New York – Like all girlfriends, Elana Goldin had great hope for her Wedding and video photos.
“I loved their images,” he said about the company chosen by his father and his future mother -in -law. “They were awarded. They were in a lot of magazines. I really liked the owner’s atmosphere.”
The feeling did not last.
The photographer, who appeared 45 minutes late with a team of two, was not the owner, as the company had promised. She was someone with whom Goldin had never spoken. The filling had a bad attitude from the beginning, said Goldin, who lives in Chicago and married last May at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Among other things, the photographer criticized Goldin’s nuptial shoes, jewels and perfume as a second rate for traditional foreground shots, and separated bouquets without permission to obtain images before the ceremony.
“She and the florist fought. There was friction from the moment she entered,” Goldin said.
Looking back, Goldin said he would have done some things differently.
We ask Wedding planners And photographers will also evaluate how they think that photographic disaster can be avoided.
Goldin wants her to have been More assertive. She had provided totela in advance, but the photographer assigned to the bride and the bridesmaids began to make demands about where Goldin posed.
“I am in my dress and she said that we take a photo in the shower, because it was a very large and glamorous shower. My sister was like, absolutely no. It didn’t happen,” Goldin recalled.
In the place, the photographer insisted on taking photos outside. The weather was rainy and windy, and the lighting was sad.
“I was disgusting outside. My dress got everything down at the bottom. My hair starts to cry. The ladies of honor came out and our hair blew everywhere. The images were horrible,” Goldin said.
You love them a lot. But New Jersey headquarters, Danielle Rothweiler of Rothweiler Event Design, advises against him.
“I always tell my partners, stop hiring your friends and family because if something goes wrong, think about that conversation you are going to have. Nobody wants that,” he said.
A client took an uncle in his offer to shoot his wedding as his gift. Half of the shots was lost and did not understand the importance of time. It also spent a good amount of time just as a guest and did not take photos.
“She never said anything. The photos were not great,” Rothweiler said. “I have a wedding that is coming this year and half of the list of suppliers is friends and family and I am terrified. I am very scared for that.”
Michelle Jackson, owner of the photo supplier, Bambino International, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, said some basic questions about the team can go a long way.
Make sure your photographers have support camera bodies and other crucial equipment of the same quality as your main team, she said. The cameras with dual slots for SD cards or XQD cards are optimal.
“Everything is being copied in two cards,” he said. “The worst disaster for a photographer is that you have no photos due to the failure of the team. Couples do not think about that.”
Along the same lines, San Francisco’s wedding photographer, Oscar Urizar, the owner of Red Eye Collection in San Francisco, said that couples should make sure they have the rights to the personal use of their photos. That allows them to print, share and show them for non -commercial purposes.
“I started in the film industry. If you did not get your negatives, you couldn’t print your photos. It’s that same thought,” he said.
There is nothing more chaotic than organizing group shots at weddings. The bigger the wedding, the more chaotic it can.
Tirusha Dave wedding planner, founder of the luxury market Bravura Brides serves couples in southern Asia worldwide with guest lists of up to 300 or more.
She brings together a shared document and asks couples to list all expected people in each group shot, but does not stop there. She makes them designate a person to serve as Wrangler. The Wrangler must meet all the people of the group by view so that they can be persecuted if necessary.
“I tell my partners, I am really great in what I do, but I don’t know your second cousins, your aunts and uncles extended,” Dave said.
Each group is assigned a number that is announced when it is time to meet.
The photographer of the Dallas area, April Pinto, founder and co -owner of April Pinto Photography, has a stable of shooters. They can juggle up to four weddings a week.
They sink or swim for good The timeline is observed. It is not an easy task, Pinto said: “When you have a coordinator that times you and the mother of the boyfriend who was not in Zoom’s call making his own agenda and stressing the bride. We are in the midst of all that.”
But that is only part of the challenge. The other part?
Rowdy’s honor lady said Pinto. She is someone who could have had too much champagne and feels that she should be in charge.
“If an honor lady feels a bit too spicy, we try to give her tasks,” Pinto said. “I find that keeping people generally committed and involved can go a long way. You can turn all that stress into a happy moment.”
