Re: Calling Photog-Obsessed Brides - Esp. Patken Brides AND other brides who are doing the "12th Night" Thing...

My photographer, Patken, was my favorite vendor of the day. Doug out did himself and produced such beautiful pictures. Just remember quality not quanity. I would rather have 350 awesome perfect pics than a 1000 pics with 320 good shots. Let's face we're not photo professionals, how in the world would we pick fom that many!

I would recommend Patken forever! They have been soo good to me, especially since I am an out of state bride. They are timely, got my proofs within 2 weeks, my video will be ready the end of this week(includes honeymoon, baby pics and together, the deluxe kind) and my SOHO album is ready for proofing. I know brides who are still waiting for their video and have been married almost a year already!

Just an FYI, but I am biased cause I already had my wedding, used Patken, and will use them for every life event.

Re: Calling Photog-Obsessed Brides - Esp. Patken Brides AND other brides who are doing the "12th Night" Thing...

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Posted by pschica

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Posted by Thumballina

We went with 12th Night...I love that you don't have to decide on a "package." We're not worried that it'll end up costing more bc its up to us what we want to spend...plus if we're not ready to put an album together right away...we can wait...we'll still have the DVD's to show people and we can always get our favorite pictures developed in the meantime.

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we used 12th night and you wuold be amazed how cheap it is to make up prints - 5x7 using a porfessional photo place were $1.29, i think 8x10s were a little less than $2.00....we were psyched!

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Re: Calling Photog-Obsessed Brides - Esp. Patken Brides AND other brides who are doing the "12th Night" Thing...

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Posted by leese

Ok - Questions for Patken Brides: Do the proofs you get - are they stamped? I was looking at someone's here, and they had his stamp on them.

Also, on my visit, Doug said that he would give me my negatives --- but if I went digital, do I get a CD? That is really important to me but I wasn't sure.

When I went in there, I had a little difficulty with one gal. But then Doug came in and really blew me away with his love for the work and explained why he does things the way he does.

Not totally convinced but he did give me a good price for all that was offered.
But since I don't know whether I actually want a professional album, it's hard to cough up all that money now.

For the 12th Night or "non-package" gals, are you concerned that it is going to end up costing you more later if you decide to do an album and to get reprints done? I'd love to get just a few reprints (one big one, two for my parents) and then all my proofs and the CD and then go from there.

But when I got my price from Patken, I was wondering if not having a package will end up being costlier. Basically - the price I got was about 700 more than the "basic 12th night-type" of package. But if I end up doing a book later on - will it cost me the same or more? TIA!

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