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| - We were married 10.11.15 - It's scary when you're doing everything yourself...how do you book what you want to be your perfect day Online?? We chose Vegas to make it easier for people to come from all over, not because we wanted a cheesy wedding....so when I heard you had to use photographers attached to the wedding sites you chose, I was deflated. So many pictures I looked at from different venues were so 'tacky tourist' and looked like I could take them with my own camera. When we settled on Juno Garden as the perfect site, I immediately went to Imagine Studios to see how many photographers there were and what the photos were like. I let out a sigh of relief when I saw how great they were! I wrote down about 8 or 10 that I loved and emailed them directly asking who took them. The majority they told me were Danelle (not with an "I") so I told our wedding coordinator we needed to have her! She booked her directly and I can't tell you how much stress was off my shoulders.
Danelle contacted me before hand by email to ask what I would like for our wedding pictures - the style which we wanted to be both classy/magazine quality and some fun, offered some hilarious photoshop options (I'm surprised my husband didn't add the zombie or Star Wars ones) and made sure she knew exactly what we wanted ahead of time. She seriously was totally amazing come wedding day. My cousin took longer than expected on my hair so we had only a short period before they had to hustle me to the bridal room - but she always had a gentle smile and her soothing calm voice when giving only slight direction really helped keep things enjoyable. What I thought wouldn't be much turned into a tonne of awesome pictures. After the ceremony, the only thing I regret is she was trying to look out for me - asked if I wanted more family photos. I'd only taken a couple of group ones. I was so wrapped up I hadn't realized and said no that's okay. She walked up to me, looked me in the eyes and said "Are you sure?" trying to let me know, but I didn't get the hint. I now miss that I had the opportunity to do some with certain sections of my family and thank her for trying to tell me, that was really great of her.
The photos leading to the reception were stunning and as we walked, so many people yelled "Congratulations!!" or asked to take pictures with us! I mean we looked pretty sharp ;) She was patient through all of it. I only asked for a couple at the reception and as we were eating she came up, smiled and asked if that was all we needed, to be sure before she left.
Including black and white there were over 800 pictures! She photoshopped anything I wanted, if I thought my hair was out of place or I wanted some zoomed in and cropped - so many she adjusted without ONE word of complaint - all with a happy attitude. Just added them as extras to the back of my disc.
I'm so thankful for Danelle at Imagine Studios, I don't think she knows what a relief she was to me doing this all on my own.
Carrie
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