So sad about my pictures

I've been working on scanning in my pictures, and the more I look at them, the more upset I get. I really feel like Glenmar failed me. I told them I wanted journalistic pics when we first booked months and months ago. We had requested a specific photographer and were only told the day before the wedding that he was on vacation. The photographer we got was really nice, but he picked a really bad place for most of the pics, mostly because my dress literally blends in to the background and all the pics were taken in front of chairs which are in the pics.

There was nothing special about my pictures at all. They are mostly plain, standard poses. They didn't get the one picture I was adamant about having. And because I was so busy trying to plan a wedding in less than 2 months, I never thought about pictures that I would really want. The photographer asked me before he left if there were any pics I wanted, but I couldn't think of them right off the top of my head.

In our original (more expensive) contract, they threw in 2 free rolls of B&W film. When I asked about it, the owner told me that any picture could be made B&W - for $5 per picture! What a ripoff!

We got less than 400 proofs back and I don't even know if there are 36 pictures that I like enough to put in an album. I can't look at other brides' pictures anymore because I cry. Mine are just so f*cking plain and simple and posed and I hate it! I'm so unhappy about this and I can't stop being sad and angry. We paid way too much money for standard pictures. This is not the quality that we know Glenmar to produce, which is what makes me even angrier. And there's really nothing I can do about it, because even if they give us some money back, it won't change the fact that I have ****** pictures.

Thanks for letting me vent.