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Super_Ideal_Rock
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Kind of a long-winded vent here. I''m not sure what I''m looking for in terms of advice, etc., but I wanted to vent a bit and see if anyone else had this experience or something similar.
We got married 1.5 years ago, and my husband and I STILL haven''t ordered any pictures or an album. We were planning on ordering an album for each set pf parents but our photographer actually gave them albums for free. We did receive a CD set to music, and we''ve watched that a few times, but I can''t get rid of this nagging feeling that we should also order prints.
Part of our reasoning for not ordering pictures at first was that my husband lost his job 4 months after our wedding, so we needed to save rather than spend on something so "frivolous." Another reason is that, while we liked our photographer, we felt that she missed a few things that we had specified that we really wanted At the time though, we were so caught up with the day that we didn''t realize that certain things on our wish list weren''t being done. For example:
1. Most of our photos were formal/posed, not candids. That wasn''t the look we were going for.
2. The grounds of the venue are gorgeous (plenty of opportunities there), but all of our pics were taken under the same darn tree on the property.
3. There weren''t a lot of detail shots, which I had specified wanting. There are some, just not as many as I wanted.
4. The photographer took posed shots of everyone at each table except one table (my sister''s). At the time, not everyone was there so she was going to return later to take a pic but forgot.
5. We have no formal pics taken of my dad''s side of the family, just my mom''s. I should have thought of this at the time, but I was caught up in the day, as I mentioned, so I didn''t.
I hate to say this because we did like our photographer overall, but she wasn''t our first or even second choice. We ultimately chose her because of budgetary reasons, and she came highly recommended from a few friends and family members (who had family portraits done but not wedding pics). I look at all the magazine style/artsy pictures here and I think, "THAT''S what we wanted!"
So much time has passed and I''d feel weird contacting her now, but it would be nice to have a few pictures of our wedding day.
Has this happened to you?
We got married 1.5 years ago, and my husband and I STILL haven''t ordered any pictures or an album. We were planning on ordering an album for each set pf parents but our photographer actually gave them albums for free. We did receive a CD set to music, and we''ve watched that a few times, but I can''t get rid of this nagging feeling that we should also order prints.
Part of our reasoning for not ordering pictures at first was that my husband lost his job 4 months after our wedding, so we needed to save rather than spend on something so "frivolous." Another reason is that, while we liked our photographer, we felt that she missed a few things that we had specified that we really wanted At the time though, we were so caught up with the day that we didn''t realize that certain things on our wish list weren''t being done. For example:
1. Most of our photos were formal/posed, not candids. That wasn''t the look we were going for.
2. The grounds of the venue are gorgeous (plenty of opportunities there), but all of our pics were taken under the same darn tree on the property.
3. There weren''t a lot of detail shots, which I had specified wanting. There are some, just not as many as I wanted.
4. The photographer took posed shots of everyone at each table except one table (my sister''s). At the time, not everyone was there so she was going to return later to take a pic but forgot.
5. We have no formal pics taken of my dad''s side of the family, just my mom''s. I should have thought of this at the time, but I was caught up in the day, as I mentioned, so I didn''t.
I hate to say this because we did like our photographer overall, but she wasn''t our first or even second choice. We ultimately chose her because of budgetary reasons, and she came highly recommended from a few friends and family members (who had family portraits done but not wedding pics). I look at all the magazine style/artsy pictures here and I think, "THAT''S what we wanted!"
So much time has passed and I''d feel weird contacting her now, but it would be nice to have a few pictures of our wedding day.
Has this happened to you?