I went on here to check out reviews of this company because we got married 16 years ago and there was no Yelp then. Was semi-hilarious to see another reviewer from years ago who was also very disappointed in their experience. Today is my 16 year wedding anniversary. Sixteen years ago, we got married in Anaheim and had our reception at the Cheesecake Factory in Playa Del Rey. Our photographer was Laura. I remember because she said it was her birthday and I wanted to make sure she was ok doing a wedding on her birthday and she said she worked all the time on her birthday. Prior to our wedding, I had sent a list of all the different family members we wanted pictures with so we could plan to do this ahead of the ceremony so we could go to the beach between our ceremony and reception (it cost $150 for the third location). Laura said she was a make up artist so she would check my make up and do it for me before the ceremony which was great. Well, she and her assistant arrived an hour late. So I had already done my makeup because she was late and I asked her and she said, "It looks fine." (I did it so my bad, but I had a white line in all the pictures from the foundation, so no it wasn't fine). She yelled at all my sisters and told them to be quiet while she was taking pictures of me and their kids. She made all of us horribly nervous. To this day we still say "JUST MY VOICE" as a joke, not a joke, because she was so mean. During the ceremony I had to prompt her to take pictures of the kids handing out roses for Mother's Day even though we told her about this beforehand. Because she arrived late, we did not get to do our family pictures before the ceremony. So the bubbles and stuff I bought for the going away, we couldn't use it because we had to send our guests to the reception ahead of us. Then when she finished with our family photos, it was too late to go to the beach for our own photos. She said that was my own choice and I still had to pay for the $150 (or was it $300?) third location fee. After dinner, I asked if she could take pictures of us on the roof at least since we didnt' get to go to the beach. When we got up there, my new husband had stopped to talk to his dad and so she turned to me and yelled, "WHERE IS HE???" Then we were supposed to take romantic looking pictures of us gazing at each other but what we were doing was discussing how scary she was. During the 20
minute toast she took pictures for 20 minutes of the solo groomsman giving the toast and really none of anyone else, so I got 20 picture of him. Because we didn't get the pictures at the ceremony of my family members as asked we had to pay her $325 to stay for an extra hour to do that as well. After she left the wedding, I went around with MY OWN camera and took pictures. What bride has to do this? We have kidded around for years about getting our wedding pictures redone because it was such an awful experience. I am not actually smiling in them, I am grimacing because she was so mean. No bride should have to deal with that on her wedding day. I would also not pick someone who was unkind to children if you are having any in your wedding. Now that I have my own I can't imagine a photographer yelling at me or them. I know this was 16 years ago, but it goes to say that if you pick a bad photographer, it will stay with you for a long time. Our pictures were okay but nothing special, and many were missing because she came late and ran out of time. Between the third location fee, the extra hour we had to pay, and the wedding album we had to pay about $3500-4000 and this was 16 years ago. read more
