Newborn photos

foodwatersleep · October 2013

If you took your LO to a photographer for newborn photos, how long did it take for them to process and send your order? I feel like my photographer is taking an extra long time, and our order includes birth announcements. DD is 2 1/2 months old, at this rate, we'll likely get the announcements a month from now. Isn't it kinda late to send birth announcements to friends and family when the baby is almost 4 months?

mommabmb · October 2013

It's never too late to send them, but that is a very long time.

JordanL1221 · October 2013

Ugh. I understand. I have one of the proofs in my sig, but it's been 5 weeks now. LO is now 7 weeks

MissyCee · October 2013

A week after the shoot the photographer had the photos up online for me to look at and choose the ones I wanted on a disc. After I told her the ones I wanted, I had the disc a few days later. I got all my announcements out a little over a week ago.

I don't think it's really ever too late, it's something a lot of people will really enjoy getting no matter when.

natsko · October 2013

I got mine a week or two after the shoot, it does seem like your waiting awhile, can you call them to see what's the hold up?

ELauren88 · October 2013

We didn't buy any actual prints from our photographer. We ordered digital copies with copyright releases. We got them as soon as we paid for them, it's really the only way I do professional photos anymore. Prints are just too expensive!

FWIW - I literally *just* mailed our birth announcements and LO will be 2 months in 2 days. As long as you get them out before the New Year, I'd say you're safe.

WashingtonQueen · October 2013

She said they would be ready in 2 weeks. I got them 3 weeks after they were taken and even then I had to push a little to get them that soon.

BelhurstBride · October 2013

Just got the edited digital images yesterday. Working on selecting an announcement now.

With DD1 I knew which imagine I wanted for the announcement right away, so she sent me that edited image immediately.

magdalina.h · October 2013

We got the pictures two weeks after

Moosesoar · October 2013

I will be getting mine by the end of this week, hopefully. DS is almost 2 months old.

Revez · October 2013

Ours was a month later, but the photographer was unhappy with the prints and requested new ones, which is why I think it too so long.

2.5 months seems like a stupidly long time to be waiting.

foodwatersleep · October 2013

Ugh, yeah I'm kinda getting the feeling she's avoiding me. I email, call and message in Facebook asking for status, she waits a week or two to reply and in the reply she always asks a question that i reply within a few hours, but still her responses are a week or so later. maybe she's purposely taking her time because I'm a pest? Although, I only started pestering after 6 weeks of not hearing a thing from her. Grrr... Frustrated. Next time I'm just going to Sears or something, and definitely go for the digitals instead. I would've got digitals this time but I didn't know it would cost $1000!

WashingtonQueen · October 2013

foodwatersleep said:

Ugh, yeah I'm kinda getting the feeling she's avoiding me. I email, call and message in Facebook asking for status, she waits a week or two to reply and in the reply she always asks a question that i reply within a few hours, but still her responses are a week or so later. maybe she's purposely taking her time because I'm a pest? Although, I only started pestering after 6 weeks of not hearing a thing from her. Grrr... Frustrated. Next time I'm just going to Sears or something, and definitely go for the digitals instead. I would've got digitals this time but I didn't know it would cost $1000!

Nothing wrong with that! DS's newborn, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 18 month photos were taken at Walmart.

BuckyC · October 2013

We had access to an online gallery after 2.5 weeks and received a USB with the pics at about 3 weeks.

CaliforniaDream87 · October 2013

Yea, I be pissed at this point. What does the contractual agreement say regarding timeframe?

I got mine back within 3 weeks.

Lovehavinggirls · October 2013

foodwatersleep said:
Ugh, yeah I'm kinda getting the feeling she's avoiding me. I email, call and message in Facebook asking for status, she waits a week or two to reply and in the reply she always asks a question that i reply within a few hours, but still her responses are a week or so later. maybe she's purposely taking her time because I'm a pest? Although, I only started pestering after 6 weeks of not hearing a thing from her. Grrr... Frustrated. Next time I'm just going to Sears or something, and definitely go for the digitals instead. I would've got digitals this time but I didn't know it would cost $1000!

What $1000 for a disk that is insane.

rissa06 · October 2013

ours were really quick. We received them within a week of taking the picture.

rissa06 · October 2013

one of the photographers we used were like 900 for the disk. I'm not sure at the time if it was because it was still all new.

BabyE143 · October 2013

We spent $130 for ours (disc included) and got ours back within a week.

kwrecks · October 2013

We got ours taken when LO was 5 days old, and we got them back last week.

Have you emailed the photographer and asked what the hold up is?

PB102012 · October 2013

LO had her photos taken when she was 5 days old, and we had the pictures the following week. Our photographer gives us a disc, and we order the prints through Costco, etc.

*grammar

foodwatersleep · October 2013

kwrecks said:
We got ours taken when LO was 5 days old, and we got them back last week.

Have you emailed the photographer and asked what the hold up is?

I did ask on one of my emails, all she said in reply was 'so sorry for the delay!' So no explanation, and I don't know if that was even an answer to my question or a statement about how long it took for her to reply to that email, which was a week later.

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