Final Cut Events

ity and style of how Hector and his partner took our pictures and video. They came out fantastic! I mostly spoke with Hector and as far as his personality, he kept it professional. My husband wished he had a bit more personality to feel more comfortable with him but I thought he just did his job. The value for money was pretty good for the amount of hours, and service that Hector and his partner provided. They were also very patient when it came to some family members. I found out about Final Cut Events by google. I saw that they had social media pages and after seeing their work and value for money I knew they would be the ones. As far as the DJ goes, overall, my husband and I did not like his quality of work. I did speak to the DJ prior to the day of our wedding and I was so excited to have him take over our reception. We went over the songs that I had picked and the timeline of events beginning from the ceremony all the way to the end. He started off great during the ceremony and cocktail hour, but during the actual reception, we noticed a couple hiccups. He didn’t say the correct names (which not a big deal, but we talked about the order, so that should have been on paper), he was caught taking a smoke break when I was time to get the party started, and his transitioning was not really on point. It seemed choppy and not smooth. The photo booth was a free addition as a promotion that Final Cut Events was doing at the time. We liked having it for our guests as another memory they can take from our wedding.

out to random, novice photographers/videographers/DJs. After reading multiple 5-star reviews, which are mostly like fake, I decided to get the package with a photographer, videographer, and a DJ. I paid for 3 services so I expected 3 people, 1 person to preform each service. What I got was 1 person with a camera that had video capability and 1 person who was a DJ. The photographer was beginner, I could tell he had never shot a wedding before. He had no idea what he was doing. I, being the bride, had to direct my own pictures and delegate to my bridal party all the poses I wanted to do. I shouldn’t have to do that, that’s not my job! He was always hard to locate and since he apparently was the “videographer” as well, you never knew if he was shooting a still picture or a video. He did not capture any of the bridal party speeches or the father of the brides speech on video!! What is the point of video if you don’t have the speeches!? I was supposed to have a 2- camera ceremony, definitely did NOT get that. When told I would have my pictures 8 weeks after my wedding date, that was a lie. I didn’t get my pictures until 17 or 18 weeks later, no sneak peak or anything! Don’t even bother trying to contact HECTOR, he won’t respond and he has way to many excuses. The reviews about HECTOR AND HIS TEAM are a sham. Hector doesn’t have a team, he employs strangers he finds on Craigslist or behind dumpsters on the street, who knows. To all the VENDORS that may be recruited by HECTOR, don’t accept the job, he won’t pay you!

everything we were looking for. I inquired and was immediately contacted by the owner Hector. With all competitor pricing in hand ready to go I went through all the notions with Hector and man he can talk a good game. He matched prices and even did better. He's a good sales man, I will give him that. After signing the contract and beginning this business transaction I quickly learned what this man really cares about and how money hungry he really is. Every month or so he would text me starting off with "How's planning going?" to quickly offering us some sort of dollar number "discount" to pay him in full or some more earlier than what the break down was on the contract. It was to the point that if I saw him texting/calling I knew what it was about. I never gave in, said we would pass and told him I will pay on the due date. When it came down to speaking about photo booth pricing, he would never budge. If he did it was like a hundred less. Okay fair enough. But what never made sense is I was offering to pay him hundreds more on top of what we were already paying with our package but he would firmly say no and then the next second offer to cut hundreds off our package price if we paid that day or part of it "as a discounted deal". So I ventured out and found a price for lower than he asked. This company was on the same brochure as Hectors but when speaking to him about them he talked them down without even knowing which company it was. I knew he was going to do this, that is just the way his mannerisms are. But I just wanted to see if he would price match so we didn't have to hire another company. Ended up hiring the other company, WHO WAS AWESOME might I add. I also know a photographer from NY who had just moved to FL around the time of planning and I honestly would have hired her alone had I not had a contract with Hector. So I discussed with him, per my friend photographer about hiring her to get documentary shots aside from his photographer, and yet again talks her down doesn't suggest I do that but it is my day I can do what I want. OKAY... IF I HADN'T HIRED HER WE WOULDN'T HAVE ANY PICTURES AS OF TODAY 5/15/19. She sent me everything she had within the week of the wedding. Without hesitation. As I write this review (5/15/19), it's now 12 weeks later and I have nothing from FINAL CUT. I have been in constant contact with Hector who tells me personal stuff happened in his life, "in a week or sooner" multiple times and yet still NOTHING. This is from a man who said 8 weeks or less turn over time. A company who is constantly posting new content from weddings on their social media. BUT more of than to come... let's talk about payments, I have never paid late, I always paid the exact amount owed. I would receive emails from him continuously as "reminders" of payments coming up and if I didn't click the link and pay that day (not the day of payment in contract but 2-3 weeks or more before) I would continuously get reminder emails that I am late on payment when I wasn't. All because this man wants to be paid and that's all he wants. About a day or so after the wedding he texted me to congratulate me then ask me for a FIVE STAR review. I said I would give a review no problem AFTER we receive our products. UPDATE: After arguing back and forth with Hector through text messages on 5/25 about his lack of professionalism, lateness on delivering, his bad reviews online (which he claims are his competitors) and threatening to have Chase reverse payment suddenly our wedding movie was ready, he sent it. The movie is fine but it was supposed to be an hour - hour and a half long and we have 30 minutes. Chase ended up reversing our payment because Hector never responded to them and then all of a sudden our pictures were ready but he had to have the dispute cancelled in order to send. Which it was immediately done and taken back out of our account but to buy himself some more time he said he had to wait for some email proof and the "go ahead" from his merchant. He was upset, his account was negative and would constantly be in contact with us every day multiple times a day, AND WHY? Because his MONEY was involved. We finally received our pictures on 6/6/19. I knew this review was never going to be a good one. Unfortunately, I found out when it was too late to cancel our contract. So do yourself a favor and do not take these negative reviews lightly. Do your research and trust these reviews that you're reading, take the time... It's your wedding day.

