The day of my wedding, he arrived on time and with Jasmin (who was absolutely spectacular) and ready to go. Prior to the wedding everything went fine, pre-wedding pictures at my parents’ house were great and everything was on time, which was im...portant to me.
After the church ceremony and the receiving line (which he tried to convince me not to do) we took pictures on the alter. My grandmother was also taking pictures of us, and instead of professionally asking her to step to the side or say excuse me, he shrieked at her to “get out of his way.”
Once we arrived at the venue, pictures went fine and we were on time, which as I said was important to me because I did not want to miss my cocktail hour, which I did not. One thing that I found strange was he did not take any pictures of me with the groomsmen or my husband with the bridesmaids, I had to ask for it onsite, and I’m very glad I did since those pictures came out really cute. Walter’s rudeness and abruptness did not stop, he was constantly blurting out rude comments to many of my guests to “get out of his shot” or to “move.” And this continued throughout the whole night of my wedding. Luckily I was too busy having the best day of my life to notice too much of it. What really bothered me was the weeks to follow my wedding, many guests called me to tell me how wonderful the day was, but how rude my photographer had been. My videographer, also followed up with me to tell me that he had never experienced something like that in all the weddings he had done.
I got my hard copy pictures a few weeks after the wedding, and they were beautiful. I really do love all of the pictures, however, there was nothing that WOWed me about Walters style. They were typical, posed wedding pictures, that I felt anyone with a great camera would have captured.
Once all the dust settled, and I calmed down. It was time to make my albums, which unfortunately I had already purchased through my package with Eloquent. Jean, who was also fabulous, does the albums, so luckily I didn’t have to work with Walter. When I started working with Jean, she asked me how the day went and basically asked me for feedback on Walter. Still being pretty heated about it, I told her everything and how disappointed I was in his service and how he treated my guests. Her response? “Yeah, I’ve told him that he really needs to work on that. He’s not going to get more business that way.” And yes, she was right. Out of my 7 bridesmaids and 7 groomsmen (none of which were married at the time of my wedding), 6 are now either engaged or married, and none of them would ever hire Walter, or recommend him to anyone. I thought maybe by telling Jean how disappointed I was, maybe Walter, being the owner of the company, would reach out an apologize to an unhappy client who paid over four thousand dollars, but it was clear he didn’t care since he had already gotten paid. I visited the shop a few times after that to discuss the style of the album, pick up things, etc. and almost every time I was there, Walter was in the back room and didn’t come out one time to say a word to me.
All in all, if you’re looking for a nice, fun photographer with a unique style in photos, I wouldn’t go with Eloquent Studios. I am shocked that the reviews I see are mostly good ones….