Client Review on J Stokka Design

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My husband and I had our wedding June 2016. We to were required to pay upfront in full prior as well. Through our numerous email and phone conversations we were assured that it would be achievable to receive a few photos within a week of the wedding to use for thank you cards and to get a sneak peak. Sadly, that was the start of it all, the start of unfulfilled promises. Despite my husband and I's multiple and I mean MULTIPLE MULTIPLE attempts to communicate we barely were able to receive a digital copy of our photos via his website. Josh stated that he had to "honor" photo shoots taken prior to ours which was cause for concern. Not only that, but when my husband and I received a copy of his contract to review it said he has up to 6 months to give us our products; any decent and good photographer will not take longer than 3 months, most I have since talked to do it in a month. I should have said no right than and there. We were ignored for months on end with no communication as we were and are still waiting for our thumb drive with all our photos and the photo album we were promised per contract. The few times we were able to contact him he always said the same thing, "I will get it to you by the end of the week', or I am putting in a photo album order and will have it to you in a week.' He also said that he and his wife just had a baby and hadn't anticipated things being so busy "staying" at home to help his wife. While I myself am a teacher and love kids, he is running a business in which people are trusting him to photograph a very important event that does not happen everyday and that requires a level of professionalism and organization. Not only that, but due to the lack of, no correction no communication, some very simple edits that I would like to have had done to the photos will more likely than not never happen. While he can take good photos, I WOULD NOT hire him as a photographer. He will cause you more problems than what it is worth. His good pricing is not worth the trouble. What was suppose to be a good day in which can be looked back upon and shared with friends and family is forever ruined. It has been a year since our wedding, and my husband and I will never be able to go back in time to our first anniversary and go through our photo album photo to cherish the memories. I fully agree with the other reviews and I hope that no one will have to go through what we all went through. WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT HIRE JOSH STOKKA FOR YOUR WEDDING!!!!!!!