Danyelle Dee Photography

before we signed, but immediately after, we didn't hear anything from her. She didn't reply to simple emails and she refused to chat with us over the phone. We finally had to fire her for not wanting to help us access our account. The Honeybook site she uses is awful..it kept malfunctioning and we were unable to login. I felt like Danyelle was bothered that we wanted to talk on the phone so she could quickly walk us through it. (All we needed was a printout of when our final payment was due.) Sure, I emailed her on a weekend, but it was the only free time I had. She emailed back to say she would help me on Monday during business hours. I politely agreed but she never called me. After a week of silence, I had had enough. I sent her a long detailed email telling her that we no longer needed her on the day of our wedding and that I'd be writing this review. She was really apologetic, but I'm not so sure she understands the big picture here. We paid Danyelle $1500 and we feel as though she has done absolutely nothing except add stress to our lives. Bottom line, we would not recommend Danyelle Dee Photography to capture such an incredibly important day.

y Area. Danyelle did the photos for my 3rd daughter’s wedding, I would NOT recommend her and I am sorry I did not put up this review earlier. Quite honestly we afraid we may never receive the photos and just received the photo albums in late December 2019 (from the the March 2018 wedding . We were also waiting for my daughter to be able to redeem a remaining credit and unfortunately there has been no response for Danyelle. The photos were average in quality and we did not Purchase the cheapest package. We realized the photos would be more expensive in the Bay Area and we were were ok with that. The specific gripe I have is that Danyelle did not scout the area prior to the wedding and ended putting the group photos in a muddy grassy area with pipes that had to be photoshopped out of the pictures. The photos were visually off balance and some were “fixes” needed to be made via editing software, this is NOT typical of a professional! While she was not responsible for the cold or wet weather, she was responsible for being familiar with the area as she had promised during our interview. Poor service and communication was a huge factor. It took nearly 18 months to receive the wedding and parents albums. Sadly the bride’s grandmother never saw her album, she died before it was delivered. There was a list of important photos which was not followed. The one and only photo we were able to get in the church was snapped from a cell phone. Danyelle missed the time window for the photos in the church. We learned a huge lesson in that we did not make sure there were firm due dates for delivery of the finished product, 18 months is not reasonable and the MANY follow-up e-mails we had to make were just flat out a drain on my time. Danyelle mostly didn’t respond...my daughter is STILL WAITING for a response from Danyelle as to how she can use her $100 credit...my daughter’s 2nd wedding anniversary is in 2weeks!! Danyelle is personable enough and said all the right things during the interview, however, her follow through is unprofessional.

y details to the important moments that I’ll forever get to look back on. Her and her husband make a great team and were so enjoyable to work with. And Danyelle was so composed and organized throughout the chaos of the day. I mean, she was even able to wrangle 40 of my husband’s family members into one picture in less than two minutes. The day after the wedding, Danyelle surprised us with a few gorgeous sneak peak photos and I must have looked at them about 100 times that day. We anxiously waited about 6 weeks to get our wedding album back, and let me tell you it was well worth the wait. It’s easy to see that Danyelle is passionate about her work and goes above and beyond to make sure every photo she produces tells a story. I’m beyond grateful to her for capturing every moment of the most perfect day of our lives. She’s definitely not just another photographer, and I would absolutely recommend her to anyone wanting to perfectly capture a special day. Thank you, Danyelle! -Jake and Erin Bohland

ve responses to our post wedding e-mails.

been cold, rude, dismissive and she has offered ridiculous excuses. Given the issues with her service and her inability to address them in a professional manner, I can’t warn you enough to stay away. At best she is unprofessional, unable to balance her artistry with providing a business service she contracted to provide. At worst she is a scam artist who will insult you and demand additional payment for the original service as she advertised. I’ve detailed the issues below. The editing style is completely different from what she advertised and discussed with us. Our images are completely white washed, overexposed, and the images in the chapel are actually pink.When we reached out to her to address this she responded by stating that we shouldn’t have hired her if we didn’t like her style and she was insulted. She offered to give us the un-edited images for an additional $3,000. After a week of me calling and emailing her and attaching photos from her website to compare to ours, she admitted through email “The images you sent over that were also mine for a comparison were from 2-3 years ago. My editing style is constantly evolving.” Those photos from her website were only 6 months to one year old when we signed her contract and the most recent she had to show us. We paid for a 2nd photographer that could capture candids for us (something that I included we wanted in my initial email to her and was discussed in person) and capture the groom and groomsmen getting ready. There are very few candid shots from the wedding. From the hour the 2nd shooter was with the groomsmen getting ready, she provided 13 edited black and white photos. She said “I pulled the usable images to add to the gallery, and the black and white is a choice made by me due to lighting inconsistencies.” Based on the lack of images that she is comfortable releasing because of their quality, the 2nd shooter she provided seems to not be a professional and was unable to meet Danyelle’s standards for a professional photo. She advertised and sold us on a professional shooter which she clearly did not provide. We do have one very nice, fully edited photo and I’m sure the 2nd shooter took it because it’s of Danyelle blocking us. The fact this was included makes me think that she didn’t look at each individual photo, instead took a group of photos and edited them with a preset filter. Horrible at providing directions. We have one large family photo with three people cut off and a wedding party photo with a huge propane tank in it. Of course, she’ll remove the tank if we pay her more. We would have been better to have a friend take these photos. Most anyone else would have told us to move closer together, move to another location, or taken the shot from a different angle. One photo we asked her to take of me, my husband, and uncle who is dying of cancer. She refused to provide it to us because it didn’t meet her standards. We flat out begged her for it but she would not provide it until I contacted our wedding coordinator who sends Danyelle a lot of business (including ours).

and has a great eye. She's amazing at framing the perfect shot, posing couples, and getting the light just right. We gots TONS of beautiful photos from our engagement session that we used for our invitations, guestbook, and decor. A fews months before the wedding, she created a day of timeline to keep us on track. She photographed every last detail of our wedding and reception perfectly and with care. I cannot stop staring at our photos! She captured so many special moments, both candid and posed. I'm so happy we have these photos to remember our wedding day by! Danyelle's services are absolutely worth the investment! I would not hesitate to hire her again!

nd composition. We loved our engagement photos. We were generally happy with our wedding photos, however was disappointed that there was no second shooter during our wedding to capture the experiences of our guests too. I emphasized the importance of having a second shooter on our initial conversation, Danyelle assured me that she felt it was important, and that we would definitely have a second shooter as agreed upon. We didnt realize until after the wedding that there was no second shooter. When asked about this after the wedding, Danyelle stated she couldn't find a second shooter for that day, and did not want to say anything beforehand because she thought it would "stress us out", understandably. She said that she normally focuses on the bride and groom when that happens, unless told otherwise. We really wish she had told us ahead of time so that we could have given her more direction to take some photos of our guests.

can’t wait to see the rest!