Photo bombs: Hong Kong couples warned to beware of exotic overseas wedding packages
- Consumer Council has received 45 complaints about overseas photography packages since 2016
A Hong Kong couple paid a local photography studio HK$30,000 for a pre-wedding photo shoot in Iceland, but all they received were clumsily Photoshopped generic images, the city’s consumer watchdog said on Thursday.
The botched Iceland trip was one of 45 complaints about overseas photography packages received by the Consumer Council since 2016, the council said last week.
In the Iceland complaint, the couple was promised aerial videos, but the plan was scrapped because the photographer claimed the weather was too windy.
And, while the contract was for photographs to be taken at seven locations in Iceland, the council said only four were actually shot.
Clement Chan Kam-wing, who heads the council’s publicity and community relations committee, said the photographer failed to meet his clients an agreed location because he had gone to another part of Iceland for another assignment.
“The actual shooting was delayed. The eight-hour itinerary eventually covered only four locations and there was also no aerial video shooting as promised,” Chan said.
To make up for the lost locations, the photographer said he would merge images of the scenic spots and the couple.