Following my wedding, Daryl sent me a flash drive with roughly 560 photos. We hired him for 6 hours. Of those 560 photos, they were out of focus, crooked, and there were actually only roughly 150 different images – meaning over 400 of the photo...s were duplicates. He sent us 5 photos of our first dance, all out of focus or with our eyes closed. He took 4 getting ready images and 2 venue images total, even though we hired him to start an hour before the ceremony began. He did not take any photos until 30-40 minutes after when he was supposed to begin and has no explanation for what he was doing during that time. There are no photos of my husband or I seeing each other for the first time. A month before the wedding we asked for 8 photos with specific guests, he did not take any of these images. He lacks any creativity. His instructions included: look at the camera, look at each other, kiss. And he did not bother with anything else. After receiving a negative email from me, he informed me his assistant sent me unedited photos and sent me a new thumb drive with corrected images. There were then 530 photos, still roughly 150 different images, still crooked, still out of focus, and still not of the people we asked of. And, the one special moment he managed to capture, our first kiss -- he deleted. So he's either careless or spiteful. Additionally, before the wedding, we spoke on the phone, emailed, texted, and met in person. The day of the wedding he had no idea who we were. Literally introduced himself to me and asked me my name. After the wedding, when we were discussing my negative feedback on the phone, he still did not know who we were. Yet, he kept our credit card number during our entire business relationship and never missed a charge. He even negotiated with me while I was eating dinner at my wedding to stay longer and charged our card on the spot.
After our engagement sitting Daryl asked us to post a 5/5 review on google, the knot, and weddingwire so he could win some vendor award. We did it because at that point he had already charged us over half the cost and we wanted to keep a good relationship for the wedding. But not cutting my losses and finding a different photographer was the worst decision. Beware if he asks you to do the same thing. He now has the one good photo he managed to get of us posted to his website for advertising purposes. Don't be fooled!