Although I really enjoyed working with Stephen and Sonia on the day of my wedding, I did not love my pictures. There are only a small handful that I do love/ like but the majority make me cry. I was so busy running around I did not notice my h...usband had unbuttoned his top button and had forgotten to re- button it during the reception for pictures. I feel that a photographer should have attention to detail especially for the bride and groom should have been addressed at some point.
Many of my church pictures were not edited and you could see an intense glare on all of our foreheads (it was hot). I had to go back and ask for those to be edited and only some of them were. We had immediate family pictures taken inside the church, and the pews ended up blocking part of the family members. I feel that the photographers should have noticed this and asked us to step back and go up onto the steps to get a full length picture of everyone in the immediate family. I expected pictures of my husband and I with our guests and we have NONE, there are actually no pictures from cocktail hour, which by the way was longer than an hour giving them plenty of time to snap photos. When we went outside for the bridal party pictures, Both photographers came out to take shots of us at the exact same angle in the exact same position rather than splitting up having one take photos of guests, while the other grabbed photos of the bridal party.
While my husband and I were waiting for guests to be seated, one picture of the entire room was taken- that’s it. During the first dance we did ask guests to come join us, and this is the only time we have any pictures with some guests. There are a lot of pictures where everything is blurry but one central image is not. For example, a half-eaten box of donuts (not something I want in my wedding pictures) was the focal point of a picture. A picture of me with my bridesmaids in our robes is also mostly blurry and most of the bridesmaids are completely blurred. Also- a photograph of a server was taken… and yet almost none of our guests enjoying the beautiful balcony or room…. . Additionally, I was very clear I wanted a sunset picture, and although the sun doesn’t really set until late in Washington, only one picture was edited to give the beautiful illusion of a sunset. The individual pictures of my husband are wonderful (unless you zoom in and notice one of us has our eyes closed), the ones of me however are horrible, nothing was done to edit out the under-eye shadow and the redness from hours of anticipation.
In the contract it did say 1000-1200 photographs would be sent to us after the 8 hours they spent with us and we received less than 700. After 12 weeks of waiting for the pictures we finally received them, and I cried for hours. I wish I could go back and make it very clear what I wanted or had everything written in an email instead of over the phone because I do not feel that my voice was heard. Pictures I had wanted and spoken to the photographer about were never taken. The attention to detail that I thought I was receiving was not there. Looking back, I wish I had been more vocal beforehand and during the time we spent together.