Weddings As You Wish

ot ever send your photos to you. Peyton reached out to me last fall on Instagram offering to take our family photos free of charge in exchange for photo credit on social media as I have a large following. We spoke on the phone and she seemed like a really nice girl who knew what she was doing. It was time for us to get some new family photos so we went ahead and set up a date. I wanted to shoot at my fave winery, so we had to get permission and work with them to leave the gates open after hours for a sunset shoot which wasn't easy to do. We spent hours getting our family of 4 ready and headed out into the blistering August heat. Peyton was late and we couldn't get ahold of her at first, but she did eventually show up. She was very nice and brought along her family's giant jenga set for us to do some photos with. We got amazing photos of my son playing his sax in the vineyard, some great jenga action shots, so many wonderful sunset moments, I was so excited as she showed me the photos along the way. She promised photos within a couple of weeks. Then, Peyton completely disappeared. Months went by and not a word, despite me sending several texts and IG messages. I worriedly looked for family members of hers on Instagram and found her mom and messaged her to see if everything was ok. Everything was just fine her mom assured me, Peyton was evidently just "very busy". I waited a bit longer and sent a few more messages that went unanswered. I was polite every time I reached out, and even offered to even pay for the photos despite our previous agreement. I told her if the photos were lost I would understand. Nothing, ever. It is now February and she's resurfaced on Instagram but still won't respond to me. If you are capturing an important moment, an engagement, a wedding, a new baby, or just celebrating your family...please, please, please hire someone else. It's not worth risking having those moments lost forever to someone who's "too busy" to ever send you a single photo from your shoot. I wasn't going to write this review because I really don't like tearing people apart, but I'm just so sad over never getting to see those photos. Even more so, I'm incredibly frustrated at being completely ignored despite being kind and composed this entire time.