eivans.comReviews of eivans.com

In my opinion, the contract that they did with my loved one was predatory, they baited and switched on the photographer, the photos (poses, lighting, etc.) were worse than amateur, and they legally gagged my loved one before delivering the photos and video. Basically—exact same experience as the other reviews posted here on TrustPilot.

I wish I had read all these reviews before. I am angry, disappointed, I have been scammed and this company needs to be reported. 1- you will never get anybody to talk to over the phone for help 2- even if you do, they are very rude 3- the photograph quality and video is so poor that you can not do anything about the picture. You pay so much and then they come back and ask you for more money before your video will even be released to you. I am literally sick and sad writing this review. I don’t need to say more. Please please please believe everything in this comments and review. Please don’t be a victim to this company

We paid over $4000 for video and photography services for our wedding. A year after the wedding ALL copies (at least 3) of the wedding video we had saved in separate locations were corrupted at the same time. Again, multiple copies of the same video, saved in separate locations, all corrupted at the same time. When we contacted Eivan's to request a copy of the video we paid thousands of dollars to have made, they require $800 to "unarchive" our wedding video that mysteriously corrupted. Screams scam to me. We thought we could trust them because they had good reviews on The Knot.

If I could give zero stars I would. Beware of this company! We booked them in February 2021 for our May 2022 wedding. We initially paid the deposit and were planning on paying over the year only because we were not comfortable paying in full for services not rendered and not happening for over a year - anything could happen. However, after reading the fine print and doing a bit of math, if we did the gradual payments we would end up paying an extra $1500 in fees which we now see is one of their many tactics to basically steal money from people and not have to deliver. After paying in full we received no communication from them for the entire year. Reached out again in April 2022 (a little over a month before the wedding) as they were the only vendor that had not reached out to us to discuss details of the day. We were told "introductions are typically done 30 days out". About 3 weeks before the wedding we were copied on an email with both our videographer and photographer basically saying you take it from here. Which btw were not the ones we selected. We reached out to both 3 times with no response from either putting us now at less than 2 weeks out from the wedding. At that point we made the decision to cancel and let them know via email which we THEN finally received a response to. 2-3 days later we received a call trying to encourage us not to cancel by offering us "extra services" - we declined. Want to cancel? They charge an astronomical fee (even if you've paid in full) not happy or didn't get the quality or service you paid for and want to dispute with your credit card? You guessed it another fee. I've also heard they charge some crazy fee to access your own photos if you don't download them in the short window they give you to do it. Since we ultimately did not use them I can't confirm if that part is true. All of these fees are put in place to discourage people from fighting them and allowing them to take people's money for terrible service with no penalty and this should be illegal. Luckily we were able to find an AMAZING photographer but still fighting to get our money back from these awful people.

This is a very shady and unethical company. We paid $2300 for photo and video package for our wedding. The company does not release the photos and videos until 6 months after the wedding date because they will try to make you pay an extra $3500 to get the photos and video early. They do not disclose this anywhere on their website. I left a bad review on google about the long 6 months wait and them requesting extra money to download the full raw video. Fast forward 6 months, we got an email on December 6th saying that the video is ready to download and we have 30 days until it will be archived. After 30 days we will have to pay $750 to unarchive it. When I tried to download them on December 11th 5 days after receiving the email, I got an error saying that the video has been archived and deleted and that I need to pay $750 to download it. I thought fine there must be a mistake. I called Eivan and they told me that they will unarchive it only if I sign a legal document stating that I promise to delete all bad reviews in exchange of unarchiving the video which I paid to get. This is illegal and unethical. They tried to blackmail me in exchange for a service that I already paid for! There are many reviews on google from people who also got blackmailed by Eivan Photography where they would only release the photos in exchange for a good review. I called them and told them what they are doing is illegal and if they want me to remove my bad review, I will happily do it in exchange for the full video footage. I'm also still waiting for them to release the video that I paid for. I screenshot and kept all the documents and have recorded all the phone calls for evidence. They immediately withdrew the legal document they sent me as blackmail as soon as I called them because they know what they are doing is 100% illegal.

Soooo I'm sure your here to read reviews because you're newly engaged (Congrats) and looking for a photographer/videographer for one of the most special and magical days of your life. You looked all over and ran across this company that seems pretty legit, picture quality looks nice, and they seem to offer really affordable packages. And let's face it weddings are expensive and stressful so the idea of killing two birds with one stone is appealing. You call them up and talk to a very nice customer service agent who explains the process, packages, the ability to pick your photographer etc, happily answer all your questions and immediately follow up with you the next day. Now you're thinking "finally found one and can check this off my list." Well since this was my personal experience I'm here to tell you DON"T DO IT!!!!!!! I get it! Finding a quality photographer/videographer with out breaking the bank is hard but after the experience I had I wish I would have just went with the more expensive options and ended up with amazing photos/footage in a timely matter. After deciding to go with the company we were sent options of photographers in our are who's work we could review and decide to choose. We chose a photographer and was told she would be available the day of our wedding so everything was set for over 6 months. A week before our wedding we received an email of who our wedding photographer and videographer would be and neither were people we had chosen. Imagine having someone capture one of the biggest days of your life and you have never never viewed their work and have no clue who they are. Sucks right? But our package was paid off and it was a week before our wedding so we had no choice. They were scheduled to arrive at 2:30p to capture the wedding party getting ready i.e girls with the matching robes/ men with their tuxes but they decided to show up at 4p an hour before my wedding start time and missed all of that. (Literally making it pointless for me to gift the wedding party all of these matching items) But it's my big day so the show must go on. My photographer seemed to be young and very inexperienced. Not catching pivotal moments, weird angles, bad lighting taking forever to set up, and asking us for suggestions on poses and positions. We got very little of what we requested on our initial intake and after receiving my pictures (Married 9/10/21 received photos 10/25/21) I was distraught. I had was so excited about seeing our final product and just couldn't believed what I received. I literally could have done better editing on my phone and there were so many off centered and blurry pics smh needless to say I contacted the company ( before you all ask me to email info@eivans I did) and was sent a basic scripted apology about how I could schedule to speak with a manager about my concerns with a link. Clicked the link and guess when I can speak with someone? FEBRUARY!!!! For an issue that happened in September lol And don't let me forget to mention the fact that after reviewing your gallery you still have to spend hundreds to be able to download or purchase any of your pics. That $300 credit is a joke! I still haven't received my video since they said that could take up to 6 months *eyeroll* and honestly not even looking forward to it at this point. The moral of this story is: JUST DON'T!