Jared Willis

Save yourself the time, trouble, and tears. After almost 5 months I have still not received our wedding photos. Highly disappointed that I now have to go to court for the pictures I have a right to according to the contract we signed As with others, things started out okay, but then I saw the other reviews about Jared about 2 months before our wedding. I questioned him about it after he had not been in contact with us for months, and he got defensive. He did not hesitate to ask for our payment in the same breath. I regret not just breaking the contract because no amount of money is worth my tears and anguish over the situation. Instead, I gave the man a second chance I knew he didn't deserve. I requested he stay in contact at least weekly until the wedding, and for the most part he did keep that promise. Then comes the wedding, which is when the real trouble started. Our wedding was 5/25/2024, to which he showed up an hour late with pretty much no contact and did not acquire the photos I requested of my husband getting ready, later stating in a different interaction that “As you recall discussing, I don't do a ton of getting ready pics anyway.. please don't let the lack of your husband's friends putting on ties ruin your wedding”. He was then sporadic throughout the night, with no real direction or organization. My maid of honor was the one who wrangled my family and moved them along for family portraits. During the wedding, I had requested golden hour pictures but it rained during most of our reception. When the sun came out another guest had to tell Jared to come get us for golden hour pictures. I have been in intermittent contact with Jared since the wedding, asking for updates no more than once a week (unless unanswered, then no more than once a day). He is intermittently rude, dissmissive, and unprofessional, then in the next interaction he is joking and acting like he was not unprofessional in the last conversation with no remorse for his behavior. Our most recent exchange is as follows (the most previous interaction being 9/20/24 discussing the getting ready photos, the delivery of a partial gallery missing many family portraits that we knew he captured and the delivery of blurry photos during which I asked for an email address to send the photos that I compiled that need more editing): 9/22/2024 17:56 Me, Client (C ): Should I email the pictures for your review? If so, to which email? Last email I sent I got an undelivered response 9/24/2024 09:43 C: Which email should I send the pictures I need you to review to 9/30/2024 19:54 C: Did you ever finish the gallery? I still don’t see a lot of the family portraits 10/2/2024 14:32 C: Following up, yet again 18:21 Jared (J): I am working on your pics day and night. Do not message me again. C:I feel like I have a right as a client to receive timely communication regarding a service that I paid you for... Additionally I was trying to communicate the information you asked for... If you would prefer I limit it to a certain mode of communication, day of the week or time please feel free to let me know, but if I don't receive a response please know that I will be following up J: You’re blocked have a nice life Jared subsequently blocked me on instagram, facebook, and text message and deactivated our wedding photo site that had our partial gallery of edited photos on it, now stating “404 page not found”.