Bellagala Photo + Video

e chose for our set were lazy and blurry. Now, 9 weeks after my wedding, I’m waiting to hear from someone about my photos. The initial set I was given had about 300 photos, with the remaining 400 that we paid for being repeats. Photos of my bridesmaids in the middle of eating while getting ready or blinking. Tons of photos of the food and my mother zipping up my dress, and only 5 of my guests dancing/candids. When confronting the business about this I’ve only received rude remarks such as, “you never specified you wanted photos of your guests”... what?!? Absolutely ridiculous, would not suggest, completely disappointed in the photos when I should be elated with wonderful memories.

edding day coordinator many times so the day of the wedding went extremely smooth. We couldn’t be more grateful for the amazing pictures she captured throughout the day. She took us hiking around the venue property (outdoor barn wedding) and found some beautiful locations and took a lot of extremely creative pictures. We plan on using Kirsten for any future event photographer needs that we have and would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a wedding photographer.

and ours! We loved it!!!

limit. She was fun to talk to, gave excellent advice, and I can't say how much I appreciate her!

friends who had to sacrifice their experience to step up to take snapshots. 2 other photographers showed up but nothing will ever replace our missing memories.

at picture were done in an efficient manner and in accordance with our timeline. We ended with plenty of time to spare before the ceremony started. Meg is very sweet and has a laid back personality, which made it easy to relax during photos and enjoy my wedding day. I was surprised by the number of candid shots she was able to grab that day, which made looking through all of the pictures really fun! I would definitely recommend her for iPod wedding day.

a second photographer because I feel like we missed out on pictures we wanted because our photographer was overwhelmed. He stated the company did not pay for face to face meetings so we had to discuss my vision via phone/text and I don't think that sufficient . We got the essentials but some pics were ruined due to his inattentiveness. For example, we attempted to take a picture of the bride and flower girls' manicures and when I got the finished pic the flower girl's hand are cut off. Also there are no pics of groomsmen without these big cardboard boxes behind them, a true professional would pay attention to everything including the background.

There was not one photo of my cousin, and she never asked me who it was. I was so busy and distracted, I didn't think to point her out. Debra insisted that we hire a second photographer to get more photos, but they never left each other's side. We only had the reception- not the wedding, and when guests were arriving, I had to get the photographers to come out to the main area to take pictures, because I felt like that was a great opportunity to take them. They were “looking at the schedule”. There was no schedule- it was entirely the reception- and this is something they should have had memorized beforehand. At times during the evening I noticed them looking back through photos- that was not the time to have been doing that. They had plenty of time to do that after the event. I like a lot of the photos, but I wish I could go back and choose someone else to capture that night. I’m sad that there were none of my cousin because we are very close, and that’s why I listed her on the short list of people I wanted in a photo. I feel like a lot of good photo opportunities were missed, and it caused unnecessary stress that evening.

ed it was actually a blessing. We got Andrew P. who was just amazing to work with on our wedding day. Our pictures were delivered in the indicated time frame and there so many precious moments caught that we can't decide what to print. It was nice to have Photo & Video from Bellagala b/c our video guy Travis worked well with Andrew to coordinate we had all moments covered. Our DJ was assigned the week before the wedding date. We got to work with Theo who did a great job following our music choices and making it great party.

emailed us reminders as important dates and deadlines came to keep things moving, and the website was really helpful when it came to the important details. Overall a really great experience!

s a great person and very easy to work with. She did an impeccable job coordinating everything and everyone as well as sticking to the day of timeline. It was such a relief to have her organizing and executing per our agreed upon details so I didn't have to be. Her work in being concise, timely, and working with my husband's impatient personality (He absolutely hates taking photos) surpassed my expectations. You are making a mistake choosing anyone else.

ur thoughts with, and she gave us ideas and advice when we asked for it. Her photography was beautiful, and met and exceeded all our expectations!

es back in three weeks and we LOVE them💕💕

and I am so excited to see the photos!! I would recommend her to anyone! Thanks Sarah!!!

h, but I genuinely felt that she was a great person and very easy to work with on top of that. Her work in being concise, timely, and working with my impatient personality (I HATE TAKING PHOTOS) surpassed my expectations. She was organized and wonderful at coordinating everyone and everything! You are making a mistake choosing anyone else.

