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Question for Newly Weds/Introduction
Hello,
I figured I better post an introduction before I ask my question. So here it goes...
I am a newly wed (August 11th), pretty young, I'm 22 years old. I graduated last December with my bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. My DH has an excellent job as a QA manager so we actually purchased our home last summer in the area near where he works. My DH is 31 years old and he has a son who is 7 years old. My DH has full custody of his son and I have been living with the two of them for almost 3 years now.
I am struggling to find a full time teaching job with all of the teacher cuts in PA and envy those who teach. I am currently a substitute teacher though, I sub almost everyday in a certain district and also in a few others. So hopefully when a position becomes available my patience will pay off. I also tutor privately in the evenings and am a lia sophia advisor in my spare time. = )
So that's a little about me.
My question for the newly weds is... how long did it take you to receive your wedding photos?
Our photographer ordered our engagement prints in June and they supposedly just now came in. She's only edited and sent me 3 of our wedding photos from our August 11th wedding. However, she continuously posts sneak peaks of Fall weddings from late September and October with 20 photos or more. When I asked her if our photos would be done being edited before Christmas so that we could order parent albums and prints, she responded with that her contract states 6-8 months because that's usually the waiting time it takes to edit the photos.
I feel that she should be editing in order in which the the photos were taken. Perhaps I am wrong though. Any advice? Is this normal?
Re: Question for Newly Weds/Introduction
A contract is a contract. If it said 6-8 months, then she has some flexibility to get to them when she wants to.
I got married 6 years ago and even back then, in the dark ages, we had our pics within a month of the wedding from an exceptionally busy and popular photographer. Granted, he had a whole staff of people helping out, though.
Is this business her full-time job? Doesn't sound like it is. I have never heard of pics taking more that half a year...
BTW, 8/11 is a great wedding day
Sadly enough it is her full time job. I just wasn't sure how typical 6-8 months was.
Thanks on the wedding date! I'm guessing it's your wedding date as well? Must be a lucky date if your marriage is still going strong!!
Hello!
Well I got married August 5th and got mine back about 3 weeks later. But the editing and pictures weren't all that
We got married on June 11 and had our photos by July 4. I don't remember the exact day, I just remember showing them off at a family 4th of July party.
Unfortunately, if your contract says 6-8 months there's nothing you can do. I would wait until after you receive your photos, and then be sure you let any friends who are considering using that photographer know what their wait time will be if they do.
I had mine a couple days later, but I didnt use a professional photographer, we used a friend instead who got their certificate in photography. Must say they did a better job than a lot of the pro ones in our area! I gotta say, 6-8mo is a crazy amount of time though..dont think I've heard of a place taking that long when I was looking.
Our photographer went in to early labor the night before our wedding, still had 8 weddings to edit after ours and we had them back within a month.
We had ours the morning after. Yes, the morning after! Complete with a montage/slideshow and all the prints for us to review.
OP if the contract says 6-8 months all you can do is wait a little longer, I guess.
You have to be with the contract . A contract is a contract. If it said 6-8 months, then she has some flexibility to get to them when she wants to. I got married in September 2012 , and still waiting for my photographs. It is a long process, and I keep reminding myself, more time they spend editing the photos, the better they will look. I think we should be calm and wait for better photos . You will get your photos and I Hope it will nice memory for you . Keep continue with your work and keep busy yourself.
Zuni
We got ours 7 weeks after our June wedding (on the day of my sister's August wedding--she had the same photographer!). Our engagement photos, which were taken last September, took 9 weeks, because she was catching up on all the summer weddings. My sister hasn't gotten her pics back yet.
6-8 months is a LONG time. But if thats what was in the contract...thats what you agreed to. If you were not ok with that you should have told her that before you signed it or gone with someone else. (on a tangent...that is quite likely what some of these weddings that shes posting pictures of did.....told her that they needed pictures back by a certain date for thank you cards or whatever, and rather then lose thier business she changed the contract before they signed it...and then people like you get pushed till after those ones are done because you didn't have a 'rush' upfront).
We got married in May and got our pictures in the end of July...we were supposed to get them earlier but our photographers had issues. We would have done our own photos if it was practical because H is a wedding photographer, as far as I have ever come across the standard is usually 6-8 weeks...not months. I wouldn't have signed a conctact with someone who told me it could be 8 months!
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6-8 months is a long time, IMO, but if that's what it says, that's what it says...
Our wedding was 8/17 and the pics were done by a friend of mine at a pretty cheap price..there was no contract signed, just verbal agreements, 200 for the pics and that including a CD and then the album. Well here it is almost 3 months later and we have the CD but no album
My mom is going to take the CD and do a shutterfly book. I would like to show these to people during Thanksgiving!