Lovely Wedding Studio

My mother-​in-​law insisted that we take some extravagant glamour photos for our wedding. At first we were apprehensive, but upon or visit to Richmond we stumbled into Lovely Wedding Studio. The shop is beautiful and showcased several different styles of gowns. They provide different photo packages that include photography, a printed large photo, an album, a signature scroll, and dress rental. We decided to go with it due to their promotions and my mother-​in-​laws excitement.
The process was a little inconvenient due to the fact that we live in Seattle, but that was not their fault and they worked with us making the process a good experience. We had to make 4 trips to Canada to complete the process. The first trip focused on the wardrobe. Depending on which package you choose, you may have several dresses in a photoshoot. I had 3 dresses. They had several white wedding gowns, ball gowns, and Chinese dresses. You don’t have to use their dresses. You may bring your own. The only tricky thing about the dresses they provide is that they are made for small woman. I am not sure if they have dresses for more voluptuous woman. Overall, I found it very attractive that they had a wide range of dresses to choose from. For those of you that don’t want to commit to buying a wedding dress, it is such a good deal to borrow their dress. Trying on and looking at the dresses in the beautiful shop was a fun bride to be experience.
The second visit was the photoshoot. Expect this to be a 7 hr shoot. I’ve never done modeling or photoshoots so this was new and quite an experience. I now have a lot of respect for models! I didn’t realize how hard it was to angle the body in certain ways to make myself look natural, yet enhance certain features. I have to admit I sucked at it! Although the photographer and his assistant were so kind and respectful in helping us. I could only imagine how many awkward things they have seen. They were also kind enough to provide us with a quick snack between the shoot. They are really professional and mean serious business. The makeup artist was awesome. She is talented, kind, and open to suggestions. She has a good vision. It may seem like a lot of makeup, but once you take the photo’s, it looks softer. She matches beautiful jewelry and accessories making you look like a princess.
The third visit we picked out the photos we wanted. We had a lot to choose from. This was probably the hardest task. We had to decide which picture we wanted blown up and frame and which we wanted printed on a scroll.
The last visit was to pick up the products. My mother-in-law’s dreams have come true. She now has her own very large photo of us hanging over her fireplace.
I would recommend this place for everyone. Even if you are on a budget, this is a good deal. The fact that they let you borrow the dresses are a great deal. You could buy a dress for the same price of their photography packages that include dress rental. Check it out!

We used Lovely Wedding Studio for our engagement photos and the wedding dresses including for the bride’s maids and their makeup. They were pretty good overall. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly.
The good: For sure our general engagement photo end product was good and professional. Also my wife was happy with her dress rentals and makeup artist. I would say they’re good overall for engagement photos and probably better then some other studios. The booklets was very well done and the dress rentals for my wife and the bride’s maid were great. Overall despite the cons below, I’d still give them ⁷⁄₁₀.
The bad: In terms of the digital jpeg photos, out of the 300 or so they shot on our pre-​wedding day, they only allowed us to copy over the same 44 we chose to have printed in our booklet package. When I asked to have the rest simply copied over to my flash drive, I was told it would cost $ 30 per digital photo. I found this strange as I already paid them 4K for our photo booklet and dress rentals why keep the digital jpg photos of my wife and I away from us? This is by no means a standard because we used a different photographer for our actual wedding day photos who not only provided the standard print out booklet of our chosen photos but as a standard without even asking gave us all the hundreds of photos taken on our wedding day in digital format on two DVDRs for much less of a package cost then what lovely wedding studio quoted to do our wedding photos for. To this day I have no idea why Lovely Wedding Studio insisted on holding on to our digital pre-​wedding photos away from us as it’s nothing physical and already on their computer and would only have value to us. I’m glad we didn’t use them for our wedding day photos as they would probably only allow us to keep a fraction of all the digital jpeg photo files again for some odd reason.
The ugly: When we received the photos back that we chose, there was a big yellow sun spot on our face on the large 20X24″ photo with frame. I was surprised they missed that but I figured no problems they’re busy it happens so I asked them to fix it and reprint it assuming it was no problem. To my shock they told me sure that will be an additional $ 100. I assumed they were joking after paying them over $ 4000 for our photos, they would have the balls to nickel and dime us for a mistake that they made. When I told them that, they said it was our fault for not catching that or any mistakes on the photos. Of course I again assumed they must be joking as they were already touching up and photo shopping each photo that we chose, as part of their obvious commitment to fix big defect marks. They still insisted that would be an additional $ 100. At this point I decided to let it go, and not use them for our actual wedding day photos. Also one of the bride’s maid told us that she was not treated well (rude uncaring staff) at the studio when she visited on her own to have them take measurement for her dress.
Conclusion: Believe it or not I’d still give them ⁷⁄₁₀ because their photographer and physical booklet was very professional. And everything above in the good section was great. I would say you should be happy with them but take a bit of time and shop around as I wouldn’t be surprised if you could still find better in the same area.