October 2012 Weddings
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QOTD 3/5
Were you happy with your wedding photographer? Would you recommend them to other people?
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Re: QOTD 3/5
I was VERY happy with my photog. We worked with him twice before the wedding for family photos and e-pics. He was AWESOME the day of. Really it was such a whirlwind but he captured everything I would have wanted. I still have to pick 60 pictures for the album. I can't go from 700 to 60! That's not even 10%. I think I might stick to portraits and print a copy of the parents albums I made for Christmas. I think I got 200 pictures in them!
I would recommend him, but he was pricy. I spurged on him, but I really wanted good pictures of the day. I look at them ALL THE TIME. The day went so fast, I'm so glad I have them to look at and remember. I'm happy I spurged, and would do it again with hindsight.
My wedding photographer was ok. I used David's Bridal Photography. The photos themselves are good, but not great. I also had some trouble getting ahold of them before the wedding, but when they needed my paperwork, they were constantly emailing me. The website that you can view the pictures on currently isn't working properly, and you have to call in an order rather than submit the order online. My mother in law ordered pictures and she did say the photos came very quickly and she was happy with the quality. Also, when my husband and I met with the David's Bridal Photography person at our local store, she told us that we could swap some of the picture sizes we got with our package. When I asked someone how to do it after the wedding, we were told we couldn't do it and that I was given incorrect info.
We decided to go with them because they were reasonably priced, we got prints with our order, a CD with copyrights, and the photos we saw beforehand were nice. I also bought my wedding dress from them, and that process was great! I went several times before and after I bought my dress and everyone was awesome, and everything went so well, I figured their photography would be the same. I'm iffy about whether or not I'd recommend them. I would probably not recommend their photography, but I would recommend them for dresses.
Wow, that was longer than I thought it would be. Sorry!!
I absolutely adored my photographer - David E. Starke out of Morristown, NJ. He was so cool. Our pictures came out awesome.
One of the groomsmen told another one of our friends how much fun he was and they booked him for their wedding this October after seeing some of our pics and meeting with him.
If I can find an excuse to work with him again, I will!
Good question!
Yes & no. Yes mostly. Actually, yes really, but I'll explain. Yes in that they were so great to work with, did everything we asked, and we love our pictures. They're beautiful. And I'd recommend our photographers to anyone.
However! A friend of mine got married shortly before and got her photos shortly after we did, and they were along the lines of what's on trend now: very Pinteresty, basically. And I remember our photographers saying that they don't try to do that because it dates your photos, and you never know what kind of style you'll like in a year, let alone five, ten, twenty, etc., and that's how long you'll have your wedding photos, and I totally agreed and appreciated that. But I can't say I didn't get jealous that I didn't have photos more like theirs. (However, I do know that they paid about three times as much as we paid for our photographer and I can't even begin to say I'd justify that expense, even at my most craziest. She paid about half of what we paid for our whole wedding on her photographers!)
I also wish we had a bit more photos. They took plenty, and it was fine, and it's not like we're lacking for photos, but our last dance ended up being one of my favorite moments of the entire day and I wish we had photos (or video, really!) of that. But, I'm sure we also looked like gross sweaty messes by that point, so maybe it wouldn't have been worth the additional however many hundred dollars to keep them that much longer (I think they left an hour, maybe ninety minutes before we wrapped up).
I was very happy with my photog until after the wedding. He was great with communications and was so nice at the wedding. Then when it came time for final payment, he was wishy washy on how much I owed him and when I sent the check he never got it because he changed his mailing address and didn't have his mail forwarded. When we finally got the pictures I wasn't amazed like I thought that I would be. I mean there were some great pictures, but I guess I was expecting something different. Plus he gave us exactly 500 pictures which seems odd to me. When I asked him about some of the other pics that I knew he took, he said that they came out blurry and refused to give them to me. On top of that he has a blog that he posts on almost every week with new weddings which he posted sneak peeks for every other wedding except mine.
In the end, was he a horrible photographer? No. Would I recommend him? Probably not. He is actually the only vendor that I did not do a review for on Wedding Wire.
I loved our photographer, he was expensive but I felt that was one of the places we were willing to spend more $ on.
He did our engagement shoot and he literally had the pics online the next day and our CD to us by the end of the week. The same with the wedding, our pics were available online in 2 days and we had a CD within the week. It was def hard to narrow down our pics for our album but when we did, everything came out great, we even got a framed 11x14 (or bigger, i cant remember) as well as other loose pictures.
On the day of, he was amazing and his assistant was like my right hand making sure my dress was in the right spot, etc. He got all the pictures i wanted and more!
I would def recommend them if you are wiling to spend the $, i was really happy with them, plus they did my sister's wedding so I was familiar with them=)
Ours did this to us too. I was sad. I thought he would since it was his first time at our venue. He did the same to our e-pics, but he posted our family photos...
This bums me out because I still haven't received my wedding pics yet!
