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Anyone not doing e-pics?

litskispecialtylitskispecialty
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Hi Ladies,

My e-pics have been rescheduled 3 times due to weather and our schedules.  Unfort FI and I live in MA but we're having a NH wedding.  Our package comes with an e-pic session that will lead to a photo guest book.  FI works as a firefighter and has a rotating schedule.  My photographers (affordable memories photography) will only do Sunday's and they keep scheduling us for 7pm in Keene which is 2 hours away from where we live. FI's rotating schedule has him working Sunday's day or night through almost the rest of the summer.  Day schedule he won't be out in time to get to Keene by 7pm and I work M-F so I'm worried to get home super late depending on how long they take.

Bottom line due to FI's schedule, us having another wedding to attend first weekend of Aug, and the rest of Aug being taken up by our own wedding stuff (I think I'm having a shower one weekend, we have vendor meetings etc.) we might not be able to do e-pics now :o(  Are we missing out on anything?  I really want them but I don't think we will be able to get on the same schedule.
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  • cg-pm52111cg-pm52111
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    edited December 2011

    We didn't do them.  I wanted to, but we just didn't get around to it.  I guess I'm ok with that though.

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  • Arez16Arez16
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    edited December 2011
    We had to reschedule them a few times due to weather/other things but we finally got them done. 

    Unless you plan on using them for STD's, Invites etc you don't reallllly need them. Although I see you want a photo guest book, obviously you would need an alternative for that. 

    Can you explain your situation to your photographer? Maybe change the location so its closer for you? If you had planned on doing it I think the photographer should be able to work with you. I would be really upset if my vendor couldn't be accommodating to my schedule, especially an odd sched like your FI's.

    Good luck!
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  • chayer227chayer227
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    edited December 2011
    I'd be more concerned with the lack of flexibility your photographer is showing you than I would be about ultimately not having an e-session.
    An e-session allows you and the photographer to get to know how the other works: are you a "blinker", are you uncomfortable being photographed, are you a poser or do you prefer more candid shots?  It's also a chance to get to know this person that will be following you around (literally) all day, taking pictures of you while you're getting ready... 
    It's not necessary, but I had a BLAST, and it was an opportunity for DH to loosen up in front of the camera before our big day. 
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  • mrussell1983mrussell1983 member
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    edited December 2011
    We have been engaged for over a year now and still have not had the time to schedule any. I'm hoping we can before the end of the summer, even if not with our photographer, but I suppose it will not be the end of the world if we do not. My FI is also a full time ff so I understand that super fun schedule you are dealing with. I was just hired as an LNA and will be working every other weekend. Our photographer is flexible, but very busy right now on the weekends, which is understandable. I have a feeling that any sort of engagement session we do with her within the next few months would be during the week so that it works for all of us. If we decide we MUST have it done this summer I may go with an ammature photog for the engagement sessions just in case we cannot work something out with our wedding photog.

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  • auntykarebearauntykarebear member
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    edited December 2011
    I'm getting them done because we're having a signing board at our wedding.
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] member
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    edited December 2011
    I agree with Chayer.  You're paying this vendor to accomodate YOU, not the other way around.  I would definitely discuss this with them and try to make it work.  If you can't get the photos done before the wedding, negotiate for a post wedding shoot or some other service if this shoot was "included" in the price of your package.  You could trade it in for an album upgrade, additional prints, thank you cards - - whatever.

    I love our photos, I really do, but they're not necessary.  We were only able to do them about a month before our wedding, so I really hesitate calling them "e" pics since we had already been engaged for 1.5 years at that point.  It did make my husband and I more comfortable with our choice of photographers after spending the day taking photos with them.  Good luck.
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