We were talked into letting my best friend's husband take the photos. He was an amateur photographer and I liked what he'd done before so thought it would be a lovely thing to do.
It didn't save us any money as we paid an extortionate amount for them and their children to stay in the hotel in return.
The photos were shit. There's one nice one which we've had framed but the others were really crap. He took loads of his own family. None of my sister. He took a creepy shot (on purpose, and he was really proud of it) that made it look like Dh was about to snog my mum. He also photoshopped that one 'for a laugh' to put DH's hand on my mums arse.
So that was all bad enough. But a couple of years later he actually assaulted me. Long story but basically he was out drinking with Dh, he left him in the pub and let himself in my back door (which was open for Dh to get in without using the noisy front door). I was asleep on the sofa and woke up to him sticking his tongue in my mouth. He then groped me and said some awful suggestive stuff, tried to get me to go to bed and said he'd let himself out. He eventually left.
I had him arrested but ultimately the cps dropped the charges. His wife cut me out completely and hasn't spoken to me since.
So obviously there's a lot of emotion tied up in the photos and it really upsets me that I don't have a beautiful photographic reminder of what was an amazing day.
My wonderful friend had a candid shot of us on the day and her DP (who is a very talented artist) painted it for us, so I have that, and it's wonderful.
But I get so jealous seeing other people's gorgeous wedding albums and just feel that the whole miserable experience has ruined my memories of the day.
Not really sure what I'm posting for, actually. It was just on my mind earlier and I needed to get my thoughts down.
We've been married six years, so none of this is recent. I'm just dwelling on it really.