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t made us so excited for the wedding. Our engagement session was at Hartwood, and on the day of, it was pretty gloomy and cold. When we got the pictures back, we were so amazed at how great everything looked. The colors were fabulous; you would have never guessed it was a gloomy day. All throughout our planning process, Dave answered all of my questions with ease and timeliness. On the day of our actual wedding, Dave met with the guys in the morning and Lucy hung out with us girls while we got ready. Lucy was so great to have around. She has so many good, creative ideas for pictures of my dress and our rings, etc...She got along great with all of us while we were getting ready. Dave and Lucy both were great during pictures after the ceremony. They knew exactly what we wanted and didnt' waste any time either. I had given him a list of a few photos that I wanted to be sure to get, and he got all of it, I was very impressed! We also had the photobooth through DGM at the reception, and all of our guests LOVED it! Dave has props and everything to make it really fun. Also, when the photostrip prints out, 2 copies print out and the guests get one copy and the other goes in a scrapbook that we (bride and groom) get to keep. It was so nice to see all of the pictures that everyone took! We havent' received our wedding photos back yet (it's only been a few weeks) but I CAN'T WAIT to see our wedding photos. I know they are going to be great! A+ for Dave and Lucy!

s really nice and everyone had so much fun. The booth isn't too big and worked well at our venue and you get the coolest guest book ever at the end of the night.

s a strip (which it's usually just 1 for the group). If 6 people go in, they all get a strip. We got a great album out of it too where people wrote messages to us. Please get this photobooth and Dave was wonderful to work with. He always answered the phone and answered emails within a day. I love when people get back to me promptly!

al different packages available to purchase. Can be pricey for the big packages, but VERY much worth it!

day. Things went very smoothly and I highly recommend them to anyone!

ugh, we have plenty of pictures to choose from for our book. With the package, we also had two engagement sessions and full day wedding coverage in all of our locations which was important to us.

customizing a package to suit our budget. Dave also absorbed some shipping expenses since we lived in MD. Dave is VERY responsive by e-mail/phone, and he is persistent (but not pressurizing) when requesting needed info/ items to make your event go smoothly. That was SO important since I worked full time and was dealing with other vendors as well! Dave has a very proven process - an initial meeting, very thorough paperwork (you fill out) and a checklist to capture everything from event date/time, attendees, your wishes for certain scenes/events/people to be captured, taste/style, etc; and he presents clearly defined package options and pricing. My fiance and I had one meeting with Dave in Pittsburgh, put in the time up front to complete our paperwork thoroughly and all else was easily handled from MD. Dave was patient with all the e-mail exchanges. Generally speaking, Dave puts in much more time, care and resources than the quoted price reflects. He patiently went through several tweaks to our final album to satisfy me (marketing professional with photo layout experience AND as a 40-year-old first-time bride so HUGE lifetime event for me!) Besides the ceremony itself, the photography was most important to us, and we cherish our album! My co-workers said it is truly unique, with images embedded into soft backgrounds, and we chose a hard paged album (Album Epoca) with photos printed right on the pages vs. being inserted and held in place. Ultimately, Dave really captured our style and exceeded our expectations in terms of the final album, CDs (put our cake on one CD and our flowers on the other because we couldn't make room for those in our album), his five-star customer service, and his apparent personal investment in our special day! Once you choose your photos for the album, Dave starts out with a simple, basic layout and then gets feedback to feel out your style - contemporary, traditional, square photos or images superimposed and blended into a background. He nailed our style after just a few go-arounds! Dave is a very honest business man who can be trusted, and he genuinely cares! We were crushed when it stormed between our wedding and reception because outside photos at our beautiful old, Stone Mansion reception site were important to us. Dave thought to shoot photos of us getting out of the car under an umbrella, and once the weather cleared during dinner, he encouraged us to go outside for what became very beautiful and highly cherished sunset photos! Many photographers would not have done that, I believe - he truly cares about his customers and will go the extra mile! He took a close-up photo of my sister (maid of honor) kissing her 7-year-old (ring bearer) at the dinner table - face to face - and my sister was BLOWN AWAY when we framed it and gave it to her for her birthday. She since made several copies and put them in Christmas cards. It's been seven months since our wedding (and my busy schedule is why this well-deserved review is so late), and Dave surprised us with a beautiful Merry Christmas refrigerator magnet with one of our lovely sunset photos! I am now pregnant, and if pregnancy photos are something I consider doing, Dave will be my photographer - four hour drive or not!