We're supposed to be getting them any day now. Our photographers relocated out of the country a couple of months and they were upfront about it and let us know so I'm sure they'll pull through...it's just taking them a long time. I know the relocation probably put a dent in their plans to get their clients their pics sooner, I just wish I had them now. I'm starting to get a little worried to be honest with you....Ugh.
Prior to this, I would have recommended them 100%. Our engagement pictures came out great and they look like works of art so I was really happy with them. Now, that it's taking so long, I'm not sure if I would recommend them yet. I guess I have to see the pics.
We already have our wedding video and I really want the pictures already! I'm so sad and disappointed because I really loved our photographers but I didn't think it would take this long.
I had sort of a weird situation with my photographer. She ended up moving to Switzerland about 3 months before the wedding. She had already done our engagement pictures which came out really nice. When she told me she was moving, she offered to either refund our money or provide us with another photographer. This other photographer works for a well know, high priced studio that has amazing work. I would have probably gone with them in the beginning, but their packages start at $5k. My photographer just happened to be really good friends with the other photographer.
We decided to go with the other photographer from the expensive studio and I guess I had my hopes too high. I really thought she would give us the same quality of pictures that she gives her regular clients, which I don't think we got. The pictures were good, but not great. There are several that I love, but there were also a lot of missed shots that I really wanted. There are no pictures of our sweetheart table that had a gorgeous centerpiece on it, there were no pictures of this beautiful peacock piece we had on our escort card, and some other details I wish she would have captured are missing. It was important to me because a lot of those items were pieces that my mom, my friends, or I made. Also, because I didn't have a bridal session, I wanted to do that on the day of the wedding and that didn't happen. I also wish some of the pictures she took of H and I came out a little better.
I can't say I would recommend her because my situation was so different that I wouldn't really be able to recommend her. The photographer that we actually hired was very nice, had great communication, and tried hard to track down the missing pictures that I wanted. But in the end, I don't feel like we got what we really wanted.
No, I would not recommend my photog.
I mean, my pictures came out okay, but not anything special. Some of my friends agreed that they were pretty average. And for what I paid her, I was expecting a little more than average.
She had a second photog with her and between the two of them, neither one could get a picture of me going down the aisle. That was upsetting.
My veil is all bunched up and uneven in most of the pics. I understand there was nothing she could do during the ceremony but for all the posed pics, she didn't even notice to fix it.
We paid her for ten hours (noon to 10 pm). By 8 pm all the photo ops were done (first dance, FD dance, etc) and she asked if she could leave. Really?! I told her no. We ended up getting some funny pictures from those last two hours including a pic of my (divorced) parents dancing. If she had left, she would have missed those shots.
I was overall pretty disappointed with my pics.
our photogs were so great! they're talented, nice and easygoing. The pictures we got turned out great! however, I expected a lot more final pictures...and more of just my husband and i. But I've worked with them for other occasions and they;re great!
So I'd reccomend them!
Absolutely, hands down yes, I would recommend my photographers!! They are Nyk & Cali Wedding Photographers out of Nashville, TN, but they fly anywhere in the country. I did my research and I made sure to find a photographer I was happy with. It was the most important thing to me, along with my dress. They were expensive, but well worth it, in my opinion!!
Nyk & Cali are a husband and wife team, very young, and very much in love. I think this definitely is an advantage in working with them. We had our engagement pictures done by them as well, and all in all, I loved everything they did. They were very open and receptive to the ideas we had, and asked for a shot list so that we could make sure we got everything we wanted. Sure there were a few pictures here and there that I didn't like, but mostly that's because I don't like the way I looked in them! I would happily use them again and recommend them to anyone who asks!!
I was NOT happy with him,
He missed so many shots even though I asked to make sure he got them... and didn't even bother going along with my suggestions for a shot of everybody at each table with us etc...
Thank heavens others took lots of photos too...
The photos of DH and I alone together are fabulous... it is the ceremony shots I am not impressed with. But like I said thank heavens some family friends etc got the shots I wanted.
We are looking into maternity/newborn shots now... even though I get 20% discount of any future orders with him, NOPE going a different route this time.
Make a pregnancy ticker
Sorry I didn't post yesterday.
I have it in my head that I don't like my photos, but every time I look at them, I love them. There are a couple of photos we didn't get. My photographer said they didn't come out right, people were blinking, whatever. I'm kind of disappointed. I wanted a photo of me and my 3 SILs and I don't have it, just with the entire bridal party and I don't have one of just my parents, H and I. Photographer said my mom was blinking in all of them.
I would definitely recommend them. The company was very professional. All photos were high quality. We haven't sent them photos yet, but I know they use high quality albums. They have always been quick to respond to communication, even after the event.
Like others have said, I wish I had some artsy looking photos, but oh well. My brother and SIL have all artsy photos and they used an incredibly expensive photographer. They have NO photos where they are both looking at the camera. SIL didn't even realize that until she was looking for a photo to print to give to my parents and grandmother for Christmas. She was really disappointed when she realized that over a year after her wedding.