Review - Photographer Michael Maurus/Cancun Wedding Photography

[Simistar]

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Originally Posted by angela040504 OMG thats horrible how do you not take pics of rings or walking donw aisle what is wrong with him? Did you get any money back?

~Sigh~
No...we didn't bother asking for any money back... mostly b/c M.Maurus doesn't think he did anything wrong! He thinks he did a bang-up job of capturing our wedding and that I am just being a bridezilla (not sure if you saw his post on this thread...trying to explain "his side" of things...haha:-))

At this point, I think what I'd like more than money back, is an apology and an offer to "polish some of the turds" he gave us:-)

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Originally Posted by Shocka He only edited a handful of them so we'll see what happens...

I doubt he'll edit any more... there's a snowball's chance in hell I suppose that he actually changed his way of doing business after reading this review

[angela040504]

You never know always think positive, if he is true caring photographer he will! Good Luck!

[xoHeavenSentxo]

I am SO SORRY you had to go through that!!!!!

 

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! It is reviews like this one that save people time, money and agony!!! THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lalanyc]

Yes, this is such a fantastic and useful review. Thank you SO MUCH for alerting us future brides and I'm so sorry for your bad experience!!!

[Woodsylou]

i can't believe you had such an awful time with him, what a nightmare. how awful for you. thank you for posting the review. noted! i won't be using him!

[mlabbe]

Wow. That's pretty much all that I can say... this is my idea of the worse thing ever happening on my wedding, right after FI not showing up or saying no. I am so terribly sorry that this happened to you and that you are still having to deal with it. You could always have a vow renewal in a few years, wear that Amsale dress again (that's the first dress that I tried on, and it made me cry - it was *the* dress but I couldn't afford it) and get proper pictures! I have a friend who got married in Rome and is seriously thinking of doing that just to do it "right" this time around.

 

Regardless, you do have some pictures that you can use! And you looked gorgeous, and you two said yes, so that's what really matters!

 

Best of luck, and hang in there!

[Simistar]

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Originally Posted by mlabbe You could always have a vow renewal in a few years, wear that Amsale dress again (that's the first dress that I tried on, and it made me cry - it was *the* dress but I couldn't afford it) and get proper pictures!

Hey there! What's funny is -- I couldn't afford that dress either:-)
But I made an agreement with my DH that I would sell it after, to recoup some of the money...
So, that's what I did! Which was great -- but also not-so-great, in that I won't be able to recreate any pics in it:-)

BTW, if you are still wanting that dress, did you check out any sites like oncewed.com and preownedweddingdresses.com or even partypop...? If you don't mind wearing a dress that's been worn for a few hours, you might be able to find it at half (or even less) than the original price... (afterall, someone wore mine after!)

And thank you for the sympathetic words about our pics -- it helps;-)

[mlabbe]

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Originally Posted by Simistar Hey there! What's funny is -- I couldn't afford that dress either:-) But I made an agreement with my DH that I would sell it after, to recoup some of the money... So, that's what I did! Which was great -- but also not-so-great, in that I won't be able to recreate any pics in it:-) And thank you for the sympathetic words about our pics -- it helps;-)

That could have been a good way to go about it, I didn't think of that! I've found my dress since, but I still think about this one though.

Since you no longer have it to shoot with, you could always get a new dress (a much cheaper one!) and hire a local photographer to get some shots of the two of you around the city? I wouldn't suggest to get into the Vancouver water at this time of year, but you could still get some awesome shots! It's not the same, of course, but it could be fun! There's some great photographers in Van (I'm flying one down for my wedding) and some of them have quite the affordable "engagement session" packages that you could use for that.

[Simistar]

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Originally Posted by mlabbe I wouldn't suggest to get into the Vancouver water at this time of year, but you could still get some awesome shots! It's not the same, of course, but it could be fun! There's some great photographers in Van (I'm flying one down for my wedding) and some of them have quite the affordable "engagement session" packages that you could use for that.

haha -- no -- the water would be FREEZING!:-)
And yes -- I've been looking into some photographers here to do an almost "engagement session" type shoot, since we never did engagement photos anyway:-)

Which photographer are you flying out??

[JuneWeddingDreams]

Wow - this is crazy! Sorry to hear you had such a tough time with this photographer.