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Kayla Sent on 07/31/2025I Do Not Recommend Visions Photography for Weddings
I have to leave this review. To start, I do want to say that Dan is a very nice person. He made everyone very comfortable and was very professional. However, he did a terrible job capturing my wedding and I am left heartbroken over our pictures.
I booked Dan through Elm Ridge Event Center through their all-inclusive package, so we didn't technically choose him. For the 10 months leading up to my wedding from booking, I did not hear a single thing from Dan. Eventually, he did reach out to have me fill out a form about names and such. There was nothing in this form and no communication about what we wanted when it came to our photos. He didn't request a shot list, Pinterest boards, or anything that a photographer usually does. No problem, I sent it all to him in an email about a week before the wedding, with some questions that I had. I made it very easy for him to see exactly who and what we wanted pictures of.
The day of the wedding comes, and I could tell immediately that we would be missing a lot of photos. Throughout the day, Dan would take a couple pictures and then ask what else we wanted (I do have to give him credit for that). But I was the bride and was not in the headspace to think about what pictures I wanted and what was missing. That is his job, and why I sent him a shot list. This made me very, very worried.
It took 8 weeks for us to get our pictures back, and he sent about 450. I'm not a photographer, but we had him with us for 8 hours. I feel like that is a very small number of photos for the amount of time. But I could be wrong on that. My biggest complaint is all of the pictures that are missing. All of the moments that are missing. For example, there is one single picture of me walking with my dad, from a certain angle, before we reach the aisle. And my eyes are closed. There are no more from that moment. The pictures from the ceremony are terrible. There are heads in the way in every single one of them (this is a trend in a lot of our pictures). Not a single picture of just the two of us. There are only about three pictures of us with our bridal party, even though I had sent a whole Pinterest board of what I wanted. I think the worst part, though, is the complete lack of photos of just my husband and I. We got a single posed portrait, and then like three poses of us afterwards. No candids. No veil photos. No pictures from my Pinterest board. I am so, so crushed that our pictures came out the way they did.
I want to reiterate that Dan is a very nice person, and he is very professional. I think he just has a very, very old-fashioned style and is not willing to modernize. If you just want the basics, and care more about professional portraits than candids and moments, then Dan will be good for you. I just feel that he isn't what a lot of couples are going to be looking for for their weddings.
I hate leaving this review. I wasn't going to because I'm sure he worked hard and is a great person. But I realized that I wish there was a review like this one out there for me because I had no idea that it was going to go this way.
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