Disgusting wedding photos

we got married in Las Vegas and these were two of the photos I got. I think I was upset at the time but now they are something to look back and laugh. I understand though because you want the day to be perfect

100% agree I’m pretty sure no brides going to stop their wedding to micromanage a professional photographer they’ve trusted and paid a lot of money for honestly why even comment

Agreed. It's the sort of thing you see tabloid photographers do when the headline is something like 'Four single mums band together to sue Council for not picking up their dog poo'.

I agree that it can be a shock how we look in real life when not posing for one off photos and taken from various angles, unfiltered. I know to take photos from a higher angle to get rid of my chins, but unfortunately photos from the last family wedding I attended rid me of any delusions as to what I look like when I am not posing.

Brilliant 😂😂

I would say that this is a constant danger when people (maybe not OP who knows) live their lives taking photos way above their heads pointing down and with filters and such on that many people are disappointed with their wedding photos.

It is likely the photographer doesn't share your self consciousness about your double chins and so to them it isn't an issue. Ask them if they have any other photos as you're disheartened that the low angles aren't flattering.
I'm sure you looked beautiful

Ask to see the photographer's other photos.

Ask for all your guests to send their photos. Many will be lovely often very natural moments and almost certainly not from crouched down.

We really are. I got married long ago and before giving birth to 4 big babies. I remember looking at my wedding photos and saying, "But look at my huge stomach" I was a size 8 and looking at them now all I can think is how the hell was I seeing a huge stomach. Oh to look like that again.

You might not like the photos which is fair enough but unless they’ve been photoshopped you can hardly complain as they are just a snapshot of reality which isn’t always the same as what’s in our head. The photos are just how everyone looked on the day.

Most people view previous work and tell their photographer exactly what photos they want. You're nit supposed to actually leave it up to the photographer just to click away and take photos, and you should have seen him low down and knew what the photo was going to look like.

Mine are really awful as well, OP! There are maybe 3-4 that I don’t mind, so we have those framed and I don’t really think about it now!

It's classic mumsnetitis - it's always the OP's fault. If Cinderella posted that she was upset that she couldn't go to the ball there would be someone telling her it's her fault.

Totally get it. I wasn't happy with my wedding photos either.

My mother went to a co-worker's wedding. The photographer had just gotten her camera back on Thursday afternoon, did not run a roll in it to check after the repair. Then showed up Friday night to shoot the wedding.

Mom always grabbed her camera for things like this. Monday morning, mom sent her camera roll in to be processed.

Thursday the co-worker gets the call from the photographer that her camera had messed up, large-scale! The only pictures the couple had was from those amateur cameras from those that grabbed their camera and showed up at the wedding.

Yes, ask those who attended if they have pictures they are willing share with you.

Oh thank you! It was rude of me to ask but your post was intriguing!

Glad it was so professionally sorted .

@Calliopespa Too much conditioning product had been used when I washed my hair the previous day so my hair was sticky and wet-looking. There wasn't enough time to rewash my hair (although my hair takes so little time to dry I think we could have looking back). My hairdresser worked with what she had and my hair looked beautiful in sepia - just not in colour!

At my friends wedding the photographer was trying to take some really unflattering shots of her. She is my best friend and lets just say is large of nork and the dress was quite low. She was sitting down signing the register and the bosoms were spilling out the top and it would have been mortifying for her. I gently pulled him to one side and suggested her take some photos when she was in a more flattering pose. He did oblige but I wonder if that's the difference between a male and a female.

Perhaps he needed the loo and was trying to squat out the urge.

We had an issue with our wedding photos - two years after the wedding, the photographer still hadn't sent them to us and wasn't responding to our messages. I saw she had membership with a wedding photographers guild or association and got in contact with them. They were absolutely brilliant and sorted the whole thing out. Our photos when we finally got them were lovely, but I have such feelings of stress around the whole thing that I rarely/ never look at them and don't have any of them on display.

Just to say, if your photographer belongs to a professional organisation, it might be worth following up with them if you think they really are sub-standard.

OP was the photographer a professional? Shooting from low all the time doesn’t sound very professional to me.

Just to say.. as a photographer myself with 40 odd years experience and still going....
First you choose a photographer after seeing and liking their work. Usually a good photographer will bring a second shooter . To have shots at various different angles. If they are too cheap, or a friend of a friend, then sorry , you are looking for trouble. Since Digital revolutioned the world, now any fool with a passion for photography can buy a camera and call themselves a photographer. To me this smells , he wouldn't give you the rubbish shots and keep the best ones for you to see later. Sorry, your wedding is unique and you trust some one to record your memories. Hope it ends well.

I'm sorry - but that did make me giggle!

I hated mine too. Throw them in a drawer and forget about them. Come back to them in 10 years time and you'll probably think some of them are OK.

It's alright, I hate mine too.

We had a great photographer. I just hated how I looked.

Got let down by the make up artist and hair stylist that was booked. I didn't book them. SIL did and "forgot" to tell me both had got normal jobs due to Covid so were no longer doing hair and make up. When she finally told me (a month before the wedding when I asked about the hair and make up trials) we were still in lockdown and so it was impossible to replace them.

I am shit at make up, and hair. I wanted to wear an antique veil, couldn't because I couldn't do it myself. Bought a hair band off Amazon that looked shit.

My dress had no hoop because I bought it from eBay and had no clue I needed a hoop. So it hung weird. I left my bra on and thought you couldn't see it, you could at the back. I had put on weight in lockdown (didn't we all). I literally have not one photo up of our wedding up to the point I keep telling DH we need a redo. He thinks I looked lovely. I think I looked shit and I had wanted to look amazing as I'm not usually known for going glam.

You are not alone.

this! If there had been an outbreak of food poisoning at the reception would you be telling the OP it was her fault 'surely you should have been going into the kitchen to check they were cooking everything properly?'