I hired Melissa Chinici to be my wedding photographer and feel as though she scammed me. I paid her a total of $1000.00 and all I got was 139 photos which she shot in a 6 hour period. Thats it. The day of the wedding she called me about 2 hours before it was supposed to start saying that her car broke down. I was frantic trying to figure out what to do and had to find a guest who could go pick her up. They got her there about 20 minutes before the wedding was supposed to start but I was running behind because of the fact that I had to deal with the stress of finding someone to pick her up and possibly not having a wedding photographer. She was paid an initial $850 and then an extra $150 for her to get to the wedding site 2 hours prior to take pictures. I asked her for a refund of the $150 and she has refused. I filed a complaint against her with the BBB for my refund and a photo cd of all the images she took because she only gave me 139 photos. She has said she will not refund my money due to the fact that she went "out of her way" to shoot my wedding and her car broke down and she had to pay $400 to tow it back to her house. She stated that she did not charge me for travel time but signed the contract knowing the location of my wedding, it was her prerogative not to charge me for that. None of which is my problem and should not be at my cost. I am very unhappy with the quality of prints she sent me, they are cropped from the originals that I chose from and the colors are very dull and dark. When I hear from friends that their photographer showed them 1000 prints I get extremely upset because all I have are the 139. I feel as though I was ripped off and I am so sad that I hardly have any pictures of my wedding. I just want to warn people to not use her unless they do not care much about having any wedding pictures.
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