Review of Rammal Mahmood VRM Photography

Dear Pak forum members,

My wedding was a month back and as initially I asked in this forum about her feedback I thought to share my experience with you guys.

My experience with her was WORSE! Although album she gave me at the end was good but her atitude was disgusting. She humiliated to the extent and I am willing to give all the proofs and details to any one who is interested.

When time was to book a client her and her sister Nabia’s attitude was great, they were very nice vey friendly and I was feeling all will go perfect. She charges around 35K PKR for her signature album (couple shoot 1 hour). When the time of delivery came that is how it goes.

1- She first of all promised a delivery date and then when the date came she said I gave this date for pictures selection and not for album delivery, although it was communicated clearly at the time of booking that I will be leaving in 2 weeks after wedding.

2- We asked her to send pictures for selection and then we got a news that no you are not selecting, we have selected and your album is in process. We were totally shocked, like we paid so much and we didn’t even get a chance to select pictures. We were living at 10 mins distance from her residence and we were not out of range. Totally unprofessional!

3- When we called her to get the album, she said yes you can come to collect, when we went where the meeting was she started that why you have come to my residence and not to our office. We were never invited to her office nor we had her office address!

4- We got the album but there were no soft copies, her sister Nabia promised soft copies of edited pictures either free of cost or of as minimum to Rs. 2000 as per the condition during time of delivery.

5- When we called her that soft copies are missing she abruptly said you need to give us Rs. 7000 to get them. Its not a huge amount as you would agree but when we reminded her of the agreement we had at the time of booking she not only refused but she started SHOUTING and MISBEHAVING so much that honestly we were extremely shocked and very disappointed to see this level of unprofessionalism. We paid her, we were not beggars. But as we needed softcopies so after an argument we said fine tell us the amount and it will be delivered. She said Rs. 6500.

6- We had a flight so we left next day and gave amount to our cousin to give it to her and we gave her rammal’s number and told rammal as well. Our cousin went to the given address and met their another sister who asked her to give her Rs. 6000 and not Rs.6500 so my cousin gave her 6K.

7- Then we called her to inquire about the softcopies and again they both shouted and misbehaved so much!! That why your cousin gave Rs. 500 less than the agreed amount and they gave pictures of 100kb in revenge! Although we explained her that this what your sister asked and even if it was a confusion Rs. 500 is nothing and she will get them. But they continued to misbehaved as if all they care is MONEY!

8- Then one of our friend did a bank transfer of Rs. 500 into her account and then she gave us our softcopies.

But this experience with her was so horrendous and I decided to share it with others who seek for professionalism. I have her viber messages for anyone who would like to see in which tone they were talking and I wish I would have recorded her phone conversation too! Money is not everything and people with such names should care about treating their customers kindly.

My mehndi was covered by Ayesha Iftikhar - an amazing girl with a very polite attitude, she delivered me album and cd on time.
Valima was covered by Arsalan Asad - he is an amazing photographer too with a very good calm nature and although he could not deliver us on time yet he treated us very professionally, apologised on delay, gave us an option of adding free snaps to his album.

Album quality by all them is same but due to worse customer experience with Rammal I dont recommend her to anyone.

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Biariz, Thank you so much for sharing your experience with Rammal!! I have heard something similar about her attitude ....Too sad, they get paid...still they behave like some idiots!! ..i was considering to take contact with her but Thank you again !!Such attitude is not tolerable at all!!....

Like seriously for 500 rps, she started shouting!! o.O!!

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Does she have a FB group? Post this review on their wall!!

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You are most welcome Ameeraa. I heard similar about her before my experience but I thought she might have got changed in 2 years time but no she is still the same and her sister Nabia is just too much. Yes for only 500 Rs imagine.... Please save yourself and find a decent photographer who works professionally. She was my choice and I was so embarrassed infront of my husband and in laws only because of her attitude.

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I did but got banned and post got removed.

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^ Seriously? That is just horrible ! I thought she was a nice woman since i emailed her once to get quotes for my sisters valima. she seemed really nice then. Im glad we didn't go with her. if she deleted you. You should post your review on your wall and your friends walls and ask them to share.

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She and her sister both were lovely when we had a meeting prior to wedding, in emails regarding booking and on the day of shoot as well but after the shoot her attitude got changed. What I understood was that they are more after money rather than anything else in their profession and their fame have made them proud. I told all my friends and because one of my friend gave her 500 rs on my behalf so she has anyway got down in my circle of around 100 friends of school and college. Islamabad is not a big city, glad enough.

