JoVon Photography

Mrs.Ptobe Posted: Aug 07, 2004 12:32 PM

JoVon Photography

My MOH highly recommends this place, they did her photography and video (and they did the most amazing job I've ever seen!). Anyone know how pricey they are???? They have to be up there! Anyone comprable. I'm really liking the vineyard caterers for my wedding, but concerned about the phone poles and wires and parking lot that can be seen from the 'aisle'. I want a photographer that will avoid getting that stuff in the pix.

kath Posted: Aug 07, 2004 01:24 PM

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JoVon is pretty expensive...I'm not sure exactly how much though...I have a part time job where I do retouching for photography studios and I always remember my boss talking about that studio as being good but expensive....And if they ever do get anything in the pic that you don't want it can always be retouched so it will look like it was never there to begin with......BUT you need to talk to the photographer before hand and ask how much per picture and see if it can be worked into your contract.....b/c retouching can get expensive if it's alot of pictures.

fallinlove04 Posted: Aug 07, 2004 03:16 PM

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They are pricey, I don't remember how much their starting packages were, but we opted not to go with them. I have seen their work and it is great, but to be honest i was not too impressed with the albums that they showed us.

We are using fine art photography. A friend of ours used them and her pictures are great. We got a lot more for the money from them.

Backinneyork Posted: Aug 07, 2004 06:16 PM

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They have a few complaints about them in the BBB, and they lost ALL the pictures from one of my friend's at works friend's wedding!! They had to 'recreate' the wedding afterwards to get some pictures. Perceptions is similar in style.

junebride04 Posted: Aug 07, 2004 07:10 PM

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You should also check out Creative Compositions. They were my wedding photographers and my pics came out amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

www.creativecompositions.com

P.S. I have heard some not so good things about JOVON regarding customer service issues.

Justinsbabie32 Posted: Aug 07, 2004 07:13 PM

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Be very careful at Jovons

Mrs.Ptobe Posted: Aug 07, 2004 09:59 PM

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Oooookay, so no Jovons for me! It's okay, I'd rather not spend millions...

I really liked the web site for Creative Compositions and will give them a call when the time comes. Anyone know what their charges are like - are they expensive? I'm on a budget! Any other REALLY GOOD photographers BRIDES can recommend?

Justinsbabie32 Posted: Aug 08, 2004 07:57 AM

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We are using LELI PHOTO AND VIDEO in St James amazing work goodpricing and you be surprised who he does work for . Small hint C.C. GOOD LUCK

Barakabella Posted: Aug 08, 2004 08:37 AM

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We are thrilled with the masterful work of our photographer, Scott Whittle. www.scottwhittle.com
He caughts the most small moments and they are magical.

sophie78 Posted: Aug 08, 2004 09:44 AM

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You are must better off with Creative Compositions than Jovon. CC is slightly more expensive but the customer service is a million times better.

Summer Bride Posted: Aug 08, 2004 09:48 AM

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We are also using Fine Art. They have an amazing digital photography album.

Jax430 Posted: Aug 08, 2004 10:24 AM

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I just got my pictures back from JoVon. Yes, they are very expensive, and no, I'm not entirely happy with the proofs. My photographer was switched the week of the wedding because the one we chose had a family illness. To compensate, they gave me two head photographers...one more traditional, and one more photojournalistic. The traditional photographer took some beautiful posed shots, but had an attitude and could be quite obnoxious. I hated getting comments from my guests that, 'your photographer was really nasty,' etc. My complaint about his pictures is that we specifically requested table pictures and he missed a couple of tables and on a couple of other tables, there were important people (1st cousins) missing from the pictures. I found out that he was asked to wait by one table, until my 2 cousins returned from the bathroom, and he refused.

The other photographer, the more photojournalistic one, was much nicer, although I found her a bit strange. Some of her photos are beautiful, but she really didn't do that much in terms of photojournalism. There are a lot of black and whites of wedding guests, and she took the pictures of the desserts in black and white, which makes no sense! She took a few more 'artsy' pics, but I wasn't thrilled with how she composed the pics.

All in all, while we're still going to have a beautiful wedding album and have a difficult time narrowing the 701 pictures down to 50, I am somewhat disappointed.

Justinsbabie32 Posted: Aug 08, 2004 06:20 PM

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goingtobemrs Posted: Aug 08, 2004 06:33 PM

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Duet is great. I just booked them today. They did my friend's wedding and their work is beautiful. They have great photo/video packages and he throws in a lot of extra stuff for free.

MERMIKE53194 Posted: Aug 08, 2004 09:26 PM

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I am using Jovon and I can honestly say I have had no problems with them so far- the customer service has been good and there work is amazing- I would form your own opinion and just go meet them- I went to all the photographers everyone else is talking about CC, Fine Art and I also went to see sherwood triart- they all have great work- but I didnt like CC for the simple fact she asked me to leave a $ 500 deposit the first time I was there- no other photography requested this before-

Fine Art does have great work also- I have a girlfriend that who used them- the only thing I can say is out of all the places I went to Jovon was the only place you actually sat down with a photographer and not a sales person-

jackie&jim Posted: Aug 08, 2004 09:30 PM

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I recommend 12th night! He is such a nice guy and their work in wonderful! My mom is a professional photographer in FL and she thought he had the best work around! Plus the packages are affordable.

jill13bean Posted: Aug 08, 2004 10:10 PM

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We are using Leli photography... i think he is similar to Jovon and creative compositions BUT much more reqasonable in $$$$

GoingNutty Posted: Aug 08, 2004 11:05 PM

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What photographer(s) did you JoVon brides use??

Jax430 Posted: Aug 08, 2004 11:41 PM

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I was supposed to have Ralph, whose work I loved, but b/c he had to cancel on us, we were assigned Hy as the main photographer and Beth for the more photojournalistic stuff.