We originally were just going to go to the courthouse. My grandma convinced me to have a party afterwards, so we through essentially a BBQ in our backyard, about 40-50 people. My uncle has done wedding photography for years and ended up taking a handful of pictures that day, which will be the only ones that will be displayed in our home. 

Friend of husband's is a massage therapist, but has been trying to get a side photography business started. I had seen some of her pictures on Facebook and honestly, wasn't impressed, but wrote it off as it wasn't my style (lots of pictures of women in lingerie, 50s pin up girl stuff, etc). She offers to shoot the wedding for free in exchange for being able to use our pictures as sort of promotional material. Husband can't resist free. I'm skeptical, but agree. 

Day of wedding, she provides absolutely no direction and takes forever, doing endless combinations of us plus family members. I end up missing most of the party posing for pictures. But hey I figured some would turn out and it's better than having no pictures. 

Wrong. The pictures are so bad. Like any of my cousins could have done a better job with the iPhone camera bad. So I missed 80% of my wedding for nothing. And the only pictures we will keep were taken my uncle in about 5 minutes. 

I'm not crazy about the pictures being used online, but we had a verbal agreement that I feel compelled to honor because that's my character, and husband has been friends with her since high school. 

I feel betrayed, misled, and sad over the loss of the pictures I thought we would have. We normally go to this girl for massages, and she is a gifted massage therapist. She invited us for her big BBQ Tuesday and I don't want to go. I feel like I need some time so i don't hurt her feelings saying something I might regret.
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Long time friend offers to shoot wedding for nothing in exchange for use of pictures. I'm upset over low quality photos. How do I resolve this without
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We originally were just going to go to the courthouse. My grandma convinced me to have a party afterwards, so we through essentially a BBQ in our backyard, about 40-50 people. My uncle has done wedding photography for years and ended up taking a handful of pictures that day, which will be the only ones that will be displayed in our home. 

Friend of husband's is a massage therapist, but has been trying to get a side photography business started. I had seen some of her pictures on Facebook and honestly, wasn't impressed, but wrote it off as it wasn't my style (lots of pictures of women in lingerie, 50s pin up girl stuff, etc). She offers to shoot the wedding for free in exchange for being able to use our pictures as sort of promotional material. Husband can't resist free. I'm skeptical, but agree. 

Day of wedding, she provides absolutely no direction and takes forever, doing endless combinations of us plus family members. I end up missing most of the party posing for pictures. But hey I figured some would turn out and it's better than having no pictures. 

Wrong. The pictures are so bad. Like any of my cousins could have done a better job with the iPhone camera bad. So I missed 80% of my wedding for nothing. And the only pictures we will keep were taken my uncle in about 5 minutes. 

I'm not crazy about the pictures being used online, but we had a verbal agreement that I feel compelled to honor because that's my character, and husband has been friends with her since high school. 

I feel betrayed, misled, and sad over the loss of the pictures I thought we would have. We normally go to this girl for massages, and she is a gifted massage therapist. She invited us for her big BBQ Tuesday and I don't want to go. I feel like I need some time so i don't hurt her feelings saying something I might regret.
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I agreed to have a party for my husband's super nice friend, only to have them provide for us a group of terrible pictures.
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