Okay so I have been silently browsing these boards while planning my wedding, but I already had all my vendors booked before I signed up. I just like to see everyone's ideas (LOL!) Well literally 2 weeks before my wedding my Photographer refunded my deposit because her and her assistant were in a business feud of some sort. I was upset but quickly looked here for recommendations on affordable photographers (since I was on a different time scaled budget now) and found Moments By Nicolette Photography's page she had listed here under someone else looking for a photographer. I'm not sure if the OP used her but I contacter her and she contacted me the next morning via Phone and we had everything set up! I met her at a Starbucks and we went over my ideas for my photos and my desires. She showed up that day early and got some wonderful Pre-Ceremony photos. We paid for a total of 7 hours and she was there the whole time, even stayed an additional 30 minutes at no cost to get our Departing Ceremony complete with Fire Sparklers!
Nicolette uploaded all of our unedited photos to a gallery for our viewing and I must say that they are already beautiful!!!!
She has been showing us finished ones in groups (we are inpatient so she has kept us updated the past few days haha!) and they are looking GREAT!
I can't wait to get our products and the finished photos!
For anyone looking for WONDERFUL quality and AFFORDABLE pricing, check out MomentsByNicolette.com and look at her great wedding collections!
She offers pacages that start as low as $300 for s few hours of coverage and all your photos edited on a DVD but we wanted more physical prints,
Here was ours (copied directly from her website)
Victorian Collection | 7 Hours | $1,999
Designer Engagement Session
Up To 7 Hours of Wedding Day Coverage
Facebook Album of Purchased Images + Online Proofing Gallery
(200) 4x6 Desktop Portraits
(1) 16x20 Wall Portrait
(1) 16x20 Showcase Gallery Wrap
(2) 11x14 Wall Portraits
(2) 8x10 Portraits
(8) 5x7 Desktop Portraits
(1) 10x10 Designer Wedding Album
(1) USB Flash Drive of Edited Images and Full Printing Release
*Additional Hours $50 Each
We paid in full and got a discount as well! Nicolette was a blast! She made us feel comfortable and gave us great poses to do, it really reflected our personalities. Also, the candids were PERFECT! I would really recommend checking her out. Once again before my official review, her website is MomentsByNicolette.com and her email is Info@MomentsByNicolette.com, let her know I referred you! (Katie Cross)
I really liked her style and plan on doing some Boudoir photos for christmas for my husband which she said she would be glad to do for me!
Review:
Professionalism: Nicolette was professional but FUN. She wasn't all 'nose in the air' and strict like our first photographer was, which was great because I personally think it made for better photos instead of all of them looking posed.
Timely: She was early and it was to our benefit that she was able to get some wonderful "Pre Ceremony" Photos
Quality and Quantity: So far, from what we have seen of edited and un edited, our photos are beautiful. They all come with a photo release of up to size 8x10 photos so I assume the quality will be fine, and her products in our package include even larger prints and wraps! Cant wait to see them! We have over 600+ photos right now that she is working with!
Turn around time: The day after our wedding we got to see the unedited photos, and from then on she has been showing us edited groups! She should be done by this weekend and then our products should take up to 3 weeks for the larger Wraps and wall prints.
Contact: Contact has been great, daily in fact.
Price: I know she offers her cheapest packages at $300 some dollars, and then most expensive at $4000 maxed out with tons of stuff. Our package was $2000 with everything included (7 hours and plenty of prints and products) we paid in full and she gave us a discount since our wedding day was less than 2 weeks away which ended up giving us a total of $1700, the additional $300 we used towards other things and her tip we plan to give her once we get our photo prints!