Hockeynut! wrote:I just had wedding clients from about 7 years ago ask me if I still had their photos and, if so, whether I could design an album for them. Thankfully I'm extremely anal about keeping all of my photos (I have around 12 hard drives) and I'm awesome so I can hook them up.

Biggest regret: Going cheap on our wedding photographer. She was about 50% of the next lowest bid, and we found out (to our dismay) that there was a very good reason for that.
She was terrible. The wedding party shots and everything from the ceremony itself were fine. But looking at the pics from the reception, you could be forgiven for thinking that we didn't have any guests. There were literally only about four or five photos of guests at the reception, and by my count only about eight or ten total shots from after our toast. (Which was only about 35-40 minutes in to a 4-hour reception) And to make matters worse, looking at timestamps on the metadata there is like a 45 minute gap between sequential images. I kinda thought one of the purposes for bringing a second shooter was so that you could stagger your meal breaks. Anyway, after she delivered the DVD, she went completely dark and stopped responding to emails and never answered my question as to why we had only four or five pictures of guests during the reception.
At least she didn't cost much. And the contract gave us copyright on the pictures as well, so we have full res jpegs of all the images (in addition to the ones she post processed) and can do albums or prints at our leisure. (The only other photographer we talked to that would give us ownership charged nearly 4x what this person did; again, get what you pay for.)
Don't go cheap on your wedding photographer.