How to just get over it?

[Larissa]

We had two wedding, both were great, but there are a couple of things that are bugging me when I look back at the photos.

GA wedding - no close up photos of the centerpieces and no pictures of the tent set-up...I'm starting to get over these.

London wedding - my dress was full of static that day and looks short. I was talking to my photographer and her husband about the photos and her husband mentioned that he thought it was supposed to be tea-length. Most of the time it isn't noticeable becase we're walking, but I wanted to include a couple of posed photos in the album...and my dress looks too short in all of them.

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I care less about my engagement ring than when we got engaged so I figured I'd get over this, but 3 months later and it's *still* bugging me. How on earth do I just get over it?

[tlew12778]

Yeah... I don't know... I was wondering the same thing. When I think back to our reception, I think about the HORRIBLE music. Ugh.

[~Lucy]

Did any of your guests take photos of any of these? I had similar issues with a couple of things. One was an ice sculpture of a castle that was the centerpiece of the whole reception. It was about five feet tall and seven feet across and sat on two large tables. Some of our guests had great pictures of it so they made copies for us.

The only other thing I can suggest is if your photographer can digitally manipulate the photos of your gown to make it look full length.

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Soon, you will move onto other thoughts and other things and you'll be over it. Try to focus on the photos you do love, and what a great time you and your guests had, and the individual photos will really become less important.

You were a beautiful bride! You and your DH look so happy! :D (PS, I was far more drawn to your hair and your gown's neckline than the hemline, and I wouldn't have noticed anything if you hadn't said something.)

[maplekitty]

if it's any consolation...you looked beautiful! And even though *you* know the dress is looking kind of short...no one else will.

During my wedding, for example, I decided at the last moment to get *another* gut sucker-inner to make my waist *thatmuch* smaller. Big mistake!! The skirt of my dress twisted, and all my ceremony pictures, the back train of my dress is practically at my hips. No one noticed except for me, when I got the pictures back. It drove me nuts for months after....but honestly, eventually I got over it, because when people look through my photos, not one single person noticed or even commented on that.

It's not something to get hung up on, people are looking at your gorgeous smiling faces, and commenting on how beautiful and happy you look - *not* that your dress looks "slightly" tea length in the front.

btw - see....here's my twisted dress!
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Can I notice it? Hell yes! Can you notice it? probably not too much, you probably wouldn't have even known if I hadn't pointed it out.

[lawyergirl25]

maplekitty, if it makes you feel better, even though you explained it, I still have no idea what you're talking about. :)

[QueenofCA]

maplekitty, if it makes you feel better, even though you explained it, I still have no idea what you're talking about. :)


What she said!

[BethIrish]

It will get better. Promise. We had a blizzard on my wedding day (3 feet of snow over the whole weekend) AND my photographer wound up being a coke addict who was arrested a month after my wedding for holding up a pizza joint with a machete. It took forever to get my pictures, we lost a lot of $$ on reprints and albums and the photos are NOT what I had hoped for. At. All.

At the time, I couldn't believe my perfect day had been ruined. But, in all honesty, 2 1/2 years later what I remember most is the love I felt that day and the fun we had. Yes, I feel a twinge when I go to a wedding with *great* weather and fun photography...but only a twinge, and it goes away :)

FWIW, I think you look beautiful (as does your dress!)

[jesseybell]

You (and your dress) look beautiful! No one would notice if you didn't say anything.

A year+ it kills me sometimes that our photographer really didn't take any close up pictures of DH and I. I did tell him my disatisfaction about it and he proposed zooming/cropping some of the pictures, but they just aren't the same and it bugs me each time I look at my wedding pictures. But it does start to bug you less and less. You start to look at the pictures and just remember the whole entire wonderful day and you forget about the little things.

[maplekitty]

maplekitty, if it makes you feel better, even though you explained it, I still have no idea what you're talking about. :)

my point exactly! ;)

[PrincessTommi]

I hated my bouquets (should have spoken up) and my DJ (totally out of my control). It took at least a year to get completely over it, and not feel anger and/or resentment about those two things.

What you are feeling is normal, and it will fade after awhile. One thing that helped me was that when those yucky feelings would pop up, I would force myself to start listing things that went well or better than expected (since I was getting on my own nerves bemoaning those two things). That helped me refocus.

