Melissa Nicastro Photography

y would have hired someone else. She arrived unprepared and complained about the lighting in the room I chose to get ready in. She took my Dress into the hall to try to get a photo of it but those photos weren't even in my proofs. We went to take photos before the ceremony of the bridal party. I wanted a beach, but she brought us to a marshy area that had not been mowed with a water view behind it. It was a mess to walk in, and everyone shoes got dirty. She said she usually checks to see that it's been mowed, but she "didn't have time that day". We took photos with everyone. She made my now husband keep his jacket buttoned. With his arm holding me, it makes the jacket look like it's pulling and ill fitting. In group photos, no one is properly posed. The group isn't proportioned well on either side of us. It looks like a bunch of hooligans standing clustered in a marsh, certainly not anything I would expect from my wedding day. We would not frame a single photo from the marsh. During the ceremony, melissa snapped away, yet she didn't get a single photo of everyone looking at us as we said our vows. No photo is centered. They're a nightmare. First dance photos aren't great-- not one has ever been posted or used. There are only a few photos of us dancing after dinner-- melissa says those "get repetitive". If I paid you to be there for X number of hours, take photos the whole time. Overall, going through these photos, there isn't one that I can say, "That's our wedding photo." We don't have ANY printed in my house that melissa took. My father in law summed it up best by saying, "The pictures will remind us of that day, but they did not do it any justice." I had the wedding of my dreams, and I don't have any photos to display in my home of the best day of my life. We are beyond disappointed. When I told melissa how we felt, she told me that I was a beautiful bride. I have to say, I agree. I looked great on my wedding day. Friends and family who took photos with iPhones got some great shots and video. I'm just not sure how my photographer who was paid thousands of dollars missed the mark with these and couldn't get a good shot. Do yourself a favor and go with someone else.