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I cried when I got my proofs. The pics were at best uninspired and totally generic and at worst crooked and awkward.
It took me a long time to get over how much I disliked them and focus on remembering how I was feeling when they were taken. It helped me to like them more when I could finally do that.
It made me really grateful that we set up a photoshare website so I could supplement our crappy pictures with guest shots.
I had some photo disappointment too. Just didn't get every shot I listed, and all of our family family photos are ruined because of bad lighting.
I'm so sorry you're so disappointed. It's hard to have a really good consolation for bad photos, but as my husband likes to remind me...we'll enjoy it an show to people for the first year and then pull it out only every 5 or so years. The memories and the marriage are more important!
I would definitely request your guests to share photos to a share site on shutterfly or a group on flickr with instructions on how to upload.
I can't do this in my situation (we had friendors that took ours as a gift...and it was an incredibly generous gift) but I would definitely express your disappointment. Did you have a shot list or anything?Just make sure you list specifically what you thought you missed out on. It might at least make you feel a little better!
Thanks ladies! I'm not glad I'm not alone though! :S
I guessed part of my dissapointment is that we did an e-shoot, I sent inspiration shots *and* we looked through two full weddings from this guy... the 'creativity' we discussed just didn't come out. Not to mention horrible ceremony shots. Ugh.
But your husband makes a great point LatteLove!
I definitely plan on 'nicely' letting our photographer know what I feel was missed, though I think I'll wait until after we have our prints back! And we're nagging our relatives for some of their shots too! :D
Yes. We don't have any good portoraits of as a couple. Ugh. No ring shots. Hardly any ouside shots, although that was the fault of the weather not the photog.
I just wanted to chime in that you're not alone in being disappointed in some of your wedding photos. Overall, I was really happy with our photographer, but there are a bunch of photos I hate because I'm making bad "serious" faces. She asked us to be serious a few times and I just look either pissed or about to cry. It's a huge bummer because there are some photos that would be awesome if I were just smiling. I tried to focus in on the shots I really loved and those are the ones we chose to frame.
FWIW, I think many people have at least a few wedding photo regrets, even if they loved their photographer. I'd also second checking with family/friends to see what their photos are like. We got a few really great pics that way.
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one!! There is only one picture at a distance of the two of us facing forward, the rest are of either me with the back of his head or vice versa. And a lot of them were fuzzy and crooked. I realize we hired him only a couple of months before the wedding, but he was supposed to be a professional wedding photographer, I think he is more suited for graduation pictures! We have some good ones, just nothing that says wow!!!
You are not alone. I have alot of regrets about my pictures and my photographer. So much so that I want to re-shoot pics in my dress for our 1yr anniversary. It's the only solution I could come up with after months of being so let down and sad
We were really unhappy with our pictures as well...like rosychicklet, we set up a photo sharing site for guests to upload pictures. It takes some of the sting out but I can't believe how much money we spent on pictures that are of such poor quality.
You are definitely not alone. The majority of our wedding day photos are good but our photog made a wrong turn on her way to where the boys were getting ready so she was too late getting back to where I was to get prep shots of me and my girls. I didn't care at the time but everytime I look back on them I'm a little disappointed. We also hired photogs for our rehearsal BBQ and I regret everything about that decision. Very few good pictures and a ridiculously small amount of pictures overall. It happens to a lot of us!
Do you all have any ideas for what could have made them better the day of? I'm really nervous about how my pics will turn out. :-/
I loved the photos that we got, but wish that we would have gotten more different shots. My fault becuase I didn't specify, but my SIL is willing to do another shoot for us once the weather gets warmer again, so maybe then we will get the shots I wanted
Remember you don't have to like EVERY picture... are there at least a few highlights that you like and could put in an album?
Another option would be to do a "trash the dress" style photo session. You and your H can go to some cool urban looking area, or run down shack or whatever and have someone take arsty looking shots... those always end up looking better than the official wedding shots anyway, in my opinion.
Have someone other than the photographer or the bride with the shot list. Pray that it doesn't rain. I think it's pretty much a crap shoot. I'm not a good one to talk to because I'm still bummed and my family and hubby don't care or think that the shots are good.
@hellohellohello ~ or for sure there are a few, but virtually most our wedding party & family shots, and *all* but one of our ceremony shots are crapola!
@kayakgirl73 ~ I'd totally planned on that, then forgot the dang list at home! Lesson learned - send it to the person who'll be in charge of it *before* the wedding! Of course I did get most of the shots I wanted, they just aren't good shots! *lol*
@Mrs. Dee to Bee ~ There's apprently no way to know for sure. Do an engagement shoot to see if you like your photographers style, if not - find another! Definitely look through more than one full wedding they've shot (I only looked through one, doh!). And do your research - a technically good photographer is not necessarily a creative one. And just because they charge you a lot and do this for a living does not make them a "pro" {my guy has since doubled his fee, I was shocked!}
If I could do it again, I'd give someone with a good eye the job of standing beside the photographer to make sure everyone's smiling, looking at the camera, not covered in shadows, etc. You'd think the photographer would be doing this, but apparently not always. :S Frankly for what we pay, I wouldn't care if that was annoying to the photographer if it got me good photos!
We didn't get any good portrait shots of us as a couple either. There is not a single decent shot of me by myself. Oh some great casual shots of us that I love, but nothing frameable for family. No ring shots either. Unfortunately the actual wedding day was so busy and such a blur that I didn't really noticed until I saw the pics.
