Merri Cyr Photography Reviews
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4.7 out of 5 rating
4.7 out of 5 rating
10 Reviews
93% recommend it
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User1709863 Sent on 07/13/2014Great job Merri Cyr Photography--they delivered wonderful photos quickly, were highly professional, friendly, and reasonably priced. We really enjoyed working with them, and recommend Merri and her partner for your event--the photos looked very natural and truly captured the happiness of our day. Thank you Merri Cyr Photography!!! -
User675855 Sent on 11/09/2011Merri is great to work with! Not only is she professional and takes beautiful wedding shots, but she also goes beyond the call of duty. She helped us enormously with putting together our wedding album and on the day of the wedding she brought 2 additional photographers. I would recommend her in a heartbeat! -
User2559942 Sent on 03/23/2016Merri Cyr bills herself as a wedding photographer with photojournalistic and artistic sensibilities. But she let us down on all counts. As a wedding photographer, she neglected to provide basic wedding shots, including portraits of the bride (and of the bride and groom) with her veil and bouquet, and a shot of the full wedding party. As a photojournalist, she failed to provide "day of" outdoor shots of our waterfront venue to “set the scene,” and missed key moments during both the ceremony and reception. And instead of artistry, we got underwhelming, often poorly composed shots that gave short shrift to the rustic nature of the venue and its waterfront setting and to reception details. Family group shots were taken in front of a plain white wall, despite the availability of many more interesting backgrounds, while many photos of the bride and groom were marred with catering personnel in the background setting up for the party.
When we expressed our disappointment, Cyr defensively blamed everyone else: the videographer she had recommended, for shooing her assistant away; the rabbi, for prohibiting her movement during the ceremony, and us—the parents of the bride—for not providing her a requested shot list. But she never followed-up in the days before the wedding, or even early on the wedding day, that she needed a list. And even if we had given her a list, we wouldn’t have thought it necessary to specify basic Wedding 101 shots.
We found Cyr's whole approach to our job to be casual and apathetic. In contrast to all our other vendors, who, months after contracts were signed, proactively stayed on top of our upcoming job, we had to contact her to remind her of the upcoming wedding and to discuss preparations. Sadly, we paid a lot of money expecting an experienced wedding photographer who would capture this day with an exciting photojournalistic and artistic edge. Instead, we got predominantly pedestrian photography and missed photographic memories.Merri Cyr Photography's reply:
This is the letter we received from the bride after delivering this wedding-
Merri,
Thank you so much for the gorgeous photos. There are SO many to go through, but everything looks absolutely wonderful. We truly appreciate all of the hard work you and Mark put into our wedding! It made all the difference :)
Our best,
The Clients
We informed her mother, that we photographed weddings in a documentary/ photojournalistic style. A number of times we asked her that if she had shot requests of must have images or many family portraits to please give us a list. Unfortunately she gave us a shot list after the wedding was done. At no time before, during the wedding were any specific shots requested from the brides mother. Although the mother did nothing but yell at me I did my utmost to help her, found requested images and gave her free proof prints as well of the entire wedding.
I am at least happy that her daughter was pleased with the work we did.
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