Angela is a CON ARTIST. It's been 9 months and I FINALLY received my raw footage... A lot of it blurry or shaky.... She seemed to have filmed stupid shit, while forgetting to film important shit. This isn't even the biggest issue... Let's start from the beginning...
Angela will sweet talk you into believing you are getting the world. She will call you darling, sweetie, etc. She will sign contracts and lose them, and she'll do it all with a smile.
It took Angela 6 months to get us our wedding video. What came was complete garbage. It was choppy, the edits made no sense and each "event" was its own, messed up video. I can't go into too much detail because that will take forever. We never got our feature film either. Fast forward to 9 months after our September wedding... Yesterday, I finally received my raw footage. Please note that this is the SECOND time she has sent it to me... The first time she just sent me the parts that weren't in her "edited" video... Our contract clearly stated all raw footage, so I'm not sure as to the confusion. I realized I was going to have to kill her with kindness to get what I wanted... I finally got it... Again, 9 MONTHS LATER. All this, and I still need to find someone new to edit the film for us, because what she originally gave us is in the garbage. We showed it to friends, and they were mortified for us.
The worst part of all of this, is that Angela always has some sort of excuse. ALWAYS. Either she's really busy with work, she has a toothache, it's wedding season, etc, etc, etc.... Always an excuse. "The wedding video is great darling you're going to love it we're almost done". 2 Months later, same thing, same excuses.
Do yourselves a favour and do not hire her. You will be left sorely disappointed, extremely upset and will end up spending the extra money getting someone to try to fix the crap she gave you anyway. Just spend the extra money from the start, and hire someone who knows what they're doing. She might try to say I have no clue what I'm talking about, but I've seen other people's wedding videos and they looked nothing like the garbage she gave me... So I'm not just being picky... And even if I am being picky... It was my wedding day, and so shouldn't I be!?
I know that Angela is going to respond to this, and I don't care. You were hard to work with once the wedding was over, you were unprofessional in your delivery, and your product isn't even half of what you promised. Poor quality to the MAX. Perhaps worse is how you are unable to take a hint when you clearly messed up, and refuse to admit that you should not be in this business. It's really a shame, because on the day of our wedding, you actually acted semi-professionally... But at the end of the day, the end product was awful, and your odd behaviour, unsettling.
On a positive note, the Photo Booth she provided was amazing and hilarious. On another sour note, she never gave me the files to those photos. Apparently getting them off Facebook is good enough, despite my repeated complaints that downloading pictures off Facebook totally deteriorates the quality. We never got our bottle of champagne that was promised in our package either. Just as a side note, I really like champagne. Angela is actually a really good photographer from what I've seen, so I'm not sure why she doesn't just stick to that.
You've been warned. I wish I had trusted my gut feelings and just lost the deposit. read more