Ending Relationship with Graphistudio

Effective January 6, 2009; Hope Haven Photography will no longer be doing business with Graphistudio from Italy. We have endured horrific customer service and have become convinced that Graphistudio will not be making any positive changes any day soon. Therefore we will be looking elsewhere for an album vendor.

We have begun a search for an excellent album vendor offering good customer service and an excellent product. We are committed to offering our clients the very best in service and products and ask for your patience as we research these companies in full.

We will make an announcement soon as to who our new vendor will be and hope to enjoy a long and productive relationship with them.

Graphi Studio Album Deadline for Christmas

We are up against a Christmas deadline with Graphi Studios and will be sending this same notice out to all brides and grooms. I will need your photo list by Oct 31 to allow time for design work in order to expect Albums by Christmas. Otherwise, they will be available next year.

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Dear Valued Customer,We would like to remind you that the Holliday Eve is fast approaching and we want to take this opportunity to communicate our deadlines to ensure your Print & Bind orders are received by Christmas:
P&B orders must be sent by November 9th, 2008
If you are going to place "full service design orders" please note that they must be sent by November 2nd 2008.Thank you for your attention to this notice.Best regards,
Graphistudio
Warning:in order for graphistudio to complete your orders by Christmas, all orders must be submitted with a completed order form, PDF's must be approved promptly, and payments must be authorized without complications.

Latest Wedding

I have fallen woefully behind in my blogging. All I can say in my defense is that I am not falling behind in my photo production for all our weddings. We are on time in all our deliveries and cranking right along as promised!



Here are a few of my favorite shots from the last few weddings. One is from Ray's Boathouse in Seattle, and the other is from the Lakeside in Seattle. Both made for beautiful weddings. But, nothing beats the staff at Lakeside! Enjoy!

Wedding Albums

Some of you might know that we use Graphistudio exclusively for our coffee table type Albums. What you might not know is that they are from Italy.

After sampling so many albums in the US, we turned to an international supplier to offer us the quality and cost effectiveness that we were looking for.

To see all the options that graphistudio has to offer please check out this link: http://www.graphistudio.com/usa/products/Book/index.html

With our extra's packages you get:
And 8x10 coffee table ablum, with 20 pages
Plus 2 parents albums
The Perfect Package and Lifetime Package add additional pocket book copies.

You might notice that we only increase our prices marginally to add these wonderful books, when other photographers charge a lot for albums. We feel that these albums are an important part of a wedding package. It is my hope that more and more brides and grooms will opt for the album package with the knowledge that these books will last a lifetime.

ENJOY!

PS - Book delivery is a big deal for us here, with wine and cheese and lots of fun!