So we had a very small intimate wedding which was full of lots of emotions due to various reasons. It was just us, our 2 young children and our parents. I asked a local photographer if they would come for an hour for a few photos, I wanted a nice one of the 4 of us, 1 of us all, 1 of us with my parents and 1 with grooms parents. Didn’t feel this was a big ask. Paid £200 for 45 mins of photographers time plus editing which I thought was reasonable.
The night before the photographer messaged and asked if she could bring her daughter aged 9. I should have said no, but I felt a bit pushed into saying yes as she said she had no childcare and I thought she might cancel if I said no!
I wasn’t very happy anyway with the wedding photos, she didn’t get a nice one of the 4 of us. She took it at a really odd angle so you couldn’t see the children’s faces. However my dad took loads and his were much better but in ALL the photos (that my dad took) there is the photographers daughter!!! She wanted to play with the girls but it meant that all the beautiful photos of them in the gardens playing with the flowers and then with us were with this 9 year old. My eldest didn’t take to her and got annoyed that she wanted to play.
The photographer also forgot to take a photo with us my parents! And got annoyed when my husband mentioned it and said she’d take it on one of our phones instead as she’d put her camera away.
AIBU to complain? Would you be annoyed at this? Obviously we can’t change things now and it’s only when looking back at the photos and now I’ve got the professional ones that I’ve realised we don’t have the 1 photo I really wanted :(