ty. I was very worried because my family is Peruvian and I wanted specific songs that we can all enjoy and Angel, the DJ, made it possible! The only thing I will recommend to improve is the time to release the photos and video which is two months after the event. I have my pictures now, which are lovely, but I am still waiting for my 2 videos. Thank you for everything Hector!

ary and the wedding albulm was a part of our contract and we have still not received it. Hector takes weeks to reply to messages and when he responds it is always “let me check on that” and then no more responses. He does not answer or return phone calls. I would not recommend to anyone!

ch in Jupiter Fl. We hired Hector to take care of the Photo Booth, Videography, Photography, and DJ. In our contract, it stated that we were supposed to have someone at the Photo Booth at all times to help taking the pictures. There was no one at all during the whole time!! The raw video for the videography was horrible as well. The whole time they were recording the video was so shaky you couldn't even make out our faces during most of it. The Photography, this part made me and my wife sick to our stomachs. We must of taken 400-500 pictures. Out of all of them we must have about 100 pictures at which, half of them are worth keeping. After nagging and nagging and nagging to get the pictures, we were supposed to get them within 6-8 weeks. It took him 4 months to respond with him saying he LOST MY WEDDING PICTURES! He tried to feed me a load of BS saying because of the rain his camera got destroyed thus damaging his memory card in his camera. We confronted Hector and asked him what to do. His response was "sorry, I feel so bad and I would have never done this on purpose." We then asked him for some sort of reimbursement. Trying to work with him, we even told him the DJ did a decent job but everything else he did in particular was a 0/10. He blamed us for the rain ruining his camera and our pictures. IT WAS COVERED with drapes around the whole venue. He told us we weren't going to get ANY refund back from him. Since I put most of his services on my Amex, I filed a dispute. I lost the dispute because he lied about everything he sent to them. I knew that if I took him to court a judge would see right through his lies. I filed a complaint in small claims court in Palm Beach County FL, Delray Beach against Hector Perez DBA Final Cut Events. Please be aware!! FYI, Hector used a insurance from a company thats only valid for a short period of time to work at venues that need insurance. These are the FACTS: -He lost over 200 pictures -The raw video was so shaky we can't watch it -We lost 2 disputes against him with Amex because of lies which I have proof and will provide if needed - We won our court hearing against Hector for a full refund at which he denied giving to us when asked. We did try and fix this outside of court and disputes FYI. He told us he would retake our pictures but obviously we can't recreate our wedding.( This is public record and can be viewed online for people considering going with Final Cut Events) - No one to help with Photo Booth - I paid for engagement photos we did not receive - No drone video from our specific wedding. He took it from someone else -No bluray disc, just an online library -He made a video from our wedding without working with us. He picked U2 for our video which we both HATE - He was supposed to edit our pictures with something like Photoshop which wasn't done. -He LOST ALL PICTURES FROM CEREMONY -He LOST ALL VIDEOS AND PICTURES before the wedding. My fiancé at the time, our family, and I read something special to each other before the ceremony. Including the pictures of us getting ready. Only pictures we received our from out reception. -It has been 2 years since we got married and he has yet to settle this. PLEASE REMEMBER, the bullets are all FACTS. If needed I can provide any and all proof.

