Let me just say RE: Wedding pictures!

Christakim · January 2011

I am so jealous, everyone here has BEAUTIFUL wedding pictures. I am so disappointed in mine. My photographer was AWFUL. If I knew what I did now about photography (which still isn't much) I wouldn't have hired her. She overcharged us and gave us pictures with fingerprints (her fingers got in the way of her lens) on them and they were just snapshots.

She has a website and her pictures looked fine for what we were anticipating paying for her (it ended up being a WHOLE lot more) and now I have no good wedding pictures. It's really sad, I cry sometimes thinking about having crappy documentation of a day I can't do over again.

Vent over.

LIAngel · January 2011

I hear you. We booked the same photographer my sister had used 3 years prior- so we had a pretty good idea of what to expect. besides if my sister was unhappy with her photographer, she would have said "No he sucks, get someone else"

Well on the day of my wedding, the photographer was sick (pink eye I think) and this random guy that worked for him came to do the pictures. I wasn't thrilled with them. Some were fine- since they are hanging up in my house. But others- like bridal party shots- weren't too hot.

stepgirl21 · January 2011

Mine were crappy too.

I have very few pictures that I liked from that day.

MrsRyan61804 · January 2011

I'm sorry that's awful!! You don't mess with someone's pictures that's like messin with memories. Did you at least get a few good shots? Some of my favorites were ones family and friends took. Did you get any good candids?

Christakim · January 2011

My aunt took a couple of good pictures (she does weddings on the side) but I made it clear to her that I wanted her to enjoy the wedding, not be the photographer, so she didn't get many.

Put it this way, I don't have any pics of DH and I hanging up in our family room cause I couldn't find one that was worthy. Ugh, I may have to do some editing of my own on scanned pictures someday.

AvaLikeLava · January 2011

You know... one of the girls on my local board was SO unhappy with her photographer (he NEVER gave her her photos -- kind of ran off) so she did some pics after the fact. No, she didn't get to do the ceremony & reception over, but she got some really nice pics of her and her hubby dressed up again. They came out beautiful.

Just a thought... for those of you that still have your dress

Christakim · January 2011

AvaLikeLava:
You know... one of the girls on my local board was SO unhappy with her photographer (he NEVER gave her her photos -- kind of ran off) so she did some pics after the fact. No, she didn't get to do the ceremony & reception over, but she got some really nice pics of her and her hubby dressed up again. They came out beautiful.
Just a thought... for those of you that still have your dress

I thought about doing this, it's a really good idea, but my wedding dress is all cut up now because we had Ella's baptism dress made out of it.

alchris · January 2011

I'm so sorry. I don't regret my photographer since as I photographer myself it was my huge splurge, but I had scheduled an early ceremony to allow 2 hours between the ceremony and reception (the guests would be well fed and happily drunk and totally not missing us, LOL), and there was a NASTY storm and I'm still upset that somehow not only did the entire wedding party decide that meant we weren't doing photos but the photographer did too -- everyone went completely AWOL. So we have none of the good "non action" shots that I was expecting. We have very few wedding photos in our house because we never got our photo shoot in the gardens...we hadn't done a shoot before the wedding because we knew we'd have these two hours. So we have no nice photos at all of just the two of us, or with our families, or with the wedding party. I cried and cried for about a month after the wedding because of this, and it still really upsets me.

I was just thinking yesterday how much I'd love a canvas of our wedding to go along with all of my photos of the girls, but I have no photos that I'd use.

dundasgirl · January 2011

Can you approach any of your close family or friends who were at the wedding and may have some fabulous pictures that you don't know about?

alchris · January 2011

dundasgirl:
Can you approach any of your close family or friends who were at the wedding and may have some fabulous pictures that you don't know about?

EXCELLENT point! The best we have of DH and me looking at the camera is from a friend at the reception. One of the two wedding photos on my mantle is from a different friend immediately after the ceremony (the other image is of the chapel interior which the pro did get). But yeah, friends' pics were great.

Christakim · January 2011

alchris:
dundasgirl:
Can you approach any of your close family or friends who were at the wedding and may have some fabulous pictures that you don't know about?
EXCELLENT point! The best we have of DH and me looking at the camera is from a friend at the reception. One of the two wedding photos on my mantle is from a different friend immediately after the ceremony (the other image is of the chapel interior which the pro did get). But yeah, friends' pics were great.

I really should ask, I've actually been meaning to!

MayDayGirl · January 2011

mine are crappy too.

schmoodle · January 2011

I'm sorry - we weren't happy with our photographer either, he messed up a bunch of pics of me and my bridesmaids, wasn't at all creative and despite touting himself as doing "photojournalistic" work, 99% of our pics were traditional/posed family and bridal party shots and no really touching or great candids. I do have some pics I like but if I had to do it over I would choose something totally different. Plus, I can't believe that in 2004 (not THAT long ago) we weren't given the option of digital pics.

groovygrl · January 2011

Aw, I hear you too! we had a destination wedding & the coordinator made it seem like we had 2 options on the island and I went with the one w/ better pix on the website. After it was over I found out htere were several other more talented photographers on the island but they prob didnt have an in with the coordinator or something... I was so mad, my pix were very boring and posed.

So, I vowed to always get really great photos of my kids done & even though it is something that I don't 'need' to do, I have had photographers do pictures w/ my kids 3 times since they were born and I love those photos & am glad we/the kids will have those forever...it somehow makes me feel a little better about those wedding photos

. hehe.

BoilerSuz · January 2011

We, unfortunately, got what we paid for. In our area at the time photographers fell into two categories either a) full time professionals who cost the same as our fully hosted open bar or b) much less by those who did it on the side. I felt bad for my parents and went with option B. We actually had a really hard time picking the prepaid pictures for the album. Snapshots from friends saved us, at least enough to hang a handful. Our favorites are the ones taken by random people on the street when we legally got married in Vegas. (big family wedding later)

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