We booked Aaron for our wedding in July 2024 and unfortunately had a very disappointing experience. Every part of the contracted product was delivered late. Only around 600 photos were taken for the whole day we didn’t have an evening party, so I understand there being fewer than usual, but it still felt limited.

The contract required us to provide a meal for Aaron (around £50 on top of the £2,000 we’d already paid). Following the wedding, our preview photos were delayed, the full gallery was delayed, and we didn’t receive the video and prints until over a year later after a lot of chasing and back-and-forth emails.

Communication was unprofessional at times, with responses that felt rude and even borderline aggressive, especially when we were blamed for not selecting print options that hadn’t been clearly requested. When the prints finally arrived in November 2025, they were simply 25 small 6x4 prints not the “fine art prints” we were expecting, and certainly not a range of sizes as implied.

The video was also disappointing essentially a slideshow of photos set to random music, which felt rushed and unprofessional.

Overall, we spent nearly 20% of our wedding budget on photography expecting a high-quality, positive experience, but instead were left feeling frustrated and let down. I wouldn’t recommend this service based on our experience.

Extremely Disappointing Experience – Avoid at All Costs

We booked our wedding photography with Aaron in May 2024 for our September 2026 wedding. Unfortunately, our experience has been nothing short of stressful and disappointing.

After booking, we began hearing from several other couples who had encountered serious issues with him, many related to his health (which he had also disclosed to us). While we were initially understanding, we grew concerned when his website, client portal, and all other business links suddenly disappeared, leaving us unable to access our contract or booking details.

When I reached out to ask what had happened, he briefly replied asking for my email — but after I sent it, communication completely stopped. No replies to messages or emails, WhatsApp read receipts turned off, and no effort made to resolve the situation or return our deposit.

Thankfully, my bank was able to recover our deposit after I provided all the necessary evidence, but others have not been as lucky. After speaking with multiple other couples, it’s clear we’re not alone — many have also experienced radio silence, and even photographers he hired to cover weddings have reportedly not been paid.

It’s deeply upsetting and unacceptable for a business owner to behave this way, especially when dealing with something as important as a wedding. I’ll also be reporting this situation to Trading Standards so others are protected.

Please, do your research and avoid booking with this person. The stress this has caused us in the lead-up to our wedding has been unimaginable.

Please steer clear!

So unprofessional, lack of communication or regard for peoples feelings. We ended up with a different photographer provided by Aaron as he had health issues but he didnt tell us that he wouldnt be attending the new photographer contacted us and told us this so we automatically panicked and it took days for and answer to make sure the new photographer was legit - she was brilliant and would highly recommend her.

We are still waiting for our prints and album which one min was printed and all ready to go and the next he needed to know which we wanted printing! Alarm bells are ringing in my head constantly at the moment of are we going to receieve what is stated in our contract or have we lost a crap load of money and we've paid someone whos done zero of the work! 😮‍💨

So disappointed. Get your money back if you have the guy booked!

Aaron was booked late 2023 for august 2025, a total cost of £1950. Several months before the wedding we got a message from Natali (a photographer) stating she would be our photographer and she explained why this was the case. Having looked at some of her work we was absolutely fine with it and in the contract it states if he cant come, someone else will.

So the deal was, Natali was going to be the photographer and Aaron would be in the background, editing, fine arts, the album ect. This was due to his "ill health". Now we have been in contact with Aaron since Natali did all the editing. He apparently has our fine prints but we didnt select any photographs to be printed. He then asked for us to send 50 photo's to him to which i said that they are favourited on the online album for ease. What i did not know is that he does not have access to his own site due to owing £1000's.

He has abused other photographers for their love of the job, stolen money and stolen perfect moments for several couples.

I am now building my Case to claim back for an unfullfilled contract to which i will be giving to poor Natali who did all the work at our wedding for free.

I recommend Natali though, Be Special Photography.

We booked Aaron in October 2024 for our wedding in August 2025. We paid him £1,000, with a further £1,200 due a month before the wedding. In June 2025, I received an email from a woman named Natalie who said she was now our wedding photographer and had taken over Aaron’s business “due to unforeseen circumstances”. We specifically booked Aaron as he had been to our venue numerous times and it ‘s quite a large venue, so we wanted someone who knew their way around. When I spoke to Natalie, she told us she had never been to our venue before.

I tried to contact Aaron multiple times with no response, it was only when we said that we didn’t want Natalie to photograph our wedding that he got in contact with us. He told us that he had been diagnosed with a heart condition and had been hospitalised with pneumonia. He said he was passing his business to Natalie, but still wanted to photograph our wedding as it was “important to him”. I believe he said this as we would have been within our right to a refund due to his sickness. Our contract stated we would be entitled to a refund if the photographer’s sickness meant they couldn’t attend.

My partner and I decided that it was too risky to have Aaron shoot for 10 hours in the August heat with his ‘health condition’, and given that we had paid for Aaron and not Natalie, we asked for our monies paid to be returned. This was when Aaron started to ignore us, and said that as we were the ones cancelling that he wouldn’t give us our money back.

I reached out in some wedding groups on FB asking if anyone else had heard similar from him. Another bride and photographer reached out and let me know that Aaron had done the same thing to them. The bride was due to get married on the 8th of May, and Aaron told her 24 hours before her wedding that he was stuck in South America with food poisoning. He told her that a colleague would be photographing her wedding, someone he knew well. Speaking to the replacement photographer, she told me that Aaron found her details on the internet and booked her to replace him a week before the 8th of May. So whilst Aaron told us he was in hospital with a heart condition, he was also somehow half way across the world in South America with food poisoning. He also told the bride only 24 hours before her wedding, but knew a week before. He lied again about the replacement being a colleague. He has also never paid the replacement photographer for her work.

When I confronted Aaron with this, he never responded to me. I chased him numerous times, but to this day I’ve never heard from him. He has done this to numerous brides, and now owes Natalie thousands of pounds.

Aaron has been wonderful from day 1. As soon as we spoke to him we knew he was for us, he felt more like a friend than a supplier. He’s always been so easy to talk to, has made us laugh, we’ve felt so comfortable with him, we both hate having our photos taken but he made it chill! Some of our guests didn’t even realise he was the photographer because he was just part of the party. We couldn’t have asked for anyone better. We had to postpone for a year and Aaron was so understanding and accommodating. Honestly the best guy - and his photos reflect him. He creates memories and moments in the images, every we’ve received so far has been perfect. Images are natural and mostly candid which we just love. Thank you Aaron

Aaron was true remarkable!!

From our 1st chat, to the day of the wedding to the sneak peeks a few days he was the perfect photographer. His photos are absoluelt amazing and we cannot wait to see the final album!! If you want a photographer that will mingle with you guests, capture perfect shots and make you feel completely comfortable, Aaron is your man!!