I will preface this by saying that the owner of the company offered a full refund of our video, which was great, but the sequence of events after the wedding was a disaster.
They lost 75% of our footage due to a “chip malfunction”.
We were m...arried on October 16, 2021. The email received after the wedding noted it would take about 2 months to get our video with no preview video due to extreme client volume. We were fine with this knowing 2021 was an insane year for weddings.
I had not heard from for about 2 months, so I decided to email them the week between Christmas and New Year for an update. They stated that our video was out of production and that they will have it by New Year (very exciting!). When I didn’t hear from the by the New Year, I gave them time since, again, I knew they were busy (not really an excuse because they shouldn’t have taken such a big volume of clients knowing they couldn’t keep their word, but that’s besides the point). I decided to email them the last week of January for another update regarding our wedding video. They responded the following day via email with an update…they had lost 75% of our footage due to “chip malfunction”.
Not only did they NOT call the moment they realized the footage was gone (probably the last week of December), they decided to EMAIL me this news. They also took it upon themselves to throw this malfunctioned chip away, which we were made aware of after we had asked for it to see if we could retrieve any footage from it ourselves.
The whole situation was handled with a complete lack of professionalism or empathy. As you can imagine, we were devastated about the situation, but completely understood that these things unfortunately can happened. I was shocked knowing that I was speaking to the owner of the company when I requested to speak to someone higher in the company.
The owner should have contacted us the moment that they knew about the situation. They also should have watched the video that was provided to us, which was amateur and embarrassing. When I complained about the video they did create, they stated that we had signed a contract for the content and that they get meet every expectation of the client. We then went through the entire raw footage of the little footage we did have, so we pretty much created the video ourselves. The video is still embarrassing and would never be shown, but it’s at least something to remember our wedding day.
Brides, be warned. They are not professional and are taking on way too many weddings. Don’t hire them as a videographer. You will regret this.