Wedding Woes (Our Engagement Photos)

If there's been one piece of wedding meltdown so far it's been the engagement photos. When David and I decided to get married I was pretty set on who I wanted to be the photographer. My friend Trina had recently gotten married (I was a bridesmaids) and I really liked her photographer. Not only was she enjoyable to work with on the wedding day, but her prices were unmatched for the quality and skill level she had. I don't know what it is about wedding photographers but I think they've secretly banded together to gouge newlywed couples out of any money they possible could have. Anyways ... this girl must not have gotten the memo -- so I'm glad.

When we first booked we didn't have a venue set. I was so fearful we wouldn't get the photograher it was literally the first wedding planning I did. So when I talked to her I said the wedding was Oct 20th which is the date we really wanted. Unfortunately ... they were booked. They insured us that they had an associate that could do the wedding and after seeing his work I was okay with the idea. Then I finally booked the venue, and of course they didn't have the 20th available .... whoomp whoomp. But don't get too upset, because once we did finally solidify a date with the venue and moved our wedding to the 28th ... THE PHOTOGRAPHER WAS FREE!! yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh We still plan on using the associate since he was the one orginally booked but we are using him as a 2nd shooter and our original pick as the first shooting.

If you thought that was the end of my wedding woe, you're wrong! Then begin the fun part. We booked our engagment photos 4 months in advanced -- only to get cancelled a day before because the photographer had gotten pink eye. We rebooked -- only to get cancelled again because they didn't realize they rebooked us for Memorial Day. So we rebooked agin -- only to get cancelled a 3rd time because of a family emergency with the photography. I won't go into detail -- but it truly was an emergency. Of course I didn't know that when it happened. All their booking lady told me was that they needed to re-schedule AGAIN. When I got off the phone I cried and cried and cried. We were going through a heat wave in Tennessee and the place we had choosen to shoot the pictures had all of these beautiful flowers ... which I knew were going to be dead now. Luckily David calmed me, called the photographer, got the full story on why the shoot had been cancelled for a third time and I felt all better.

FINALLY, the day for our photo shoot arrived!! I had read articles saying you should plan to bring props. So after much research on pinterest I was geared up with some cool stuff. Overall we loved working with our photographers and even though it was hot I thought the pictures turned out great. They sent us 60 photos and there were only 2 I didn't like. David on the other hand found about 7 more he didn't like. I'll put some of them below. ENJOY!!