Bluespurrs,
I feel for you. I'm still trying to figure out what to put in the mat we had people sign sign theren't good formal shots of the two of us. There are a couple good head shots but they are horizontal and people signed the mat vertically. I like a lot of the reception candids but they just don't work for parents and grandparents.
Well, I can't say I'm completely disappointed yet...I just got my pics and looking at them at work is a bit challenging : ) My photog story is kind of long - since I was having a DW, I booked through an agency that had 2 local photogs. I found out the Monday before the wedding that my photog had a family emergency and wouldn't be able to to our wedding, but the other photog had agreed to juggle his schedule and show up last minute. Oddly enough, I took it all fairly well - since it was a DW I had already sort of compromised on the style of photography I truly wanted. So the photog we ended up was super nice, but wanted to put us in poses for everything which is what I didn't want. Looking through the pics now, for me it's more just that we had such a stunning location and a million opportunities for amazing photos and I feel like a lot of the pro pics I'm seeing could have been taking by friends and family (and we actually have some amazing shots from friends and family!). And I'm feeling like a better photographer could have gotten some truly amazing shots.
Hmm- I've had lots of friends upset over their photos recently. I'm starting to see a trend. I think photographers are trying way too hard to get that artsy fartsy feel on photos that they are trying to get crooked angles, looking through a water glass etc. etc. that they have missed just taking your standard wedding portraits that look good for years to come. For example, when the bride and groom are cutting the cake the photographers no longer say, "Turn and smile at me" instead they just click click click away. And as a result you get one or both making funny faces or having closed eyes.
I'm going to tell my photographer to specifically asking the hubby and I to stop pose take a picture and go. Then that way we at least get a good posed photo along with the candid photos. I hope that works!
Hmmm Vintage you might be on to something. It felt like my photographer was just done with formal portraits. We were also her last wedding until after the new year.
As someone who is unhappy with my pics....here are my suggestions.
1) have a 2nd shooter. I regret that I only had one photog. There are no shots of me from behind while I walked down the aisle. Big moments only had one view or angle captured and sometimes that angle wasn't very good
2) TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS! I had doubts the entire year about our photog...but I pussed them aside and figured everything would be fine. I should have listened to my gut
3) If you are on a budget....don't just only think about the price. We were so price focussed that I picked a photog that I shouldn't have. If I could have done it over again...I would have spent and extra 1k....and scrapped something else to make up for it. Going "cheap" on your pics isn't the way to go. A good deal isn't a good deal if you don't like what you get
4) Write down EVERY SINGLE SHOT YOU WANT. Don't assume that your photog will know. Don't assume that when you give them a list of people you want in the formal pics...don't assume they will take more than one pic of that grouping. I did...but my photog just say the list of the people and only took ONE pic per grouping. NOT OK> Tell them everything you want. If that means you stay up until 2am one night listing every SINGLE shot you can think of that you would like...do it! If I had taken the time to list the 500 shots that I wanted...I would have gotten them. If you choose someone and you do not 100% trust their "eye"...then list everything you want them to shoot. He shot NONE of my reception details and I jsut assumed he would. DON"T ASSUME.
5) Shoot with them before your wedding. Have an e-shoot with them for 2 reason.s 1st it gives you a chance to see thier style and if you like it. 2nd...it gives you a chance to see if you like thier style and feel comfortable shooting with them
I really wanted pictures outside our venue but it was so windy and cold that day we didn't take very many. I love when wedding parties take pictures at interesting locations. Our pictures will mostly all be inside the venue, which was beautiful but I just wanted different backgrounds. Luckily our photobooth captured lots of pictures of our guests and me with my attendants.
Yes! Our photographer is a completely unprofessional idiot. Creatively, she did a good job on posed shots ONLY. But she obviously has no technical skills when it comes to photography, because they were all shot in in a VERY incorrect iso and they can't be printed, even on 4x6, without being pixalated. Also, she took a million useless shots of two of her friends that were there (what am I going to do with those?!?) and not enough of the actual wedding, decorations, family members, etc. She didn't edit all of the photos - just a few. So everyone has red eye in my non-printable photos. Then she gave pics to our florist to post on her website - that don't even have flowers in them, but DO have our full first and last names (pics of the invitations), which the florist then posted on her site (I asked her to take them down) and then called the florist an idiot for posting them!
That girl was the lone mistake I made when planning my wedding. She shouldn't even call herself a photographer. She should call it what it is - a hobby.
I'm sorry Laylabelle. Maybe some of your guests got some good photos? Can you get any of your money back?
Thanks, kayak. I'm currently dealing with her, but as I said, she's very unprofessional. Instead of immediately admitting her mistake, I had to prove it to her, at which point she not only didn't apologize and didn't offer to help. I then had to ask her to at least play with the clarity and contrast to get rid of the noise and fuzziness in the pics, and to make them printable.
If she can't deliver on that, I'm definitely asking for a portion of my money back. I'm just a little ticked off about this, heh! :P
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I was worried I would be {based solely on what positions we took and how unwiliing to be flexible our photog ended up being!}, and I am totally dissapointed with our pro photos (hubs is too).
There are hardly any decent shots of our wedding party and the ceremony photos could have been taken by any of our guests (actually some of our guests took better ones!). Ugh... we still have prints to order that were included in our package, but I'd really like to tell our photog how dissapointed we are with basically every shot except a few of our couple portraits...
Has anyone else had to deal with this???