I honestly hate having to write this review because photography was one of the most important investments we made for our wedding, and these are the only professional photos we wil...l ever have from that day.
We looked through 40+ photographer portfolios before choosing this company. I specifically chose this photographer because I loved her work and trusted her to capture the moments that mattered most. I also spent a significant amount of time completing the questionnaire/portal and communicating the specific photos we wanted, including photos of my husband and me with my veil draped over us. Unfortunately, after receiving our full gallery, we are extremely disappointed and heartbroken.
Our wedding timeline ran behind, and we felt extremely rushed throughout the day. Our videographer was wonderful, but we did not have the same experience with our photographer. We felt there was very little direction, and many important moments were either missed or not captured in a way we would expect from a professional wedding photographer.
To be fair, there ARE photos of my husband with my dad, and we DID take portraits during cocktail hour. However, there are zero photos documenting cocktail hour itself. We have no photos of our memorial table, audiobook/guestbook booth, decor, food/drinks, or what the overall space looked like. We were taking portraits during that time and trusted our photographer to document everything else for us.
The image quality is also a major concern. We received almost 1,600 images, but many of the wider photos are blurry, soft, pixelated, or poorly composed. The close-ups tend to be much clearer. Some photos have a very heavy filter, and the black-and-white images are extremely dark. The editing is very inconsistent. The 87 “Editor’s Choice” images are beautiful, which unfortunately makes the rest of the gallery even more disappointing. Those images show the quality we expected throughout the gallery.
Most importantly, we envisioned so much more for our actual wedding portraits. There is only ONE formal portrait of my husband and me where we are both looking at the camera and smiling. We have no photos of us with my veil covering us despite specifically requesting them, very limited outdoor bridal portraits, and not one photograph of my husband and me dancing together on the dance floor. There are only a few photos of us dancing while there are many of our guests.
Some of the moments that hurt the most:
• My dad walking me down the aisle and hugging me was photographed from very far away, with no close-up focused on us.
• There are only a couple photos of my dad and me walking down the aisle.
• Our aisle dip photo is extremely close-up and tilted, making the moment difficult to see.
• I have only one formal portrait with my mom, and it isn’t even a traditional portrait of us together. It is simply her touching my veil. This is devastating because I will never have that moment back.
• There are very few meaningful photos from the mother-son dance.
• Our sparkler exit photo is blurry/pixelated.
• Many family and wedding-party combinations we wanted were missed. Instead, our day felt rushed, and we were left with very few meaningful photos of my husband and me. We trusted this photographer to preserve these once-in-a-lifetime memories, and we cannot recreate them. We deeply regret our photography experience and we can never get that back.