Still here! I tend to lurk a lot b/c I can do it really quickly. But when I start posting, I get sucked in for hours at a time. LOL!
I was just posting a bit on photography and I was SOOOO reminded of something I have to post. I vented this to all my disney brides on my fb page when it happened.
Ya, I had a run in with one of the DPS photographers at an event I was invited to as a guest. I am not going to name any names right now but it was horrible and awful. The DPS person thought I was a park guest just crashing even though they knew who I was. I think that was part of the problem - is that they knew who I was!!! This person held me back and would not let me into the event until it was nearly over.
I was SOOOO angry. Seriously, I drove 2 hrs to be treated this way??!! Grrrr....I had some really nasty remarks made to me as well in regards to my MK photoshoot. It was so not professional. I HATE DPS as a result.
I can't get into to it much - I just know that no other professional in their right mind would act that way. Here is part of it: I don't know if I posted this previously or not b/c it's been a while BUT when we were 1st scheduled to do our photoshoot, it was right after our VR on the cruise. Well, we were so ahem "lucky" ahem to pick up some horrible stomach virus on the cruise. My son started with the icky sickness during our VR ceremony and the entire way home. Then Kenzie, on the way home. I was supposed to stop at the MK for a meet and greet with some of the DISbrides, but we just went straight home. Then my hubby got it. I thought I was in the clear until 2am the morning of our photoshoot and I have my make-up done, my hair done, and we are about to jump in the car, and BLEAH! I projectile puke everywhere. Yup. The morning of. SOOOO not fair. We were supposed to be there at 5am I believe.
So my hubby gets on the phone for 4 hrs on and off calling every number we have to tell them there is NO way we can have our shoot that day. The best we can do is leave a message. A few days later, we finally get a person on the phone, and they said the person who was on call that night fell asleep and didn't answer the phone and didn't relay the message. WHICH MEANS - a DPS photographer got up at the crack of dawn and waited for us to do pics and we were a no show. That person finally got the message after waiting in the cold for over an hour. Needless to say, they were not happy with us
It so was not our fault!!! But we got treated as such. I'm not the one who fell asleep on the job!
We rescheduled, and did get awesome portraits, even though the hubby had pneumonia by that point. But I wouldn't let him reschedule again after the other fiasco and the castle construction. So he sucked it up and tried not to cough through the whole thing. It was an amazing experience, and I would not trade it for the world. But here I am thinking it's all wonderful and love dovey, and I find out from my hubby about several horrible remarks made to him by DPS while I was in the bathroom at the GF before the start of our shoot. He calmly explained that we were very sick and what happened with the other shoot, but it was no good. They did not like us! I loved my images that we got from our shoot, and maybe it's b/c I am gullible or something, but my hubby finally told me a few weeks later how he was treated and all the comments and snide remarks he got. I told him he was just grumpy b/c he was sick and to drop it. I thought he was making something out of nothing. And then....we go to this event and the same photographers are there and this happens to me. If it had been anyone else, I think it would have been no problem. But they hate me. I swear. LOL. Too bad I couldn't projectile puke on them right there!!!
Several emails, phone calls and complaints to DPS managers later, all we get is a generic "We're sorry." - from the managers, not from the people. I suppose that's better than nothing, but it has completely tarnished my image of them. (And I wasn't like expecting free stuff or anything - just an explanation of treatment and a for real apology!) GRRR!
I do have to say I am glad that we did our VR the way that we did it instead of waiting. DFTW made so many changes after us that I don't think we would have enjoyed it. So I feel very blessed and lucky that we did it and that I have a fabulous picture of us in front of the castle. I hope that when Kenzie is ready - that we can afford the Wedding Pavilion. LOL.
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but when I saw you in Disney after your MK/epcot shoot you looked great! Love those pictures, they really came out very nice.
It has sat wadded up in a bag for the past two years. Still looked pretty damn good when I dropped it off though. I haven't decided what I am going to do with it though. I think I might try Lurkyloo's version of preserving it. I paid big bucks to have my 1st one preserved and I'm at a loss of what to do with it. ALTHOUGH - I could have sold it to Princess Catherine. Seriously. Her dress looked exactly like my dress from 12 years ago. 
Hey there!!! So good to see you back on the boards. Congrats on your Master's
. So glad to hear things are going well for you - I justed checked out your photo site and it looks great. I followed you and the other VR brides back when I was in the "dreaming of a VR" stage. I finally got mine last October (can't believe it's almost a year now!) when they started the Memories Collection. I never did do a TR because at the time they weren't letting Memories couples buy the CD
Love love love your photobook! That is just amazing! Your crafts are amazing. Those are awesome 