[MLA]

AND my photographer wound up being a coke addict who was arrested a month after my wedding for holding up a pizza joint with a machete.
Holy crap! That's crazy!


OP -- I was married two years ago, and I still get a little annoyed looking at the bodice of my wedding dress in my pictures – there was a wrinkle that no one mentioned to me, and I swear, it’s the first thing I see in some of my photos. But I’m not upset about it anymore. I’m just happy to be married and to have such great memories of my wedding day.

[wendalah]

My makeup/hair girl was late (got lost on the way over) and so my makeup looked great...but my hair was sort of rushed. And she put my veil on upside down. I didn't realize it was on upside down until it started to fall out and my SIL re-placed it on correctly. So my ceremony photos all have the veil the wrong way, while the reception photos have it the (much prettier and fluffier) correct way. That bugged me. But whatever...what can you do. It annoys me slightly when I look at the photos but, as others have said--it will honestly fade in time.

[pocket]

i hated my hair -for an entire year after the wedding, every time i thought about it i felt sad. but then i saw the video and realised i was wrong and it actually looked really good.

[nicole]

my photographer wound up being a coke addict who was arrested a month after my wedding for holding up a pizza joint with a machete. It took forever to get my pictures
OMG!!! :eek: That's scary!

Larissa - I just thought your dress was ankle length. It still looks beautiful.

[BTB]

There were things that bugged me in our photos too. Our four-year anniversary was yesterday, and already I can chuckle at the things that didn't quite go as planned. It's normal, it will go away, and if the things that bug you now *hadn't* happened, something else would've, that might bug you even more. :) It's a long day with lots going on and lots of people involved. There will be glitches, some you notice, some you don't. It's all part of the character of the day - maybe someday it'll be things we can all even look back fondly on.

[ejs]

You won't "just get over it." But it will become less important in time. You'll look through your other photos and be so glad that you have them. And, as others have said, you'll always have the memories of those days.

Your dress doesn't look good (to you) in a few pictures. I'm sure it looks perfect in many other photos.

Step back for a second and think about what was really important that day. It wasn't getting the perfect photo. It was marrying your husband.

[greenbunny]

I had some crappy photos too (including a close-up of us kissing with the lens refracted, meaning the picture had white hexagons across DH's face). Why not take them to a photo place and see if you can get them digitally altered? I got mine done, and it was $30 per negative to fix those white hexagons--totally worth it, IMO. You'd be amazed what can be done.

Obviously it wouldn't be cost effective to have your entire wedding retouched, but choose a few shots that you really love and want to use in your scrapbook.

[~Lucy]

I forgot about the other issues that bothered me for a long time... (See? I forgot about them!) I only have about three photos of the groomsmen, very few nice, posed shots of the two of us and no black and whites that I requested. The hair stylist and make-up girls got stuck in traffic and were an hour and a half late. DH and I were supposed to have photos taken hours before the ceremony while it was still light out. Because they were so late, the photographer took some portraits of me in the house and the back yard, but never made it to see the groom or the other guys. She folllowed us to the ceremony. We took a few pictures after the wedding at the church, but we didn't have much time.

[Asha]

like you i was a little upset with some of the photography. that there were no individual shots of me that i was completely thrilled with. i didn't realize that the shots outside would have me squinting a lot. my eyes are very sensitive to the sun, and i didn't realize how they squinted so much when i was outside. i realize, though, that the day wasn't just about me, but me and my dh. there are plenty of pix that look great with the two of us, and that is the most important thing.

there are definitely things that i still haven't gotten over three years later, but those are bigger issues than photography.

[eli1126]

OP -- I was married two years ago, and I still get a little annoyed looking at the bodice of my wedding dress in my pictures – there was a wrinkle that no one mentioned to me, and I swear, it’s the first thing I see in some of my photos. But I’m not upset about it anymore. I’m just happy to be married and to have such great memories of my wedding day.

I also had this in my photos except for the ones where I realized it was like that and pulled it straight :rolleyes: I have no outside phtotos of just DH and I because my photographer didn't want to take photos pf DH and I before the ceremony.

