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| - This cookie cutter wedding machine needs to slow down and oil it's parts. I was there this past weekend as a guest for a wedding at Chapel Of Flowers. I've always wanted to experience one of these little Vegas Wedding Chapel experiences so was looking forward to it. I've played for more than 400 weddings as a DJ so am always interested in new venues and how different places coordinate the weddings. 1st issue upon arrival, they have 1 long narrow driveway / parking lot. When you go in, you can only get to the end and try to navigate a U Turn directly in front of the Chapel doors. No parking on the street. Almost best to just UBer there or carpool. Surrounding area is bad also. Probably wouldn't want to park Too far away. I did hear from the Bride that the initial planners she spoke to at this place were nice and seemed professional. What I experienced was a bit opposite as a guest. We walked into the chapel and within a few minutes of the ceremony starting, A photographer lady came in to speak to us. She was a bit blunt and said that no one was allowed to have a cell phone out and absolutely no pictures were allowed to be taken ANYWHERE ON THE PREMESIS. My aunt asked if she could take a few pics with out of town guests after the photographer was done and she said nowhere on the premises. She was not the best first impression. They should of sent someone who could properly explain why they have this rule. She repeated herself and said, no picture no video at all on the premises. I've been to a lot of weddings and usually everyone has a phone out filming the bride and groom coming down the isle and at the alter. Well, the ceremony went fine. After the ceremony the whole family was standing around waiting for someone to direct them to take pictures. We guessed, since we were not allowed to have our own cameras out. No one came by. We had to ask if they were going to take pictures. The same little bossy lady came out and told the family to go walk over to this area of the parking lot with another building in the background. She had everyone pose in 1 large group pic. Shot 3 photos of us and said ok thank you. She then took some individual pics of the bride and groom. That was it. Grandparents, parents, cousins, aunts, uncles, even the bride and grooms kids were wanting to take pics with the bride and groom and we were not able to. All because of this rule they have, which is NOT posted anywhere on the premises ( I walked around to look), we were not able to get any of our own photos. The grandparents had all flown in from different areas and zero pics were taken. If the lady had been polite when she walked in and maybe explained that their goal was to make sure they took all the pictures so that they can upsell the bride and groom photo packages, that would of been a lot better than this lady who did not speak English very well, coming in and being rude to 80 guests who have all just sat down. They should of asked the bride and groom what other photos they wanted. Instead, this photographer in her cookie cutter, scripted style, just said do this / do that / snap snap snap, and that's it. The photos that were taken were not that great and we never had the opportunity for normal family photos that are usually taken at weddings. It ruined the memories this couple should of had. Half of the crowd was talking about the photographer lady afterwards and everyone made comments about how bossy and rude she was. I strongly suggest if you decide to use this place as your venue, that you tell them that you will have family members taking all photos. I left and never even had the chance to take a photo with the bride and groom because these people wouldn't even let me have my Cell phone out. Really lame!
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