I am writing this review as a wedding photographer...

I am writing this review as a wedding photographer who hired Bellagala to shoot our wedding. First off, the primary photographer whom we worked, Mark Fierst, was incredible. I would hire him personally again in a second. The assistant photographer was very much an amateur, but I could tell she was somewhat new so that was not a big deal. The day of the wedding was great.

HOWEVER, when we got our pictures back three weeks later, my wife and I were very confused by the quality of pictures we received (we booked a higher end photographer). The photos themselves where fine, besides the fact that there was literally zero editing done on the finished photos. We thought it was a mistake and they accidentally sent our photos back to us without even looking at them. Multiple very crooked pictures, one picture with the photographer's shadow cast on the wall directly behind us, zero blemish touch ups, etc. It was embarrassing. I called Bellagala and they said they had edited our photos, and after they realized I knew what I was talking about as a photographer, they told me their contract states they merely "color correct and update exposure..." Photographer language is they just run it through a batch edit basically the quality of an Instagram filter. The manager herself stated she didn't even have the software on her work computer to do such editing (photoshop/lightroom). They continued that "..., and if I wanted the RAW photos to edit them myself it would be $500." I'm assuming they've prewritten this clause because this has come up before, and the high quality "photos" they provide you with are around 2 mb in size, roughly the same size as a picture my iPhone 6 will take (dslr photos should be around 20-25 mb each).

My advice, stay away from Bellagala, do your research and hire a photographer directly, because no photographer who respects their work will give you such shoddy photographs.