Wandergirl Speaks

When Nel and I were still busy preparing for our wedding, I didn’t have enough time to properly blog about every experience I’ve had dealing with our vendors, much to my frustration. At one point I even created a separate blog for wedding entries alone, but after only a dozen of arduous writings, I decided to delete it permanently for the simple reason that I cannot maintain it anymore.

But now that the wedding has been successfully celebrated, you’ll probably catch me blogging more about our wedding vendors. And I’m gonna start off with Nice Print.

Before them, we considered Smart Shot, Mimi + Karl, Ariel Javelosa, Digital Picman, and B.A. Studio for our photo and video coverage. If money wasn’t an issue, we would have gotten either Smart Shot or Mimi + Karl. But because we wanted to stick to a certain budget without compromising the output, we narrowed down our choices to include Nice Print Studio, which I found thru Femalenetwork’s Girl Talk wedding forum.

If it was only me to decide, I could go with any cheaper choices. Yes, Nice Print rates are way competitive, too. But my husband who’s more technically knowledgeable about photography stuff wouldn’t simply go for the most accessible option. He was looking for some more, and gladly he somehow found that with Nice Print.

The thing with Nice Print is that they responded to our emails promptly. And I mean, within a 24-hour turnaround time. So, this is a good trait to consider, of course. The only downside I experienced were, two things:

1.) We requested for Bernie and Rupert to be our photographers, and it took them 3 days to get back to us. And when they did, we were told that we need to make 20% downpayment first for booking. And this leads to my next complain.

2.) We have paid 50% downpayment prior requesting a team and I had to ask whether we need to pay for another 20% just by confirming our team. At that point, we were told that we need not since they have verified that we have paid more than the required amount anyway.

I was about to think they didn’t have coordinated record files to reference to, but hubby said to just let it pass, and so I did. I was ok with that already, until we came across another forum in Girl Talk about Nice Print, which posted a lot of negative feedback. And at that point, we only had 3 months left before the wedding. Which means, it was too late to back out, plus, we cannot refund any from what we have paid already.

Threatened by those posts, I decided to email Charisse, owner of Nice Print, telling her about the forum. But at the same time assuring her that we trust their company and that we are looking forward to see how their team works on our event. Of course, this is also a subtle way of getting positive assurance from them, which they did not fail to give.

We have not seen our photo layouts yet, but seeing the on site video they created for us, which I posted on a previous entry, I knew my husband made the right reasoning, that in the end the pictures and video are all that’s left for us to smile at every once in a while.