I chose Eivan's from the knot after comparing packages & pricing to other companies & they had the better pricing overall. Peter did our engagement pics & was great to work with. W...e got some great pics overall & we ended up using him as our 2nd photographer for our wedding. Marlenne was the main photographer I had chosen, but they originally had assigned Peter as our main one & it was kind of frustrating trying to call them & go back & forth to get the person I had chosen as the main photographer. The communication wasn't as straight forward or easy as I thought it should have been, but eventually I was able to get it switched & have Marlenne as the main & Peter as the secondary. In all of the chaos of the wedding day I had forgotten to print out my shot list so we were completely winging it. With those circumstances, I was trusting Marlenne and our videographer, Mario, to really guide me & I think they did great overall as a team. Looking back I do wish we had gotten my bridal portraits taken outside along the water & not just in the tiny bridal suite. Our venue had a beautiful lake front view & I wish our photographer would have had us take bridal portraits out there at some point. Granted, it was a very chaotic day & our venue was supposed to provide us with a day of coordinator who also should have been there & on top of this stuff, as it shouldn't all be on the bride, so maybe it's not completely on the photography, but it is still a disappointment. I am at the point where I'm planning a day to go back to my venue and take portraits which I shouldn't be having to do given the amount of money spent on photographers who should have maybe suggested it. There were definitely a few missed photos with my mom and MIL as well, but I know it was a very chaotic afternoon (largely due to my venue not letting us arrive early enough to decorate and lack of a day of coordinator until the hour before the actual wedding to step in and help guide us on photos). I am excited to see what we got, however, as we did get a gorgeous sunset and Marlenne was great at capturing some sweet pics of my husband and I post ceremony. Overall, I did like working with Marlenne, Peter, and Mario and think the pics and video will be good when we get them, just looking back maybe it would have been nice to have gotten some more variety of settings for the pre ceremony pictures since the location was so beautiful on the water. I know they had me sign a document at the end of the night before they leave stating they got everything photographed, but it is definitely hard to okay that as the bride on already such a chaotic day/night to fully know what all was taken. One thing to note, maybe have future clients be required to send a shot list with names and locations? That may help people not end up in my situation of not having their shot list on hand the day of.
Update: after getting our picture samples back, I did not receive proper bridal portraits (only 4 and all of the back of my dress:() Thankfully, after speaking with Eivan's they are kindly allowing me to have a photo session free of charge to go back to my venue and recreate my bridal portraits as they should have been done on the wedding day. I was not expecting this from them and am very grateful for them making right of this situation.