! It was an amazing day and she captured every moment of it!

able to show up early and set up on our wedding day. She and her assistant were able to get plenty of good shots throughout the day during the ceremony and reception. Thanks to them we have many photos to help us remember that wonderful day. Would recommend to Bellagala to our friends and family.

family, to not even realizing they were there (which is a great thing)! They were both amazing to work with, so professional, polite, and ready for anything. I'd highly recommend using these two for your wedding day!!

on and I have no doubt the pictures will be lovely. The only reason I gave 4 stars is because a lot of the transactions take place via the website, and I kept having technical issues. I was told several times that whatever I did on the website "probably" worked, which made me nervous. But other than that, things went smoothly and I'd recommend them.

wrong. When I contacted them to fix it they oversaturated and made a mess. When I contacted again they said they would send me the raw photo so I could have someone else do the work correctly and I never got them. So one year later I have no wedding photos no memory of my special day and I am so sorry that I ever picked this company they are awful!

ng of our photos it was pretty terrible. At bellagala the photographers are the ones who edit their own photos. They have a whole post production team who does this for the photographer. So this team is in no way attached to your photos because they didn’t take them. When I say editing I don’t mean making our faces look better or thinning us out or whatever in that composite. I mean cropping random signs out of the photos or adjusting the shadowed lighting on faces. We tried to work with the post productions team. We emailed back and forth any times asking for adjustments but they stopped communicating with us. So we cropped the photos that needed it and we learned how to edit lighting ourselves so some of the photos we liked would look better. Kind of sad that they have good photographers and not a great team behind them.

with each shot - brought instant memories of what we were doing or what our guests were thinking.

along with and was very good at organizing my family, as well as Nick’s family, for extended family photos- which was not an easy task! We definitely recommend her photography services!!

g to set me up with a new photographer, but this added more stress to wedding plans and the other options provided were not up to the same standard as the original photographer I had wanted. I ended up going with a completely different agency.

was awesome to work with and made the day so much fun. He made sure to take every photo that we wanted, even photos that we added on the day of. He was excellent and I would highly recommend him as well as Bellagala!

ly use the space to get great organized shots and was flexible enough that when a double rainbow showed up got us just right to capture the magic. Bellagala was great to work with, they answered all my questions and made me feel great about my choice. Thank you John for giving us pictures to last a lifetime!

ime. She got so many amazing photos that helped me capture the perfect day so I can remember it forever. She made everyone feel so comfortable and relaxed, and had amazing ideas of where to go for different shots! I highly recommend Anita and will definitely be using her again in the future for all my photo needs! She is the best!

we surprised the bride by designing her bouquet for her as an previously unseen part of the day, or the moment the groom wiped away a tear during the ceremony, or when the most shy member of the bridal party cut a spontaneous dance move as he was introduced at the reception! These are the "non-traditional" moments one wants captured at the most important of days and we are so glad the bride and groom chose Bellagala. They are the absolute best at what they do. There are several levels of pricing to fit different budgets. We did have a wonderful 2nd photographer and purchased an extra hour of time, so as not to worry about being "rushed", and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this magical day!

hat he does. He made me and my husband feel very special and his enthusiasm throughout our wedding day made the night a lot of fun. The photos are amazing and I could not have asked for a better photograher to capture one of the most important days of my life.

he family than a vendor! The groom doesn't do well with long drawn out staged shots. They took that to heart and captured beautiful, candid photos of us and him individually. The best part for me was I barely remembered them being there once the wedding started throughout the reception yet they got some of the most stunning shots I couldn't have imaged!! That to me speaks to their professionalism and to being focused solely on the bride and groom.

international wedding with more than 200 people, Andrew and Brian were calm, organized and handled the large crowd very professionally. I highly recommend Andrew!

got a lot for a very reasonable price.

ith the photos I have to remember the day. There were artistic photos as well as some special moments from the day. Bellagala did a great job editing and sending them to me quickly as well! I would highly recommend.

up. For example, my bridesmaids and I only took photos in one spot standing together in a line before the ceremony. After the ceremony, my husband and I only have pictures of us in the sunset, rather than a variety of different pictures.

