Mark Davidson Photography

Jan 28th, 2023

We hired Mark Davidson for our Labor Day Weekend 2022 wedding at Misselwood in Beverly, Mass. Mark did a really nice job with our wedding. He came prepared and his experience was evident from the start. His assistant, Dustin, was also very easy to work with and did a great job. Our photos looked great and everything was delivered in a timely fashion after the event. Overall, we enjoyed working with Mark and Dustin and wouldn't hesitate to do so again.
Jan 18th, 2023

Jan 16th, 2023

Mark photographed our backyard wedding last month and we couldn't have asked for a better experience. My husband and I don't take a lot of pictures and tend to look very stiff and uncomfortable when we do, so we were looking for someone who would be unobtrusive day-of and had a candid, relaxed style. Mark was perfect! We felt so comfortable with him (I honestly forgot he was there sometimes) and a number of our guests commented that they enjoyed his vibe. And then he got our (600+) pictures back to us within two weeks! We are SO happy with them. He documented all the moments, big and small, perfectly (both posed pictures and candids). We loved so many of the pictures that it was very difficult to pick ones for an album. Highly highly recommend Mark!
Jul 14th, 2022

Disappointment is an understatement. Planning a wedding during a pandemic is not easy only to be made unnecessarily more stressful by an inflexible and confrontational wedding photographer. We planned to work with Mark for our June 2021 wedding. Mark completed our engagement photo session a few months before the pandemic shut down. We found him to be awkward and provided little guidance or feedback throughout the session making my fianc and I both felt awkward and we feel like it definitely shows in the pictures. We ended up having to edit his photos to make one usable for our save the dates. We reached out to Mark 6 months prior to our planned wedding date to explain to him that we were concerned about needing to postpone the wedding. He told us we would work together to find a new date. We coordinated with our venue and other vendors and sent Mark at least 3 potential dates that worked for our family and our other vendors. Mark replied that he was booked out for Saturdays in 2021 and that he wouldnt be able to do any of the dates we presented. We told him our venue could not make a go or no go decision until 2 months before the June data due to uncertainty on Covid restrictions. He then agreed to follow suit with the venue and make a final decision 2 months prior to the wedding date. Nevertheless, despite numerous contacts and communications with Mark, he would continuously send us breach of contract notice. When I asked about it, he told me to ignore them. Mark then became deceptive and manipulative. He would say one thing to us, but then point to a place in the contract that he would say we broke, despite our countless communication we found Mark to be completely unreasonable, manipulative for money and quite frankly deceitful. He refused to return the deposit despite the wedding being called off not by us but by the state not allowing our wedding on the original contract date. He even tried to trick us to be in a position where he could claim we owed him the full amount for a wedding canceled due to state regulations, not us. I know this is one bad review of his many positive ones, but I urge you not to fall into the same trap we did. Mark came across as someone whose sole goal is to make money for himself.
Jun 18th, 2022