Aguilar Photography

If there were an option to give zero stars I would. Let’s just start by saying the lack of communication is unbelievable. Starting with the days leading up to the wedding Rich was very hard to get ahold of. The night before the wedding I was over it I had my husband call him and he finally answered with a start time that I had been requesting for over a week. The day of he text me an hour before he was supposed to arrive and said he didn’t think he needed be there for 10 hours and that 10 hours of coverage was to much and that he would refund me if that’s the route I wanted to go. I told him absolutely not and that I wanted the 10 hours of coverage I paid for. I’m so glad I did as he would have missed us getting ready. And I’m sure with all the cases he has going against him and all the “failure to appears” he wouldn’t have refunded me anyways. He was over 15 minutes late and said he spilt something on his pants as to why he was late. There were no evidence of any spills on his pants and it didn’t seem like a legit reason to be late. When he arrived he seemed super irritable and not like he wanted to be there. He left early to go to the venue to “set up”. He missed my mom helping me get dress and everything before we left to go to the venue. So I never got photos of us, which is super disappointing. During the ceremony one of our guest said he was on the phone with someone while the ceremony was on “calling them baby”, which is very unprofessional. After the wedding after taking group pictures we were getting ready to take photos outside someone in our bridal party overheard him saying “this is baby making weather” whether it was or not that’s very unprofessional of him to say especially in front of our guest. The reception went fairly well, but when that 10 hour mark hit he was out and he never told anyone that he was leaving. So for waiting for our photos we waiting a long 12 weeks for our photos. My MIL passed away 2 weeks after the wedding and I asked for an update or if I could get RAW photos of her at our wedding to show at her funeral and he never once replied or give his condolences. We made 20+ plus attempts within those 12 weeks to contact him and only on 5 attempts he answered and he only answered when we told him we were about to escalate the situation and he would reply back immediately with your photos are safe and that I will send you an screenshot of your gallery. That happened twice and never once got a screenshot of our gallery. We had to get his friend Monica Susoreny/Jimenez from Las Mamacitas involved and told her what was going on and that we will be escalating the situation if he doesn’t deliver the photos ASAP. Of course she ended up not coming though and stopped replying until we put both of them in a group chat and called them out on their bluff. He ended up manipulating us on several occasions and was told if we didn’t take the TRUE post down about his work of employment he would not give us the passcode for our photos of which we paid for. After fighting with him though text messages and told him that he cannot manipulate us any further or we will get authorities involved. He finally gave us the password and then went to explain to us his said story of his personal life and how rough his life has been with his soon to be ex wife and family and court cases that he’s currently facing. If you want to waste your money on someone who doesn’t communicate, show up on time, and doesn’t deliver your photos with good quality he is DEFINITELY your guy. BE AWARE!!

BRIDES BEWARE Richardo Aguilar Aguilar Photography I hope this post can save other brides from LOSING tons of MONEY and experience a complete NIGHTMARE. I only wished I would have listened to the bride who tried to WARN me. I already know by posting this he will try to MANIPULATE and LIE to convince you that I'm the lair. Don't be fooled by his convincing charm he's full of EXCUSES, as to which I empathized for only to find out the real not so nice truth. He has gone to great lengths to intentionally not deliver what I have paid for. I have now been GHOSTED, BLOCKED, GASlIGHTED and more. He will probably threatened me to take this post down like he has done with numerous others, stating if I won't then I won't get my pictures or he will sue me for slander. Jokes on him I can't loose what I don't already have. Ladies CHECK his REVIEWS, his "F" rating on Better Buiness Bureau, or his arrest record. It's the same story on repeat.

I would strongly advise anyone from doing business with Ricardo Aguilar or Aguilar Photography. He was the photographer for my brothers wedding event back in October 2022 and completely ran off with the money and never gave us the pictures. It’s a shame because I was really looking forward to seeing these memories but now we never will because of this scam artist. There's a principle and sense of trust when hiring vendors and Rich clearly lacks both, so do not hire this man!

Do not hire this man at any cost. He is a Scam artist. I'm realizing my wife and I are only one in a long line of couples he's scammed. He took our wedding photos in Oct 2022 and promised to deliver our photos within 3 weeks. We contacted him a month later and he's never responded to us despite our numerous calls/texts/emails, YET I had a friend reach out pretending to want to hire him and he responded right away. We had to file a lawsuit and he still hasn't even responded to that. TheKnot.com, if you're reading this, please take him off your website. It's only hurting your reputation promoting this scam artist. Do not ever do business with Ricardo Aguilar or Aguilar Photography.