Tony Lante Photography & Cinematography

I cannot recommend someone like Tony Lante; his quality of service seems to be on the decline. My wife and I have been waiting two years for our wedding albums. First, Tony blamed the delay on the incompetence of his employee, whom he has since fired, then when we try contacting him, he goes silent. It took a year and a half before Tony's employee sent us a link to order the wedding albums. After another attempt at reaching out to Tony in the spring of this year, he ignored our email and phone calls. My wife and I took to a Facebook group "Brides of Long Island" to speak about our frustrations and to get some advice in dealing with Tony's service, soon we found out several other brides have been having similar issues with him. The Facebook group's admin even had problems where she has had to remove him from their preferred vendor's list due to failure to his pay for advertisement fees. After the review was posted, we were immediately contacted by Tony, who threatened us with legal action if we did not remove the review. He tried to intimidate my wife and attempted to manipulate her into a childish game of insulting the Facebook group's admin. Tony said if my wife didn't do his bidding, he was going to hold our money and the album's hostage. I contacted Tony personally and told him not to contact my wife anymore, and to deal with me. He then canceled our wedding albums out of spite, please see the below text message he sent me. I have since reported him to the Better Business Bureau and the New York State Attorney General's office, and now we will be taking him to court.

Unprofessional service we tried contacting the office by phone and email regarding when our photo wedding album will be ready they told us they will notify us when it’s ready to select the photos for the album we never heard back we tried calling and emailing never got a response , finally they responded but at this point tony said we had to pay over $500 to get our album because the contract expired I dealt with tony he yelled and called me stupid and he told me he wants me to sign an agreement stating I will not write negative reviews and if I do that he will only charge us $250 to get our album. They also misspelled the name introduction on our video he purposely made us go back and forth to get the name correctly spelled than we finally get the usb video back when I came home to check it the video was distorted and freezing Which don’t work I had to argue with them to give me a blu ray cd, making trips back and forth cost me more time and money for their unprofessional mistakes . None of the employees work there full time and they are careless. Yes they came to our wedding on time to take photos but that doesn’t mean they are a professional service for a wedding.