h for over a year. Problem #1. He promised us several times that he would be the person to be there for our wedding. However, the night before I received two calls. One from Angel, the photographer and Kevin, the videographer. We never saw or met (FTF) Hector. Angel and Kevin were great on the day of our wedding. Problem #2. We ordered and paid for a photo booth. On the day of our wedding, we found out that Hector had forgot to update his computer so one was not available. Problem #3. We spoke to Hector two days after we got back from our wedding. He took responsibility for not updating his computer and said to compensate us he would have our pictures and video back to us in 4 weeks and then he would return our refund right after we received our product for the missed photo booth. After communicating with Hector a few times and still not receiving what he promised and writing a negative review from our experience, Hector sent our pictures during week 6 and our wedding video a few days later. They all were not good quality. I spent days editing the photos myself and with the video, Hector had to correct because there was empty space for 10 minutes in our video. It took another two weeks for him to correct this mistake. Now it’s been almost two weeks since he’s “sent our refund” and we have not received anything. I contacted Hector twice (first time he said it had been sent. Second time he did not respond). I would never recommend nor do business with (again) Final Cuts!

thank you!! xo

of songs and timeline I had made for him kind of flew out the window, but he ran with it without complaints! He was a wonderful MC and did a great job hyping up the crowd. When he did have a chance to play the songs I requested he hit it out of the park and we were all dancing and enjoying. I had a little trouble with Hector and was told he’d be also working my wedding, though he never showed up (granted, the DJs role was much smaller than what we had originally planned out due to the surprise band, but out of principal, it was wrong). He did meet with my now husband and I to go over everything even though he said that’s not common to do. But again we were told he’d do the wedding (alongside Angel) since we had been only communicating with Hector and he understood our specific requests and wanted to do a Spanish wedding since he has so much experience, but that was the last day we saw him. Thankfully, Angel was a complete pro as Hector had assured us, and we didn’t really NEED anyone else but it definitely felt unprofessional to not even receive a phone call or email explaining why he didn’t show as he was the one that stated we’d have two DJs there. Hector was also a bit difficult to track down as he doesn’t respond to emails unless you call to confirm with him that he received it (he does pick up every time though). Not a huge deal, just an extra time consuming step if you’re a bride who is very involved in the process making timelines, changes, etc. as I was. He was respectful but didn’t really enjoy me asking too many questions and asking for a meeting or a sample from a wedding as he got a bit defensive stating all his years of experience and how well he’s known. It all worked out, but we recommend Angel specifically, and doing thorough research. Ask questions and get confirmations!

ine planning sheets were super helpful and made me feel very organized. Angel, the DJ, was amazing! He followed everything on our planning sheets and kept our guests engaged during our reception! The photobooth was a huge hit! And Hector and Amanda were everywhere snapping pictures and videos, I cannot wait to see everything! Hector was always very easy to contact and was always super helpful with answering all of my questions. Our package also included an engagement shoot, which allowed us to work with Hector before the wedding and it made taking pictures the day of a lot more smooth. HIGHLY recommend Hector and Final Cut Events! They have great packages with amazing prices!

or DJ/Photographer/Videographer and added uplighting package was the same price as what some photographers wanted alone. Hector was easy to reach and answered all my questions. Their online planning sheets made it easy for me to be able to do my homework and remember certain areas of the ceremony and reception that would need to be addressed. The staff stayed in constant contact throughout the event and the DJ played songs that my family and I enjoyed. He made sure to have all names correct and lineups correct before making announcements as well as making sure that the reception flowed smoothly. The photographer and videographer were very professional and knew exactly what they were doing. They captured many moment that I deemed very special. The only bad side was the sound quality while we were reading our vows was bad and some guests couldn’t hear them, but I would definitely use this vendor again.

d and patient making sure he got every angle and photo I requested . DJ angel -his name does him Justice . From the Wedding Reception and Ceremony on Saturday 8th April 2017. You guys do such an amazing job, are so professional, caring and are simply the best! We felt like our day was so care free as every little detail was taken care of by all of you – event managers, wait staff, chefs, bar staff , Special Thanks to Loretta Hardial and Lourdes Alvarez - Blessing

nd when they needed us, made sure we got the best shots. The photo booth was a HUGE success at the wedding too. I can't wait to see those pictures. they are going to be hilarious. I will be able to better review the trio after my pics and video have been completed. The only downside to this is the turnaround. Hector let me know it was about 8 weeks from the time of the wedding. But so far, everything was great. I'm looking forward to the final products.

at job reading the crowd and picking music that everyone enjoyed the whole night! We had a great time and our guests sang the DJ's praises the rest of the weekend! Thank you for a great time!

ght - I am so happy I chose Final Cut