Jay Eads Photography

Jay Eads work goes beyond words. It’s simply breath taking. When planning my wedding photos were the most important piece. Jay took the time to know Kyle and I (via skype, we were planning remotely) and was very patient with my indecisiveness. He captured every emotional moment without ANY direction. I really can’t say enough about how amazing Jay really is. I have received more compliments than I can even keep track of. If you are comparing, don’t look any further. He is worth every dime and more. Your wedding photos is not something to leave up to chance, look at his work and your answer will be clear. Thank you Jay!
To combat the negative comments, Jay is incredible at capturing real moments, not just a cookie cutter photo that everyone has. This is a quality that I personally loved. I can say from personal experience that he was COMPLETELY open to the ideas I had and even asked for what poses were my favorite. He will shoot what ever you want. I couldn’t be happier with my choice!

Jay does great work. I see photos he takes every year of a colleague’s children and does a wonderful job.

Unfortunately we never had the chance to actually work with Jay due to the lack of follow through. I contacted him last summer to discuss doing a trash the dress underwater shoot. He called me immediately and we had a great discussion about session ideas. He was personable and had great social skills. We decided that we would plan for next summer due to it being September and the weather getting cold. I got a email from Jay last June checking in about the photoshoot. We made a plan for Tuesday, August 11^th, our actual wedding anniversary to do the shoot. A few days before I texted him and we made a plan to talk. I called and no answer. I left a message. No call back. I texted again. No answer. I still have yet to hear from him. We are both pretty understanding people. If he had a family emergency or something come up, we would have liked to know and we would have been sympathetic. I’ve waited until now to write a review in hopes that we would hear from him. It was a bummer looking forward to this, taking off work on a week day only to have our anniversary plans fall through.
In the plus side, his work is beautiful.

Our experience with Jay started out positive when we did our engagement photos. He was very responsive and seemed very excited to work with us. We also stayed in touch throughout the year until our wedding.
About a week before the wedding he sent me a message asking that I form a list of certain pictures I would like with certain people, locations, etc… He did none of them.
The day of our wedding, our photos started over an hour late for no reason. I was completely ready and just needed to slip on my dress for photos. I asked jay to take a picture of me in my Bride robe touching up my makeup and he said we didn’t need to. I had to ask again and make him do it. I also had cute hangers for all of my bridesmaids with their names and asked that he take a photo of all our dresses and hangers… he didn’t do that either.
At this point our photos have started late, and we didn’t get 90% of the photos we wanted. I asked that he take our picture in two rocking chairs and he said someone was sitting there instead of asking them to move. He took our marriage license photo on a hot tub. Our wedding venue was so beautiful and he literally had us stand in the same spot majority of the time.
Our venue also had a beautiful indoor wood bar and I told him I wanted fun wedding party photos with the bar, that too did not happen.
Not only did we not utilize the whole property, I didn’t get a single one on one photo with my ring bearer who is my nephew. Not one framable photo of my mother and I or father and I. Our family photos that he took were very unorganized.
He also did not take any photos of our wedding rings.
After this is all said and done, two months go by and we haven’t heard anything from Jay. My husbands sister got married 2 months after us and received her photos from her photographer before us. We reached out to Jay several times and he would never respond. We tried email, text and social media. We would see him post things online then proceed to ignore our messages.
One night I wrote him an email regarding our photos and also had a friend of mine email him at the same time pretending to be a new bride that was interested in using him. He wrote her back immediately and still never responded to me.
We finally got our photos online 5 months after our wedding and just now 8 months later got our photos on a cd from Jay. He made a lot of open ended promises and we are truly disappointed. We really wish he had just communicated with us and let us know he was behind

I would be apprehensive before doing business with Jay Eads. Here is my personal experience. At the end of the summer of 2012 I signed a contract with Jay Eads for my wedding in 2014. This contract was incredibly wordy and I felt I should have had an attorney present before I signed it. I was required to pay $ 1,300 down for his services. Our wedding plans changed and Jay was not available to photograph our wedding per our previous conversations. We received no engagement photos or wedding photos, so I contacted Jay and I asked him for either a refund or for the money to be transferred to a different session. He said the money was non refundable or transferable and would give me neither one. After this occurred, we offered him a 10% consideration and requested that he refund the rest to us. Now, in order to get our money back, we are going to have to go to small claims court to show that no services were ever provided to us. We gave him a year advance notice and Jay should be able to book the date since he is such a busy wedding photographer. He indicated to us that he had had two couples inquire about the date. He will be getting paid time and a half for our date which was August 2, 2014. We are a young couple just starting out and I am working my way through college. I feel very taken advantage of.

I had the pleasure to work with Jay today. Not only does his work speak for himself, but he’s an amazing, fun guy. I really look forward to hiring him again soon, and can’t wait to see the photos from the shoot. If you are looking for the best photographer in the NW. You’ve found him.
The review below should be ignored, I’ve worked with Jay a half dozen times and he is incredibly affordable and talented and trustworthy. :)

My husband and I flew Jay to San Francisco for our wedding in 10÷08… the results are amazing —- he is a wonderful photographer and has been fabulous to work with. I highly recommend him for any sort of wedding or other photography.