Brides Warned of Wedding Photographers
I have had a lot of experience in wedding photography, it is a hard job organising lots of people and you need lots of memory/film as it is very important you get a lot of images for the bride to choose from. It can take a number of months for the bride to choose the final prints but after that she should get what she has paid for pretty quickly. This is, hopefully, a once in a life time experience so the photographs are often very important to the couple.
It has been mentioned a few times in the press that brides have been ripped off by wedding photographers and in one case the bride considered taking legal action when the photographer took years to supply the images.
Laura Schuff said she was ready to take her wedding photographer to small claims court after waiting two years to receive all the items she paid for.
Rachael Roberto contacted the news media to tell her story of hassling the same photographer for a year-and-a-half before she got her album and prints.
Erica Curci filed a complaint with the Chattanooga Area Better Business Bureau after she said the photographer didn’t keep up her end of the contract.
These incidents keep occuring where the photographer has not kept to his/her promises of delivering the products. I would advise anyone getting a wedding photographer to go through a contract about exactly how many prints you will recieve and time scales of editing and printing.
This will stop any confusion and if the photographer feels for the amount of prints it will take a long time this can be agreed up front.
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Published January 8, 2009 . Filed under: Weddings
I believe there are a lot of less skilled wedding photographers out there and some who don’t deliver on their contracts. This may happen when the photographer doesn’t have enough good pictures to fulfil the contract. It does not justify the problem but it can happen and should be dealt with in the contract.
One way around this is for the photographer to charge an hourly rate and have a seperate charge for more refined editing and then the prints. I agree that time scales for editing and prints should be mandatory as should be for the payment thereof as there are just as many wedding photographers who get let down by the bridal couple who don’t pay their bills. Their dreams and expectations are sometimes bigger than their bank balance.
Not all builders let you down either.