Beth

[Asha]

I have no outside phtotos of just DH and I because my photographer didn't want to take photos pf DH and I before the ceremony.

i have heard of couples making the choice not to see each other before the ceremony, but that's crazy that a photographer would choose that unless they knew there was not enough time to get the photos done.

[Tonysweetie]

maplekitty, if it makes you feel better, even though you explained it, I still have no idea what you're talking about. :)

ditto. :)

[manda_kate]

3 years later, and I'm still mad about one thing. For the most part, our photographer was good. But he took no pictures of DH and I kissing on our wedding day. NONE. Who does this? I have one picture and one picture only of us kissing, and it is one FIL's GF took! I didn't even get one of the "official" kiss.
And yes, I'm still bitter.:)

[KeliAnn]

8 months later, and I'm still really upset that our wedding photographer lost well over half of our pictures, including all of our family pictures and most of our ceremony pictures. It's one of those things that I know will never change, so I need to just deal with it - but if I think about it long enough, it still makes me cry. I don't know if I'll ever really truly get over it, but I think I'll learn to live without them and enjoy the few we do have.

[emmasart]

my photographer wound up being a coke addict who was arrested a month after my wedding for holding up a pizza joint with a machete. It took forever to get my pictures,
Wow! Thats insane! I feel bad that I considered my wedding disaster to be that my florist put sunflowers in my bouquet, when i asked her not to. :o In the scheme of things the sunflowers were NOTHING.

[KarenS]

Ok, as a wedding photographer I'm a little freaked out that every "I hate something on my wedding day" relates back to the photography. With the exception of the obvious issues (like the photographer being a maniac coke-head)... why do you guys think this is?

I'm asking seriously here. It freaks me out that my clients might be saying the same thing about me on public message boards for things that are totally beyond my control but someone else might think it reflects badly on me.

Karen

[wendalah]

In all seriousness, photos (and videography) are about the one thing you get to keep and mull over after the wedding is finished and done.

Not really that hard to figure out.

If it makes you feel better, I hated the salon where I got my gown. They were idiots. Among their high moments: Trying to convince me that an over-$200 veil accidentally ordered in true white (when I had a diamond white gown) "looked just fine."

[KarenS]

In all seriousness, photos (and videography) are about the one thing you get to keep and mull over after the wedding is finished and done.

Not really that hard to figure out.No, ok, maybe I phrased it wrong. What I mean is, is there anything that the photogs could have done differently to alert you to these kinds of things. I send out a pretty thorough questionnaire to my clients before their wedding and I was wondering what kinds of things I could include on the questionnaire to help avoid this kind of regret. Especially since a lot of photographers are more documentary/photojournalistic in style and don't necessarily "control" the day or the events. If that makes sense.

Karen

[andy's di]

8 months later, and I'm still really upset that our wedding photographer lost well over half of our pictures, including all of our family pictures and most of our ceremony pictures. It's one of those things that I know will never change, so I need to just deal with it - but if I think about it long enough, it still makes me cry. I don't know if I'll ever really truly get over it, but I think I'll learn to live without them and enjoy the few we do have.

OMG! This happened to me too! It was the first time in over 10 years that my whole family was together in one place and the photog lost that one roll of film. We have photos of my DH's side of the family but none of mine.

What really broke my heart was when my sis called and asked specifically for the photo that was taken with all of us together in front of this beautiful purple bush and I had to tell her that the film was lost :(

I think I cried for three hours straight when I found out, I still get a bit sad over it, but I don't think it will be anything that I will get over completely.

[wendalah]

What I mean is, is there anything that the photogs could have done differently to alert you to these kinds of things.

I would say no...just simply because it's the nature of the beast that you will be the last vendor the bride deals with. She can take out her rage on the bridal salon, the caterers, the makeup artist, etc. all prior to or during the wedding. But you deal with her last, pretty much.

[kam]

maplekitty, if it makes you feel better, even though you explained it, I still have no idea what you're talking about.

