How to ask for more pictures from photographer post-wedding

Wedding/Engagement Photos

So we just got our wedding pictures back and for the most part they are amazing. However I was a little disappointed on a few things and need help how to word a response/request to my photographers politely.

For backstory, our wedding photographers are a husband and wife team that we absolutely loved our engagement pictures with. The wife who is normally the second shooter ended up getting pregnant and due around our wedding. They brought two second shooters at no charge to us in case the husband missed our wedding, but he still made it so we had three photographers the day of. Therefore I was a little disappointed to receive 630 pictures but our contract specifically states 80-100 EDITED pictures per hour, with a minimum of 800 pictures for the ten hour contract that we booked.

I get that maybe a lot of the pictures were unusable or making unflattering faces. But I feel like there is no way they couldn’t have padded it up with more pictures of guests (and I also kinda love goofy/silly/awkward pictures). There are many instances (pictures with each individual bridesmaid, pictures with parents, our first dance) where I think they could have added more because there were three photographers there, they had three angles! There has to be more than one decent picture of me with my maid of honor. There are 50+ pictures of the flowers at the ceremony and reception along with tons of pictures of me with my bridesmaids/husband that are zoomed in on our torsos and bouquets and don’t show our faces at all.

I also need to ask for better editing on a few. We took the majority of our portraits under some trees where there was a giant telephone pole directly behind us. The lead photographer at the time said don’t worry, I’ll edit that out. Well it’s in half of our portraits and looks terrible.

I’m just looking for help on the best ways to respectfully phrase these requests for more pictures and some editing touch ups? Has anyone been in similar positions? Maybe I could phrase it as a technical question like “did everything upload?” I acknowledge that 600+ pics is a ton but it bothers me to not get what was in the contract.

Posted Apr 15, 2025, 7:30 PM UTC

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