No sneak peek plus 2 month wait = now I'm freaking out (irrationally?) about pictures!

He needs time to edit all the pics etc - there are likely thousands. Also he will probably have a backlog of other clients too. Sure it sounds like he's not the most efficient photographer out there, but at least he has set realistic expectations. Start worrying once he goes beyond that! If you liked his portfolio then you probably don't have anything to worry about.

I COMPLETELY understand what you are going through. Married for 6 weeks and I've only seen 4 pictures (and I had to ask for 3 of them so I could order my Thank You cards). I feel like I've been married for a year now- and our kids will be in college before I get my pictures back. I know I'm over reacting- but I just want them. I keep telling myself that you can't rush perfection- and he is taking is time on them because they are so important. Just remember that you picked your photographer for a reason- and they have your best interest in mind while editing the pics. Perfection takes time.

@Jacklyn EXACTLY.

I know it's almost entirely irrational... But I'm just second guessing everything. All I've seen are like a few scattered guest iphone pics. And all I can see is problems in them- like my hair looks flat, or I should have held my bouquet higher or whatever. And I feel like we totally shortchanged our portrait time (which we did) and aren't going to have any photos except candids. It's all just blowing up in my head because I don't have anything concrete to look at, and have all the time in the world to IMAGINE what problems there could be, you know?

We had to wait a month for ours. There were 741 photos, and it seemed like an eternity to wait for them. It would have taken two months, but I told the photographer that I would do the blemish editing myself if she could just do the color editing and putting smiling heads on people...lol...hubby has a hard time smiling, so she had to "replace" a few of the heads...lol, but it definitely takes them time to do all of that editing stuff, so I would t be too worried! They usually have several weddings they are working on at the same time! They'll be worth the wait...trust me! =)

Our wedding was just a little after yours and I'm in the same boat. 6-8 weeks and no preview. I did see a couple shots and I liked about half, with those I didn't like being pretty bad. So fingers crossed, but I'm stressing. Plus I'm the type that over analyzes everything and the longer I have to think about it the more I go to the worst case scenario in my head. I'm just trying to stay calm and I will panic when the time comes!

My turn around time for wedding photos is 8-10 weeks, however I have a FT job and other weddings to edit. I don't think the timeframe is unreasonable - my wedding photographer told me up front it would 12-14 weeks - but no sneak peek is weird to me. I always do sneak peeks.

@Reggie - HA! You perfectly described what I do too... :-} What didn't you like about the bad ones you saw? Were they pictures your photographer showed you in the viewfinder, or just guest snapshots? I've really started nitpicking every stupid blurry iphone pic because that's all I have to go on!

I got married 8/15 and although i received 5 sneak peeks we have yet to receive my pros back. I see it this way, I would rather her take her time and do a great job than to give them to me 2wks later and 95% aren't even edited. I told her to please take her time, do not rush my pictures!

It's not the end of October so I absolutely think it's irrational to freak out at this point. So far, your photographer is doing exactly what he said he would be doing. Even if you don't like your hair, your bouquet, whatever in the few pictures you have seen, you can't change that now so it's ridiculous to agonize over those things. I'm sure your photos will be great and everything will be beautiful even if there are a few things that could have been positioned differently. I would stop thinking about that immediately.

For what it's worth, my contract says 4 months as the timeline to expect pictures back and I knew that going in. It's a long time but I agreed to it when I picked my photographer and I know they'll deliver so what's the point in worrying? I'll start getting upset at the end of the 4 months.

@Bethie It's not so much that I'm worried about the time frame itself - he's a long time pro, great reviews, etc - I believe he'll do exactly what we're contracted for. It's just that I didn't anticipate that the waiting period would get to me in the way it is. The longer I wait, the more convinced I am that I'm going to hate all the pictures / that I'm going to look terrible / and (this is the biggest one) that we should have focused more and given more time to taking pictures. I do really wish we'd at least get a sneak peek - I think it would help a lot. But his company only does sneak peeks on very selected weddings, which I suspect are the ones they consider to be beautiful or interesting and good for their facebook, etc.

It helps to know other people are waiting in the same general time frame. I think part of it is that I'm already seeing pro photos here and on Facebook from people around my date or even after, and I keep seeing beautiful photos that are like "well, we definitely didn't take anything that looks like that"...

I'm in a similar situation. No sneak peeks and our photographer said 6-8 weeks. Thankfully all the post-wedding tasks and work will keep me too busy to worry about it.

And I agree with @FMP - If it's a quality VS time issue, I can wait .

@AJKN - Don't worry! Like I said, it's still weird he won't a sneak peek though. You should ask him if you could have a photo or two? He may be able to grant your wish. And please don't worry that you look bad - I'm sure you don't at all! Don't let your worries take over, I'm sure you look fabulous!

Both, but honestly the ones I disliked most were pro pics (though I also saw a couple awesome ones-at least in the 2 seconds I looked at them in the tiny window!). I was really frazzled on the day and no one would let me sit and do my hair and makeup and I'm not happy with how it looked. If I would have been allowed to just sit in peace for 20 minutes it would have been fine but my mom and aunt were flipping the #$&* out and my dad was pacing the room yelling about how guests would be there before us (like it was the end of the world). I just hope they photo shop it a little. Mainly, it's bugging me that one eyebrow was a little wonky. If I had known I would have fixed it!

It really depends on the photographer. Ours said that he plans on having our photos ready when we return from our honeymoon (so 8 days after our wedding). He did this with our engagement photos as well.

@Shannon - I'm so jealous! Wow your photographer is quick!

@AJKNin True. But wedding photography is his side business, not his full time job. So, he isn't as busy as full time photographers.