I agree, but I get what you're talking about. You mentioned it and you were obviously ignored. To commiserate and to answer Karen's question, actually listening to our requests would've been a start. We interviewed 3-4 photographers. In our interviews, we specifically said our dislikes (home decor in the picture, flowers on the dress). I gave our guy a list of things I wanted and things I didn't want. One of the things I didn't want was a picture of flowers on my dress and he said "no problem". Sorry, totally not my style and I said this not once, but twice, and also listed it. So when he did it and I told him "I don't want these pictures at all", he insisted. I was friggin' arguing with my photographer about something we agreed to months before. I hired him based on his books which weren't all status quo photos and what I got were status quo photos. They're in family pictures, best friend pictures and they make me mad every time I see them. Listen, if the customer says she doesn't want something, don't insist saying she'll regret it if she doesn't. If she regrets it, it's her fault. If she regrets not standing up for herself, it's yours. As a result of him insisting, this was the result (a very angry bride, who by the way was praised by other vendors for being so laid back). What a waste. And notice the lovely emerald green couch and umbrella? Pretty, no?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/nala2051/pissedoff.jpg

He was also yelling at my party when all 10 of them weren't perfectly still and silent for 30 minutes while he took his time taking photos. Seriously, yelling at them. We hadn't seen this kind of behavior during our engagement session and I didn't appreciate it.

[KarenS]

Ok that really sucks, Kam. Bleah. That's just so ...weird. I wonder why his samples were different and then you got the uber-traditional one like this.

I have to admit sometimes the bride and groom and I will all be on the same page, but Great Aunt Martha comes up and says "oh you HAVE to do the one with the flowers on her train" (sometimes it's even a bridesmaid who suggests it, which I think is kind of weird). In those cases, unless the bride flat out says *no*, I tend to do it quickly and get it out of the way. But if the bride were saying "no, way" ... I would never force her to do a shot she didn't want to.

K.

[wendalah]

If any consolation, Kam, you look very pretty in that photo. (My! You're beautiful when you're angry, dear!) ;)

If we want to share photographer woes--mine came to my location (which he had shot before), came into the room where I was getting ready, and announced, "You know, this is a really difficult location to shoot." WTF? What am I going to do about it?

Then, he proceeded to hurry along my hair/makeup artist because we were running late. I said, "look, I know we are late, but what's the sense of taking photos with my hair half done? Just wait until she's DONE." As a result, my hair was done shittily and my veil placed backwards.

[wendalah]

Bride with shitty hair and veil sliding down her head :D

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[MidwesternGal]

I've been married for 3 years and there are still a few things that tick me off about my wedding. I'm not as upset by them as I originally was. . . but. . .

1--Flowers. They were done by GMIL. She didn't want to do real, so I agreed to silk. Okay, fine. But then insisted that the shade of red I wanted "wasn't available" from her wholesaler. I asked if I could see the book to pick it out, and bascially got told "no." So I had to ship allllll these red flowers from Wal-Mart to her for her to use. While the end product was WAY better than the 1st try, it still wasn't quite right. I guess I was looking for someone who could take what I said to "the next level." Oh, and YES, she is a florist!

2--Hair. I had a trial done and decided I didn't like it. Not because of the gal's skill, but because I wanted a different 'do. Well, I changed it and I wish I would have done another trial, because that one ended up kinda "eh" too. (Yet one of my BM's hair ended up FAB. . . so I'm guessing it WAS the stylist now.) AND, she couldn't get the veil in correctly (you'd think these stylists would know how to put a freakin' veil in) so underneath my updo I have this really large "bump" of hair that got loosened up from her pulling the veil out so many times. That bump *pisses* me off every time I see it in photos.

Karen--I know photographers are pressed for time, but I guess I kind of wanted ours to pay a little bit more attention to detail. For example, tell me if I'm slumping in the pictures!!!

Other than that, I have no other "vendor" related problems I need to get over. A couple people related ones, but that is a whole 'nother thread.

[camberne]

I have to admit sometimes the bride and groom and I will all be on the same page, but Great Aunt Martha comes up and says "oh you HAVE to do the one with the flowers on her train" (sometimes it's even a bridesmaid who suggests it, which I think is kind of weird). In those cases, unless the bride flat out says *no*, I tend to do it quickly and get it out of the way. But if the bride were saying "no, way" ... I would never force her to do a shot she didn't want to.

K.See, I would have a problem with this. If you and I sat down and I specifically noted what I did and didn't want (remember who's paying you), and then you did specifically what we agreed that I didn't want... well, then, you're getting trashed on a public board.

