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Does anybody know if he’s still in business? Hopefully not. Do not trust him. Ezra you still owe me a wedding album, remaining pictures, or a refund.

Buyer Beware! I used Ezra when he had the Kiss the Bride Weddings photography company. At first my husband and I loved his work but once he hired him, it all went downhill from there. He doubled booked our engagement photo shoot, he charged use for 8 hours when we only agreed on 6. When I called him on it, he said that 8 hours was minimum and that he could pass us on to another photography within his company. We told him that was fine because we were not going over our budget. After that discussion he showed up to our wedding as if he was doing us a favor.
Our guestbook had the wrong date on it. We had our guest sign it and then gave it back to him because he said he was going to fix the date in the book and scan in all of our guests messages. We were married in August 2011 and we have no guestbook, no photos, no nothing!
He took our money and ran. DO NOT USE THIS GUY! BAD BAD BAD!

My husband and I used Ezra when he was with Kiss the Bride Weddings. That was almost three years ago and we still haven’t received anything. I know of at least 30 plus couples that have gone through the same thing because of the facebook page that someone started years ago. He writes everyone with sob stories that he was robbed and is out of money and is trying to make things right by not taking anymore clients, but focusing on getting all the upset couples their photos. What a lie! He started a new company and is still ripping people off. Ezra promised me the day after my wedding on August 7, 2011 that because our contracted photographer forgot to pick up and bring our guest signature album and large framed engagement photo to the wedding that he would ship them to us. He never did even though he charged our photographer Jana for the shipping cost. He will email every once in a while after we harass him and I will feel a glimmer of hope. Then after months of still not getting anything in the mail I just go through the disappointment again. Please save yourself the grief and go with another photographer. Wedding photos are something you want to save for the rest of your life and you can’t if you never receive them.

I found Ezra from The Knot a couple of months ago before my wedding and contacted him for an initial appointment. My then-​fiancé and husband right now were very impressed with his editorial type of shooting and how he captures emotions from his photos. Obviously, I had to research more about him for reviews and came across his Unilocal reviews as well.
On the day of our appointment, he showed us his portfolio and there were really no questions about his talent. We knew it was awkward but we had to ask about his poor reviews in Unilocal and he was upfront about the situation. He mentioned that his business got robbed and most if not all of his equipment (including computers) were stolen. He mentioned that we could even check with LAPD to verify what happened. In truth, nobody wanted that to happen and my heart goes out to the couple/​s whose photos needed to be re-​processed and had to wait for a long time. But it is what it is. Ezra told us also that although some of his processed photos were compromised because of the robbery, he needed to re-​process each one of the photos from the cloud which was his back-​up. He could have expedited submitting his photos to his clients but he didn’t want to compromise the standards of his photo services. Ezra wanted to re-​process each one of the photos that got stolen and we all know that takes a lot of time. On our intiial meeting, he even showed us some of the accounts that he was simultaneously working on while doing photo-​shoots as well. We appreciated his being upfront with us and he assured us and offered in his contract that we will get our processed photos in 30 days after the wedding. We booked him the next day!
Weeks before the wedding, he reached out to us to remind us to start on our timeline and offered good locations for photoshoots after ceremony. I liked that his website is very user friendly and efficient and asked all the pertinent information he needed.
On the day of the wedding, he was one of the very first suppliers who arrived at the hotel. I was actually embarrassed because we just started doing the makeup so there wasn’t much to be photographed on yet. But he was very patient with us. Ezra and his assistant, Tony did such an amazing job and not once did they complain because there were some mishaps in the wedding especially when the timeline didn’t go as planned. Seriously, he was trying to calm all of us down and would even coached us on how to pose and be efficient as well.
The wedding was a Saturday and the next day after that at around 10pm, I got an email saying that he has done a slideshow for us on some of his favorite photos from the wedding. Talk about a 24-​hour turnaround! My guests and I were really amazed about the immediacy of his photos and he even followed up with us to start downloading the raw files which we still need to do. Seriously, we worked with a lot of photographers during our engagement session and this was the fastest turn-​around that we experienced. I’m really happy that I booked Ezra, it’s hard to combine artistic talent and efficient customer service in a business and he has them both.
I will give a review again once I get my processed photos.
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