So congratulations might now be the right word for winning this contest since it means you had the worst of the worst wedding photographs, but I want to announce that the winners of my first ever contest are Jacqi & Donavan Almond of Santa Rosa, CA!!!
When I heard this story it pretty much secured the Almond’s prize, because there are no worse pictures than NO PICTURES! Thats right, Jacqi and Donavan have NO PROFESSIONAL PICTURES from their wedding. This is not because they hired a friend or someone off of craigslist. They hired a season pro who actually took decent pictures. After their wedding on 07/07/07 the Almond’s wedding images were uploaded to a online viewing site for the couple to see, but that is as close to those pictures as they ever got. The photographer disappeared, took their money and ran!! He never produced prints, or an album, which was paid for in advance by the way! All the couple has is images taken by their guests and to make this story even worse, there are 22 other known couples that this guy bailed on! Now supposedly Jacqi got an email from their “professional photographer” about 5 months ago saying that he was broke and there was nothing he could to.
Well I am going to give Jacqi and Donavan some pictures they can be proud of and hang on their wall!! They will get a 3 hour photo session with me, 2 – 16×24″ wall portraits and the rest of the images on a disc for them to print. Also Flowers By Erica from Calistoga, CA will be providing the couple with a bouquet and boutonniere (as close to exact replicas as we can make) so their images will be as close to “wedding day authentic” as we can get!!!
Stay tuned for Jacqi and Donavan’s Winning session images! But in the mean time please look over the images that won them this opportunity!
