Wedding Really Disappointed--Our Pictures Turned out BAD

[HaloAngel]

Any updates?

I''m so sorry you had to experience this

 

[vetrik]

Haven,

I know this was from a couple months ago, but I just had to post. I so feel for your situation, I think this is one of the worst wedding things (I may be biased!). I hope you''ve been able to come to terms with it over the past couple months and figure out the best way to work with what you have. I definitely agree with gathering as many non-pro pics as you can, and figuring out what you can do with the pro pics as far as post production.

I don''t know if it will make you feel any better, but my photography situation is even worse. I think my wedding was cursed as far as photography.

The photographs were always very important to me, and I did a lot of research before booking a photographer. I picked someone highly recommended online, had been in business for 20 years, we liked all of his work that we''d seen, etc. He did our engagement shoot 7 months before the wedding, and we were happy. Unfortunately, he got arrested and thrown in jail 3 months before our wedding for holding up a pizza shop with a machete and a woman at an ATM at knifepoint (apparently there was a drug problem

). We were stranded three months before our wedding with no photographer, and of course, everyone well known and recommended was booked. We ended up finding a local student (we live near the Rhode Island School of Design) that seemed excellent. His work was beautiful, he was very responsive, he even went up to our venue before the wedding to scope it out and look at photo locations.

When we finally saw the pictures he''d taken, it was very upsetting. All the posed pictures with the wedding party looked like they were taken in the middle of the night, there were no close up pictures of DH and me together (I ended up cropping my brothers out of a picture to have one to put in the newspaper), there''s no picture of DH alone without a stuffed cow in it (long story!), I saw him taking pictures that never showed up in the online proofs, there were almost no detail pictures, etc. Then, on top of that, he disappeared. I have never received any physical proofs, my album, my cd of high res images, nothing. My pictures have now disappeared from his website, and I can''t get him to answer me as far as what happened to them.

I''ve had a lot of heartbreak over this situation, as I imagine you have. There''s just no way to redo the wedding - it''s once in a lifetime, and it''s so painful that the only tangible images of that day don''t live up to the memories. I''ve tried to make do the best I can. The minister''s wife took most of the same posed pictures that the pro did (and her''s aren''t as black as night) and she gave us prints and the negatives. My brother only took 10 pictures with his digital camera, but they''re some of the best we have of that day. I do have 4x6 prints I ordered from the photographer''s website before he disappeared of the best of what he took, and I''ve scanned those in. I ordered a photo book from online with the best of what I have so at least I have some sort of album. I wish you the best of luck!