Robin Rogers Photography, LLC

Lets be honest, your wedding is a once in a lifetime event. You’re only going to have that big day once, with that special someone. Choose wisely. In this process, my husband and I have learned a lot about planning a wedding. Here is what we learned about the photography portion. Experience does matter. We made the mistake of choosing someone who was new to the business of wedding photography. We both didn’t realize it, until we got our photos back eight weeks later. Yes, people have to start somewhere. To be honest my husband and I did not know how expensive a good photographer is. You need to consider price vs. experience and do you want an inexperienced photographer using your wedding as a learning experience? What images are important to you? Granted I think this goes back to experience of the photographer. It never hurts to clarify what is important to you. My husband and I had the general idea that photography of a wedding included most of your guest, pictures of each section of your event (like ceremony, dinner and etc.), pictures of the groom and groomsmen and so on. We should have clarified to take pictures of the groom mingling, other guest mingling, and that we wanted a bit of everything that day. Image count. I feel that this is very important. What does that image count include? Do you and your photographer agree that colored version and black and white version of the same image counts as two different images? When you import your pictures to your private computer you have the option to change to black and white. Most physical print locations and online printing companies give you that option as well. Also concerning images, does one image zoomed in different ways and cropped differently count as a multiple image to you and your photographer? Here are personal reasons why my husband and I would not recommend Robin Rogers as a wedding photographer. Please review Robin Rogers Smith Wedding on Facebook, this is a public page. All 494 images are posed there, these are all the photos given to husband and I from our wedding and bridals. All images are set up as they were in the gallery with the exception that no duplicates are posted. If we could do it all again, we would have prioritized experience over price. Due to the fact outside formals and pictures of my husband and I together, there are only 6 pictures of my husband in the entire gallery. While the bridesmaids and I were getting ready, I was informed that the groom and groomsmen pictures were done. There were a total of 7 pre ceremony pictures that included the groom and groomsmen out of 69. Out of 496 images none included my guest having dinner. This entire section was missed via photography. We did read the contract after the fact, Robin releases her self of any liability of missing complete sections of our wedding. If it weren’t for the formal photos with family, nearly half of our guest would have not been photographed at all. Interesting enough, Robin was recommended as a great family photographer. I didn’t get that impression reviewing our family photos. My husband and I kept asking ourselves, did she even review it after she snapped the photo? They seemed like awkward candid photos. The other half of our guest arriving from east and west cost were not photographed at all.