Wedding Pictures

There's something I forgot to mention a couple weeks ago. Jen and I finally managed to gain possession of all of our wedding photo negatives. We had gotten the digital negatives quite a while ago from our worthless loser of a photographer. Unfortunately, only about half the pictures were taken with a digital camera. The rest were taken with a standard 35mm, so the negatives weren't digital, they were film. We didn't think we'd ever see those pictures again.

Well, we got a call from a guy who said that he thought he had our negatives. Apparently he had been screwed over by Marvin Brewer just like we had. They couldn't get their negatives either so I guess they set up a little trick for Marvin the Moron. They had him meet them at a Starbucks or something to order some more pictures. When Marvin got all of their negatives and proofs out for them to look at, they just grabbed them and ran like hell. Literally, they grabbed them and ran. Isn't that awesome? I would have punched him in the throat on the way out, too (not really, I'm a wimp!).

In the process of "procuring" their own negatives they also grabbed some other people's pictures. They had all of the pictures developed into digital copies and then started sorting through them to find out what everything was. They saw one picture of me by the Third Christian Church sign before the wedding. They called the church and figured out that we were the people in the picture. So they called us up and gave us all of our negatives along with high quality digital copies of everything. Isn't that just wonderful? Jen and I were really excited to finally get everything back.

So we're now getting the pictures developed that everyone originally ordered. It was much, much cheaper to go to the store and order them ourselves than it was to originally order them from the wedding bandit. The photo shop we're using was also taken advantage of by Marvin Boozer to the tune of $1800. With the $1500 we lost, the $4000+ that the people who got our negatives back lost, as well as the dozens more people who were taken for a ride and the photo developers that never got paid, I can't imagine how much money he got away with. Honestly, it had to be close to $75,000. What a loser. I hope, for him and his families sake, that someday he realizes what he's done and gets things right with the big guy upstairs. St. Peter ain't gonna like that at the pearly gate.

But we're happy(ish) because now we'll get our pictures. We'll let everyone know when we get things back. Soon you too will be able to place our picture on the mantle and ogle us all day long. :^)