Bride's Wedding Photographer Canceled Two Hours Before Ceremony: ‘I Was Freaking Out’

Just hours before a bride was set to walk down the aisle, her photographer called and said she was having a “medical problem” and “wasn't going to be there”

A Georgia bride had everything ready for her dream wedding ceremony — except a photographer.

Allison Gardner told WXIA-TV that she had booked a photographer two months ahead of her wedding and they wound up canceling just two hours before she was supposed to walk down the aisle.

“When I remember my wedding day, I’m always going to remember the photographer who caused chaos on my wedding day,” she told the outlet.

Gardner explained to WXIA-TV that the photographer told her she was having a “medical problem” and “wasn't going to be there,” which sent her into panic mode. “I was freaking out. I was saying, like, can I get a refund? I needed to pay somebody, like, right now," she recalled.

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However, the photographer, Danielle Caldwell, told the outlet that she was unable to give the bride a refund as she had already spent the money. "The money was used towards bills to pay rent as any job would be... so that's why I didn't have the money,” she said.

Caldwell added that she had intended to photograph the wedding and was “already dressed” and “loading” her equipment when she started feeling “very light-headed” and her chest “started pulling and hurting badly,” so she called the bride to cancel.

Gardner told the outlet that she posted about the incident to a popular Facebook group to see what she could do and found several messages from brides who had claimed that they gone through the same thing with Caldwell. She decided that she wasn’t going to let it slide and decided to take the incident to court.

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In October, a Coweta County Judge charged Caldwell with theft by conversion, according to documents obtained by WXIA-TV. The documents showed that Caldwell cut a plea deal and was ordered to serve one year probation and to pay Gardner $900 within six months.

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However, the issue is far from concluded, as the bride said that she had only received a fraction of the money so far and is fighting to get the rest. "It's not even about the money anymore," she told WXIA-TV.

Meanwhile the photographer claimed that she got an extension to pay the bride before June, saying, "This issue has already been handled through the courts."

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