Wedding Photographer Gets into Trouble After Spending the Whole Day Taking Selfies Instead of Wedding Photos

A photographer who was invited to cover a wedding ceremony has ended up getting in trouble with the couple after taking too much time off the main subject of the day.

 

Paul and Chareen Wheatley

 

The couple claim their wedding day was 'ruined' after their 'photographer from hell' spent more time taking pictures of herself at their reception than of them.

 

Horrified Paul and Chareen Wheatley, 42 and 37, from Leeds, took amateur photographer, Chloe Johnston, to court and successfully sued her for more than £600.

 

After paying £500 to book Chloe as their snapper, the couple claim she stopped answering their calls and only confirmed she was attending the night before their wedding.

 

On their big day, they say she turned up 45 minutes late and spent more time taking selfies of herself than she did photographing them.

 

 

They also claim she made the bride traipse through muddy puddles for a photoshoot in the woods that left her dress filthy. 

 

The couple paid Chloe for nine hours' work but received just 15 photographs from the evening of their wedding reception last September.

 

In December the couple won their appeal for a refund at the small claims court at Leeds County Court and after enlisting the help of bailiffs reclaimed £605 two weeks ago.

 

The photograper Chloe Johnston

 

Paul, an insurance consultant, said: "She pretty much ruined our wedding day by not taking nice pictures for us to remember it by - she was a photographer from hell.

"The photos aren't a true reflection of our day and we can't replace that, we can't redo the photos, it's really disappointing.

"They are awful, most of them aren't taken properly with some people partly cut out, the quality of the images were rubbish too.

"Instead of having lots of photos from the evening there was 15 at the most, later we discovered that instead of doing her job she was having fun in the photobooth - we never even gave her permission to even be in there.

"I wouldn't have minded her having a joke with a picture or two if her own pictures were adequate but they weren't."