e lighting to take family photos in. We still had to even have an outside source edit some of the photos because the re-editing from Bellagala was still not adequate. There is one photo in total of my husband and I posed and looking at the camera. There are many photos we remember taking that are just not present in our album. We took posed photos on the beach at sunset for a considerable amount of time and none of them were in our album. Throughout the day I kept questioning how quickly our photographer was moving through our desired list of photos we wanted and she kept assuring me she already had the shots. I should have pushed harder because I now have zero family photos from my wedding that I would want to display. We have received half our money back and the post-production team helped as much as they could, but I would trade good photos from my wedding for that returned money in a heartbeat.

always available for questions. Our Photographer, Rachel, was fantastic. She told corny jokes, understood family dynamics are crazy, and work with us to create the pictures we wanted.

y & great price :)

Bellagala package so that we could specifically pick the photographer we were interested in). Our main goals for the day were to do as many photos as we could ahead of the ceremony so that we could miss a minimal amount of the cocktail hour (which was the part of the reception I was most looking forward to), and to get a lot of interesting and fun shots around the venue. We are not a very romantic sort of couple, and prefer interesting/fun/quirky shots. That's just who we are, and didn't want to be different people on our wedding day. We had discussed this at our pre-meetings with the photographer - and he seemed excited about our vision! But when the day came we did not make use of the venue space (he even that day ignored our reminders/requests to take some of the shots we had previously discussed) and then had us keep taking overly romantic photos over and over - despite my asking to move on from it - which the groom was especially not comfortable doing! For our wedding, of course we would like some romantic shots, but not SO many, and they turned out looking stiff and awkward for the most part. I should've been more assertive, but didn't want to get riled up on my wedding day. I think that he got a bit overwhelmed or something (?), and reverted to what he was comfortable with, even though it wasn't what we had talked about. We ended up missing about an hour of our 1.5 hour cocktail hour, when what I had wanted was to miss no more than 30 minutes of it. A lot of that time was spent sort of fussing around about things, it was not as efficient a photo shoot as I've normally participated in as a bridal party member at other weddings. The other big issue was that the second shooter mostly was just hanging around, and not pointing a camera much. During our couples shoot he was with us and not doing anything - but I wish he had been taking candid shots of the guests!! That was a high priority for our wish list of photos. Lost opportunity there, and not what I was expecting. In terms of Bellagala, they did their best to help mitigate the fact that we did not have the expected photo experience or results. I give them a lot of credit for that, and they were very understanding and helpful. But ultimately, if the shots you wanted weren't taken, there's no fix for that. Also, strangely, the formal portrait taken with me and my best friend never was provided to me - although I asked a few times. Additionally, when we met with Bellagala before selecting their services, they said they would take a certain number of the photos and provide them in black and white and that sort of thing. They never did that, and I asked about it but never heard back. All in all, I wouldn't use Bellagala again for our photos (really, the only part of our package with Bellagala that went 100% well was the DJ - he was spot on!). I still to this day get a sick feeling when I think about how disappointed I am with our wedding photos and how the plan for that day did not turn out at all as discussed. Additionally, they never asked for any feedback from us on any of our services that day, although they said they had a feedback process post-wedding. We followed up to see if there was something to complete, but were ignored.

eel like I'm reliving my wedding day. She was friendly and appropriately directive during formal photos and then faded into the background to photograph the rest of the day. She was quick in responding to emails. She was on-time for meetings and phone calls. I can't sing her praises enough. I would recommend Megan and Bellagala to anyone in Indy looking for a photographer for their special day!

n't a single one I didn't like! The hardest part is selecting which ones I want printed and framed! Thank you Meg and Bellagala for the amazing job!

os, got gorgeous shots, and was so incredibly nice and personable. I feel just incredibly lucky to have worked with Keighla!

eds (a very nice service). I did appreciate that! But, I was very angry and unimpressed when, on the day of my wedding, my photographer, James W. Did not show up. First, he complained of traffic, which I shrugged off. But as each hour went by, I grew more upset. He ultimately never showed up. Matt G, who was the second photographer, became the lead, and I couldn’t be happier. He was the nicest person to have next to us all day long - and that’s where your photographer is ALL day long- right next to you. In the end, Bellagala was quick with communication about refunds and arrangements and Matt’s photos turned out amazing. I couldn’t be happier.