My photographer-related issues - (1) the photographer from the company I hired was supposedly told the wrong time of the wedding and literally showed up just before I walked down the aisle!! (2) I told them that the only shot I really cared about was getting my husband with a true smile on his face - everything else was secondary - didn't happen (he's a smirker in posed photos). If you're taking candid photos, it's not that hard to get a real smile on a wedding day.

And, in Keli's situation, her photographer dodged her phone calls, emails and any attempt at communication for months before finally admitting that he lost her photos. As hard as it was going to be regardless of what the photographer did, that just compounded a shitty situation tenfold. If you screw up, admit to it and do what you can to rectify the situation. After the fact, it is what it is... that's where exceptional customer service is the only thing that will shine through. He could have immediately owned up to it, refunded part of her fee, and offered her something to make ammends. Where it would still never replace those irreplaceable photos, it shows class and professionalism in the face of his mistakes.

[camberne]

Oh, and the vendor that I complain about the most is my cake chef who yelled at my mother when she was delivering the cake and wouldn't stop insisting how she must return the cake board within three days or she's going to charge us for it, and repeated it over and over and over - in a very loud voice. There was no need for that kind of attitude with my mother, who was not her contact for anything.

[kam]

I have to admit sometimes the bride and groom and I will all be on the same page, but Great Aunt Martha comes up and says "oh you HAVE to do the one with the flowers on her train" (sometimes it's even a bridesmaid who suggests it, which I think is kind of weird).

Unless they are PAYING, in my opinion they have no say. In your position, I wouldn't do it without at least saying "Aunt Millie says I should do this. Is it okay by you?" It makes me mad every time I see it. Believe me, I'm making that face right now!

[isign]

My brother just got married, which brought back alot of the memories of frustrations from 3 years earlier. I also had an argument with the photog about a specific pic (the BMs had their flowers around my face, making me look like a horse that won the derby). I hated the thought, he still insisted, and then put it in the album. He also left his other camera on the communion table when taking group pics, so it's in every one of them.

The one thing that I will always remember though, was that no matter how many things went wrong, I was married to the man I loved and I was, and still am, happy.

[Txfish]

Larissa, you looked gorgeous and I'm so sorry the pics weren't everything you wanted... I also can commiserate about the "missing shots". I am still mad about somethings when I think about it, but most of the time there's just too much else to care about. It was tough at first though.

What can a photographer do better? Yeah, just listen and follow through with what's agreed on. I had a big problem with several of my vendors on the following through part. My biggest one was photog, though -- for starters, they brought 1 when they were supposed to bring 2. And then when they didn't have our list in their hand at photo time, I had to start calling out desired shots on the fly, and lots got missed. Including a whole family shot of my family. He also got next to no candids of the important people at the wedding. Note, this was a 45 person gig -- he should have had pics of every single person there regardless of who they were, and certainly every couple.... nope, I didn't get a single pic of my mom with brother, my dad & stepmom, or my sisters and their dh's -- and they were my bridesmaids! Just, common sense, you know? He sucked ass.

Florist screwed the entire order. Left the stephanotis out of the bridal bouqet, for god's sake. I ordered all gerber daisies and roses, to match, all peachy orange. No fillers, not even greenery. They brought all manner of tiger lilies and ornage CARNATIONS to fill in, I told them no flowers on the cake except a small cake topper; they covered every tier with carnations. Just freakin ridiculous. I had my flowers preserved and paid extra to have the steph added to the bouquet then so it would look the way it was supposed to. Why the mixup? Because the guy I worked with switched events with his wife (the OWNERS of the shop), and she apparently can't read a very small floral order.

The other major thing that hosed the day (in part) was the MIL's antics, but that obviously couldn't be controlled LOL

I just can't think of the pics, or I still get very angry. Some turned out great; but I have yet to hang a single one anywhere in our house. Partly lazy, partly don't want to relive the agony.

[udsweetpea]

In all honesty, it might just be the way you're standing. Are all of your pictures of your gown like this?

