremony was taking place, and another large room with lots of beautiful scenery in it) to take them else where? Why was I forced to take fake getting ready shots with my Mom, when I knew they would be weird and awkward (they were, and no it's not because I don't love my mom, there are many of us looking very happy and not weird)?
We ended up paying 750.00 for 3.5 hours of photography and print release and over all I just feel like a lot of that time could have been better prioritized/better thought out by the photographer and better managed. He was super nice, but it seemed like he wanted me to do the directing, and I just didn't have it in me to be the boss on the day I wanted to enjoy most (I did enjoy my day, and now I wish I had been bossier- idk you win some and lose some I guess). I guess the final thoughts on this are- if you or your groom smoke, probably tell the photographer to skip those shots, and also tell the guys these photos are supposed to be forever, and screwing around and making stupid faces in every single shot is just messed up. I can't even imagine what I would do with pictures of the groomsmen in a gray parking lot, in gray suits, smoking cigarettes, and looking at facebook on their phones, much less these blurry photos of me walking down the aisle. It sucks, and much like another reviewer, I guess not hiring someone more expensive is on me, but for 750.00 I should have loved more than 25 shots. read more