Anyone end up disappointed about their photos?

LOL! I'm sure NONE of those things are true, and I know exactly how that feels, but trust me when I say (and I need to take my own advice!) that the only person will notice those things is you.

With my engagement photos for example, I was wearing a fabric belt, and you have NO IDEA how many of the photos it's twisted or runkled up and it's all I can see. There are some photos where I'm like, ok, well that would have been a gorgeous photo, but that belt looks so stupid.

I feel like we spend so much time researching and looking at wedding photos, and expect to get ours back and to look at them the way we saw all those others. But what we forget is that all we're seeing is the highlight reel that the bride, groom and photographer have chosen to share. What's not shown is how they were super hot on the day and can only see the sweat on their upper lip in every photo, or that the groom has a weird bump from leaving his phone in his suit pocket, that the girls' shoes were all super uncomfortable so every photo looks like they're grimacing rather than actually smiling, or that they had to walk miles to get that beautiful, dramatic windblown shot and now can only think of what a long way it was and that they'd prefer to have been quaffing champagne by that point!

I find when I take selfies or whatever, when I'm thinking of posting, I'm quite brutal and often end up not posting, but then when I go back six months later, I wonder why I didn't post anything, because there was nothing wrong with the photos at all! I honestly think we just need to take a break from staring at them for a while and desensitize ourselves or something!

Time helps this. When we first got our photos back I was a little …lol shall we say “bummed that professional photos didn’t magically make me look like a different person and correct all my flaws”? 🤣. I don’t know why I was expecting miracles like that one thing that’s always bothered me would suddenly disappear when a pro took the pics…turns out that’s not how it works


But a couple years have passed and I just adore my photos now. Time lessens the nitpicking and focuses on the memories. Now I see the pictures and i can’t see past my huge glowing smile and I’m flooded with happy memories of the day and I don’t even notice my hair frizz anymore.

Yeah i was kind of disappointed in mine - not the quality but more the idea that i didn't get some of the poses in that i wanted because i was so frazzled and forgot but i was also a bit annoyed with my photographer for not having more ideas.