al pictures. She had a list of shots that I wanted, printed out and brought with her, and crossed them out as we went to make sure I got what I had wanted. She sent us a sneak peek of both our engagement pictures and our wedding photos, and we are SO happy with them! Before our wedding, Meagan was so easy to get in contact with - she always responded to my emails promptly! Additionally, Meagan was great in telling us what poses to do, and really making us comfortable and putting us at ease. We would use Meagan for any photographic needs in the future, as she was wonderful to work with, and did wonderful work. We really felt that she was accommodating, professional, and made sure to make us happy. Before leaving, Meagan asked my husband and I, as well as my parents, if there were any other pictures we wanted - this was something I truly appreciated! We are so pleased with everything, and can't recommend Bellagala photography, and Meagan specifically, enough.

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rking with Tiffany L and Keighla A. They were fun and creative and made our photo time enjoyable! Can't wait to see the pictures.

uring pictures that absolutely saved the day. She totally exceeded our expectations by even helping us find clear umbrellas days before the wedding.

to get the perfect photo. Wedding photos can get really stressful with having to coordinate a lot of people but Amber and Keighla did a great job of managing time and making sure people were where they were supposed to be. They captured all the shots I could have asked for and more! They were both very professional. Amber contacted my husband and I a few weeks before the wedding to finalize the details and she was meticulous in her questions to make sure every detail was covered so that our wedding day could be seamless and stress free. I would highly recommend them to any bride who wants their wedding day captured with perfection!

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inite patience with the shenanigans that was our wedding celebration. I would recommend Bellagala and Jessica to anyone who is looking for a photographer for their event.

t was Bellagala themselves. Our engagement shots were delayed, and when I emailed to inquire I was given a brush off of we don’t know, but peak season can take longer. We were on a tight timeline to get our save the dates out, and all I wanted was an estimate. Come to find out they lost my pictures and Abby had to send them again which is why they were delayed and I wish they would have told me. It would have made way more sense. That being said, the editing was gorgeous, the photographs themselves are beautiful! Overall highly recommend!

made our day special and made sure my husband and I kept little moments for ourselves. We could not have asked for someone better! Thanks Bellagala for making our day wonderful!!

fun to work with.

re completely washed out. When we asked for the originals to fix ourselves, they tried to charge us another $500! Using Bellagala was my one and only regret from our wedding. Spend more for better quality elsewhere because they are the only memories you'll have from the whirlwind day. We risked it and now we have none.

y great shots. He even was able to get some good ones of my almost 2 year old niece and I.

really focused on the bride, even when everyone else was busy. Plus, we got our photos back in only a few short weeks! Great experience.

't recommend her enough!

more pleased! Would 100% recommend using them.

with the wedding and she did great with the business and really had a "go with the flow" attitude which made it easy to enjoy the day instead of stress out when people were late or things didn't go as planned. We also had very large family pictures that we requested be taken with 30+ people. Meagan did a great job spacing out people evenly and was able to capture many pictures with everyone looking and being able to zoom in on every face with no one being blocked. Great candid shots during the wedding, reception, and dancing. It was a chilling January day but Meagan was willing to go outside and capture some amazing outside shots with the snow. Thank you Meagan for being part of our amazing day!!

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o get them all. She knew my style and they had amazing picture ideas for my bridal party and us. I absolutely 100000% recommend using them! I also got my pictures back in under 4 weeks (granted I got married in November so I was past wedding rush season) and they were perfect!

l the digital photos and that we got them in exactly 30 days. Our photographer was Yuliya and she was great! She came to Hendersonville and we paid extra for travel and a hotel, it was all very reasonable. Thanks so much,

imely manner in regards to our questions and he really listened to and captured our photo ideas and vision.

h this company, however, was that we got high-res versions of our photos without a watermark, and we retain the copyright, so we can order our own prints from anywhere we like. Would recommend for brides who need a good value.

e. Some of the lighting was off in our pictures and the photography coordinator, Lisa, has been incredibly helpful with making sure we are happy with our pictures and has offered to correct the lighting in several of the photos for free. This is a fantastic company and I would highly recommend working with them! Excellent customer service!