[justHB]

If you figure out how to get over it, let me know. It's been 5 years now and I'm still filled with hateful thoughts toward my wedding coordinator over my ugly ass bouquet and cheesy 80s wedding video. Every time I'd put that hideous, moldy dead bouquet down, the videographer would insist that I pick it up and pose with it. WTF?! When we got our video back, it was pure Velveeta - the cheesiest. We asked him to re-edit it to be more of a photojournalistic style and he turned all the pics b&w and set the slideshow to a Wheezer song! Eventually, we had to demand the raw footage to get anything decent and just thinking about it makes me so mad. There are pictures from our photographer of me glaring at the videographer and the wedding coordinator and yes, to this day I hate them both and think they very nearly ruined our wedding (thankfully, not the marriage)!

[wendalah]

he turned all the pics b&w and set the slideshow to a Wheezer song!

Lord almighty. Please tell me not "Island In The Sun"?

[MrsBeckyLP]

Karen- I couldn't think of anything until I read this:

Then, he proceeded to hurry along my hair/makeup artist because we were running late.

I have to say, my photographer – who took great photos – was the only person I could complain about on my wedding day ... sorry for the bad rap!

Looking back, I think my photographer thought he was running my day. He acted like he was a wedding planner and everything else should revolve around his schedule and the way he wanted to do things. When we left the park where we had our outside photos taken, he told Matt and I to be at the reception site by 5:30 p.m. for cake cutting photos. Our wedding party had a 45-minute limo coach ride, and being the Packer fans we are, we wanted to stop at Curly's Pub in the Lambeau Field atrium for a drink. We did, and when we didn't show up at the reception site until 6 p.m., he acted pissed. I didn't let him bother me, but I was aware of his rudeness. Also, while he was shooting photos of me before the ceremony, he yelled at the pianist and vocalist to move out of the way because they were in the background of the shot. While I was happy they weren't in my background, he could have approached it in a nicer way. Yelling, "You two need to move; you're in my shot" was not appropriate. I was embarrassed for them. They were trying to warm up for their part in my special day, and he acted like he was the VIP. Honestly, he was telling people where to stand, when to go down the aisle, etc. He even rushed people out of the entryway to the church and told them to take their seats (so I heard later on). That was sooooo not his job. He also added two photos (that were not in focus and I looked like crap in) because he thought the album "did not tell the full story of the day" without them. It was us lighting our unity candles and putting on our rings. I have to tell people every time they look at our album that I didn't not want those photos in it. It pisses me off. I wish he would have left them out. He wasn't doing us any favor.

Bottom line: You are just the photographer. While you may think you are the most important person at that wedding, you're not. The vocalist thinks her job is just as important, and so does the florist. Don't be rude to other vendors or wedding guests because you think you are the cat's meow. It will make you look like an ass. I've noticed this with a lot of photographers in the various weddings I've stood up in. You don't run the show. (I'm not saying you are or aren't like this, it's just an example of something not to do!)

[Katyanne]

I'm kinda late posting about this but I'm another bride not happy with photography and our tuxes.
Its been almost 3 years and I'm still not happy with our tuxes. The guys were all fitted in the appropriate amount of time but the groom and best man (who are bigger guys) looked radiculous in the tuxes. Seriously, they said they didn't have big enough ties for the men so the BM sent his wife out the morning of the wedding to buy 2 black ties. BM's suit coat was 2 sizes to small and hubbys pants were way to big in the waist but short in the legs. He was very disapointed because he said he wanted to look nice for the wedding and he felt like a clown. I wrote a strongly worded letter to the tux shop but never heard from them.

Photography: Probably the big thing was that the photographer disapeared for 3 hours before the ceremony and so basically only a handful of pictures were taken then. So we had to scramble and have all the pictures taken after the ceremony in 45 minutes time. We'd met several times before the wedding day and she'd had me fill out a list of the pictures that I wanted. We got less than half of those. Seriously we've received pictures that family members have taken that were better than her shots.

We had to stage the first kiss again because she missed it but she of course got the pictures where due to an illfitting tux hubbys pants fell past his hips. :rolleyes:

She went out of business shortly there after.

KarenS: My biggest frustration with the photographer was that she didn't follow through with things that she promised. I mean the quality of the pictures that I received was so below what I saw in her sample books that I truly believe that she never took those previous pictures.

Katie
PS but I guess I can say that I'm pretty well over those things. :)