Taking Wedding Photos

Wedding Help West Orange, NJ?
I need to find a place to take wedding photos in or around West Orange NJ. I am looking for a castle or beautiful park --- not Eagle Rock Reservation but something more whimsical, Please let me know if you have any ideas. Even some gardens with fountains would be great... Thanks!!!!

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Are we seriously being cheated out of money?
Okay, this might be long. I recently took wedding photos for a co-worker of mine. She said that we would discuss the payment later on in the process and I was okay with that. I also made her a DVD slideshow of her and her husband, spanning from their births all the way until their marriage, y'know, like a lifetime of photos. Anyway, I photoshopped all the pictures for her, which took over 3 hours because I took over 100 pictures and the DVD took even longer because I had to scan over 200 photos. This woman (I soon found out) was asking a lot from me. I went to her reception and asked her when we would discuss my payment, and she said later because she would get paid on friday (which will be tomorrow)... Okay, so she called me two nights ago and whines and cries to me saying that her husband has been out of a job for over a month now, and she doesn't know how she is going to pay for Christmas or buy food for her family. So, now she is going to pay me $50 for the entire ordeal. She claims that is all she can afford, and that my work surpasses any money she has right now. She failed to tell me all of this beforehand... and now she is spilling her guts, or so it seems to me... When I told her that I wasn't okay with that amount (taking care into not sounding like too much of a bitch) she said to me, "Well, just give me your receipts of like the DVD-Rs and things you bought and I will give you money for those". Okay, so I bought a tri-pod and a compactflash the day before I took her pictures because I knew I needed them. So I printed out my posted transactions from my bank and gave them to her. In total (with the compactflash, the tri-pod, and the DVD-R) she now owes me over $100. But, now she is refusing to pay it. Is this woman trying to cheat me out of money? Or does it sound like she really doesn't have it? I mean, she had this huge reception with karaoke and pristine cake and the people who were in charge of those things (the cake, etc...) are having the same problem with her. She is refusing to pay for things for what they are worth. And now she is telling us that she thought we were going to do it for free... like as a wedding gift. So, I don't know what I shoudl do now. I don't want to attack her if she really doesn't have the money, but I don't know if she really doesn't. I mean, she keeps on sending e-mails to the entire staff of my work complaining how she doesn't know how she can make it... Does she really sound that desparate... or is she just taking advantage of us? Oh no. This is this couples second marriage (for both of them). You think they would have already learned. And they do have kids. Two of them from their last marriages.

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Should we take wedding photos after the fact?
My husband and I have been together for almost 5yrs now, married for 1yr 5mths. We had a very modest wedding at the Municipal Building, no photos were taken because our witness couldn't figure out how to work my camera. We've been told that we should have photos taken at a studio with rented tux and gown, in case we have to go in for an interview because they may want to see wedding photos. My question is, would they take those as serious evidence? Since they won't be pictures of the actual wedding but pictures taken after the fact. Thanx guys for ur help and support... all ur answers were great and it sucks that i can't choose more than one best answer. I feel confident now that the pics that we have are more than sufficient. Thanks again

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