do NOT use Carlos Cuba (Photography by Carlos) in Miami, FL. i had a HORRIBLE experience with this guy. i had heard so many horror stories from brides about asshole photographers and i was trying really hard to find a guy i really liked. my sister and mom referred me to Carlos because he had taken pictures at my sister's friend's wedding. they said he took lots of candid shots which is what i was looking for. i went to his place and we met him and looked at his stuff. his prices were a lot more than i wanted to pay...or could really afford. but he seemed to understand what i was looking for, he seemed nice enough and i liked his work. so i splurged, big time.
i get in to town a couple weeks before the wedding (the wedding was in miami and i was living in boston) and get in touch with the Carlos, or try to, to set up the engagement session. we had set it up for a specific date while i was still in boston. i call him the day before and he didn't even remember so we rescheduled for another day. then the day we were supposed to do it my mom drove my fiance and i to the spot and we wait and wait. he's not there. we call him and he flaked again. he gave us some excuse about it being a cloudy or rainy day and assumed we canceled it but he never bothered to get in touch with us to confirm. why would you just assume the bride would cancel the photo session??? how unprofessional is that? my mom thankfully brought her own camera and we were able to take some of our own pictures. finally about 30 min later this guy shows up. obviously just ran out of the house. the whole thing seemed very half assed. the poses he was putting us in sucked. i was SO not impressed and frankly he was pissing me off with his flakiness. Is this what I'm paying all this money for??
the absolute LAST straw was on the wedding day. we arrived at the reception hall (ceremony and reception at the same place) and the photographer was nowhere to be found. finally right before the ceremony some other photographer which i had NEVER met came up to me and tells me that Carlos had some kind of emergency with his father and couldn't make it. at first i was really pissed. this was just the last straw in a string of disappointments. but hey it was a family emergency so its not his fault. and at least he sent a replacement. but this new guy was kind of an ass, i didn't like him. I didn't like how many posed pictures he was taking. i wanted candid shots. at one point i had to actually say can we just take a silly one? sheesh. and he was very rude and aggressive. i wanted a photographer who would follow us around and take candid shots of the night, not someone who was gonna order us around and interrupt us while we were trying to talk to family and order us to hurry and pose for another picture. i mean, that's what i was paying nearly 3 grand for. not this.
after the wedding i was upset. the more i thought about it the more upset i got. when i saw the proofs from the wedding i was disappointed. they were NOT what i wanted. there was like 20 pictures of family (a lot of them overlapping family members) posing in the same spot in the same position. ugh. god. everytime i think about this i get so mad. then Carlos took over 3 months to finally send me my wedding album. i would call him and he wouldn't' call me back. ugh. and the thing that pisses me off is that after all the crap he put me through i still ended up paying almost $3,000! and for what?!! i did NOT get what i paid for. I paid for Carlos to take candid shots. I didn't get Carlos, I didn't get candid shots. I was paying for HIS work. not the work of some photographer I've never met. I wouldn't have paid that price for his crappy work. its BULLSHIT. the least he could have done was give me a discount for not taking the pictures at the wedding. its been over a year now and i still get so incredibly upset everytime i think about it. its a moment in time i can NEVER get back. i feel so cheated. more than the money, i feel cheated out of the memories i wanted to keep. memories of all the candid moments i'll never get back. i even thought about taking him to court but it just wasn't worth the hassle and the money. i'll never get those moments back.
the only thing i can do is share my experience with other brides and warn you NOT to use CARLOS CUBA. this guy thinks he got off scott free without any repercussions. i'm sure he never gave it a second thought. as long as he got his money he was fine. he doesn't care about brides. please find someone who will actually care about you and your wishes. i don't want anyone to have the same horrible experience i had.
DON'T USE CARLOS CUBA OR PHOTOGRAPHY BY CARLOS in Miami, FL.
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