Cordele Photography

I hired Alicia to do photos for my wedding because of a recommendation from a friend. The initial work of hiring her was fairly smooth. We spoke by phone and I signed a contract. As it got closer to the wedding though it became very difficult to connect with Alicia. I would call and email and get no response. Alicia would set up specific times to talk with me and then wouldn’t call me at the pre-​arranged time. It was frustrating and made me anxious going into the wedding. We did eventually talk before the wedding and I tried to be optimistic. On the day of the wedding both Alicia and her assistant photographer were on time and were professional at the wedding. No problems during the wedding.
After the wedding I have run into a number of issues. There was a specific photo from the wedding reception that I was really looking forward to. Family members who haven’t been together in over a decade were all in one photo. So I was really displeased when that photo was lost and I never saw it. Alicia’s response to me was that «sometimes brides think I took a photo but really I didn’t, and it was another guest taking the photo». No. I remember the photo vividly as do many of my guests. There is no doubt in my mind that Alicia took the photo but i never got to see it.
After I posted my review, Alicia was able to find the lost photo.
I did 3 separate orders for photos after my wedding. The first 2 orders arrived quickly and the quality of the photos was very good. Then I decided to order a 3^rd set. When this order arrived it was very odd because the photos from this order don’t match the other photos. They were printed on a different paper and now the photos don’t match. When I contacted Alicia asking why this was, she just never responded. It has now been almost a week and no answer from Alicia to my question.
Update: Alicia contacted me just shy of a week after I asked her about the difference in my photos. She said it was normal that a batch order be printed on matte paper. I told her she might want to update her website to say as much since i wouldn’t have ordered the photos if I knew they would come on a different paper from the previous photos. Alicia said she did update her website to include this information.
There was another odd interaction where at one point Alicia forwarded me an email chain between her and my mother-​in-​law without much explanation. I’m still not entirely sure why it was forwarded to me but my husband surmised that Alicia wanted me to see some critical emails that my mother-​in-​law had sent her. The whole thing was very odd. My mother-​in-​law had issues ordering photos from Alicia. That had nothing to do with me.
Bottom line is that you are going to spend a ton of money on a wedding photographer in Boston. I have friends who had very responsive photographers and never had any issues with orders. For the amount of money I spent i would have preferred to work with someone who was more responsive and more forthcoming about differences in photo paper.

When looking for a wedding photographer, I had very strict requirements for my photos. I wanted someone who could catch the day as it happened, had an eye for the little things, and didn’t rely on using the same poses and places for shots as they had with every other bride at the same location. In one word, I wanted originality. And it was imperative that my photographer be on the same exact page as me.
One of the few photographers that I came across that really met my standards was Alicia at Cordele Photography. From our first conversation, it was like speaking to someone I had known for years and have been talking about planning my wedding with for years. She understood exactly what I wanted. She was amazing to work with all through the planning process, returning emails and calls quickly, and completely professional the day of, maneuvering our difficult family situations with grace. I also loved that when the sunset was unexpectedly beautiful, she made sure to grab us to get some more amazing shots rather than just continue to get photos of our friends drinking at the reception. I am so happy that we chose Cordele Photography to capture our wedding. They did such an amazing job delivering exactly what I wanted to commemorate my day.