Review of Rammal Mahmood VRM Photography

Gosh sounds like a horrible experience just had a look at her fb page and her work is good shame the attitude stinks!! My wedding photographer was the same he took 10 months to get my pics to me! Even then they were not all there as agreed in the end i took my money back off him for the album costs and got them done elsewhere! Grr

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Sorry to know about your experience but atleast you were able to get your money back. Her work is good my album is good too but she made me felt as if I was her slave or something. I hope she learns that proudness takes no where but to hell.

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Sorry to know about your experience
I accidentally visited her F Bpage right before reading your review and was about to add her in my think list
but thank God i am saved to not even spend my time over her
such a attitude uff

and its the reality of wedding market in Pak, its the extremely fastest growing industry in Pak and every kind of people are jumping in either they know about what they are there to do or not
they just want to enter in the industry to get the fame via FB, twitter, Instagram, Pintrest etc platforms and show stupid attitude rather than providing quality work

I think we all should start kind of a thread which contains “don’t” of the wedding prep, in terms of people should completely avoid the people and their services mentioned in that thread based on the real and pathetic experiences posted by the affected people

We had a bad experience too in terms of photography but not with the Rammal Mahmood VRM Photography

It was Karachi based freelance photographer called, The Tasweerkash

it was my cousins wedding wedding,
both brother ans sister were getting married and they had limited budget on every thing so they had heard of this guy from some family friend who does excellent photography in very low price as he does it part time , his main job is in some event management club
khair, they called the guy, his name was amir, checked his FB page but they were in too hassle to check his real work means albums or other coverage, they judged him via FB page and handed him 80K to cover both wedding, (40K each wedding session means combine mehndi, barat, valima of sister and then combine mehndi , barat and valima of brother)
He was very friendly throughout the both weddings but he did not took the both couple’s shot in both wedding sessions, even though the brother asked him so many times to do the typical bridal shoot which every bride wants to have on her shadi but he kept saying he will do in the end and in such hassle both shadi sessions finished

In all post event things, he was extremely late,
either its selection of pictures, developing them and handing over album to the client
and when the pictures come to us for selection, we went into he shock that he hardly took 4-5 couple shoot for barat and valima day rest it was just event coverage
and same in valima plus according to the pictures he was least bothered to guide the bride and groom that they are not looking good they way they are standing, or there hairs are looking messy or bride’s make up need a re-touch
he was just quietly busy in clicking pictures
plus the quality of the pictures were less than average, there were no editing, even the lighting of the many pictures were not fixed,
It was looking like he simply clicked pictures and handed them to select and when they asked to do some changes in the pictures some editing, he started misbehaving and longing the duration,
he finally handed the both event’s total coverage after 4 months, and they had to accept it as it is as the sister and brother duo was leaving for abroad and they need pix with them

i had no direct interaction with him that’s why i did not post any thing over his FB page, but i had seen his work too on his page and in the soft copy as well (the cd he handed for selection) which made me to realize that he might be good for object (non-living one) photography but he will be definitely a worst choice for any wedding or live or family coverage.
he seems good taking pictures of natures, scenes, objects but when it comes to take pictures of people, the couples, bride and groom and other shadi activities, he is worst than a night mare

here is his link

So please Avoid him in order to not ruin your lifetime event

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I am now getting threatening messages because I posted this review :D

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If you guys signed paper contracts with all the terms and conditions atleast these morons would think twice before going back on their promises. On a more exciting note...what is the threat? :D

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That's why they said every thing you are agreed upon should be in written.
She offered a worst customer service and now she will definitely have to pay.
The problem is almost every photographer thinks he is something extra ordinary (obviously he is but client who have paid have some rights at least you are required to lower your fake attitude).

Thank you for sharing it with us, have a blessed life ahead

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What??? Some ones threatning you? Thats just scary

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Oh this is so sad to hear because I was planning to hire her for my events too. Can you please give me the details on Ayesha Iftikhar? Number or page? or if you had alternative photographers in mind? what do you suggest? I cannot have a scary/angry photographer at my event because its a wedding and everyone is in chaos, organizers and photographers need to be calm and professional I believe

I wait for some suggestions from all?