Disgusting wedding photos

I really think op that this is on you, you really should have made sure you knew what to look for when they were taking photos, better still you should have looked at each photo after they were taken and given your critic. you had all day! 🙄

now in all seriousness I bet they look much better than your think and you look lovely. But pls speak to the photographer and sask what else they have.

Agree with this.

If he has 'changed his style' or if he has not taking photos a variety of ways, especially of the bride/groom, then I would be quite unhappy and want my money back.

People, especially brides, just can not be objective about their wedding photos IME. Mine from my summer 2023 wedding have been used online and in print for promotion by 7 different businesses, including our venue (there's even a bloody wedding picture of us on a poster in our local GP's office
). Am i validated by this? No. I am not. I keep looking at them and thinking 'I am not sure about this angle, and my dress has slipped a bit there, oh I wish he's got x,y and z' - every other single person, including DH, has said they are brilliant but I just can't zoom out. If I was OP I'd be trying to get some opinions from others about them before taking action...

I hated my photos when I first saw them but they grew on me lots to the point that I'm not sure why I hated them. I love them now but perhaps they're becoming a little out of date 😒.

Most people are usually disappointed with their wedding photos, I think there’s high expectation. I got married abroad and when my photos came back I wasn’t that overly impressed with them, the photographer had missed some great shots and got us to post in some strange ways however, I realised I only needed to like at least one and I do, most people who see my photos say how lovely they are, they are beach photos and bright and sunny, but I never point out why I’m not keen…although I like them much more 10 years on.

The photographer should have known it's not a very flattering angle, even I know that and no-one pays me to take photos. I'd be furious if there were too many like that.

Didnt' mean to be 'catty' at all. We are used to seeing magazine photos, and we all want to look like them. But if one does not have a perfect chin, or perfect upper arms, or ... whatever- then we are going to be disappointed. Because few of us are perfect like those models. Would therefore be a good idea in advance to say to photographer that we have an issue with our chin or upper arms, or ... whatever, and ask for photographer to take this very carefully into account. Even a good photographer can't make us be like those models.

Of course she doesn’t, but in this case it seems to be more of a ‘talking someone out of doing something ridiculous’ situation rather than a controlling man telling his wife what to do.

I was disappointed with my photographs too. Some that I wanted to get there wasn’t time for and there are some absolute shockers of me that are so unflattering. They are easier to look at now than they were two years ago but I still have to be brave to get my head round them.

There were much better photos of me taken at a friends wedding where I was part of the bridal party.

I was thinking it would be a Small Claims Court job which is inexpensive.

But that wasn't my point, my point was that a wife does not need her husband's "permission". I meant generally, not in relation just to this.

@BeyondMyWits @RedYellowPinkGreenPurpleOrangeBlue I went to one of those last May too! It seems they are becoming more common. Felt like the guests were there as props for the photos and not to enjoy themselves. The wedding party was gone for - and I'm not exaggerating - a good 2 hours, taking those awful stages group pics in various arrangements. Then, the photographers were constantly faffing with tripods and lights to get some good 'candid' ones, trying to rearrange people into and out of shots. It was a shit wedding.

Everyone looks bad when viewed from the "up the chin" angle. I'm a little surprised the photographer made such a basic error actually.

How many are actually "up chin"? I would just email and ask if they can send you more photos that aren't from that angle as it's unflattering.

Try to keep it in perspective- you don't need them all to look good. You only really need a handful of decent ones. Some bad pictures are inevitable.

This , I photographed for horse shows , there was always loads more than I actually showed the client, ask to see the others .

@fungipie

what do you mean?

I never think I have one either. I don’t think I do front-on, but have you ever had your phone camera switch to selfie when you’re holding it facing upwards? It’s most disturbing! I even tried it on dc to check and yep … it’s an unflattering angle even for little people unravaged by time. A photographer should know better. What was he highlighting? Crotches or something?

I always think I’ve seen the cattiest, most empathy-free post on Mn then one like this pops up.

Our professional wedding photos were dreadful too and we’ve never had a single photo printed or an album done. The same photographers did SIL’s wedding and the photos were beautiful.

We asked people for photos that they had, and the best photo of DH and I - which is the one and only one we have on display - was taken in the Photo Booth of all places.

As pp have said - ask the photographer to see all the photos, ask for anything that you consider to be imperfections to be removed etc, and if you still aren’t happy then consider a post-wedding shoot with a new photographer.

I was at a (very expensive!) wedding in 1999 where they had to do this as the photographer had forgotten to put film in his camera !

I had EXACTLY the same and was so upset too. I wish I’d asked for them to be photoshopped so the angle induced double chin was removed they’d taken them all like that.: (

so yes, ask for ones taken not at that angle or if they all have been, or most, tell them they need to fix the issue then resubmit, because it’s BASIC not to shoot people at that angle and you’re upset.

If they're that bad, you need to get some or all of your money back. Then talk to your guests and get the best photos off them - there are bound to be some crackers. I was recently on a wedding Whatsapp group for a friend's wedding and there were loads of great photos added to it by guests after the day itself. And the suggestion made by one other poster about booking another shoot in your wedding gear is a really fun idea. A few Proseccos and some cake and it'll be a giggle.

This happened to me many years ago. It was midday and the sun was high. In all the photos the shadows of our noses make us look like we have no front teeth ! Photographer had been a gift and this was pre digital so we just had to grin and bear it 😂😂

The one thing that I was happy with was a video taken on the day by a relative - we hadn't asked him to: not a professional. However, he's tall and the video looked so much better.

I had similar...I made the mistake of hiring a firm rather than a specific photographer. We'd seen photographs that they'd taken at other weddings and they looked fine.

I'm quite tall. The photographer who turned up wasn't. The photos where I'm seated are okay; the rest really aren't.

My husband complained about one where I was sitting down and there's a cross apparently growing out of my head. He told them it was simply bad photography and asked them to Photoshop it. (This was back in the '90s.) They said they couldn't. In the end, we lived with it.

Low down photos are awful, I agree. I hate when anyone shoots me from this angle, so I’d definitely have noticed (I also do photography myself, so aware of things like this).

Good idea to ask if they have others, and I was going to ask the same as previous posters about whether you viewed their portfolio prior to hiring to make sure they suited you.

@HcbSS

no when you are paying out hundreds for photos you want them to be good. Whether you have a good day or good marriage is irrelevant- with wedding photography you’re paying for a service and it needs to be decent