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:::beachybride10:: and others using Expressions by Misti photography

Hey Ladies,Im not sure if you guys saw the post of a girl who used Misti and is still waiting on prints (you can also read it here: http://www.weddingwire.com/reviews/expressions-by-misti-nashville/823cf4163f5e60a6.htmlIt's making me a little nervous. Am i just being paranoid?

Re: :::beachybride10:: and others using Expressions by Misti photography

  • Those reviews are very telling and recent! Trust your intuition on this one, you are not being paranoid. Personally, I would try to find someone else.  I hope you haven't given her any money yet.
  • No not being paranoid at all. This makes me concerned as well. I am going to contact her now.
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    Meghan and Jonny- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - May 1, 2010
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  • Those reviews would make me VERY nervous!  Do you know anyone personally who has used her?  It's not like there was just one bad review; there were several.  I would seriously probably consider looking for someone else.  My photog was my "splurge item" because photography is VERY important to me.
  • Natalee - the best destination wedding forum has tons of girls who have used her. I have emailed with them and was able to view their entire photo gallery. However, this was months ago. I emailed Misti to express my concerns, I'll let you know what she says.
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    Meghan and Jonny- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - May 1, 2010
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  • Meghan, let me know what you find out! I was going to contact her, but did not really know what to say. Photography is really important to me too, that's why i didn't want to use the resort photographer. I am not sure what to do now. We paid a deposit already...
  • I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that these were bad reviews that didn't give the whole picture and that the girls from the other board that had good experiences are the norm.  Keep me posted.
  • Oh wow!! I would be freaking out too.  I hope she responds and everything works out.  I am a very paranoid person and would probably start looking els where.  Right now I am soooo thankful that my photog is a friend on FB and I talk to her on there a lot.  Fingers crossed for you ladies!!
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    Ashley & Josh ~ The Reef Resort ~ Grand Cayman~ May 15th 2010
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  • Ugh- are you serious???  Now I am super freaked out too as we have already paid our deposit with her... Please keep me informed as well ladies- my email is drm 6285@ yahoo.com if you hear anything.  I think I am going to shoot her an email as well. The sad thing is, my twin sister had this EXACT SAME prob with her photog.  She is now sueing him...
  • I would be concerned too.  Keep us updated.  I read the reviews, some of them are really old and were posted a long time ago, but the most recent one is a little questionable, and would make me worried.  Of course, that was posted not tooo long after the wedding.  So who knows.
  • Hello Ladies,Misti got in touch with me last night.I will give you all the information she gave me and you can make your own mind up. I truthfully LOVED her as a vendor prior to all this. She was great at my wedding and before the wedding was always very easy and very responsive. The reason for the delays are as followed:She got married 3 days after I did and then had her honeymoon.She also had several back to back destination weddings.Her sister also got into a very back car accident (she was/is expecting at the time) so she got put on bed rest and she has other children so Misti flew to Alaska to help her out.Her aunt went into a coma and then past. When she flew out for that, she arranged with her assistant to upload my pictures and it didn't get done. She has now put her half (the pictures she took) at the wedding online and is currently waiting for her assistant to come back into town to put the ones she took. Misti stated that she would be uploading these herself since her assistant didn't do it while she was gone. I truthfully believe that Misti is a good vendor, I do think that events in and out of her control (so many bookings, her own wedding, the accident and the death) have caused delays. With that said, I don't know what to think about the girl who said she hadn't gotten her storybook and had waited a year. If you want you can all email me or I will come back and post after I get all my prints, storybrooks and cds. And let you know how my experience after that. My email is tslgg @ hotmail
  • I just posted on another thread, but I'm copying it here.  Interesting to hear the update from mjstns052309, I have been trying to contact Misti for a month and haven't heard one thing back from her.  Even if all of what she told mjstns052309 is true, it doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that she just let her business totally fall apart when her personal life got crazy.  She should have either found a capable assistant or AT LEAST notified her brides who were waiting on photos what was going on.  I might have a bit more patience if I were kept in the loop instead of MULTIPLE phone calls and emails going unanswered.I'm still hoping I get all the package items that I'm owed (lots of prints and several albums), but I don't think it's realistic for a photographer to totally shut down service to already-married customers during the summer.  It's busy season, but you know it's going to be busy season!  Hire someone if you need help!  If I had known all of this, I don't know that I would have hired Misti.Wanted to add:  she was about 30 min. late for our engagement shoot and almost 1 hour late for our wedding, with NO EXCUSE.  This put us behind for the rest of the day.Anyway, here's my story:----I am sad to report I am having the same experience as mjstns052309.  Misti took our engagement photos last October and I LOVED them.  They took several weeks to get back but they were fantastic.  I got married 5/9/09 and although I did get finally my photos uploaded (not until 6/26), she was TERRIBLY unresponsive to phone calls and emails, and just very unprofessional.  The photos are mostly good, not amazing.  Nowhere near as great as our engagement photos.  And, there were a lot of shots that either she got and they were bad, or she and her second photog. both missed (our first kiss?  our "first look"??  nowhere in the pics she uploaded).   I was so happy to finally have them I didn't even ask about these missing shots. Yes, she got married soon after we did, and a family member also passed away after that and she was out of the office for a bit, but if you're a businessperson, selling a service for a lot of $$$, you have at least an assistant or someone who can return phone calls and emails if you're unavailable. I'm now trying to order my physical prints and albums, have emailed twice in the last month and am now starting to call.  I was going to hold off on putting out a bad review until I finished the entire process, but you all should be forewarned.
    Married May 9, 2009, Fall Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee Male factor infertility, BFP after two failed IUIs and one IVF image Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker Photobucket
  • UPDATE:  After being contacted by Iris, Misti responded to me via email.  Apparently she had stopped using the email address from which she had last contacted me, so she had not gotten my emails over the past month (I never got a bounceback to know that email wasn't being checked).  Misti defended herself and we have agreed to disagree on several points, but she was not at all apologetic.  She has now let me know how to order my prints and storybooks and I am hopefull I will receive everything in my package after I place my orders in the near future.
    Married May 9, 2009, Fall Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee Male factor infertility, BFP after two failed IUIs and one IVF image Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker Photobucket
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