I’ll start with the good. Nadege takes good photos, she definitely has a good eye for lighting, and has good artistic ideas. However, she’s not reliable at all. I would suggest not hiring this particular photographer.
Nadege Barnes messed up o...n her dates, and came late to our wedding! She was supposed to be at the bridal suite at around 2 pm. I thought it was odd that she had not arrived by 3pm to take pictures of me getting ready and assumed she was at the groom’s suite. I texted my groom to see if this was the case, and he told me she was not there. I called her and that’s when she realized she had messed up on the dates. She started making up excuses over the phone and even insinuated that I gave her the wrong date. I told her she needed to hurry and start driving to the venue. Needless to say, I have no pictures of us getting ready nor of our wedding party from her.
I’m a very forgiving person and would have let this pass if it was not for the fact that she also stood us up on our engagement photoshoot! People kept telling me that I should look for another photographer after she pulled this stunt, but I thought I would give her a second chance which was completely undeserved, and I regret not having hired a different person.
She also wanted to catch up on her photos during our reception, so she took time away from us enjoying our party, so she could take pictures of us “getting ready” after the fact. She did not do a great job at this since she did not realize that in all the pictures that she took of the groom, he was wearing his wedding ring. In addition, she did not take any close up pictures of us which is disappointing to say the least. Also disappointing is the fact that I had told her that my two dogs were going to be part of the wedding (ring bearer and flower boy) and she knew how important it was for me to have pictures of them. She did not take any pictures of my dogs.
She took a lot longer than most to give us our album and pictures. I kept having to contact her to get updates as she would never contact me. She also never mention anything about us getting a refund for not fulfilling her contract at the wedding. She was contracted to be at the wedding for 8 hours (2pm-10pm) and even though she was late, she left early too. She left at 9pm and didn’t even stay for our last dance. When my husband went to pick up the album, my husband brought up the idea of us getting some kind of refund. She agreed, and my husband told her to communicate with me about the refund details and also to apologize to me. She never contacted me. Not only that, the album that we order was supposed to have golden rose page borders and the one we got had silver ones.
Since I was not getting contacted about our refund, we ended up contacting her. We agreed to an amount, but then she wanted me to sign a contract saying that I would not seek legal action against her company or write a bad review. I replied to her that I was not looking to seek legal action and that I would not sign any non-disclosure agreement, and after she realized that these are illegal in California, she backed off from having us sign anything and decided to just give us a refund.
Dealing with her has taken a lot of time and grief. I would not want anyone who is getting married to have to deal with what I had to deal with because of her. She is completely unreliable and unprofessional. Trust me when I tell you that you are better off having other photographer at your wedding.